Garden happenings

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Garden happenings

Allium in the back plot, on the verge of bloom! 

Foreground: Larkspur. Behind that are virtually invisible allium (like blades of grass), and then foxglove. UPDATE: The foxglove disappeared within the next couple weeks. Eaten? Died? No idea. Sad.

The fall parsley seeds! UPDATE: these died within the next couple weeks. I think something pulled them up.

Peppers

Spanish bluebells. Should really plant some more of these bulbs in fall; they do well and are pretty.

I must confess it took a while to dawn on me that the sweet peas would not climb a huge lamp post; they want something small they can attach too. So I put strings along the lamp post in two different configurations to see which works best.

Funny story about the dianthus, above and below: I was so confused why the one below only bloomed on one side and then I realized (lots of realizations lately) that the brighter green leaves are actually a huge mound of some type of vigorous grass. Must pull it up.

Foreground to background: Zinnias, cornflower, baby's breath (not really visible, so short) and more zinnias.

More zinnias! Up to our eyeballs in zinnias.

Lilac and mystery flowering tree

The lilac is at the height of its glory.

And what is this lovely mystery tree, spotted in West Orange? No clue.

Garden happenings

Things have been veritably shooting up out of the ground lately, aided by vast amounts of both rain and sun. I mowed the back yard for the first time on April 30, and it was already very tall (and is in desperate need of another mow). The Ramos team finally mowed our front yard for the first time on May 8, seriously overdue.

Yesterday I bought $45 worth of herbs, anemone, and creeping phlox at the Maplewood Garden Club plant sale but have not yet put them in the ground.

The baptisia was starting to bud on May 1 and has actually grown a lot in the 10 days since then

The bleeding heart started blooming around May 1 (date of this photo) and is still blooming

This is my new peony on May 1, the one I thought wasn't going to appear. It's a lot smaller than my established peony but nonetheless wonderful.

Viburnum and creeping phlox on May 1

Tulips on May 3. Very pleased with these perennial tulips; I hope they really do return.

May 4. Daffodils at their peak.

May 4

May 4

I finally got the remaining seedlings from the mini-greenhouses into the ground. From left to right, I put in Larkspur, allium, and foxgloves (which had really tiny seedlings - prob better to direct sow). I also put in the pepper seedlings in a spot closer to the house, between Emma's other plantings.

Sweet peas on May 4. I am delighted with these - they look so healthy and eager to climb!

The pepper seedlings went into the middle between Emma's patches of flowers, on May 4.

Tulips on May 4. They probably peaked around May 7ish. Lovely.

This and all below are from today

The cherry blossoms blew across the street from a neighbor's house!

Endless enchantments of spring

Every time I walk outside I see exciting progress among the plants, and the temptation is there to photograph everything. So I do!

I could not possibly be more delighted that the allium in the back plot is now two alliums, both with buds.

The foxgloves in the back plot are looking very robust, and you can see also the other things looking good in the back (left to right: forget-me-nots, artemisia, lungwort, aster, the small white allium).

Our cherry tree has always been a little half-assed, but nonetheless, its blooms are appreciated.

The two-year-old daffodils in the back didn't all do so well this year - especially the frilly stinky ones. Maybe because of the weather.

These look good, though! I really need to get rid of the last of the leaves. They are all piled in corners like this.

As the early daffodils on the right are spent, the ones on the left are in their prime, though not so great this year.

I should have captured these a week or so ago at their peak, but they did well. The little ones. None of the grape hyacinth  made it though - deer?

See the red peony shoot in the front! I thought it had perhaps been uprooted or simply didn't survive, but I am so pleased to be wrong.

This is the lavender I cut all the leaves on in the fall, wondering whether it was better to leave them or cut them. The one one which I left them is below, on the top right of the photo. I am still not sure what was the better course of action.

I like this little spot in the front, with the stones and all the different colors and textures of plant, all very close together. Want to replicate this everywhere.

The poppies! I am so proud of the poppies! Also the onesie daffodil in back that really needs to be dug up and propagated (scooped/scored/scaled) because a onesie is ridiculous,

Front left

Front right

Emma and I transplanted the zinnias, cornflowers, and gypsophila today.