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Posted by admin to Flowers, Winter, bulbs, holidays, snow, spring on 2008-02-27, 05:08:00

19*, feels like 9*, 65% humidity, WNW 8 mph wind, cloudy, LAKE EFFECT SNOW ADVISORY I'm getting very antsy for spring. It doesn't help that businesses have started decorating windows for Easter, or that shops have gads of brightly colored spring junk on their shelves, and most certainly all the blogs I've seen lately where folks are bragging about their blooming bulbs and gardens isn't helping

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Posted by admin to bulbs, trees, video, work on 2008-02-11, 09:29:00

10*, feels like -2*, 82% humidity, E 10 mph wind, light snow, SNOW ADVISORY, FLOOD WARNING I got the job. WOHOO! BOOOOYA! Ahem.To celebrate, I ordered some trees. 2 apricots, 2 pears, and a sour cherry. The order comes with 6 free asiatic lilies, from Stark Bro.

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Posted by admin to Plant list, bulbs, plants on 2007-12-19, 09:04:00

Before I go back to work tomorrow and slow my blog posts down I thought I would have a relective post, about what I have done so far to the wild garden...
Hils took me to the Wakefield Recycling centre where I got a massive 220 litre compost bin.It barely fitted into the cars back seat! A black tank sat now in the corner where the boxes were before.
This is what has been planted so far :
Six Hellebore Nigra (Christmas roses),
three Heathers (photographed),
One Camelia with pink flowers,
five winter Primulas in yellow, pink, and blue,
five Polyanthus Blue shades (not flowered yet),
a selection of three hollys and three evergreen shrubs,
Four Rose bushes ( Red, White, Yellow, and Peach),
one Butterfly Bush,
a replanted Geranium,
and One Lilac tree in a container.
The Spring bulbs I have planted are:
Dwarf Daffodil Minnow,
Chionodoxa,
Tulip Toronto (orange),
Tulip purple prince (dark purple),
Anemone Blanda,
Crocus mixed,
tulip Fosteriana White Empereor (white),
tulip Red Riding Hood(red),
Tulip Queen of the Night (Black),
Dutch Iris,
blue Muscari,
and Narcissus Caniculatas.
I bought today two Carex grasses, a pot of rosemary , and two climbing roses. One was pink and fragrant called Zephirine Drouhin, and a white one called Climbing Iceberg. I accidently left the new Honeysuckle in Hil's car as she tucked it under the back seat. I need to wait for her to come with it.
The Fruit bushes are still in their pots, darkness fell before I planted them. I have 150 litres of compost for the seedlings and the garden. An apple tree is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow from Gardenexpress.co.uk!
Four night shifts to go before I can get into the garden again, actually that will be Christmas Eve moning when I finish.

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Posted by admin to bulbs, geraniums, ghosts, viburnum on 2007-12-12, 10:16:00

Beautiful delicate white Viburnum flowers that smell faintly fragrant...

The Viburnum blue berrys with the golden stripes...

The pink Geraniums that were flowering before the big clean up.

I wandered what evidence of previous gardeners i would find. There was little buried treasure only broken pieces of pottery . Not even whole pots just solitary fragments.
The most noticiable thing in the garden is the Viburnum shrub which is about seven foot high and six feet wide. It has the pink star shaped flower buds, with the scented white flowers. After it has flowered it makes the blue berrys.The whole shrub/tree is covered in them.I potted up two viburnum baby plants that had young red willowy stems.
The Geranium was wild spilling onto the stone slabs. It was wildly overgrown and woody.The roots were like a bowl of spaghetti! Masses and masses of solid root.
I trimmed the lateral and bottom of the viburnum. If I want to hang washing It will need trimming backfurther along the front. I wont untill spring trim it back now.
There are three patches of Geraniums, one in a pot, and two sections in the soil. They will flower again with the cuttings I moved.
The only other things I found were an unknown bulb, large amounts by the right hand fence.I left a few, and collected a tub full.I am letting them dry out untill I can identify what it is! It is shaped like a skinny turnip with small bottom and long thin top part, all white coloured.
Two severely leggy heathers sagged onto the patio.They had about a foot of dead wood beneath the green parts. They went into my compost boxes!
There was a bird house with its roof missing, and full of damp.It disintegrated when I tried removing it from the post.
I found several plant labels, some were so old they were unreadable. On the computer desk now is the label for Calluna Vulgaris Tricolorifolia, a creeping heather.
I know for sure that the soil can support Heathers, Viburnum, Geraniums, and the unknown bulbs.
The treasure was the soil, dark alkaline soil that had not been dug for years. Black gold almost, but two sides of the garden have been cultivated once upon a time.
I wander if the ghost gardener liked the cleared garden, free of brambles and weeds, with the raised beds uncovered, and the original fence nailed back upright. The patio swept clean of collected debris so they are light coloured.
Its been cold and as I have done as much of the garden as I can at the moment I can be reflective, about ghosts and gardens.

(Via Girl Gone Gardening)

Posted by admin to Flowers, Winter, bulbs, cactus, cheapskate finds, expiriments, food, fruit, garden, girlgonegardening, houseplants, photos, roses, seeds, succulants, trees, veggies, wind, work on 2007-12-01, 13:36:00

27*, feels like 14*, 91% humidity, ESE 17 mph wind, freezing rain, Winter Storm Warning, Snow fall 1" on ground today. The morning started out wintry and blustery but dry. As I finally have a day off (I've worked 12 strait afternoons in a row!) I decided to pamper myself a bit today and work on hobbies. I made myself a very nice breakfast and went shopping. Christmas sales to me mean PLANTS! I