Garden Projects #11

great color!

I see it worked goodie

OK...what's wrong with my computer? Glad you have your greenhouse all done, Patti....nice on a winter's day....You're right Jo about the 21st snow.....hoping that's not in our forecast this year, very spoiled after last winter....I've noticed a ton of buds on the Christmas cactus.....

Just hollered uncle and stopped for the day. I did a lot of cutting back of Peonies, Iris, Lilies, Hosta and then I did a major attack on the edge of the big mass of Rosa Rugosa that was expanding like my waist. I also thinned out a big stand of Inkberry (Ilex glabra) that was over taking the narrow bed in front of it. Pleased with the new look.

Here are some shots I took today of GH. Love seeing the fall colors in Jo Ann's garden. Thanks. Patti

Some garden shots from today. I am heading up to Boston tomorrow morning as I have a kiln to load and DH is doing a Head of the Charles race on Sat, then we are going to Vt. Hope there is some color left. Patti

Wonderful photos of the greenhouse & gardens...love the green man head, and the roses are still nice.....

Thanks Robindog, I did 3 ceramic scarecrow heads, but the other 2 are still out in the veggie beds. I have to remember to bring them inside or they might crack. Now on the 2dolist. I have a Japanese Maple tree to plant which I keep forgetting about too. Kind of late. Patti

Drooling ladies!!! Have fun loading the kiln and then on to VT. Also for DH's race. Exciting weekend

Wow! Patti, your greenhouse is looking very lush. Is that a giant jade plant I see in the first and fourth pic? Our porch looks like a tropical paradise right now, too, even though it's quite crowded with all the plants. It's quite apropos, seeing that we have turned the porch into an Aruba room. Almost hate to move the plants back outside when summer gets here. Your gardens are looking nice. You've been a busy bee, as usual. I would be too, if I didn't have to go to my job.

Jo, thanks for the fall tour of your gardens. Gardens have a special look in the fall, even without all the flowers.

Karen

Patti:Those are great Garden heads.
I just brought in all the clay pieces.The garage gets smaller every year.

Wish we had a garage. But i would just fill it up. Our shed is too full as it is.

I am on fast ferry. Lovely passage and what a spectacular sun rise.

Jan, DH loves the Head of the Charles race, but he is only allowed to cox one boat each year and this year he has a women's four not an eight which is more fun. He loves the gals who are in that boat so all good. Hope the rain is done by the time of his race. Then we will head to vt.

Karen. Yes we have lots of jades that are huge. They all came from a tiny one my DH had on a sailboat that he crewed on before we started dating in 1976. We leave some of them in the GH all the time as well as a big hybiscus that he also had from that period. They are family, older than our son. I am spoiled by retirement. It is a true treat to have so much time to work in the garden and to do some pottery. My dad died the year he retired and DH's died before he got to enjoy his, so I am privileged and know it. Have a great week end all. Patti

Very sad about both parents not getting to enjoy their retirement......I've been retired 13 years, although I worked part time after I retired from teaching.....now I have no idea how I worked ....just busy stuff I guess.....worked in the veggie garden about an hour yesterday, but still more to do....I'm not cutting back many perennials yet......I have a passionflower vine climbing up my garage.....it's never flowered, but I'm still hanging on to it!

I am in awe of the GH Louse has cultivated! Love all the flowers still out there in peoples' yards too.

I finished planting half of the bottom row of my white peony garden in the period between getting home from work and before the rain. Today's peonies are Crinkled White and White Grace, both from Roy Klehm's Songsparrow nursery. During last weekend, I put Garden Treasure in another area near epimediums,iris, yellow hostas and ROS 'Blue Nile.'

It would be great to retire and garden more but I'm hoping to be productive at work for another six years.

College tuitions...hear you....the white peony garden sounds wonderful!

