Garden Projects #11

Thought I would start a new thread.
This is a old path in the Lasagna garden.I will redesign it and have a new one made next spring.

This message was edited Aug 21, 2012 2:49 PM

We were here:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1265366/

I would say that is the perfect spot, wha

yes it is Bill!!

Love the birdbath & the wonderful maroon flower.....is that cockscomb? Jo, a nice project to keep you busy!

Bill, love the birdbath, that must have been a lot of work to carve out.

We have been planning on getting our deck replaced this year. I worked at a leisurely pace for months, moving plants out of the flower garden where the deck will expand. Then Monday the builder called and said he'd be here this morning. Wow, panic. Lots of stuff to get out of the way in a hurry. Plus we want to build a pond into part of the deck and hadn't finished researching that. I called a friend and gave away a lot of plants that I didn't have space for anymore. Hopefully they will live even though the timing isn't ideal. Will post pictures when I have something other than a mess to show....

Wha, had any birds visit it yet? It looks so perfect with the Joe Pye Weed. I need to get out and weed tomorrow, but have to finish up getting my fall bulb orders all listed in my Journal. The planting part goes so much easier if I have it all laid out ahead of time on paper. DH put up 50 jars of beach plum jelly today. Not a huge haul, but we had zero last year. Patti

thx all - and marilyn, patti is correct that is joe pye weed or in this case little joe although it seems as tall as the wild joe pye in the back.

granite is does take a while to chip out the insides - i have started another one with a wet saw that does not go anywhere deep enough so i will be back to rough drilling with the hammer drill and then chipping away - this one will be a project as it is a really hard stone.

Nope, not the Joe Pye.....the flower to the right.....

sorry - that is amaruth - self seeds every year and i weed out the bed so only 3 or 4 grow large

Leave it to Wha to be able to grow attractive weeds in the correct spot. Wha=Wizard. Patti

I tried to grow those one year from seed.....scraggly little plants with no bloom! That one is a beauty....yes, Bill is a great gardener, Patti.....

these were from seed originally as well - if we see each other next year i can give you a few of them - they usually start in late may early june

i am far from a great gardener although i do try - thx

I would love some, Bill....and you're too modest!

I did lots of weeding and pruning today. I need to move a bunch of Japanese Maples. When is the best time to do this? Patti

I'm not any help.When anyting goes into the gtound it has has a lot of thought as to where it goes.This means I only dig one hole.If a design problem comes up because of a mistake,I punt.

Bill to the rescue!

Ge1836, I am doing a whole lot of pruning these days. As much as I plan, the deer keep changing their palate and eat things that they once ignored so I must more things to the safe zone behind the deer fence. I had no trouble for years with the Japanse maples, but they decided to chomp them last spring. Killed two of them, so I am moving the rest except some older ones that can handle a munching. Patti

This message was edited Sep 2, 2012 11:31 AM

Our deer have "polebean radar" and girdled the centers of our 3 pyramids.

patti if you can wait I would do it in the spring before they leaf out. I know folks think it is best in the fall so they get two growing seasons. jm's are a bit different. I have two here in containers that i will wait until spring to plant.

you can give it a shot if you want - davidsan always recommended spring planting for jm's - until he started selling them and somehow his out look changed then:)

Now I am perplexed. I think that individually caging them again for the winter isn't such a great idea so either I move them now and water them well into the fall or deer fence the whole area or I have some nursery containers, big ones, so potting them up and moving them into the fenced area would be an option. I have no garage so they would have to be left outside. Do I bury the pots in the ground? Patti

This message was edited Aug 25, 2012 10:41 PM

you can - i lost a couple that way although they were small - if they are larger as in root system then you should be ok.

Oops! I posted on the wrong thread! Didn't notice there was a new one till after the fact. Good thing I went back and looked. Here's what I wrote over there:

Hey, everyone! Been busy with other threads in the daylily forums, but back here now.

Jo, your path is looking great. My beautiful rock pathway is hidden by weeds right now. Yesterday I had a friend and her son come over to help with weeding and mulching/fertilizing. They came twice last week, too. We got a lot done, but there's so much more to do. Will be doing a lot this weekend. It's supposed to be good weather.

I love the rock VW bug. Cool!

Louise, those tomatoes look and sound so yummy! Wish I could try some.

Personally I love going to the farmstands and chatting with the people who grow the veggies. Don't do it often, though.

Karen

P.S. Love the the birdbath, Bill. Glad you found just the right spot. Will reply to stuff on the new thread when I get a chance. Gotta go now.

Karen, We have an overflowing veggie bed, but we still love going to the farm stand too for corn and gossip. Both have been juicy this summer. We have a dear friend who use to live next door before selling out fora house in Maine coming tomorrow for the week. She is bringing lobsters so we will pick up some corn to go with our own potatoes which are doing nicely this year. Swiss chard has especially thrived too and we have had a bumper crop of tomatoes. DH put up nearly 40 big jars of sauce already. I have frozen 12 trays of slow roasted cherry tomatoes so far.

