How Does Your Garden Grow?
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Got some gardening done this afternoon in between the rain. Finally planted our tomatoes and pumpkins. I also planted some pansies, snap dragons, gardenias, hollyhocks, sunflowers, and some gazanias all around the house.
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Box of seeds is planted. Now to see how MY garden ends up growing.
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I'm definitely going to be ordering The McCartney Rose this year. I'm going to get one that's already potted & ready to bloom. There's also a Jane Asher Patio Rose.
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Just bought our tomatoe plants today. It's been a little cold to plant before this. Already have new red geraniums planted & they are flowering nicely. And my yellow iris opened today! Waiting for the peonies & poppies to open.
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GYPSYGIRL:
A little tip for all rose lovers. If you plant marigolds, it'll help keep japanese beetles away. They hate the spicy scent of marigolds. Also, search for Roses Love Garlic - garlic helps keeps fungus away from roses.
I feed mine coffee grounds. I think it helps them grow faster. They haven't bloomed yet but its the cold weather. One rose bush has some blossoms . Crazy weather this year.. I have a fire built right now its cold out and raining cats and dogs.
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Thanks for the rose tips! I wonder if they'd like tea, I don't make many coffee grounds, but use tea as mulch.
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GYPSYGIRL:
I'm definitely going to be ordering The McCartney Rose this year. I'm going to get one that's already potted & ready to bloom. There's also a Jane Asher Patio Rose.
where do you get these? how many Beatles have rose's named after them. Can anyone post pictures of them
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appletart2:
GYPSYGIRL:
I'm definitely going to be ordering The McCartney Rose this year. I'm going to get one that's already potted & ready to bloom. There's also a Jane Asher Patio Rose.
where do you get these?
One of my friends got one from a nursery in so cal. Google it maybe.
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oobu24:
appletart2:
GYPSYGIRL:
I'm definitely going to be ordering The McCartney Rose this year. I'm going to get one that's already potted & ready to bloom. There's also a Jane Asher Patio Rose.
where do you get these?
One of my friends got one from a nursery in so cal. Google it maybe.
here...first thing that came up... http://www.ottoandsons-nursery.com/rose-pages/mccartney_rose.htm
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Planted our tomatoes today. We got varying sizes so the tomatoes will come at diff times. A couple have blossems on already. Hey...are they ready yet? I love fresh tomatoes! mmmmm!
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I found the McCartney Rose at: growquest.com - They even have a short vido of it from youtube! So far, I've found the Jane Asher Patio Rose at: countrygardenroses.co.uk I'm hoping this one will find it's way to the States. Today, we had "fun" gardening. My DH had just removed an ugly little tree & there was a piece of pipe in back of it, which we also removed. When my DH started to dig up the ground, very luckily for him I spotted bumblebees coming very angrily up out of the ground. Fortunately there was a can of wasp/hornet spray & he was able to get them first. We had to stop our groundwork, as he ran out of Raid. Apparently the bees were using the pipe to enter & exit their nest. I bought a huge can of Raid & tomorrow morning, we hope to finish preparing that spot for the pretty flowering shrubs we just got. And we're also adding a red lily tree & a flowering egret!
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I found one today. I didn't think they carried it locally..Didn't say Paul Mccartney rose just McCartney. I almost bought the Peace Love rose to plant next to it.
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Please read the reviews on Growquest. I had ordered a McCartney rose from them in early April. Never heard a word from them except the confirmation email. Read the reviews and canceled the order, which they acknowledged two weeks after I sent an email a day to them. Buyer beware.
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Well my best intentions fell at the first hurdle - you know the one - mow well and then regularly to keep it simple and easy for the remainder of the year. I did the "big mow", blinked, and it's back to the same height and some more again. Went on my annual bedding plant trip to the local car boot, six trays of a variety of bedding plants should fill my road-side flower bed. I always hope that some will turn out to be self seeding to reduce the need next year. They're soaking in the back garden with the aim of planting out tomorrow - so remind me again in a fortnight The shrubs in the back garden get more and more robust each year, one fence is dominated by a prickly plant which produces blue flowers on last years growth so I have to wait for that to blosssom and fade before cuttting it back - with this years late cold spring it seems to be late flowering this year. I also have an orange berried cotoneaster which suddenly thinks it's a sky rocket which will need topping out when I can reach it. And it's too hot to get in the garden. Remember, the UK doesn't do weather well - we don't get sufficient extremes of anything to get expert at any type. Just a fortnight ago we had a fixed air pattern bringing northerly winds and cold weather, including overnight frosts, into the UK, that has now switched round and we're getting temps running into the high 20's - 27, 28, 29 degrees C. The roads are blocked with people heading for the beach - expect to see massive sickness Monday as people get sunburnt and news items about the elderly failing to look after themselves. Perhaps I shouldn't put out those tender bedding plants yet anyway...... Martin
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My alyssum and marigold seeds have broken through the ground. I am so happy.
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maccascruff - thankx for the tip on Growthquest. It rained like the devil last nite & again this morning, so no landscaping or planting. Our irises are starting to bloom. The chlorine from our pool turned the purple ones on the left side a pale pinkish white.
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Well the bedding deed is done. Mindful of Mad Dogs and Englishmen and the midday sun, I grabbed an early dawn moment and was out at 06.00 hrs weeding, mulching and bedding out the plants - much to the surprise of my immediate neighbours who staggered out en-route to work to find me laid on the floor a couple of metres from their front door. Even as I write gastropodian tendrils are twittering the presence of a new smorgasbord of fresh plantlets - how do slugs and snails do that? Are we with all our computers, facebook, twitter etc, only just reaching the same level of networking? I recall last year coming home late from work to see the silvery trails of 20 - 30 slugs all marching dogmatically across the grass towards my beds. I suspect I shall once again have to give them a helping hand across the wall over the road out of my plants harms way. Must get a new garden hose spray attachment, current one leaks and I ended up with as much water on me as the plants. Martin
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Our watermelon, beans, tomatoes, catmint & oregano are coming along very nicely. The squirrels planted a red raspberry bush for us in back of our firewwood pile.
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We've had the hot dry weather for at least a week. The natural pond i usually use for spring watering just went so low I used the faucet for a couple of days. We finally just started getting rain that got me wet as I frantically tried to finish getting weeds out of a bed before the rain sets them. Lots of things growing nicely, spinach, chard, transplants of cucumbers etc. I started inside. I had to pause the veg garden since an order of perrenial flower roots came. With my daugter's help we got those in over two days. Two new daylillies for the empty front bed, a hosta for the front where it is now very shaded by a mature cedar. Martin, have you thought of perennials? They do need some care and dividing, but once you've bought them you have them a long time, and can divide them for more. With planning you can have a steady string of blooms.
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Our tiger lilies are late blooming this year. Yesteday I planted a pink begonia in a teapot.