I was wondering where everyone was too.
Elena, my japanese quince are white--a couple of young, scraggly plants--and a larger pink-ish one. I wish mine would grow taller, but this probably isn't their favorite climate. They got huge in western Washington and were glorious in the spring. That's a pretty photo you posted there: my compliments!
Chionodoxas are small bulbs somewhere in the squill tribe, I believe. They come is shades of blue or violet and white and aren't fragrant that I know of. But they seed readily and are very cheerful little flowers that spread around in the garden and never give any trouble. I might try putting some in the big garden, close under the roots of some very thorny, very well established roses so that the boars can't get at them, so that I can enjoy them in other places than in the one corner they currently occupy.
I've been transferring cutting-grown baby plants from the pots where I started them last year to the propagating beds, which I'm cleaning up as I go along. The beds are starting to have a nice furnished look now. I want to have the young plants in the ground because I'm afraid we may have a terrible summer and if that's so they'll have a better chance of survival there than in pots. I've told my husband that if we go on water rationing he'll have to set up a shower in the propagating bed and wash there (I've done this in the past). We're already practicing water rationing in the house, keeping water in the tub and using it to flush the toilet.
The propagating beds have to be continually resupplied with soil because we dig out plants with dirt when we transplant them, leaving holes behind. We have a pile of heavy clay from when our neighbors were excavating to build a new barn, and my husband got the dump truck driver to unload a couple of piles of dirt in our parking area. We've been using that for years now. This year we're getting a lot of beautiful compost too, from terribly thorny rose prunings that I heaped up a few years ago and that have finally decomposed. We have a compost pile, but it seems to take incredible quantities of vegetable waste to get much compost. Our ground is almost all so poor in organic material, that it just sucks it all up. But this year we have compost, and I haven't had to buy any potted compost for my pots or for the garden, yet.
Melissa
Elena, my japanese quince are white--a couple of young, scraggly plants--and a larger pink-ish one. I wish mine would grow taller, but this probably isn't their favorite climate. They got huge in western Washington and were glorious in the spring. That's a pretty photo you posted there: my compliments!
Chionodoxas are small bulbs somewhere in the squill tribe, I believe. They come is shades of blue or violet and white and aren't fragrant that I know of. But they seed readily and are very cheerful little flowers that spread around in the garden and never give any trouble. I might try putting some in the big garden, close under the roots of some very thorny, very well established roses so that the boars can't get at them, so that I can enjoy them in other places than in the one corner they currently occupy.
I've been transferring cutting-grown baby plants from the pots where I started them last year to the propagating beds, which I'm cleaning up as I go along. The beds are starting to have a nice furnished look now. I want to have the young plants in the ground because I'm afraid we may have a terrible summer and if that's so they'll have a better chance of survival there than in pots. I've told my husband that if we go on water rationing he'll have to set up a shower in the propagating bed and wash there (I've done this in the past). We're already practicing water rationing in the house, keeping water in the tub and using it to flush the toilet.
The propagating beds have to be continually resupplied with soil because we dig out plants with dirt when we transplant them, leaving holes behind. We have a pile of heavy clay from when our neighbors were excavating to build a new barn, and my husband got the dump truck driver to unload a couple of piles of dirt in our parking area. We've been using that for years now. This year we're getting a lot of beautiful compost too, from terribly thorny rose prunings that I heaped up a few years ago and that have finally decomposed. We have a compost pile, but it seems to take incredible quantities of vegetable waste to get much compost. Our ground is almost all so poor in organic material, that it just sucks it all up. But this year we have compost, and I haven't had to buy any potted compost for my pots or for the garden, yet.
Melissa
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