New Garden Projects This Year #3

NICE, what did he use to attach the pieces?

Thank you! He used galvanized screws and nails.

O WOW what that turned out totally fabby wha. I thought of you today when I had to take apart a bit of the rockery to move in a rose. Look I made the start of a little wha wall ^_^ LD I luv your arbour! It is perfect with your shed.

Thanks! Oooh love the type of stone...is it common to your area?

Yes in the mountains. One thing about living in the rockies is there are many different stone options to choose from.

Great arbor!! Kudos to DH.

dnut, lovely little wha wall.

Thanks, everyone, for the kind words on my mini town that I had when I was growing up. One of these days I will dig out some old pictures I have somewhere and scan them to show everyone. I wish I had take a lot more.

Bill, your patio looks fantastic and so inviting. You did a great job.

LDEV4, that arbor is wonderful! I want one now! I've wanted one for a long time.

Cousin Nut, I love the stone. I would like to have some like that.

Anita, I do have a bench in that area, a cement one under a blue spruce. If you follow the path through the garden you come to a round grassy area with a birdbath in the center. Right across from there is a blue spruce with a bench underneath it, and it's a nice place to sit on a hot day.

Today and yesterday I worked out in back on a new garden bed, and I did some work putting together some compost piles, mixing together leaves, weeds and grass clippings and chopping them all up with the lawn mower, then piling them up so they heat up really well. In the new bed I planted a 'Red Fox' Veronica http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/53777/ , a Dianthus called 'Cranberry Ice' http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/164191/ , some seedlings of Texas Bluebonnet and red Lupines. Also I planted the daylily I paid $150 for back in Nov., Michael's Sword http://rainbowhilldaylilyfarm.com/2005intros/index.html , and the grower/hybridizer included a bonus plant called Paradise Of God http://rainbowhilldaylilyfarm.com/2005intros/index.html that he charges $107 for, so I was thrilled about that. It has such a gorgeous color.

Also in that area there were a bunch of DL crosses my mother had made. I felt they were all too close together and needed room to produce bigger clumps, so I dug those up, amended the soil with aged manure, and replanted them after cutting the foliage way back. They have not sent up any blooming scapes yet. As of this time I don't know if they are ones I want to keep. I will find out when they bloom, and if I don't care for them then they will be sold off. I can never bring myself to compost my daylilies, not unless they are just plain dull or cruddy looking.

So that's what I've been doing this weekend. Will take pics when I get more work done on that area.

Karen

dnut you showed those stones last year - love them!!

thx karen

My goodness, Karen! One might think you may be preparing for a RU!!!! LOL

Karen, That Paradise of God is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

love the arbor I have eight foot lenght drying out to do the same thing they should be ready by the end of the summer, I plan on making the eight by eight sections to make it eight by sixteen

Sounds Fab Scicciarella, Looking forward to seeing pics after the summer!

Mona, my sister is planning to build an arbor this year, too, with choke cherry trees she has been cutting down. That will go in our Secret Garden area ( http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/969870/ ) that we have been working on this year. Also to go in there will be a bridge going across the area that I think would be called a vernal pool or pond. That will be made of choke cherry logs as well.

Well, last night I finally got my pond cleaned out. What a mess!!!!!! I drained it and took all the stones out, as it's too much trouble trying to clean it with all those in there. I could not believe it, but my water lily had grown out of the pot and rooted into the muck that was under and between all the rocks. So I pulled all that out and potted it up. Now I have two pots of WL's in there. Also my corkscrew rush had produced offshoots that were growing out of the pot as well. I will pot them up too as soon as I get the chance. I found several snails still alive in there, and I have a frog. Soon as I can I will get some water lettuce, water hyacinth and a couple other floating plants. Might get a cardinal flower, too. All the stones from the pond are going in the garden surrounding the pond. I started on that today and got my waterfall going. It's coming along nicely. I get a lot of nice comments on it whenever people come over.

Today I worked on some weeding. I also got some spraying done for the lily beetles and caterpillars. The latter are eating my roses and a swamp azalea. I used a product containing spinosad ( http://www.planetnatural.com/site/monterey-garden-insect.html ).

I also got 2 new things planted. One was a cowslip primrose, an orangey color, and the other was the Francesca primrose ( http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/65008/ ). I also transplanted a couple of daylilies.

