Spring sproinged
May. 27th, 2009 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primsongWhew! This year's new plantings are all in, at last. Even the rhubarbs!
"oh yeah! that's when I planted that!"
On the south starting from the nandina - three arctic kiwi vines (two ladies and one chap), a blue elderberry, some tulips (beheaded by raccoons) and muscari (rescued from an abandoned house), one photinia fraseri ("Fraser"), coralbells and the Green Monster laurel.
To the side here, in the middle clump of trees we find the new sword fern, three viburnum (Brandywine, Blue Muffin and Winterthur) flanked by six new little ligonberries.
Back to the fence! Beyond the little arctic-fire dogwood, there's two jubilee and apple-roses. That reaches the corner!
Turning the corner and going along the west side, the new plantings for this year are the other elderberry that I think isn't going to survive transplanting, one more jubilee and two more apple-roses, then Stella and Vern (the fig trees). They are followed by Victoria (the ceanothus) and Fiver, the new little fargesia robusta bamboo. On the other side of the madrone and other bamboos there's Gamma, the baby filbert.
On the north now resides Gamma's partner in nut-producing crimes, Delta the filbert. Beside her are two teensy douglas fir babies and then in front of the Oregon Grape the RHUBARB brothers - a trio of crimson terror to stalk the yard.... Above them, we have the three tiny but tough eucalyptus neglecta sisters... c'mon gals, grow!
Thus goeth the back yard for this year! No wonder I'm tired.
Sooo glad the previous couple years of plantings on the south side are established enough now I don't have to babysit them with the hose all the time. The butterfly bushes are so huge and tall I'm amazed that I'm the one who planted them, those spindly little twigs not that long ago. The myrtle tree is a yard high - woot!
Now to catch up on all the weeding that I've missed while doing all this dirt-flinging. :-P
"oh yeah! that's when I planted that!"
On the south starting from the nandina - three arctic kiwi vines (two ladies and one chap), a blue elderberry, some tulips (beheaded by raccoons) and muscari (rescued from an abandoned house), one photinia fraseri ("Fraser"), coralbells and the Green Monster laurel.
To the side here, in the middle clump of trees we find the new sword fern, three viburnum (Brandywine, Blue Muffin and Winterthur) flanked by six new little ligonberries.
Back to the fence! Beyond the little arctic-fire dogwood, there's two jubilee and apple-roses. That reaches the corner!
Turning the corner and going along the west side, the new plantings for this year are the other elderberry that I think isn't going to survive transplanting, one more jubilee and two more apple-roses, then Stella and Vern (the fig trees). They are followed by Victoria (the ceanothus) and Fiver, the new little fargesia robusta bamboo. On the other side of the madrone and other bamboos there's Gamma, the baby filbert.
On the north now resides Gamma's partner in nut-producing crimes, Delta the filbert. Beside her are two teensy douglas fir babies and then in front of the Oregon Grape the RHUBARB brothers - a trio of crimson terror to stalk the yard.... Above them, we have the three tiny but tough eucalyptus neglecta sisters... c'mon gals, grow!
Thus goeth the back yard for this year! No wonder I'm tired.
Sooo glad the previous couple years of plantings on the south side are established enough now I don't have to babysit them with the hose all the time. The butterfly bushes are so huge and tall I'm amazed that I'm the one who planted them, those spindly little twigs not that long ago. The myrtle tree is a yard high - woot!
Now to catch up on all the weeding that I've missed while doing all this dirt-flinging. :-P
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Date: 2009-05-27 08:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-28 01:48 am (UTC)I had my years of a tiny yard when nearly all of my plants were just in a couple rows of pots - there's really quite a bit you can do with just container-growing that way. What does she have going? I'm experimenting with putting my cherry-tomatoes in containers on the deck this year.