Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yarden maintenance for April, 5 by Gitagal
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Gitagal wrote: Worked my body to a pulp outside today! From 10AM until 3PM. Had to stop--everything was hurting.... Came in to sit down and watch Dr. Phil. Bah--Humbug! Among other things--I got my patio furniture all set up. Wiped clean--cushions on and arranged.... Brought out almost all my HB's--which almost all seem to be Spider plants. Plus--my BIG Ric Rac. My Curly Spider HB was getting very pot-bound. Decided to take it all out and divide it up. NO biggie! It came right apart. So--I got 3 HB's out of this one. All really full. I started bringing out some of the Clivias as well. The ones that are done blooming.... Have several more inside to go. Anyone want one??? Please D-mail me. They are NOT freebies..... Jill--maybe you have some friends that would like one??? Next big chore is to dig up all my beds and dig in some of that Mushroom Soil I slaved over to dig up and bring home. I have a new Clematis coming from Brushwood--FREE!--as they sent me the wrong one when I ordered it 2 years ago. Mike there is a sweetheart!!!! Can't decide exactly WHERE to put it--as if I had endless choices----HA! That would be a joke! I will be getting a Proteus free because of all this. I used to have one--but it slowly died. I would like to put it in the same small bed--it would get bright AM sun until about 2PM. I may move it more to the front of this bed---You would laugh if you saw how little this bed is!!! Maybe I will go out and take a picture.......Ridiculous--NO? It USED to have my KK Hibiscus in it--but you all know how HUGE that grows. It got dug up and mover to the small round bed on my front lawn. Then--It used to have all those fancy Lilies in it --the "Honeymoon" and the "Chinese Trumpet Lilies--Regale" that I ordered when I got back from my trip to Latvia and fell in love with the Regales... Well--I think they just did not get enough sun here (GREAT AM sun--until 2PM)--so I moved them to the bed on the other side of my house that gets full sun. Shuffle....shuffle......that is how all my garden plantings go.... Something NEW comes in my garden--something old has to get moved.......or GO! Just went outside and took some pictures to show you what I am talking about..... #1--This is the small (almost a joke!) AM bed that both my KK Hib. and my Fancy Schmancy Lilies started in. It can't be more than 5' long and 2' wide.....That is where I had my "Proteus" Clematis as well . Right against the house foundation.....Maybe it did not like all that concrete???? Also-- all my Fancy Lilies grew here. They did awesome the first year--then, slowly, declined.... At the left end--there grows my oldest Peony I have. The pom-pom white one with touches of fuchsia in the bloom. #2--This is my S. facing bed that I moved the Fancy Lilies to. Where the wire markers are.... Hoping to see them in their glory--but the bulbs were NOT the greatest when I moved them... May take a year or two ti get them back to their "glory"...... #3---The Kopper King Hibiscus now resides in a small, round bed on my front lawn. It is GLORIOUS!!! #4--The "Proteus Clematis" in its glory----before it declined..... #5--My Strawberries growing really well---This is the bed I USED to grow all my Tomatoes in. Before I had that raised bed built. I plan to grow Cukes here again--and hope they do better than last year. My Garden surely is like "Musical Chairs".......Now you know why I have such a short "WANTS" list.... Nowhere to put anything!!! Gita |