Mid-Atlantic Gardening: What is happening in your Garden Today II, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
What's happening in MY garden????
I've been outside plugging away.....

First thing this morning--I fertilized everything.....Been meaning to do it......

Potted up all my 3rd round pinched Coleus cuttings in the small, bio-degradable pots I got at the Seed Swap.
Have a tray and a half full. No need for anyone to reserve any.

Found a spot for my 4 (quite large by now) perennial Salvias I seeded. There were 5 of them.
Believe me! Finding a spot for anything here is VERY hard!

Planted many Impatiens in the now-gone Birch Tree bed.....I always plant thiese there. They do so well.
Might plant some of my many Coleus plants there as well. I have so many!
It gets good AM sun--and then shade.... Perfecto!
Finished edging the same bed. FINALLY found a use for the black, rubber edging (12' of it) that has been languishing in my back yard's Evergreen bed for years and years......I am happy! Looks good!

Then--since it is suppose to rain and T-storm--I decided I better mow my lawn. So--I did! That tires me out!
I came inside to cool off and take a break.....and to "play" on DG a bit.

Took out the glass container all my Angel Wing Begonias are rooting in. Most of them have roots by now.
Will pot them up a bit later today--after Oprah.....

The sun just went "that-a-way"-----(but now it is back) it is starting to look ominous.....Sky is getting gray.....Guess it will rain soon. We need it!

That leaves the L-O-N-G west-side bed not yet attended to.....Not much room there! It has so much stuff in it as it is the only sunny bed and it has NO tree roots.....AND--the most bulb foliage of any bed! I am, loosely, tying them up the bulb foliage so I can, at least, work around it a bit more......
Sometimes I DO wonder if having 2 weeks of daffodil blooms justifies all the c--p I have to put up with re the foliage sprawling all over???? Remember---my beds are all straight, edged beds. NO natural settings here.

I did get a pot-full of "Tahiti" Daff's bulbs when i went to volunteer un-potting all the bulbs last Friday. The least they could give me FREE (they sold them 4/$1 at Cylburn--whoopie!) after 5 hours of unpotting bulbs....They did!
They are drying out in my basement. Will plant them in the Fall.

JILL! They did not have any of the Tulips you asked for.....Sorry!

OK! the day is NOT done yet! Just gonna watch TV a bit.....Need to take a shower also.....

As I look at all the flats of yet unplanted flowers--I truly do not know where i will put them. I also know that i will find a spot here and there.....or a small pot or whatever......It shall be done! It always is!

I can't wait for all this "Spring stuff" to be done with, so i can relax a bit......instead of living with all the "shoulds".....

Here is my Pakistani neighbor, Samirah (sp?) , by my climbing Rose.
She loves my Garden...admires me...calls me her "teacher".....she takes long walks to look at my garden in the evening--that i don't even know about.....
Her husband is the "devil" who cuts everything down anytime he gets into one of those moods.....He has destroyed all the shrubs and Hollies and natural beauty around this house they bough 2 years ago. It kills me!!!!
They all hate him and don't, really, talk to him.
To me--he is a very angry person who takes it out on the things he CAN control--as in their culture, women cannot question what the man of the house decides to do. Sad! They all just want him GONE!

Gita