Showing posts with label spirea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spirea. Show all posts

Sunday, July 6, 2014

July 6, 2013 Timming and Seeding- garden update

Trimmed mugho pine in pool and by kitchen
Also dwarf viburnum under kitchen
Trimmed Pink Spirea by pool shed down to ground
Trimmed Yew in pool area
Trimmed suckers off Caragana stump

Seeded one four foot bed with 4 rows of Soybeans- bulk barn14
Turned over 6-7 ft in big bed, rototilled, seed 2 rows of Sugar Snap Peas

Sabbath
Dug a few beets yesterday
Cut 1st seeding of Kale hard- so Parsnips can grow

Second cut of New Zealand spinach
Sugar snap peas -pretty well done, still a few flowers, but not producing much

Strawberries - only a few small ones- pretty well done

Lettuce is getting bitter
Pulled spring spinach from Kids tall bed

Zuchini squash -yellow-is about 4 inches long-
FLowers on cucumber
Tomato fruit on Glamour from garden centre
Squash front and back is doing well






Saturday, June 21, 2014

Pink spirea on bloom

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Front Entry May 15/12

redbud in bud, chinese dogwood, onions in gud
euphorbia budding
carpet phlox in bloom

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Started straightening the Nootka. Cypress



foreground phlox, spirea
background redbud


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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Sun nov 13/11 Tasks done

Cut lawn
Gathered lvs into t-stkes and green netting
Cut down asparagus
Cleaned up some miscamthus
T staked. Driveway
T staked new. Cedars at silver maple row.
T staked new front plantings- red buds, spirea
Spreadand leveled propane line trench
Softneck garlics R quite tall
Hardnecks spread out more

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Monday, October 3, 2011

Transplant Spirea to Sand Cherry

Dug spirea from front near Nootka. Planted under Purple Sand Cherry.
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Friday, June 24, 2011

Garden Tour June 24/11 Spirea Blooms

Little Princess Spirea
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

July 10-12/09

July 10 dug out more walkway, spread excavated soil to back of annex where low, trimmed Andorra, spirea, tamarix Junipers, forsythia (some). Spread trimmings at back of house.
Found wasp nest on cedar chair. Sprayed with neem, seemed to kill wasp.
July 11/09 Juriansz reunion- showers in am, hail and shower in pm. .5 inch rain.
July 12 Yuccas are in full bloom
Sunday trimmed nest spruce, a bit of globe blue spruce.
sprayed driveway weeds,
Moved cushion mum from fence garden- too shady by rose of Sharon out to the harp garden
Dug volunteer garlics from here and there
Rosemary trimmed peashrub pods, spirea and yew in pool area.
Harvested the last broccoli, enormous head

Sunday, April 5, 2009

April 5, 2009 Sunday

April 5/09 Greg’s bday, Kev/Jack/al, fina/Franco, Amy, Dave greg, gpa here for brunch
Trimmed spirea from garage side front, took out all large stems
Trimmed back mahonia by front porch back hard, stuck some stems in soil to see if will root
cut yew back along front edge to allow rockery stone to show
Trimmed hydrangea Annabelle back and hydrangea ivy . stuck some cuttings in soil to see if will root
Planted Spanish onion and dutch sets about 10 per row in box, seeded some broccoli in between
Filled one bee box by deck, Seeded leaf lettuce,
Rapini started to come up, spinach just starting,
Elephant garlic looks squishy? Did it survive winter.?
Good crop of peppers/eggplant starting
Coleus starting to come up
Grass and fibrous begonias- no sign of germination
Put pansy, onions from jan seeding, lettuce and broccoli out side to harden of
Cut pussy willow stems.
Brought figs out from garage- stems look dry, bud starting to get green??

Thursday, April 10, 2008

April 6-10/08

April 6/08 Put beeboxes back along deck, added some potting mix,
April 6/08 Started Hardwood cuttings in 5 inch pots, Hicks yew, silver dogwood, Korean lilac, purple ninebark, gold cypress, rose of Sharon, forsythia, Andorra, used #2 rooting hormone
April 9/08 seeded beeboxes:1- green onion, 1 bloomsdale spinach, 1 white radish, 1 lettuce buttercrunch/prizehead
April 10/08 put Rapini in fifth box
April 9,10 Cuttings, mint julep, viburnum carcephalum, spirea from front garden,
Transpl collards, brocc, rapini
Rain put onion and collards etc outside

Sunday, March 26, 2006

March 2006

March 6/06
Planted 809 hibiscus rose mallow
Mushroom 801 grass
Parsley 1204
Basil 1204
March 14/06
200 seedling tray (10 per row)
1- row-Planted Brandywine tomato-
5- calif wonder pepper
3- dusky eggplant
2- fairy tale eggplant
1- pepper west Indian
1- Surinam pepper
2- firecracker pepper
2- ornamental dwf pepper
1-cayenne pepper
1- sweet pea annual
1- sweet pea perennial
Lettuce- 4pp 2 romaine, 2 simpson
Progress- onions up, cilantro up, kale etc up
Original peppers are up
Grass- very few up
Black eye susan not up at all

March 19 trimmed onion
March 26/0Sweet peas just starting, tomatioes starting
Seeded 3pp walking stick kale into 1204
Seeded castor beans into black eye susan 809 that didn’t come up at all.
Transplanted coleus (40 total plants)

Sunny +5 C.
Cleaned up sunflower stalks, castor bean, trimmed grass by entry fence,
Planted sugar maple by entrance, moved serviceberry from front flower bed- 1 to back of shed, 2 to edge of bush, moved wild dogwood to end of shed, moved 1 clump of daylily to bush near new serviceberry.
Trimmed- elderberry, lower branches of silver maple at end of septic,
Turned over one raised bed, turned old bean row, turned ½ row old pepper and eggplant
Trimmed hicks yew that winter burned in bean shelter bed.
Trimmed mulberry – lower tips mainly
Seeded parsley by mahonia in birch bed
Seeded Romaine, salad mix, and simpson lettuce in one bee box, covered with glass/plastic
Trimmed Anthony waterer spirea down to ground in the caragana bed