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scrubjayspeaks ([personal profile] scrubjayspeaks) wrote2024-04-14 11:22 am

Pandemic Garden Club

Welcome to the April 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...

Well, I have one picture that probably sums things up for me:

A grassy field of tall weeds, entirely obscuring the brick wall that surrounds it, and studded with barely visible orange poppies.

That? Yeah, that’s the castle garden. Somewhere in there. Allegedly. *sigh*

With the recent health drama, I have not been out in the garden at all. I haven’t pulled weeds. I haven’t planted anything. And since we’ve been getting rain off and on, I haven’t needed to water anything. At some point, I’ll have to open up the cold frames and give my succulents their first water in, oh, probably four months at least. But that, like so many things lately, is going to be a problem for future!Jay.

If, however, you dig down through the knee-high weeds, you might find things like:

Rather tattered blue and white windflowers hidden in grass.

Windflower. Raggedy by the time I found them, but I’m just pleased any came up.

A close-up of a single tidy tip flower with bright yellow petals tipped in white.

Tidy Tips. These are out in the wildflower field, which is the same hot mess as everywhere else. These and the lupine have been valiantly poking their heads up above the level of the foxtails, though.

A deep purple-blue iris, marked with white and yellow, on a tall stalk.

Mum’s flower boxes at least look nice, with iris blooming.