Topic: Triss' Garden Stuff

[Triss]

I will only be taking a couple of rocks.  One that I know is from Nebraska and the one that Patrick got me from Utah which is actually a stepping stone.  I may take one from here as well just so I have a set   but no, for the most part everything stays.  I will take some of each of the daylillies, and a few of the other whole plants but not so much that it would make the garden look bare... and the bark stays!  I just want to take enough of my favorites that I can get them going again at the new place... that is assuming I can find us a new and bigger place... they sure are hard to come by here.  I am patient though and gonna wait for the right one.

[Triss]

Patty,  Just for you a picture from today of my california poppies that are blooming in the garden right now.  The flowers are actually orange but I could not get the color to come out right today.

[Dianna]

Very pretty flowers, Triss.

Isn't it frustrating when we can't get our flowers to show their true colors with our cameras?

[Patty S]

Right on, Triss! Thats a California Poppy, sure enough!

They're a pain in the patoot around here, but I've managed to keep them under control this year, for the most part... I let 'em bloom, then when they start making seed pods, I yank 'em out. The smaller (younger) ones have looked nice, scattered around on the hill where I have the Ice Plant growing.  They have a tap root, so if were in a spot this spring where I wanted them to come back up & bloom again before the end of the growing season, I just broke the plant off at ground level & didn't bother the tap root.  The Ice Plant will keep blooming until late in the fall, & so will the California Poppies.

Are those Buttercups, at the top of the pic? I see that mine are blooming again now, too.  I didn't know they'd do that, cuz I don't remember them coming back late in the summer last year. (I don't know what else is growing with them there, but they're nice looking plants.  hope it's not a weed!)

I'm sure happy that you've enjoyed your gardens so much this year.  Your hard work really has paid off!

[Triss]

I pulled out most of the buttercup once it bloomed as it was in the way of the path.  Some of it is coming back now which is good but I have none in the area behind the wildflowers.  That is one of my new plants for this year, I will have to check the name when I go out and harvest seeds but I love it.  It has been blooming non-stop all season.

[Triss]

Ok, I got it... Sanvitalia or creeping zinnia.  That is the small yellow flowers behind the California poppies.

[Triss]

Well I got to work in the garden today.  The showers stayed pretty much away though I did feel a few sprinkles.  I worked on the last section of the garden, skipping the more difficult part in the middle which will wait for another day... and here is what I ended up with after only a minor mishap of cutting the internet/cable wire with the shovel.  Dan fixed that right up and I buried the cable, covered it with dirt, mulch and rocks to avoid cutting it again later.

 


I think I am planning on putting in a few lychnis in the open mulched space between the rocks and the wild flowers.

[Bonnie]

That's looking good, Triss. I love the rocks.

[Triss]

Thanks Bonnie, I really like the rocks too.  I have to go rock hunting though because I am out of them to edge the garden.

[Wrennie]

Rocks are one thiing I've definitely got! That looks really nice Triss. My CA poppies have buds! yay.

[Triss]

That is awesome Wrennie!  I would ask you to send me rocks but that would get a bit expensive.  The kids will enjoy a trip to the foothills where we can get a bunch of them.

Oh and I thought of an idea to get the strawberries out of my flower garden, I want to attach a bunch of 4 inch pots to a piece of plywood, and then lean that up against the house.  I am hoping the effect will be a wall of strawberry plants that are all off the ground.  Do you all think that would work?  It would free up a 3x4 foot section of my garden for flowers.

[Wrennie]

It might. hmm.... or you could make a 'trough' the length you want instead of a bunch of pots.  Kinda' like a flower box but long and skinny.

[Triss]

That might work too but I do not have a long trough like planter and I do have a million and a half (or so it seems) 4 inch pots.  I think I may work on that this afternoon and see if I can get it to look like I want.

[Penny]

Looks great Triss!