Gardening, anyone?

Teka

Jazzy, do potted plants dry out quickly in NM?

Jazzygirl

Teka- they can so they need to be watered daily. All my other plants, trees and shrubs are on a drip system so they get a daily dose of water. When I travel, I have either my neighbor or someone I pay to watch my house help with that.

I just finished watering them this morning! It is a beautiful day out there!

Teka

The black squirrel and crow sharing diced papaya from the cleaned out love bird cage and sun conure cage!!

footprintsangel

They are still beautiful to me

My tomatoes are going good with the 80 degree weather,

I hope it rains tomorrow for my herbs.

70charger

So I got my garden into the dust. Super dry. Coyote dug up my beets. Had a rain storm last night. Pounding  storm with golf ball size hail. But the hail was like a slushie, just left a big slushie when it hit the ground. Some plants are broken, lots flattened. Plants are very stunted this year due to being so dry. Lady slippers are blooming, will post pic later. They are really small this yr. U guys gardens are so ahead of mine. Our season is so short. Luv the pics. Keep them coming.

quiltlibrarian

I also got the lovely rain this morning. I still have plants to put in my planters. The gold fish are out in there ponds and are happy. The garden is starting to grow.

Happy gardening everyone

 

TwoHobbies

Sorry about the hail, 70charger. It can do a number on plants.

I am happy to report I have three sunflowers in containers and so far , not eaten. I wish I could say the same for my petunias. The bunny seems to like them ! I'm very close to having my front and side yards planted, weeded, and mulched and hopefully the maintenance will be low enough that I can start tacking the backyard beds.

quiltlibrarian

Hello Gardeners, I have learned that my second mastectomy is going to be sooner than planned. June or July so another gardening year to be shorter. Two years in a row. Oh well last one to worry about.

Hugs

footprintsangel

I found the biggest slug in my garden today and is in

slug heaven. 

Good luck quiltlirarian  I planted pots on my porch alot

this year.

Jazzygirl

Quilt- did you have a reoccurrence? I am sorry to hear about another surgery.

Foots- during all the rains in May, I found the most awesome snail outside one day. It is usually too dry here for slugs or snails.

Jackbirdie

Quiltlibrarian- best of luck, thinking of you. Not the kind of news we want, but if you have to do it the sooner the better, I think.

Jazzygirl

Photo of cholla cactus starting it's bloom.

Jackbirdie

gorgeous color!

quiltlibrarian

Thank you Ladies. This time it is preventive. The first time no choice. Glad that I have all the garden planted, and for the time being weeded. lol. I will let you know when the surgery will be done.

Bye for now.

Jazzygirl

Quilt- do keep us posted. We will be in your pocket when you go in and when you come out.

Teka

Quilt, please keep us in the loop! *Hugs*

Good Morning Everyone! )

Friday night we kept hearing a noise outside that sounded like an animal in distress. Husband went looking and found a fawn about the size of a cat with its leg caught between some sticks. He was able to free the leg while the mama was blowing and stomping her feet. Probably the doe and fawn will graze in our freshly planted vegetable garden this summer.

I managed to finish weeding then planting flower seeds and plants in the 3 flower beds. I did get chewed up by the horrid little black flies that hatch out in the spring.

*sweetly fragrant lemon daylilies*

Gram and Mom gave me the lemon daylilies. )

*chives*

Husband puts chives on cottage cheese! )

*tall irises in a variety of colors*

BrooksideVT

Teka, my lemon lilies are blooming also. I was so happy to read your post. My mother "acquired" these lemon lilies, probably 60 years ago. I've never run into anyone else who has them, or knows they are fragrant.

Your blue and white iris are absolutely lovely and I immediately began visualizing them next to my purple Siberian iris!

Poor fawn. So happy he's OK. Perhaps they'll consider your garden bad karma and stay away from your veggies?

Teka

Gram and Mom gave me the lemon daylilies. )

Jazzygirl

Teka- love your gardens. I never knew chives bloomed with purple flowers until recently. Do you use the fresh chives in salads, etc?

Also loved the story about your DH helping the young fawn. Good karma!

Teka

Husband puts chives on cottage cheese! ;o)

Jazzygirl

Teka- oh yum! My mom used to make that, but never had it with fresh chives.

TwoHobbies

I'm looking for some suggestions for mid summer blooming perennials. I have a beautiful spring display. My magnolia blooms, then the creeping phlox and crab apple, next the salvia and sea thrifts and irises. Right now I have wisteria blooms, daisies and the salvia still blooming and when they are done I mostly have the annuals for color. I'm looking for something perennial to add. Any suggestions? It need to be pretty sun tolerant and not need constant watering.

Jackbirdie

Teka- Beautiful. work and pictures. How you must treasure your lemon lilies.

I am super jealous

Wren44

Two Hobbies, Petunias? Geraniums? Lavender? Ours is a big spring celebration and then a dry green period. We have rugosa roses that bloom their little heads off. Not good for bouquets, but nice in the garden. They are very hardy and don't need any of the pampering of the others.

Jazzygirl

Twohobbies- I have two of these sort of shrubby perennials called a guara and they really like the sunshine. This pink one was planted last summer and got really big (like 3-4 feet tall) and got another purple one for the back yard this spring and it is doing great too. If you want something more shrubby, this one will do great!

I will think about some other things good for a sunny spot!

flaviarose

Twohobbies - where are you located? One of my favorite perennials that bloom late summer into fall is tall phlox.

BrooksideVT

For summer bloom, I'm a big fan of daylilies--all colors, with a range of blooming times. They make a great cut flower too, as long as you do not bring them from sunlight into a less-dark room (they'd just close up). I also love beebalm. It's tall, red, purple, or pink (maybe white as well?). It is in the mint family so it's kind of an aggressive spreader. I has a lovely minty fragrance, and a is a very big favorite with hummingbirds. Coneflowers, shasta daisies, and blackeyed Susans are reliable, and I'm also with Flaviarose on the subject of phlox. I have a hybrid purple loosestrife that I love. The "regular" plant is an invasive nightmare, but this hybrid has behaved very nicely in my garden for ten or fifteen years.

Jazzygirl

Flavia- that tall phlox is gorgeous. I have a ground creeper in my rock garden and love it. They are very good in the sun too.

quiltlibrarian

Two how about daylilies. I have stella d'or they are great. They stay small compared to the large one. Fine leafed. They bloom till hard frost.

 Picked some baby lettuce and some radishes today. Yumm

 

Jazzygirl

Oleander in full bloom.