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| Update June 10, 2001 |
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| The daylilies are finally blooming. I planted these two years ago from a bag of 10 dry root plants. The first year they didn't bloom at all, last year they had a few flowers and finally they're really starting to take off. For some reason I thought they bloomed earlier than this, but who am I to rush nature? |
| The Rose of Sharon is doing wonderful as always. I can't imagine why everyone doesn't grow these great bushes. They bloom from early summer through fall with very few problems. The only probem I've had with them is they seem to attract aphids latter on in the summer, but they don't really do much damage. I usually spray the affected areas with a insecticidal soap or simply remove the affected limbs. I've planted some annuals around our Rose of Sharon. The plants with the pale yellow flowers in the pictures above are moss rose. The larger leafy plants are four-o'clocks which despite the name, their flowers don't open until around 8 PM. There are also some zinnias and one marigold planted in there. All the annuals where planted from seed, well actually the four-o'clocks were planted from seed three years ago and they keep reseeding, but that still counts. |
| Well, I'm way behind schedule as far as getting all my flowerbeds planted. In fact I still have some areas that I haven't gotten to yet. I entirely blame the Air Force for this because they've been working me like a dog lately. It's nice to have a scapegoat. Oh and I'm in the Air Force in case you didn't realize that, I'm not just randomly blaming the military for the shortcomings of my garden. Anyway, this is the area around my crepe myrtle in my front yard. This has become a little bit of a tricky area because the crepe myrtle has grown quite a bit since we planted it and even though this is a small area, part of it gets quite a bit of shade while other parts are in nearly full sun. In the most shady areas I planted marigolds. Marigolds are usually thought of as a full sun flower but it get so incredibly hot here in the summer that I think they actully do better with at least partial shade. In the sunny areas I planted moss rose and zinnias and the partial sun/shade areas I planted phlox. All these plants were grown from seed this spring. |
| Here's the old herb garden which just keeps a chug-n-along. The cleary sage is starting to bloom again, this is a very neat plant although it requires quiet a bit of water. The oregano beside the sage has bounced back quiet nicly after not doing so well last year. The blurry picture on the left is of our two types of thyme. The darker thyme was one of the first things we planted after moving here a little over three years ago. The smaller lighter thyme is actually a varigated variety that we just planted last year. |
| Here's our tomato plants and again these should have planted months ago, as it is they were planted about two weeks ago. They been doing great since being planted and have doubled in size in the last two weeks. These are actually cherry tomatos, it's my first time growing this variety but I have high hopes. Our tomatos didn't do so well last year so about anything would be an improvement. |
| This is the bed by the shed were the alysum and kale were planted in the last update. They both did very good and alysum always makes me happy, but with high temperatures around 100 degree nearly all summer the alysum just isn't a summer plant around here. But I'm actually quite excited about what's planted here now though. The area nearest the camera is planted with moss rose. Behind the moss rose are some zinnias and beside the moss rose are marigolds and further down are a few basil plants and some more zinnias. The tall plant in the back of the flower bed is a sunflower. For thoughs of you that have been carefully taking notes you might remember that this is where the sunflowers were growing last year and this one decided to join the party again this year. Down on the far end of this bed I actually planted some sunflowers, although a different variety, so we'll just have to wait and see how they turn out. |
| This little group of potted plants have been a consistant source of joy this spring. I've had to water them nearly every day to keep them doing good but that gives me a good excuse to go out to the garden each day. I'd like to add some more potted plants if I can get around to it. |
| Well this isn't a very good picture but I thought this plant was interesting enough to post it anyway. This is one of four sedum plants that I purchased this spring. Only two of them seem like they're going to flower this year, but they're interesting and kinda cool looking even when not flowering. |
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