My Forsythia started blooming about four days ago and really got full in the past two days. I love this shrub! It really brightens up the earliest spring. I hope its blossoms do OK in the freezing weather we’re having for the next few days. It hailed a little today and is expected to snow tonight…
My flower seedlings are coming along fairly well. Here’s an update on each kind: Geraniums — outstanding! growing nice, stocky-stemmed plants Delosperma iceplant — good, but the little guys haven’t grown very fast Verbena — very good, getting taller and getting their second set of true leaves. But about half the seeds didn’t germinate in…
Here are some of the seedlings growing in trays in my basement: Annual Verbena seedlings. They’ll have purple flowers. Delosperma, or cold-hardy iceplant. Hey, if they’re gonna call it iceplant, it darn better be cold hardy, don’t you think? Annual geraniums (pelargoniums). They’re just starting to get their true leaves. California poppies; these are hopefully…
I found a post on the Rocky Mountain Gardening thread at GardenWeb where someone mentioned putting “Sul-Po-Mag” on their roses. I was curious and found the information below from a google search. I wonder if my roses need something like this to make them flower better? Sul-Po-Mag (0-0-22) Sul-Po-Mag also known as K-Mag NATURAL (Mosaic)…
On the weekend, I transferred all the sprouting seeds to their growing cells, which are either Jiffy pellets (a peat product with a thin mesh around each) or little six-packs with Jiffy planting mix (pretty much just peat, too, I think). Here are the seeds that are sprouting and are planted: Geraniums – 100% germination…
Last night, I took a good look at all my seeds, and these are beginning to sprout: Geraniums California poppies Dianthus Hibiscus Rudbeckia I do have some worries, though. The poppies had some mold (is it called “damping off?”) on some of the seeds. I took them out and rinsed them in a sieve, then…
Today, I started a whole bunch of seeds. In fact, I’ll have too many if they all germinate. I have them ziploc baggies between moist paper towels, some on a heating pad, others not, depending on their germination needs. Here are the varieties I am working with this year: Geranium ‘Orbit Apple Blossom’ (a kind…
Yesterday, I pruned my nectarine tree, the three butterfly bushes, and did some tinkering with the apple and cherry trees. The butterfly bushes (buddleia or sometimes called buddleja) are easy — you just chop ’em down to about 12″ high. They’re just a clump of old stubs now. But soon, new stalks will rise from…