November 29/22 Hardwood Cuttings and seeding

 Viburnum Carlesi soaked overnight stuck about 41

planted 45 Italian prune pits that were in the freezer from this summer also about 10 marked as prune plums

seeded EverRed Jap Maple from Tree Seed Man

and Bloodgood Jap Maple from tree here

Seeded 17-18 yellow iris seed from Sabina FB

seeded Rose of Sharon from HG Fina

Seeded Catalpa seeds

seeded White Spruce seeds

took cuttings of procumbens nana

10 with older wood and 20 form this year wood,tip wood but tips trimmed off

Cuttings of climbing hydrangea at the spruce boxes

 cut to soak, weeping mulberry, Haskap most westerly Boreal Beast

Cherry most easterly and middle cherry

also kolkwitzia from first cutting at ses's which was in bucket outside

Hardwood Cuttings Fall 2022

Silver Dogwood, Hicks Yew, and hetz juniper, asian pear, apricot

November 23, took cuttings from Beauty bush from Ses and from Rose of Sharon bushes in front driveway - left and right. Sat out in kitchen while we were out. Put in Fridge Thursday Morning. Cut Japanese Maple Thursday Morning also.

November 24 put Beauty bush in box after one night soaking.

Sunday, November 27 put Japanese Maple and Rose of Sharon in bed.- they soaked for about 30 Hours.

Sunday Nov 27 cut Nest spruce, dipped in #2 hormone powder put in 2 rows in bed

cut some fragrant viburnum carlesi-

Seeded outdoor

Tray of 1801

3 pots viburnum triloba 4 pp

3 catalpa 4pp

3redleaf rose 4pp

3 belamcanda 4pp

3Datura 4pp

1 tree peony 2019 had 2 seeds

Cactus yellow 4pp

Cactus gold red 4pp

Sept 29/14 tasks

Cleaned up tomatoes -pulled vines and put in compost
Picked second patch - rest of it - of soybeans.
The third patching soybeans- pods are there but not filled. Hopefully will still have time to grow.
Picked green beans - tossed plants into compost- got two 8 litre pails - even though some are large- this variety is still tender.
Second planting- of beans- almost no beans- got the first flush couple of weeks ago- if season was longer would get another picking-
The two pails come of the second flush of flowers and beans of the first planting,
Rosemary juiced a bunch of tomatoes into ziplock bags for freezing

Coneflower echinacea - picked a half dozen seed heads and scattered the seeds here and there- at Shasta daisy row in front- under maple on east side of drive- new beds at back - by rose bed/black eye Susan
Scattered cleome seed
Scattered viburnum, hicks yew, Amur maple seeds at log berm and under a couple of willows, few redbuds
Planted two clumps of
Miscanthus to front near hawthorns and a walnut.
Watered garden and transplanted oak and redbuds

Tidied up pool shed
Put chairs in shed
Moved umbrellas to big shed in 45 gal drum





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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

June in now

June 1/14 second

Viburnum June 1/13

Happy Sabbath morn- wish the camera could send the fragrance of this snowball bloom to you

Canada Day '12 Garden 2

looking from patio area towards shed, 

from left, ivory silk lilacs, corkscrew hazel, grasses, 

wisteria at arbor, forsythia, dogwood, viburnum

Viburnum Blooming May 24.12

Trimmed euonymus back hard

Green and silver euonymus by cranberry

Cleanup

trimmed back the bottom of the mugho pine, thinned out branches and cut back the top.

Removed old Tamarix juniper right down to the roots that had been getting ratty looking.

Cut back right to the ground the mahonia.

Trimmed the wisteria to single stem with 3 branches. Cut it back hard.

Trimmed Viburnum - only a bit, but trimmed off dead branches

Removed some Devil's walking sticks

touched up the Trumpet vine

Now what to do with this area? Maybe add more pachysandra?

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Fragrant snowball blooming May 1/10

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Trumpet vine trimmed

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April 18-19/08

Apr 18/08
Planted about 80 spanish onion sets cost bulk at Country Depot $1.00
Planted about 30 dutch onion sets. Partial package from “” 1.99
Planted 5 Lilies cost 8.49 near ramp between potentilla and viburnum at edge of ties. Marco Polo –oriental lily grows 24-36”, bulb size 12-16 cm circumf.blooms july to October , very fragrant. Prefers partial to full shade/plant 1-2 inches deep 8 inches apart
Transplanted multiplier onions from boxes to under middle tree lilac
April 19/08
Did seeding flat 20 rows by 10 wide- 2 rows of 10=20- except mints- one row each
Dollar store Double mixed portulaca, dollar store crackerjack marigold mixed 36” tall, purple cleome from RBG rock garden, pink cleome collected, Echinacea collect from /Kevin/Jackie, cilantro, 1 row dollar store spearmint, helichrysum Straw Flowers (dams), dams Italian parsley, dams peppermint, susan ivanovics aster mix.
Transplanted 1 flat of petunias to 8by 809

April 12/08

April 12 more cuttings hemlock, gold cedar, hinoki cypress, mahonia, potentilla, dwf viburnum, honeysuckle, spread yew, hetz juniper, weigela, lilac preston, red leaf rose, shrub rose, burn bush, quince, privet, emerald cedar, alberta spruce, gold and silver euonymus
Put cuttings downstairs under lights
Sewed purple grass in date container –clear plastic. –under lights
Put acorns from garage into pot, put trumpet vine into pot- put them downstairs under lights
Outside planted the 2 emerald cedars that were uprooted from septic tank fiasco in far corner
Scattered black sunflower seed in beds