We had a nice GH surprise this morning. A big white Epi in bloom. And then we had some luck, though this is kind of sad, as we are killing off some moles. I like the moles, but not the voles that live in their tunnels. But worse is that we have 2 very destructive dogs who keep digging up the yard to attack the underground critters, so we must get rid of the moles. We have tried moving them along with organic mole repellant, which hasn't really worked as the moles only move to a virgin area on our property and then the dogs dig that up next. Parts of our yard looks like a mine field. DH got a contraption that he has hooked up to the exhaust on the car and is gassing them. 2 dead that we know about since last night as the dog proudly dug them up. I won't make you look at the pictures. Patti

The epi is a beauty! My airedales dug up mole tunnels all over the yard as well......Suey has never dug one hole....however, I'm overrun by chippies, squirrels, moles, etc. Can't win....

Beautiful epi bloom, patti!

Strange that I don't seem to have one in my journal that matches it. I think it is Epiphyllum pittieri, but I have no idea where it came from. Patti

Granite, I look forward to seeing pics of the new deck when it's done. I'll bet it looks nice.

Patti, sorry about your mole problem. I had them one year, but they moved out after that. Voles used their tunnels, too, and munched on a lot of my plants.

Karen

Moles and voles drove me nuts until I got a cat--much more effective than a dog ;-)

Patti, I forgot to mention how much I like that epi bloom. Really nice!

Karen

Here is neat stone project from ChrisTracey. He and his wife, Kathy Tracey, own Avant Gardens in N. Dartmouth Ma where I have gotten some gems. I am going to vote for him. I met them up at the Flower show one year, but have yet to get to their nursery in person. I have friends near there who say it is wonderful.

I got my Fairweather Gardens cat which could be dangerous, but I have not yet peeked inside it yet. I spent 4 hours weeding and deadheading today. I was hoping for rain as it is desperately dry. I want to do a lot of dividing and transplanting, but don't dare until we get a soaking rain.

http://americanmade.marthastewart.com/profiles/chris-tracey-2662

i saw the avant gardens email - wish there were more pictures of his work. and that FW cat came here too, it is good there are not many pictures!

Cannot even open another catalog....I've been very good....well, maybe not very.....

Still holding out on reading the Fairweather cat. But I know I will crack it open soon mostly because Victor loves them so much plus I did get some great stuff from them a couple of years ago.

Wha, Try this for some wall shots Patti

http://www.aldenhill.com/album/stone_walls_of_westport/album0.html

Raining finally. Nice downpour, hope it continues.

I planted 9 Hellebore from MamaJacks that she got through Terra Nova yesterday, so they will be happy. They arrived as nice fat and well grown plugs with a lot of top growth for a plug. Pleased. I found that one of our older planted hellebore is in bud now. Strange. It is one called Ivory Prince.

1 Amber Gem
2 Harlequin Gem
2 Painted Doubles
1 Rose Quartz
1 Cotton Candy
1 Peppermint Ice
1 Amethyst Gem

I also planted a box of nice big clumps of unusual Iris that I got from Snowpeak's summer sale.

Iris versicolor Epic Poem
Iris croatica
Iris laevigata Mint Fresh
Iris Psedacorus Phil Edinger
Iris versicolor Raspberry Slurp
Iris albicans

Rain Didn't Last....Dang, but very dark out so am hopeful it will begin again. Guess it is the perfect time to crack that FW Cat. Patti

thanks for the walls pictures patti - you should be getting real wet right about now as the news showed a large thunder storm cell hitting nantucket

Yep, it is back and the sky is that weird pinkish green. Happy to see some rain.

I thought you might like those walls, though none any better than a Wha Wall. Patti

Love the name Raspberry Slurp!

Patti, I have a gardening friend in Plymouth who just loves Avant Gardens and has been there many times. I have yet to go, but one of these days I'll make it over there. Sounds like you've been busy.

This past weekend I bought a few goodies. I got 2 elephant ear plants. One was called Alocasia wentii (leaves are dark underneath) and the other is Alocasia calidora (giant elephant ear). I got A. wentii for only $5. I was half price. I got the other one for $13. I also got a dwarf 'Cavendish' banana plant at the same place for $10, and a dwarf birch called a cutleaf birch, Betula pendula 'Trost's Dwarf' ( http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/51688/ ). It was priced at $45, but I had a coupon for 40% off, which made it only $27. I got good prices for all these things. I got all these at a place in Plymouth called Morrison's. I also went to a place in Wareham called Olson's, and I got 2 Heucheras there. Can't remember the names. One was a dwarf, and I got a lot of divisions out of it, so I planted them all together. Will see how it does. They both have really curly leaves.

When I got home I did some weeding and started getting some work done on a shade garden in front that's been needing work for a long time. I got out a lot of daylilies that were not doing much there due to the shade, and potted them up to sell, as they weren't ones I wanted to keep, and all were NOIDs. More need to be removed, as well as a peony, another NOID. I repotted the EEs and the banana to bigger pots. I planted a number of perennials that I had gotten this past spring, all for $2 a pot, including 2 'Krossa Regal' hostas (have 2 more of those to plant), and anemone called 'Robustisima', a white epimedium (name escapes me now), and a hosta that I got last year called 'Praying Hands', which is really cool ( http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/3470/ ). That area is looking really nice now. All I have to do is mulch with the aged cow manure.

We got an awesome amount of rain today. Lots of downpours. My gardens are very happy now.

Karen

Forgot to mention I will try and post pics this weekend of my most recent work.

Karen