Pandemic Garden Club
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scrubjayspeaksWelcome to the May edition of Pandemic Garden Club! Growing good things in strange times!
Anyone is welcome to comment with what they're growing right now, things they would like to try, problems they're encountering, and questions they have. Share resources, answer questions, shout encouragement.
As for myself...
I didn't really add much by way of flowers to the current collection this year. I just didn't have the energy or inclination to buy a bunch more bulbs or try to schedule a whole sequence of seed packets over the course of spring. Fortunately, I've planted so many bulbs and self-reseeding flowers over the last few years, the situation is largely taking care of itself.
I finally got to see some of the non-yellow daffodils I planted en mass.
And the bunny tail grass (as well as the first of the four o'clocks, their compatriots) has come up in force, mixed in with foxtails (boo) though they may be.
The lupin has made great strides in catching up to the tidy tips out in the wildflower garden. Speaking of foxtails, that whole area is a nightmare of drying grass and prickers, but I can't bring myself to mow it down and destroy the wildflowers in the process...
Though I haven't been planting bulbs and seeds, I have still put more trees and shrubs in the ground. Meet the newest of the manzanitas. We happened to spot a weird variety at the nursery that we hadn't seen before. Lovely purplish branches. We've got a whole line of them out in the north field, which will one day serve as a bit of privacy screen and wind break. For now, of course, they are all little babies. But hey, some of them bloomed this year, so that's sweet.
Anyone is welcome to comment with what they're growing right now, things they would like to try, problems they're encountering, and questions they have. Share resources, answer questions, shout encouragement.
As for myself...
I didn't really add much by way of flowers to the current collection this year. I just didn't have the energy or inclination to buy a bunch more bulbs or try to schedule a whole sequence of seed packets over the course of spring. Fortunately, I've planted so many bulbs and self-reseeding flowers over the last few years, the situation is largely taking care of itself.
I finally got to see some of the non-yellow daffodils I planted en mass.
And the bunny tail grass (as well as the first of the four o'clocks, their compatriots) has come up in force, mixed in with foxtails (boo) though they may be.
The lupin has made great strides in catching up to the tidy tips out in the wildflower garden. Speaking of foxtails, that whole area is a nightmare of drying grass and prickers, but I can't bring myself to mow it down and destroy the wildflowers in the process...
Though I haven't been planting bulbs and seeds, I have still put more trees and shrubs in the ground. Meet the newest of the manzanitas. We happened to spot a weird variety at the nursery that we hadn't seen before. Lovely purplish branches. We've got a whole line of them out in the north field, which will one day serve as a bit of privacy screen and wind break. For now, of course, they are all little babies. But hey, some of them bloomed this year, so that's sweet.
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