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| April 9. Our first act of the 2019 season was to move the sunflower from the south garage wall and place it on the east home wall. The picture shows the new purchases now in place. | The picture shows the new purchases on the east garden wall. Consensus of opinion: good choices. Lily bulbs were also pur-chased for the wee bit of garden at the front by the sidewalks. Change of plans: lilies now headed for the south border. | A quick trip around the garden on April 9 showed tulips peeping through, delph-iniums pushed up from the ground, dusty miller as always showing green. The usual budding up of the shrub under the living room window. The white iris [Iris germanica 'Immortality] showing green tips, sweet Williams by the 'old' rose growing. We are curious about the tulips as they grew well at first last year, but then didn't not flower. |
The photo shows these particular roses 'sev-erely pruned'. Some discussion has taken place about whether the pruning will kill the bushes off. My money says they will grow and bloom, profusely. see picture of June 3 |
June 3 the roses seem to have survived the pruning as shown in the first row of pictures for 2019 | |||
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| July 12: Not bad eh! | Late April: Some gardener! Bought plants from Kuhlmann's. They looked droopy, but I bought them anyway. It was obviously too cold for them..They are looking a little better | May 2: The stark white repair job covered. Good idea to be credited to, you know who | May 8 planted the lilies. Left to right: Casa-blanca, Elodie, Roselily Samantha, Bever-ly's Dream, Outback | May 14 Planted Stonecrop Orpin and Hen and Chicks Sempervivum. Finishes this border off nicely | |||
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| July 10: Good display. | Carnations and potted plant [name of plants unknown]. Later: Kulmanns advise the plants are Calibrachoa. |
.These plants will finally finish up in the urns on the patio |
Mother's Day gift...now on the south border, later moved near the weeping garagana | .
May 16 planted Jackmani Clematis. Instruc-tions to prune hard in the spring. As can be seen, the hostas are growing well. |
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 Honeysuckle growing strongly. It occupies a place in the back of the border and the ground is continually dry. |
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 The tulips: after a complete no show last year the yellow ones have put on a brave show. |
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| Spindly growth on the Clematis, nice bloom about 4-5 inches across | Front bed south. New Clematis in rear, hostas fill the bed. | May 16 Front of home, Morning Glories. Sunrises Serenade on the left, Venice Pink on the right. We shall see. | Just a wee bit of an update. May 16 noted one lily had grown, obviously this was due to the fact it had started to grow in the package!! No sign of the others, yet. The last hosta bought Empress Wu, planted in the south border is showing growth. As is the cone flower to the right of the fountain. Some of the tupils have flowered. | Eliza's garden, unfortunately has been in-vaded with quack grass... a real problem. However, have planted, from the left: Delft blue Violet, Iceland Poppy, Golden Gnome, Bonfire Spurge, Moss phlox and another poppy. | |||
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 Phlox both spots...Phlox "Fashionably Early. Planted near the honey-suckle/left hand side of the border. |
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Appears too be sec-ond from the right...June 5 lily 3. in the centre.June 10 the left hand lilly appears. All are up. |
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Planted in the border, right hand side. Bot h plants a deep pink. |
 Four new self seeded plants from a very pretty plant. The parent not surviving its second winter. |
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| Our initial plan was to place this in the front garden, near the obelisks: a couple of windy days persuaded us otherwise. The pedestal now sits on the front steps.... | May 20 purchased these two phlox. I have no had limited success with phlox. Both are in the large border at the back. | May 20 could not resist planting lobellia [Riviera Mix] in front of the angel and close to the lilies. | May 26: Our hope would be that the roses would have progressed far enough to have some blooms in time for Sarah and Colin's wedding. It's not looking good. There was an awful lot of winter kill and to add insult to injury, there is a self seeded hop plant climbing up the trellis. Enough to drive one to drink. | ||||
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| ..An Iris, thought to be be mainly yellow cadged from son, Steve. | June 16, 2019.... certainly not yellow | ||||||
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| May 26: lots of good things. The delphinium is growing well as are the rose bushes. Eliza's garden goes well, and there is a good showing self sown pansies & forget-me-nots around the tree... |
Compare with poppies in first row for this year. Both plants survived. |
June 3 looking south in the front yard. Our collection of firs is doing well. There are about eight varieties. |
Looking south east. Two obelisks with mor-ning glories and a pot of mixed flowers. |
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| June 6: Pretty display of, I think, miniature irises; trouble is they are over in no time at all. | June 5: This has always been a difficult area! Sarah gave me a Astible[?] which always grows but was overcome by the other plants. This was replanted a week or so ago. Here I have added five hostas, with fresh soil. | June 6: Pruned! | This plant has undergone some accidental rough treatment...it is hoped the new location will unable the plant to produce flowers produce flowers | June 16, 2019; First rose of the year... from the bush northeast corner of the garden. It survived some pretty drastic pruning.. | |||
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| June 16, 2019: Pretty display of German iris; now have several clumps in several borders. | |||||||
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| Next pictures taken June 26. Front bed, north. Mainly hostas, one hydrangia and a plant I must identify. | Front steps...Maureen choice of the pot excellent; my suggstion to put it There almost as good. | Mostly firs, some perennials... | |||||
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| Snow on the mountain, one flowering pot, two obelisks complete with morning glories | Good mixture of plants..border along south hedge. | Second border to the east, same good mixture. | Back yard, south border; just inside the gate, planted some hostas, front of border, growing well | Back yard, south border arbour. Shrubs and perennials | |||
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| Front yard, last of the three border. We are happy with the shrubs, two hydrangias, and e whose name slips my mind... | Calendula and a potted plant. Part of the bor-der to the left... | Eliza's garden..all sorts, rose bush, poppies, ground cover...and, quack grass! | July 10: The rose to the left in full bloom | ...Front border, faces west...roses | |||
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| July 10: Roses showing more blooms | July 10: Roses showing more blooms | Centre border, south end, mixture of peren-nials | July 10: One of the plants in the border to the left | July 10: One of the plants in the border to the left | |||
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| July 10: One of the plants in the border to the left | July 10: One of the plants in the border to the left | July 10: One of the plants in the border to the left | |||||
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| June 26: I suppose they will improve! | July 10: Better. | June 26: Plenty of buds. has grown 8 feet since spring [May} | July 10: Worth the wait, flowers small but a multitude of blooms | ||||
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| Eastend second border; not much to write home about. | July 10: Some improvement with the Yarrow and the rose bush that persists in blooming.. | Believe it or not but there are two cone plants either side of the lady.. | Weeping caragana doing well, gerbera in its new spot | The secret garden: several perennials. | |||
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| July 10: Some of the plants in the secret garden | July 10: More... | July 10: And more...blanket flower. | July 10: The hydrangia is doing well | July 10: The bench and another hydrangia... | |||
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| July 10: General view of the end of the garden | And,, yes, there are still fairies at the bottom of the garden...well almost at the bottom. | ||||||
May 26 Another lily appears