Plant Talk
No posts in forever. Eck. Sorry about that. It's been busy here in O'Neill Land. Too busy not to keep up with writing a blog entry every so often? Hmmm. I think of a few things to say during the day from time to time. And then when I get the chance to finally post at night, where are the words? They've disappeared. I should jot the ideas down during the day and then type them in later on. Oh well.
But me saying this is me stuck on repeat. Every time I think about the stuff I do write about here, much of it is just a rewording of what I did just write up there. Boring, yes?
So I'll shut up about that.
I never posted a conclusion to the entry about daffodils and my hopes that they would still come up even after we had the side-garden mulched and some of the plants taken out of the area. There were, in fact, bulbs still living under the earth and mulch. They even made their way out of the mulch, but, alas, not a one bloomed.
I was happy when my daughter showed me that we did have some daffodils blooming outside our fenced-in part of the yard on the eastern side near the creek. Yay!
As for the mulched garden, we now have 8 azaleas planted. The only problem is that the garden has a covered area (kind of a roof) over it. It provides shade but doesn't allow for rain to reach the plants. And some of the leaves get burned during the day. Ack! Oona and I water the azaleas every other day in the evening. I hope the plants can get established this year and make it to next year.
My Asiatic Lilies will probably bloom in the next week or so! This year there are two more of them. The peonies are getting ready to open, too! They look like yummy scoops of ice-cream. The ants are frequenting them less often as well. The Lambs Ears are even back, though not as prolific as they were a couple of years ago. Another plant (its name I'm not sure of) is beginning to bloom. It has spikes of purple flowers and wonderfully textured leaves (I think peony leaves are wonderfully textured as well. It makes me wish I could sketch them). I'll have to find out what it's called.
The honeysuckle that is growing over our fence is beginning to open as well. And there's nothing quite like the scent of honeysuckle in late May/early June in the evening! I'm still waiting for the iris near the creek to bloom.
Anyway, enough garden plant talk.
We finally went on our first hike of the season. This past Sunday we went hiking at George Washington National Forest near a fish hatchery farm. Fun! We found an orange toad. I need to look online and see if I can find out what kind it was. We also found mountain-laurel. I'd never seen it before. Beautiful! We hiked up to an overlook where we could see the fish hatchery farm in small and where we were on level with the flying hawks. It was breathtaking!
We took some pictures so I'll post them when I get the chance.
But me saying this is me stuck on repeat. Every time I think about the stuff I do write about here, much of it is just a rewording of what I did just write up there. Boring, yes?
So I'll shut up about that.
I never posted a conclusion to the entry about daffodils and my hopes that they would still come up even after we had the side-garden mulched and some of the plants taken out of the area. There were, in fact, bulbs still living under the earth and mulch. They even made their way out of the mulch, but, alas, not a one bloomed.
I was happy when my daughter showed me that we did have some daffodils blooming outside our fenced-in part of the yard on the eastern side near the creek. Yay!
As for the mulched garden, we now have 8 azaleas planted. The only problem is that the garden has a covered area (kind of a roof) over it. It provides shade but doesn't allow for rain to reach the plants. And some of the leaves get burned during the day. Ack! Oona and I water the azaleas every other day in the evening. I hope the plants can get established this year and make it to next year.
My Asiatic Lilies will probably bloom in the next week or so! This year there are two more of them. The peonies are getting ready to open, too! They look like yummy scoops of ice-cream. The ants are frequenting them less often as well. The Lambs Ears are even back, though not as prolific as they were a couple of years ago. Another plant (its name I'm not sure of) is beginning to bloom. It has spikes of purple flowers and wonderfully textured leaves (I think peony leaves are wonderfully textured as well. It makes me wish I could sketch them). I'll have to find out what it's called.
The honeysuckle that is growing over our fence is beginning to open as well. And there's nothing quite like the scent of honeysuckle in late May/early June in the evening! I'm still waiting for the iris near the creek to bloom.
Anyway, enough garden plant talk.
We finally went on our first hike of the season. This past Sunday we went hiking at George Washington National Forest near a fish hatchery farm. Fun! We found an orange toad. I need to look online and see if I can find out what kind it was. We also found mountain-laurel. I'd never seen it before. Beautiful! We hiked up to an overlook where we could see the fish hatchery farm in small and where we were on level with the flying hawks. It was breathtaking!
We took some pictures so I'll post them when I get the chance.
posted by Heather O'Neill | 19.5.10
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