That was about it for today, as I spent a good part of the morning at a garden of one of the members of the local garden club I belong to, and my Dad, my friend Karen, and another friend of ours went too. I ended up coming home with a cutting of a rhododendron named after her, Bea MacDonald, and a hosta called Pee Dee Gold Flash ( http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/3465/ ). Bea had some amazing gardens, and we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, though I regretted missing that time to work in my gardens. Oh, well, can't kill myself with garden work, I guess.

Karen

ok this is just a start ... we are not sure how we want to finish this off...

because of the drainage problems in the past there is gravel under the spot where the fountain is... we didn't want to wreck what was done back there... so we are thinking of surrounding it with blue stone that we already have around... but not sure yet

one view

looking down at it

That looks nice, Allison. The little love shack bird house is very cute.

Karen

Cool, Allison!

OOOHHH!!! I'm liking it.

Nice! The bluestone around it would look good.

onewish1, Neat feature. Now those little fairy folks have their own Niagara Falls. Better give them slickers and a sou'wester! Patti

LOL

Randy has some plans skipping around his head what he wants to do with the setup... I am sure he will figure something out

looking forward to seeing the end result allison

yeah me too

:)

good thing is we can just pick it up and move it around right now... if I don't like it or it doesn't turn out right ... we can change it

Very prettiful onewish!

thank youful!

had to go back 6 pages to find this! - what did everyone stop their garden projects?

here is a few pictures to make space for a red baron jm to go behind a koto no ito jm - this meant moving out a large 9 yr old rody.

here is the hole if left the rody is at the bottom of the hill - huge root ball! I had trimmed this down yesterday

here is a pic of just the rody

here we are with the rody still in the wheel barrel (i rolled it into wb while it was on its side).

and in its new home - i really trimmed a lot of branches off this rody as it had gotten very leggy chasing the sun from the slope it was planted on - i also had 4 or 5 branches that had rooted and these are also planted down here and i may or may not keep them.

and for the last one back out front after planting the red baron a little higher up the hill. need to find a hosta, cool rock, or both to place on the slope between the koto no ito and red baron.

Wha, I think you should move it over about 18" and then it would be perfect. I think you need a bigger wheel barrel. Patti

That's a hefty root ball, Bill. How much do you estimate it weighed? Good work.

thx - actually i do not think it weighted more than 50 pds. not real sure as i never picked it up - i rolled it into the wheel barrel and then dropped it right into its new home. rody's do not get huge roots they are more fibrous.

patti can not replace the wheel barrel - with the war scars it has it is becoming a classic!

Oh, you did it the girl's way, Bill. ^_^ Hee hee.

don't think any girls would be out in this crappy weather moving huge rodies around - how was your nap:)?

I think Patti just might dispute that.

Nap was great - thanks!

I haven't moved anything today except some puzzle pieces. Wooden ones, however. I did move a few shrubs yesterday, but midgets compared with that rhodie. I should be napping, perfect weather for one. Patti

Bill, you work even in the crappiest weather! Great job! I have moved rhodies that big before, but with one other person helping. Not an easy job, certainly. I have 2 in front that I want to move somewhere out back, but didn't get a chance to do it earlier in the spring. I guess I could still get it done, especially with all the cool, rainy weather we have been getting. Maybe I could get out there and at least get the roots dug. I know my sister won't help me out in this weather.

As for getting projects done, I've been doing a few, but just haven't been posting them. I've been so busy and trying to keep up with other threads.

Here is a new Wisteria I planted about a week ago. I have since trimmed off all the lower branches and will be training it as a standard.

Karen

nice job on the wisteria - i assume that pole is to hold it up? i struggled to get mine to stay up until recently, it would always out grow the support in time - it did leave me with a cool curved trunk, when you can see it - they grow like weeds once established

on the rody i wanted to wait until after it flowered - i also took off a ton of branches and trimmed it - filled one of those large garbage dollies used by garbage pick-up companies (best yard tool going) - and with this rain figured it would be the perfect time. i'd go for it

Yes, the pole is to support it. It is a 10' pole, and my friend Karen's husband put it in for me, but it's not in far enough, nor is it close enough to the wisteria. I will have to take it out and dig a deeper hole for the pole and move the wisteria closer. He only put it in about 1.5', and I wanted it in more like 2.5'. Oh, well, that's what I get for relying on someone else to do it for me.

Karen