Outdoor gardens

[skdadl]

I read leftdog's plaint yesterday on Alison's post at Dawg's, so I tweeted the link and credited him. Will go to tweet his own post now.

Gardening naked here might work -- it's very warm, but we have mist that is some of the way towards being fog -- ie, neighbours might rub their eyes just to be sure of what they were seeing. But, um, mainly, I think I'll pass.

[Boom Boom]

Trust me, my neighbours don't want to see me nekkid in my garden! And I don't wnat to give them heart attacks.
 
re: Veseys
 
I'm waiting until I get my truck fixed up to see what it will cost before I make a big order from Veseys this year. Another week or two to wait. But the ground is still too frozen here, although I do have some flowers popping up here and there.

[Croghan27]

Decided to do my nudie gardening thang today - so dressed appropriately I opened the door to my veranda.
 
Serious rain, major wind and all sorts of cold out there.
 
Nah - went back inside ..... got cold feet (so to speak) 

[skdadl]

Is it true that the French for acorn is "gland"?

[Toedancer]

I think it is, as in small desserts, no? Latin glans, meaning "acorn."

[Antonia]

I'm so excited!!! I thought that the gilt edge toad lilies I planted last year were a write off but they're coming back like gangbusters!!

In fact, everything has come back except one (of three)  ligularia and the foxglove Enbridge trampled. Even the two bleeding hearts that I thought Enbridge destroyed as they completely disappeared last July after the dig are back!

I think that, after 18 years of pouring money in the ground, my garden in front is settled. All shade-loving plants -- lilies of the valley, hostas, cohosh, heliobores etc. -- are established. Yippee!

In back, the clematis I planted last year is now a foot high, the climbing hydrangea threatens to choke the dog and the astilbe has exploded.

[Toedancer]

That's great A, but 18 years? Holy Shite, what your describing takes 4.

[Antonia]

Not really.

I started with a lawn and a tiny just-planted tree, south-facing. Hot, sunny, dry. Every year, it kept changing, especially due to the growth of my tree and the just planted trees to either side on the neighbours' front lawns.

So flocks that flourished for years, peonies, daisies, coreopsis, aloe, and other sun-loving plants I tried eventually died off. Also things happened, a hydro dig. The Enbridge catastrophe.

But finally, I have the balance of plantings and shade.

[Boom Boom]

My flower gardens are overrun with grass. I pulled one mat of grass that covered where my lillies had been coming up, and the lillies came up with it - broken in pieces. I don't know how the heck the grass got into the garden. 
 
I think I'll plant some flowering bushes where the lillies were.

[skdadl]

Grass is a constant weed -- won't fill itself in on bare patches where you want it, but it will invade your cultivated patches where you don't want it. Grass is frustratin'.

If by lilies you mean the bulbs, you should be able to replant those, even if they separated themselves -- lilies need separating every few years, so try again?

We're going through a week of rain according to predictions, very warm most of the time, although tomorrow is going to be a cool singularity. The rain is very light, sometimes just fog or mist. I have to brave it to put out the few other plants I've had from Vesey's for a bit -- I may containerize more than I expected to b/c I can work with the containers under a covered deck.

Still don't have my full complement of herbs -- those I'll get locally, but I haven't been up for the trip much b/c it's so dark so much of the time. Silly, really, since it would probably be ideal to hit the garden centres right now -- no one else there.

[Antonia]

I am loving this weather because everything is so so so green and I am sure the drought will come eventually. Also, the coolness is keeping me from sweating up a swarm lugging this moonbootcast around

[brebis noire]

We had a three-day window of beautiful weather last week that should've had me outside tending the lawn and gardens. But wah! I caught some kind of respiratory flu and I've just barely been hanging in there. And now the weather matches my mood and energies: cool, dank and dark. Unrelenting rain.
I've even started reading Doris Lessing again.  Woe is moi.

[Debra]

ah brebis that sucks     take care of yourself  hopefully you will be back out there soon. 

[Boom Boom]

But wah! I caught some kind of respiratory flu and I've just barely been hanging in there.

Hope you're better soon.
 
ps: I've avoided crowds here (winter carnival, etc...) for the simple reason I know I'll get whatever bug happens to be going around. I live alone, and really don't want to be laid up while having to do every single thing (housework, etc...) by myself.

[skdadl]

Sorry to hear you've been so sick, brebis noire. *hugs* What do you do about the boys when you just can't get up for them? Are they able to run the show now for themselves? And help you?