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cramsay's Bees & Bugs garden

Garden Type: Flower | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Clay I'm Organic!

25 Aug 2009
Spring bulbs 1 Bees & Bugs garden
Planted some of the bulbs I dug up from excavations in the front border. I’m not really sure what they are, so I’m not going to “propagate” until I see what comes up in the spring. Should be Narcissus “jetfire” and muscari. I think.
Overcast 19°C / 66°F
15 May 2009
Mulch! Backyard garden , Frontyard garden , The side yard garden , and Bees & Bugs garden
After last winter’s heavy snow, and losing a few plants to it, I decided it was well time to give all the beds a fat layer of mulch. And since we were taking the bamboo we’ve been thinning to the mulch place, I picked up a truck load of high-quality hemlock bark mulch while we were th...
Overcast 21°C / 69°F
20 Apr 2009
It's back! Phygelius Breaking Dormancy and Bees & Bugs garden
I was sure it was dead. No new growth, branches were brittle, leaves all gone. But when I went to dig it up to replace it with something new, lo and behold, new sprouts coming out of the root! Yay! So I had to plant the new Black Lace elderberry a little ways away, but I think I’ve still go...
26°C / 78°F
11 Apr 2009
Pretty pretty Wildflower Tulip Mix Flowering and Bees & Bugs garden
One variety blooming now, a purple/magenta with a light stripe on each petal. Only opens all the way when it gets a full day of sun, and that hasn’t been happening very regularly.
10°C / 50°F
15 Aug 2008
Transplant shock? Coreopsis "Autumn Blush" and Bees & Bugs garden
The day after planting, it suddenly started wilting badly. It wasn’t even that hot of a day. I let it go a day without watering, and it seemed to perk up a little bit. Then we got a nasty heatwave, and I’ve been watering two out of three days. Seems to be getting a little perkier, but...
Sunny 33°C / 92°F
21 Jul 2008
Blooming Hollyhock "Nigra" Blooming and Bees & Bugs garden
Lookin’ good.
Overcast 25°C / 77°F