Yesterday evening, I drilled four holes in my chlorotic maple and inserted Medicap FE iron supplements. The tree is leafing, although not as thickly as the two healthy ones. Last August, I injected a lot of EDDHA iron into the soil around the tree with my root feeder watering device. I think that helped; the…
My lawn has been very dry this month, and after greening up earlier in the month, it’s started getting brown spots again. I decided to turn on the lawn sprinklers last Friday evening. I gave it a full cycle for the lawn and the front flowerbed and then turned the system off. Before I use…
My Grape Hyacinths (Muscari) are blooming now. This year, I was concerned that all I was seeing from the Muscari was a tousled mass of leaves flopping around. But all of a sudden a week or so ago, the flower spikes just jumped up. They actually keep getting better every year, spreading a little and…
I thought this photo was so cool it deserved more than a thumbnail. I love this tree! Everything about it is great — the way it looks, the amount of apples it produces, the wonderful flavor of the Granny Smith apples, everything. My favorite things in the garden are the fruit bearers — apples, cherries,…
My cherry trees are past the peak of blooms, but the flowering cherry shrubs are still building up to their maximum bloom. This is from one of the shrubs. The Kwanzan cherry trees (ornamental flowering trees) are also building up to their peak right now. I’ll take a photo this week. The forsythia is passing…
I’m happy to report that my Rocky Mountain Maple baby made it through the winter. This is a native maple with nice red foliage in the fall. I raised it from seed last year — it was the only seed of maybe 20 that sprouted. I collected the seeds from trees up American Fork Canyon….
My Vinca minor is blooming pretty well now. I need to get in that area and weed out some grass and weeds real soon, but at a close-up level like this it looks pretty good. I transplanted some of the creeping phlox from my front yard to the back last year, and it’s doing well…
Last fall, I planted an unknown mix of tulips that I got from the final clearance sale of Thanksgiving Point’s tulip bulbs. They were just in baskets, without any sorting of the bulbs for color or flower form, and since it was the last day, I got something like 200 bulbs (including daffodils) for $10….