Need to Get Into the Garden!!!

[Tulirose]

I gotta get out to my garden and get cracking. I did a lot a few weeks ago. Moved and divided two hostas and now I have a whole lot more in a new area and was able to share too.

I have three new corabells I gotta get in the ground along with a canna lily hubby got me. I have my flower exchange dahlias I have to get in the ground and I have some gladioli bulbs (tubers? whatever) to get in the ground too. Got some sunflower seeds also.

Did I mentioned I planted the mountain laurel?
Did I also mentioned I killed my thyme??

The forsythia need to be pruned asap.

I did mow after work today. And deadheaded some more daffodils (they bloomed forever this year! ). Today I also cut some dead wood out of some of the andrometer bushes. One bush is pretty bad and probably has to be removed.

Oh, and I borrowed some sort of little rotiller thingie from BIL (he has anything and everything in his garage!) because there is an area I need to just overhaul completely. It had wild violets growing there and I don't want that any more and it also has moss growing there so I am going to trim back the bushes more to try and give it more light and more air. Wondering if I should till the moss into ground or lift out and dispose of? Oh well, I'll play it by ear.

I haven't even started to think about containers or annuals, although I did receive today a very pretty pink geranium hanging pot.

Oh, and I got some sort of pink daisy to plant too.

The weather here has been very cool still, so I figure that is in my favor!

So much to do.

How about you guys? Overwhelmed as well?

 

[Snowwark]

I hear you, Tulirose, and yes, I'm definitely feeling overwhelmed!

This Spring has been so cool here also, it just doesn't seem to want to really settle in. That probably means that in a week or two, we'll just zoom into 90 degree weather!

I have some Columbine, Blanketflower, and Snakeroot, all patiently waiting to be planted.

The new garden cart is full of annuals for some of my containers, and late yesterday I actually managed to get one of them planted. The funny thing is, I'd like to change it already....picky picky...lol.

We had our lawn aerated and overseeded last week, and even though I gathered up some of them, the ground is full of little dirt turds from the aerating.

We've divided some perennials, and still have a few more to take care of.

I was hoping to get a lot done this coming weekend (it's a holiday weekend for us), but we're having a big bbq party on Sunday, and I'm completely NOT ready for that!! Oh well........

You sound as if you actually have done quite a bit of work, and maybe the saying that a garden is a work in progress, is truly always the case.

You killed your thyme?

 

[December99]

I'm overwhelmed too Tuli so don't feel left out!!!!

I started a new landscaping project two weeks ago - got the wall and soil in but now I need to plant. I was busy this past weekend but was also waiting for some plants to come that I ordered. This weekend I'm totally packed too. So next weekend guess what I get to spend doing - oh also the weather hasn't cooperated on the few nights I've been home that I could be planting - yup, planting the plants and getting the other part of the project started and done and planted.....

But annuals - I keep looking at them and think - I can't get them yet cause I'm so busy I won't have time to get them in and then they'll die and I'll have to go get more!!!! UGH

Ok - dumb question - deadheading daffodils - can you cut the tips off or do you have to do this with your fingers? I didn't deadhead - most of them blew off with the past storms.

 

[Tulirose]

Yes, from reading this forum and some other garden ones and learning from the pros (Mamu for one), I definitely agree with you Snowwark that a garden is forever a work in progress!

I've been following your reports with the wall Dec99 - you Dad helped you, right? I am anxious to see how it all turns out but I think we sometimes expect too much out of ourselves. Of course, things would be a lot easier if we didn't have to go to work and cook dinner and do laundry, etc.

Deadheading daffodils means I hold in my hand the dead flower head and then follow the stem down to the base and cut with pruners. I normally bring some in the house when they're in bloom, but for some reason this year, never did, so I had a lot of dead flowers to cut.

 

[Mamu]

Like everyone else I can here my gardens calling me, but for some reason I not listening.

It's tough to awaken from this hibernation, the winter cold has set deep into my bones and won't go away.

 

[DixieDreamer]

It is overwhelming to keep up with the spring rush of the garden. The past two weekends I have spent virtually every spare moment in the gardens. Today was stormy and VERY cold - so no gardening today. Hopefully a little time in the patio garden tomorrow.

Sadly I lost my tomatoes to a very late and very hard frost. Yikes this has been a chilly spring for us! So... I will have to resort to buying NURSERY tomatoes rather than growing my own started seedlings. Poor dears are done for.

It's a labor of love though.

 

[December99]

Thanks Tuli...yes, my dad did help me get the wall up and this weekend he is going to come and help me with the other one - to the south of the air conditioning unit. I have pics I just haven't had time to get them downloaded and uploaded. Hopefully this week I'll get the plants in - looks like it's going to be Wednesday now before I get to it. But...as I was out in the yard this weekend I had several neighbors come by and tell me it looks great - the wall. Our next door neighbor that it faces came over to tell me, her brother who has done some professional landscaping said it looked like a professional had done it!!! That made me feel really good. I've been waiting for the rest of my plants to arrive and they did on Sat so now the fun begins!!!!! (I think anyway).

And thanks for that daffy knowledge!!!!

 

[Snowwark]

"Our next door neighbor that it faces came over to tell me, her brother who has done some professional landscaping said it looked like a professional had done it!!! That made me feel really good."

That must of been great to hear, Chris! Looking forward to seeing your pics....when you have time, of course.

 

[Tulirose]

Originally posted by Mamu
.....It's tough to awaken from this hibernation, the winter cold has set deep into my bones and won't go away.

For some reason, this winter is still hanging in there! I hope we don't go right into a heat wave although we have been having some nicer days of late.

Sorry about those tomatoes DixieDee. Are these the same seedlings that survived a mishap a month or so ago? was that you that wrote about it? This old mind forgets...

Dec99, you and your dad deserve a big pat on the back. I just can't wait to see pixs. It is, however, such a pain to download from the camera to the computer and then pick which pictures to upload to a website and then post them. Very time-consuming...but much appreciated when our fellow buds do this for us!

 

[DebºoºS]

Tuli, you've done quite a bit already! Don't beat yourself up the weather has not been easy to work with this spring.

Like everyone else I'm frustrated. So many plans and so little time.

The 7yds of soil, 20 rose of sharon and 6 lilacs project is almost finished. The nursey delivered 7yds of mulch and a huge weeping willow yesterday. Meanwhile I have a wild assortment of bushes that have to go in not to mention the flowering plants. Aahhhhh...overload

This will be a long wet weekend here in NJ. We'll be celebrating with a memorial mulch-a-thon between the rain drops

 

[gina2000]

The rotten winter weather just keeps on hanging on! I got a whole slew of perennials planted a couple of weeks ago during a spell of dry, fairly warm weather but since then it's been downhill all the way! I still have cleanup to do in the front and need to spread topsoil and peatmoss in alot of beds. Annuals? Forget it. This spring has been so cold that they would go into shock....then we'll get 90+ degree weather and it will wilt and kill the best of them.....though I would really like to put impatiens in a redone bed I worked on most of last year.....

Another wet weekend. Followed by another wet week.

WHEN WILL IT END????

 

[Mamu]

This is the 4th day of rainy cold weather, will it never end.

 

[Tulirose]

This is a little ridiculous!!

At least whatever we managed to get into the ground prior to this time is benefitting from all this dreary, rainy weather but I really would like to see some sun.

Deb - A weeping willow??? Wow! I LOVE weeping willows but they take up so much space. From what I remember of photos of your property, however, you can handle one easily. It will be great!