Saturday, June 14, 2003

Yellow Rockets and Red Mars


Now we're cooking! Mom and I went to Bloom Hill Farm this morning (after a tasty breakfast of catfish at the Cracker Barell). I picked up a slew of snap dragons, the tall kind, and mostly lemon yellow known as yellow rockets. They are a hybrid so doubt they'll resow themselves as yellow but we shall see! I picked up a couple of soft melon pink ones for the private garden in back. Just what that mini oasis needed to set off the daylilly and oriental lilly leaves. The mourning doves basically sat on the lobelia so it's not doing as well as the stuff out by the road, but we shall see. Even that big bleeding heart took a hit, maybe from a cat scrapple.

For brightness, I picked up some red mars with tiny spiky cherry red petals, a same color zinnia, and some red verbena with a yellowish center. The red & yellow along with some of the lemon rockets now brighten up the front yard a bit. The zinnia, along with a salmon geranium sit in a clay-colored tub by the back step.

Thursday, June 12, 2003

I fed the flower garden again.

First with a bonsai mix and now with a rose mix (in leui of miracle grow I am guessing that this combo can get me a strong geenery and flowering plant. All the margeuirte daisies are coming into bloom although they are still pretty short. The tickseed too is short, but budding. My tall leggy coreopsis from a stand in litchfield is holding up well, giving the garden some needed height, and budding too! I consider swapping around some plants til they reach mature size, but we shall see. Too busy with work this week, completing my deliverables before vacation. We shall see, but too have blooms that is the best!

Sunday, June 08, 2003

Paris Garden Journal

The Daily Muse
Wow! This is terrific! Thanks so much for posting 4 seasons! Now I do have hope again!! My last long term garden took 3 seasons to matrure. I am in a new place, starting nearly from scratch. I created bed from scratch, with a mix of perrenials an annuals, but it's so tough to see the future! The plants that are supposed to grow to 18" or more are already blooming at 6: and I fear they were mis marked!

Enjoy these photos..I took some of my own "season 1's....working on the upload. Had errors or they would have been online already. --KateThe Second Season

Sunday, June 01, 2003