Saturday, June 13, 2009

week 24



Fertilzed
all plants in front
Planted
The Rice plant - Osmanthus...
2 apricot cosmos
2 chantilly snapdragons, blue catenache,
asarina in dark shade in front.
For the new pots I used the old soil from the leptospemum that died, and put in water.

Cleaned up downstairs, but there is still weeding to do. I staked.
Cats seem to be lying in the sticky sage. I staked it many times. We'll see if that works.
Sightings: a SNAKE! two yellow stripes, and about 14" long.
I found a dead / dried up salamander on the concrete.
I found a broken-out-of bird egg on the path, and looked up in the ceonothus and saw a nest! That's why I've heard more birds around.
Molly lost her collar. We think it's in the garden somewhere.
Mitzi died in about February.

The water dept will come the 23rd to inspect & reduce the sewer cost.

Picked:
butterfly bush,
blue flag iris
blue bedder,
low bell campanula, (previous had lasted in vase, but this is not)
knautia,
Jupiter's beard
alstromeria,
Telhan campanula (total of 6-7 stalks)
end of foxglove
forkseholi
blue scabiosa
nepeta
love in a mist
yellow purses
grey foliage
red nicotania
cineraria
blue bach. buttons
centaurea montana
maroon scabiosa
sooty sweet william
heliotrope
parsley

blooming: but I did't want to pick
Tiarella
red sage
orange purses

Roses-
the austian copper has all yellow leaves. uhoh
the playboy has all new leaves but they are small and curled up
the chicago peace is doing well and has a bud
the dark pink has another bud, and is growing on fireman's side.
the pink knockout has stopped blooming.
The pink single has a flower every so often, but they rot and are not good.
I had great hope about the roses but they are not doing well.

the poppies in front are not lasting in a vase. So best just to look at them.
I deadheaded a lot of red roses. deadheaded also the jasmine, and feliciodes.

Blooming
fluttery skirts!
sally holms - not many buds left
fuschia( both) is great looking (we've even had hummingbirds)
pink gerberas
red gerberas are done- hoping they'll come back
pink wisteria-like is going to town!
pinks bells in among eveything
clematis still has buds. Any flowers that have opened now are chewed up. Earwig damage?
We went out and killed snails by the full moon. Many. But there still are some probably.

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