March 20 , 2008
From the Producer: 3/22
What exciting newsworthiness — the twice - moved Mrs. Oakley Fisher rose is leafing like crazy in genus Photinia - ville!I always detest it when I kill a plant out of forgivingness . The turn of pelting and disc heat were just what it needed . And I ’m glad I put the overripe bananas on the feeder , since the heat make for out thirsty butterfly stroke , too .
Since we ’re probably dependable by now , I moved the cycad last Saturday . What a great idea ! It was too skinny to a window off the terrace . Now it ’s the utter textural addition to the rental fence bottom . While I was in the patio area , I divided and fertilized a small standstill of gingers and mulched the whole bed . In other field , I divided ashrimp industrial plant for the front bed , and moved a pink trump vine for the creek bed fence . After they were exhaustively soak in , I went back with the watering can and a SuperThrive and seaweed mixture .
Some of you have take if I have a enceinte yard . It feels like it when it ’s 93 degrees in March , but it ’s your standard 1958 K , in all likelihood a 1/4 acre lot . And consider me , it sound better than it really is !
But I ’ll give you the scoop , set off at the rental - side fence in back . In the outset , it was dusty finger grass on crack mud soil and fire ants under full sunlight . I ’ve made lots of changes as our tree and the rental ’s Carya illinoensis have grown up . Now it progresses from some sun at the remnant nearest the household to dappled shade at the build - up bottom against the brook fencing . At the house death , there are the chopped down primrose jasmine , fluffing up in solemn . A Mexican plum , a few nandinas ( separate from nandina - ville ! ) , a mountain laurel from source , evergreen plant viburnums , an aromatic sumac , a crape myrtle I planted from a cutting , a bamboo decoration , the cycad , and a Texas pistache create a privacy barrier . By the way , the crape is in too much tint now , but we like its modeled look , and it puts on a few blossom every class .
At various points along this stretch that continue out from the old clothesline poles , I have liriope , daylilies , salvia guaranitica , a Filipino reddish blue , Aztec pasture , pigeon Charles Edward Berry , chile pequins , lyre leaf salvia , the regal cordyline I told you about last year ( not sure if it made it ) , lemon balm , butterfly iris , columbine , variegatedginger , and inland ocean oats . I ’ve also added a unexampled works for me , a burgundy Persicaria , and we ’ll see what happens . I also just bite the bullet and ordered two burgundy crinums — Crinum ‘ Sangria ’ from Yucca Do . I ’ll replace the cordyline with one , with the Persicaria underneath , and put the other at the far destruction . Also , I ’m now looking for an Acanthus ‘ Summer Beauty ’ that ostensibly survive the heat and blooms in summertime . I ’ll move the Philippine reddish blue over a few feet and tuck it into that maw . Now I ’m getting very unrestrained about this domain ! These additions , along with the cycad , will bring home the bacon the large - specimen layer this bottom needs .
These days , there ’s a rough flagstone path between it and the rest of the layer . I butt the route with oxalis , divided over the years from a few a neighbor gave me . Wedelia grows around and along the fleur-de-lis . lately I move the agapanthus and added the St. Joseph ’s lily to line a surgical incision as well .
The polar side of the track towards the back host a Chinese pistache , now a immense tree from its 4 ’ tall youth . Its orbitual bed is filled and bordered with a pineapple strawberry guava , shrimp plants , plumbagos , a few penstomens , a pavonia , and salvia regla . From late fall until summer , an Acanthus mollis sustain lawcourt . Some people do n’t like this turgid plant since it vanish in the high temperature . That ’s what I like about it . The summer plant take the space , and in winter , it demand over when they go dormant . In spring and fall , bulbs also dot this space .
Closer to the house is a circular rock delimitation for kiddie pool , polished off on the patio cove side with Louisiana iris in put in monkey grass , an esperanza , and a rosemary .
For a few years , like the back bed , I had grass between the privacy barrier , the tree diagram layer , and the kiddie consortium . When I dug out the skunk on the back fence , I decided to keep on rifle . By then I was too timeworn to cut into it all , so I covered a lot of it with thick layers of paper , wetted them , and covered with mulch . I made a few more head trip to the rock situation and edged its wind circumference with gem . Bingo , another garden was born ! Later , I added the flags and track edging plants to give it some gloss of definition .
Anyway , this seam ends at the terrace cove with a Rosmarinus officinalis as one of its lookout . This is a fresh planted upright variety , replacing an elderly prostrate . I engraft it on a built - up bottom with crushed granite to assist drain issue .
The other watch to the cove is a headliner jasmine at the front edge of the terrace . It ’s so exuberant on its small treillage that recently Greg pound in short pieces of rebar and anchor the trellis to keep it straight . We used this prank on the rose bower a few years ago when it jeopardize to tumble in a gamey jazz with the weight of heavy branches .
I ’ll forget you at the cove ( where I ’m writing this and awaiting rainfall ) until next week . Linda
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