Today's Weather in Your Garden - 20

How pretty WC!
63 and partly cloudy

Thank you!
It's Niobe and that's the 1st bloom of 42 buds the plant presently has, (that I can see). ☺

42?? Wow!!!! That is going to be spectacular!!!!

Wow - take some shots when they all bloom! Mine is new - two years old. Mine was much darker (last year) than yours.

sunny, windy 60 degrees.
I wish I had my camera to take a pic of the rainbow I saw coming home from the eye doctor yesterday. It was beautiful and you could see both ends.

Coming from the eye doc, I would have hesitated for a second!

Sun in and out and in and out. 61 degrees. Plants loving the sun right now what they can get.

Same here big clouds and sun comming and going.
Cool 50's great for gardening.

Warmer, thank heavens.

Victor, you're so funny...esp since I just had eye surgery and the drugs hadn't worn off yet.

Gorgeous evening shot, Victor!

WC - that shot of your Niobe is very pretty! Any tips to offer on how you get so many blooms???

Congrats, Pirl, on your lovely granddaughter's achievements. The apple doesn't fall very far from the grandtree in this case! LOL

Congrats Pirl, you must be very proud! She looks like a lovely girl and maybe even a little like Gram?

Thanks, Louise and Celeste. She inherited her mother's love for studying. How I wish I looked that good, Celeste!

Temp 61.1°, Wind NW 4.5 mph. ☺

Gee, I thought 42 was normal!

Donnie, removing one big ole' Oak tree that blocks the sun for 50% of the day seems to work wonders for them! Hee hee! ☺

Oh, I see, WC, that might work! LOL I don't seem to have the right recipe for mine, but I'm going to put some crystals in the ground around them in case they aren't getting enough moisture. How often do you fertilize yours?

I haven't fertilized any of my established plants yet. I fertilize them around the end of June/ July and then again around Sept/ Oct with a good seaweed & other organic fertilizers. My shrubs & lawn I fertilize in March. It's like 'breakfast' after a long winter sleep. I don't fertilize to boost production, I fertilize to maintain strength and resistance to disease. ☺

Edit:
With the Clematis I have a drip line to each individual plant, with ground cover and natural grass around the plants so that I keep the roots cool and watered even on the hottest days. I find that keeps them happy!

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Oh yes, WC! My mom taught me that clematis like their feet cool and their faces warm. I have my one and only clem tucked under the honeysuckle bush. It's roots stay nice and cool under there, and it climbs and climb to get up to the sunshine. It looks really pretty later in the season.

It's such a pretty morning here. The sun peeked over the hill about an hour ago, but no one in the house is up yet, so I brought my laptop and its extra long phone cord upstairs to my room. As I sit here, the hummingbirds are swooping in for their breakfast which hangs right outside my bedroom window. Later this season, when I can have my window open for the summer breeze, I will hear them as they drone around the feeder, and fight with each other.

Our weather today will be just about perfect for whatever we want to do outside. The temp right now is 40°, a bit too cool for me to be outside. But there's no wind at all. The humidity might be a bit high at 80%, but I can deal with it, as it's not hot. It looks like there might be just a few fair-weather clouds up there hanging in the sky, and there's a rumor that we may get a spotty shower later on today. But, for right now, the gardening world is perfect!

Good morning everyone! Happy, healthy, and safe gardening today - with no bugs!

Sunny (not a cloud to be seen), 56.2, winds at 3 mph, high of 65 expected.

Sunny 48* going for 74.
NO CLOUDS
Happy trip to the Indianapolis 500 for any one who likes that stuff.My SIL

It's 46 here now but is expected to warm up to 65 today and 72-75 tomorrow!! Yippee!!!!! I'll be planting the garden for the next 2 days.

Sunny and 63. Beautiful weekend on tap. Not much gardening for me. parents will be here today and tomorrow and I need to prepare for the patio work on Tuesday.

Enjoy the weekend, Victor, as I'm sure you will.

Please take before, during and after photos of the patio area. I'm sure you'll love it.

Sure will. You enjoy it too!

We'll be celebrating Jack's birthday a day early on Memorial Day.

Happy Birthday to Jack!!

Happy Birthday Jack!!

Happy b-day to Jack.
Sunny, slight breeze 65 degrees right now.

Please wish Jack a happy birthday early for me, Arlene!! Why don't you give him some new plants for his birthday??!! LOL

Anna and I just planted new plants in honor of Jack's birthday. We planted Feverfew, Forget-Me-Nots, Malva, Red Sedum, Yellow Loosestrife, a pale pink geranium (that I still have to look up), Evening Primrose and Bluebells.

Happy birthday, Jack!!

Yellow loosetrife?
Wow the pallett sounds wonderful.

Yes, Yellow Loosestrife. The lady said it would not be invasive. Well, we'll see.

Actually, the garden planting was not planned for today, rather the garden weeding was planned. A neighbor stopped her car in front of the house and introduced herself, and told Anna just how much enjoyment she was getting out of seeing the garden every day as she drives by. Then she mentioned that the fire department down the road, (Sullivan), was having a Plant and Yard sale, so Anna and I just HAD to go check it out!! Those are the plants we can back with, all for $2 each.

WOW and I just took over the beginning of the garden path that leads to the back yard and deck.
I want to plant a semicircle of small verigated hostas and behind them ( between them and the Lamium that's there)
Anthemis with Lamium" golden anniversery " on the left along the bluestone path.

that will look very lovely.

Just changed my mind about the Anthemis ,it's too tall.
I need a 18 inch plant.
I will find one among the huge order sent to Bluestone.1/2price sale

Brrrrrrr. I am still afraid to plant out my 'maters, even though its Memorial Day weekend. They're totally potbound and getting so tall! Maybe tomorrow? It's the chilly nights I'm most worried about.

I might have mentioned this before but when you finally plant the "maters put them in a deep hole and cover the stems up to about two inches befor the first branch. The stem in the earth puts out roots and the tom plant won't need staking or look floppy.

My Daddy used to do the same thing. He would also some time practically lay the tomato in a little trench he dug, with just the top 6 or so inches of leaves showing.

I forgot about the trench thing. I saw it done once when I was a commuting member of a commune, we had a big garden "all very GREEN in those days."
It worked out very well. Toms are a bit like weeds in that respect.

Good to know these things. Thanks.