Northeast Gardening: What's Blooming Today? #7, 0 by DonnieBrook

DonnieBrook wrote:
Thanks, everyone, for the warm welcome and birthday wishes!

Candyce - 700 square feet???!! Wow....do you have paths in your expanded garden?
What did you plant in your garden? Sounds heavenly.

Ngam - I'll get a picture of my gentian when it blooms in about a month.

Kassia - what a pretty collage of your flowers....so colorful! I also love that blue clematis! I'm envious that you are eating your tomatoes already. Mine look dreadful. Not enough sun and dry days, I think. I started them from seed in Florida, and I'm not sure I'll do that again. They look pretty scrawny compared to my bushy tomatoes in past years. I wanted to save some seeds from a yellow tomato that my winter neighbor gave me down there, so I got some heirloom seeds and started the plants down there. They don't look very happy. But then, I did put the little seedlings through quite a snowbird adventure on the drive back up here. Our 14-year old Bichon, Molly, got the better part of the back seat to keep her from getting too stiff, so the plants had less than ideal conditions.

Pixie....Your daylilies are gorgeous. I love that South Seas!

Does anyone know if dwarf hydrangea (gorgeous deep blue huge flowers) transplant ok? I dug mine up and moved it into my new potting shed garden, and it looks pretty wilted. Do they have tap roots? I got a lot of soil around the root ball, but there was one persistent root that didn't want to turn loose and it got snapped.....I may have goofed? We'll see....

And yes....I will post a picture of the Cuppatea garden soon. It is nice to sit on the porch of the potting shed to take a gardening breather and look over to the newbies right there next to me now.....I also moved my thistle feeder and my birdbath into the little garden, so it's cool. Molly the Unscrupulous, waited until my back was turned and then decided to march right in and chow down on the Penobscott Coast of Maine composted soil I used in the new garden. Big mistake....she's on prednisone for a tumor and will eat anything!! I'm posting a garden photo of Molly until I can get one of Cuppatea. She is a gardener too! She loves to get into the veggie garden.....she'll take down a broccoli plant before you can snap a bean...and she loves picking those too!