What does a soap opera have to do with my garden, well, I’ll tell you! My 3 Jackson & Perkins hybrid tea roses in white just started blooming. But here’s why I have 3 white rose bushes. I am an avid fan of All My Children, the only soap opera I watch. I record it on the DVR so I can fast forward through commercials and watch it when the children are sleeping and my husband is traveling. The children would ask too many questions and the husband thinks it’s too stupid for words. I’m a big fan though. Anyhow, back to white roses. Last year they had some wonderful white only flower arrangements on the show and all of a sudden it occurred to me that I had no white flowers in my garden. So, now I do and soon I will try to duplicate a white rose arrangement for my home. I’ll post a picture when I have enough roses for an All My Children arrangement. So, now you see why I needed 3 white rose bushes- to ensure I would have enough blooms all at once.
The complete list of what’s newly blooming:
- White hybrid tea roses
- Red climbing rose
- Pitcher plant
- Delphinium
- Mock orange
- Maltese cross (Lychnis coronaria)
- Yellow stalks (name coming!)
- Tickseed (Coreopsis lanceolata) (Asteraceae)
- Blue flowered rock garden plant (real name coming!)
Finally, the peony are blooming! They usually bloom around Mother’s Day, but due to the unusually cool temperatures, they didn’t start blooming until Father’s Day instead.
Also, Happy 41st Anniversary to my parents and Happy Birthday to our car that is 1 years old today as well.
A flower arrangement from my garden from June 1st.
My husband came home, I handed the kids off to him and from 6 to 8:30 pm I worked in the yard. Yard work (though hard work) is my way of relaxing. I moved an ornamental grass and two sweet peas and planted a fern, 2 containers of cosmos, 2 pots of pinks and 5 container grown dahlias. Then I spread a bag of beauty bark around the new plantings and put down some slug poison as well. I finished off the evening by mowing the lawn. For some reason, lawn mowing is so satisfying when you see the perfect rug of neatly trimmed green. It makes the whole yard look tidy.
Noted the following new blooms:
A typical conversation with myself when I am out killing slugs with my ammonia solution…
Where are you hiding today?
How dare you!
Take that!
Ewwww, did I just step on one?
You ate the whole thing?!
Not the bloom!
How can there be so many and I’m out here all the time?
Ah ha, got you mating buggers- two for one spray!
You big black ones are hard to find.
Not used to all you little brown sluggies.
Ah ha! I’m on to your favorite hiding places now.
I may have to resort to slug poison, there are too many of you.
You will not beat me!
What’s newly blooming:
Along the way, I may not have noted all the blooms so here’s what I may have missed and what is still blooming, some new since last entry as well:
- Allium
- Lady’s Mantle
- Dutch Iris
- Foxglove (Digitalis)
- Geum
- Lily of the Valley
- Astrantia (green)
- Columbine
- Sea Thrift (Armeria maritima)
- Snap Dragons
Fruit and Berries that have flowered and set fruit:
- Sour Cherry
- Strawberry
- Blueberry
- Red currant
- Black Currant
- Gooseberry
- Raspberry
The Dahlias have started sprouting within the past two weeks and with some assistance from slug poison to keep the slugs at bay, are starting to thrive.
Finally, we have a new addition in our backyard, a playhouse for the kids. To say that it was a huge hit is an understatement!
