2022: GARDEN & FLOWERS ELSEWHERE

 I could have sworn I started a garden-flowers post. oh well.

first crocus

March 31 

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April 7

 

April 21

April 14

April 27

 

above the ballerinas

table top displays

rusty found objects

some clover returns!

bulbs out front plus a bed of dandelions

espalier hydrangea

ginger mint julep returns

what has taken over the strawberries?

April 28

Jer gearing up for the season

May 15

So Saturday was a beautiful day after 9am. My errands were cut short though by a vertigo-migraine attack after lunch. Probably just as well because the morning was full of mega frustrations. So I spent 1pm to 7pm in the recliner drinking tea and water a lot! I was staggering up to pee every 30 minutes. Lying there I had a glare in my eyes even with the curtains shut. Staggered over to my scarf drawer and grabbed one and draped it across my eyes. Perfect. but after a few minutes I thought it smelled like a cat's ass. But I was too dizzy to care. Washed that scarf this morning and it still smells like a cat's ass so it must be special material from dung hole India. The attack cleared finally and I attempted to finish errands this afternoon.. I was at Hart Farm taking in the colorful joy of Spring flowers and sensed that the elastic to my underwear had given out and the panties were at my knees. Miraculously the jeans stayed up.

 

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May 7

by Jer's door and by the corner near shower

May 15

Hart farm plants for here. pants were falling down the whole time grrr

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May 16 

things are planted

hidden hosta and volunteer honeysuckle

2 volunteer pots

 

daisies; and bulb greens by the door that rarely bloom

the two hydrangeas that cut a cut back last Autumn look to be thriving

 

volunteer tree and volunteer daisies in a pot

rose of Sharon that got a good cut back and another volunteer pot on an antique bench

petunias and marigolds

Ginger Mint Julep returned and Dara's rock and the pansies that came back

petunia; and strawberries that look to be choked out by something wild! and the new plant that I need to get the name of.

I will try to keep a promise to NOT take pix every single day. I do have a few to add but. When it all gets well established it will make more sense.

June 1

I fertilized the plants today.

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new one above is a Fan Flower-

Scaevola taccada, also known as beach cabbage, sea lettuce, beach naupaka, naupaka kahakai, magoo, merambong, bapaceda or papatjeda, ngahu is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae found in coastal locations in the tropical areas of the Indo-Pacific. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Scaevola taccada
Family: Goodeniaceae
Kingdom: Plantae

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May 17

dandelion gone to seed and marigold fallen

May 22

Columbine before it blooms

view of the garden from deck

Plant Jer put at Mom's grave

May 25

first daisies pop up out front

May 31 Canada Mayflower and Columbine

above-daisies out front, leaning fence in back and pink honey suckle

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Purple pansy and rose of Sharon and volunteer honeysuckle

June 5

Canada mayflowers. gone now mowed June 20

Mom's flowers at Seaside

Shaw's in Orleans plant displays

June 8

someone "weeded" my strawberry pot. I need a bag of soil and some perennial seeds.

June 13

pink honeysuckle

June 13

garden I think this was the first time I tried yoga outside

harvested some marigold seeds

June 14

view of garden from the deck up here

then then lawn was getting long and I wanted to get samples of the "grasses"

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June 19

Mom's flowers and the wild roses over the fence

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June 23

 

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June 26

Stage Harbor Road side

was trying to identify this and a facebook friend sent a photo sample and it is Lady's Thumb,persicaria maculosa and Redshank

 July 2

I think these are called Lady's thumb. They popped up almost overnight by the false stump below.

Pretty and a surprise

July 2

What looked like white honey suckle earlier had berries later.

July 4

Hydrangeas showing off and a bunch of spearmint.

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June 29

bee flower and full petunia and marigold pot

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took a cutting from what I thought was my ginger mint julep thriving. Turns out it is another volunteer mint that has exploded in the pot. It sent out roots and I planted 2 of them out front. They were gone the next day.

So going to let mint do its own thing.

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July 18

garden so far. I do not fertilize heavily= just a sprinkle of Osmocote once a month. So I guess things could be fuller but I like it "real"

July 12

transplanting the  mint starter. which disappeared the next day

July 24

Mom's plant after a horrible stretch of hot & humid.It gets a full jug of water each Sunday.

July 26

still no rain but the Queen Anne's lace is up and needs none so it seems.

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Bee in the yard

July 28

still sorting backlog of photos

this from Seaside cemetery 2020

Just went down the rabbit hole of plant identity. Back  1950s in Pennsylvania we had 2 bushes each side of the front steps. Dark green leaves and bright pink flat flowers that were somewhat like a Queen Anne's lace. Mom called them Bergamot bushes. Fast forward to 1970s working at Countrysuck landfucking I was corrected and told it was Anthony Waterer Spirea.
So fast forward again to 2020 and I am walking Seaside cemetery and see this bush. Now I do not know which it is?  Not as dark leaf as the Bergamot and the flowers are paler. 

July 28

March 13 2021

Seaside snow drops

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August  10

the Rose of Sharon finally in bloom

the purple petunia

the mint that overtook my ginger mint julep

August 14

Rose of Sharon from the kitchen deck

August 23

rose of Sharon

Bee buzzing Rose of Sharon

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August 28

got down to Harding's beach before sunrise walked toward the lighthouse until  the sun rose. walked back that path. millions of annoying biting insects. Breathing was difficult on the paved walk back I was glad to see the ruck in the distance

Rose Rugosa were still blossoming and had rose hips. Picked one

October 22

these yellow flowers popped up in Jer's violet display. Before these showed there were other yellow ones that had white under leaves that were striped like alstroemeria  I guess a photo of those will pop up.

mystery what they are

October 15

same pansy bed

these have stripes

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October 22

more of those pansies

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October 30

Pulled up the purple and red petunias. VERY shallow roots.

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November 5

coming back from food shop- finally on a good side to capture this tree. May stop some day and see if it has a plaque saying who donated it and what it is.

November 6

yellow pansies still flourishing 

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November 23

I wondered what this dark glob was as I was going through the photos. It is the last pansy and I was pressing it between 2 pieces of glass

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November 30

today I did all I could so far to Winterize the garden I had turned pots upside down to loosen them from the pot the day before. Now to slowly break up the soil and toss whatever is root bound into the rough area

I have one more pot to turn over. shucks.

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December 4

I akways wondered what the birds were that are speckled and have a grey cap- house sparrow. Well I think this is their nest These are the shrubs they hide out in. All of a sudden the leaves are fallen at both Hydrangeas

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September 14

hole/circle made by trees

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