Garden Photos of '09......#4

i guess i got that one backwards :)

Thanks all!

Drumlin.... Love the willow.

Patti..... good, I'm glad that you're doing what you are doing and certainly keep going with it. I think that gardening puts almost all of us in at least one tax bracket lower, if possible to go lower :-p Now, if only it were all tax deductible!! But, DG does help with that. Your mom sounds like a real character! As do you, a can't believe that you have TWO saws!!! that's so cool. What kind? You mom reminds me of my grandmother who would never not do something that she wanted to because it wasn't the normal thing for women to do. And..... she never really got into gardening, but she loved to weed!

thanks Bill.... yep, the hoar frost hasn't been staying nearly as late in the day now!! Yeay! The landscapers place and Norwest nursery are both much lower in elevation than I am. I was amazed at how much farther ahead the landscapers were. I haven't been getting frost that stays past 6 or 7 am lately. This is great!! However, I know it's wishful thinking and I'd best enjoy it now. Late Feb /early March is usually a warm-ish spell (sometimes that just means lots, lots, and lots, of rain), but make no bets, there will be plenty of snow and frost again. Never anything thing like what you get there, but enough to remind us what season it really is.

yup cant have it all its good soil, or rock and then you have the people who have it real bad lol no rocks and bad soil or just sand

oh well we gardeners always order soil and compost its habit every couple of years

I dont think that in the last fifteen years that I have gone one summer without something being dumped on my driveway lol that is how my neighbors know its spring when the big pile of something is sitting there getting smaller every weekend till end of june of beginning of july.

I showed you the invasive weed we have here in NB .It is worse than ever today.JOY

OMG agedgardener you need a meltdown. Looks like the orchids can't believe their eyes.

That is horrible - hard to belive its true. DH would not let it stay there. He would move it one way or the other.

Wow! How much did you get, Joy?

My fig in a container on my porch has begun to leaf out.

And now for the really good news - hellebores are emerging!!!!

More!

New growth on the 'stinking' one.

Yippppeeee

That's exactly what I yelled! I added, 'I love you hellebores!'

Even tho you are a month ahead of us its great to know its comming north.

Congradulations! Glad the deer didn't eat yours like they did to all of mine except one. grrrrrrrrrrrr. Patti

Mine are buried (sigh), but yours are lovely Victor!

Joy...... that's aweful!!!

Victor......Yippeee.....

Thanks! Are you sure it was the deer, Patti? They don't usually go for it.

yeah for the hellebores!

Am I a bad person because I'm cursing Victor? IT'S NOT FAIR!!!

LOL... gotta move down further

Yep. not clean cut at an angle as they would have been by a Bunnie, but ripped and torn as by Bambi. They ate them all in one night. I hope they had a horrible tummy ache. We could see their hoof prints too. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I have ordered more, but they are getting planted inside the deer fence in the new, yet to be dug, JMaple bed. The eaten ones may come back. I had bought all but 2 of them as plugs a few years ago so they
where just going to have their first real chance to bloom. No big loss of bucks, just time and love. Patti

Nope, not bad at all. But, you can curse at me Evie!! My hellebores are a little farther along (a bloom is going to open any day now!) but I live much farther away, so I highly doubt that the cursing would get to me! :-p

My saying is, 'Change your latitude, or your attitude!'

Bummer, Patti. More deer who don't read the rules.

Victor, isn't great to see those signs of spring? I had to go out and have a look. I'm seeing crocus, daffodils and species tulips beginning. I planted about a hundred Hyacinths last fall. Here are few peeking up from the soil.
Dyane

Finally got around to starting some seeds this weekend. I just put together this shelving/lighting setup over the winter.

Yes it is, Dyane. Looking great there too! Nice seed setup.

Patti - if the roots are intact, the hellebores should return.

dyane what did you plant?

started some seeds the weekend before last - so far italian basil, leeks, gloriosa daisy, elephant head amaranth - have come up.

Just popped out for a few (it's freezing out there!) minutes. Found another.

Pieris coloring up nicely.

Red-twig dogwood basking in the sun.

Dwarf Alberta spruce.

Last - speaking of deer who don't follow rules, this is the first time I ever had damage to these evergreen hollies. Also noticed nandina eaten nearby - another first.

This weekend I planted:

Viola 'Freckles', 'Fuji Dawn' and 'Bolero'.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/99892/
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/150714/
http://summerhillseeds.com/pansy-bolero-p-287.html
Coleus 'Palisandra' and 'Limelight'.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/109163/
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/22780/
Petunia 'Shock Wave Electric Mix'.
http://summerhillseeds.com/petunia-shock-wave-electric-mix-p-414.html
Blue Marguerite Daisy 'Felicia' and African Daisy, Arctotis.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/102918/
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/169663/

More to come. I really want to have a vegetable garden but the only place I have with full sun is in my front yard and I can't figure out how I could do it without it looking like a mess.

Bill, I was thinking of you this weekend. I have been getting estimates for stone walls, had three guys come by and another is coming tonight. I haven't gotten the prices yet but I'm getting the feeling that I have very expensive tastes in walls. I wish I could build my own like you have. You must have such satisfaction in knowing that each stone was selected, carried and set by your own hands. You do beautiful work. Any chance you'd come down to Long Island? LOL

Dyane

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ah dont forget the shoulder aches and the back aches my husband still feels it everytime he looks at the wall hahhahah and he is not finished did 3 feet high and 60 feet long last summer and still has another 25 feet to go but the rocks are huge so we trying to figure out how we are going to move them some over 400 pounds thinking of hydraulic jacks or something

Wow, I'm getting sore just thinking about it. That's why I'm calling in the professionals!

ottawa has very unemployment so it is very expensive to pay for labor
last summer they ran behind building houses because they could not find enough people to work as carpenters and drywaller etc....

I was lucky to get the boyfriend of my neice to install the chainlink fence he did it over the weekend since they at the time had a back log of 8 months on installations lol they are already booked till august of 09 and spring is not ever here

we have to find a way of doing it our selves lol with the right equipment we should be able to get it done, the stone does not have to go far just moved around and put into place since the thin capping stones are at the bottom of the large ones we have to get them into place and then grade it since we have a huge mound of top soil sitting there waiting to go into place so I can plant my perennial bed

always planning ahead the seedling are already growing

you may loose on that deal Dayne on beer and food alone. years ago i had an estimate done on a small semi-circle wall - i think it was $1500 - i nearly ______ - so i built it myself - i suggest that you sit down before opening the quotes

mona he can move them with a metal bar - going from side to side - it's slow going but they will get there - that's what i did - or try and get them on a large two-wheeler and strap them to it - i did that too.

mona just saw your post - if they do not have to go far the metal bar method will work. and it sounds like he made good progress last year - mine was about the same hieght and 110 feet long - it is very time consuming and not something that is easy to stay on - you need to take some breaks and do other things - how wide is it?

At a neighborhood party yesterday some one was saying they had an estimate for a two level patio ,nothing too big, just for grilling and friends over.
The estimate was for $42,000.00
YES Thousand dollars. She said no- wayyy.