My hostas are blooming right now, and the groundcover, Lamium maculatum, still has scattered blooms, but not as well as when it first bloomed in May.
I’m quite happy to see my Rocky Mountain Maple doing so well, too. This was grown from seed in 2006 and it’s just leaping in height this year!
I decided this year to leave the nectarines on the tree longer, because many of them were a little too tart last year. They are really getting good now! I’ve harvested a few small batches of them in the past week, and there are many more still on the tree. Birds are getting to the…
I posted a message in the GardenWeb roses forum about how to prune my Ruby Meidiland roses. I’ve been cutting the canes back to 18″ or so at the end of each winter, but I thought I’d read somewhere that they do well with little or no pruning. Here’s the best answer: Ruby Meidiland belongs…
This was my backyard last Sunday (March 16) in the morning and then the same shot late that afternoon. Here’s to hoping that the snow is gone for the season! On Tuesday, we were supposed to have a pretty cold storm, and it was for a few hours, but then it blew away and warmed…
I’ve had a little trouble with my ‘Autumn Blaze’ maples. The one on the left above had chlorosis pretty bad last year, and it even lost most of its leaves in August only to grow back young leaves in September that got killed by fall frosts while still tender. I worried that it might not…
I missed the perfect week to take a shot of the red maples — they had lost too many leaves this week, but here’s a cool closeup. We’ve actually been quite warm this week and much of last — over 70° for seven of the past 12 days. That’s pretty impressive for late October on…
I received some good responses to my post on my Clematis vines: Yes, tree roots are a problem for clematis in my opinion. They rob so much of the moisture and nutrients that clematis may well struggle. Your Ville de Lyons are only babies still, and will take several years to reach normal size. Wayside…
Oh no. I hate to say this, but the more I look at that maple, the more I think it might actually be a box elder tree. Ugghh! I don’t want a stinking box elder tree!