Thanks for the encouragement Marilyn. Ground is very soft but for me the work in the garden is very slow lately. I am hoping I can hire DD1 as she is coming home from Oberlin for a week. Her piano teacher usually gets to hire her in her garden, which is part of the annual Lexington garden tours.

White garden is close enough to done for now with Cora Louise peony where last year I thought I was planting Elsa Sass, but it's something else. How often do companies send the wrong root I wonder? I hear that inter-planting with feverfew will reduce the weeds.

My grandmother had a white peony garden which was the background for our first communion pics in Illinois. Could one of my daughters possibly want a backyard wedding someday? DD2 keeps asking questions about married student housing at college.

Oh? Is she serious with someone? A white peony garden would be awesome for a wedding!

Patti, I have a jade plant given to me by a friend last year. I hope I can keep it as long as you've had yours, and get some really big plants out of it someday. I envy your retirement. I hope I get to enjoy mine. You don't know how badly I would like to retire right now.

Rosemary, I like the sound of your white peony garden. I just love peonies, and have several. I have one that needs to be moved, a red single, early bloomer called 'Scarlet O'Hara'. Really pretty one.

Got a good amount of work done yesterday renovating one of my daylily gardens. Had to dig out a bunch that will be potted up to sell, and I put in new ones. I'm now making sure they are all 18" apart when I plant them, as eventually I would like my gardens to be an AHS display garden, and that means the daylilies have to be the correct distance apart. They look better that way, too. I had to move a few around to get them the correct distance apart. Also had to dig the beds to get out all the quack grass roots. I'm sure I didn't get them all, but I got most. There are some nice 'Autumn Joy' sedums in that bed. I'll be shifting one to a different spot. I'm incorporating some new perennials in there, too. I have 2 hardy Alstromerias (Peruvian Lilies). One is called 'Mauve Majesty'. I forget the name of the other, which is a yellow. The mauve one actually has 2 blossoms on it now.

Today I didn't get a lot done, but I did make some progress weeding one bed, which was out by the bed I was renovating yesterday. I have to move some daylilies around in that bed.

Karen

Finished this small raised platform last week to sit and look out over the pond. It is about 10x10. plan to build a bed behind and plant 3 red licorice and 2 blue shadow fothergilla as a screen from the yard.

There black slate set into sand that is all over our friends yard where i get my rock supplies, had to do something with it.

busy guy!

Nice....I like the one that looks like a turtle....

OH, I love it!!!

thanks folks - i am hoping with the plantings behind it will turn out a bit better - may have to make the platform taller we shall see.

"Nothing is written in stone" LOL

True!

I hired a garden cleanup crew.Smartest thinh I ever did.

You are so right!!

i look in the mirror at my clean up crew :)

I understand the help needed joann.

I need basal joint surgery and will have it done this winter.Its hjust too painfull to grip and carry much less pull weeds and use a shears.
I should be back in fighting shape by March.

Good luck, Jo....I'll be thinking of you....

Best to you Jo.

hope it goes well joann

Best wishes for successful surgery and getting back to fighting shape, dear.

Best of luck to you JoAnn

Thanks everyone.
I will start a new thread.

New thread:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1286639/

Sorry I forgot the pix.Pretend the new thread photo is snow.

Best wishes for the surgery, Jo.

Dear All of the Most Fabulous & Industrious Gardeners listed above. Have so enjoyed reading this thread, drooling over all the photos, those w/new plans developed & jealous of those w/greenhouses & seriously thinking a "Clean-Up-Crew-Fund" should be priority on my Christmas List.

Praying for all those people whose lives have been lost or lives as they knew them, so completely decimated in the recent 24 hr. nearly stationary "whirlpool" that centered on our middle Atlantic seaboard states in the name of Hurricane Sandy. Possibly as bad as Katrina in New Orleans a few yrs. ago. Another reported Nor'Easter on it's way by mid-next week. Be prepared & stay safe!!

Its my guess the losses in property are greater than Katrina but losses in lives is less. It is really tragic when storms like these hit densely populated areas.