my man brought me home some rooter pots! on the lookout for a 'smoke bush' (among other things); i've already hit up my mom for a branch off her japanese maple (it goes THAT red in the fall. you know the one that makes you catch your breath). maybe the huge cherry tree in our friend's back yard. now, i've heard that when you 'clone' a tree, the 'child' tree is the same age as the parent tree so it ends up having a similar life expectancy, is this true? cuz it's an OLD OLD cherry tree.
i've acquired a couple new lily bulbs ("miz lucy", my double oriental, seems to have shat the bed
), a trumpet vine (to replace my honeysuckle
) and a himalayan blue poppy at the hoity-toity plant sale.
we had a warm snap in february when a lot of stuff started to come up/bud/put out shoots and then we got snowed on twice and hailed on 4 times in march, and they all seem to have bit it
all of my perennials that weren't doing their thing yet when the late snow happened, seem fine. was it like a slap in the face, and they just up and died? other casualties include the lavendar, clematis, rudbeckia and bleeding heart.
my white roses LOOK like they want to recover but they're rather traumatised-looking so we shall see.
....something tells me i'm not going to miss them so much in a month or so though:
on the seedling front, we had one complete genocide of okra and are hopefully watching and waiting for round 2 now that the fear of snow is gone *knock knock*. tomatoes are being finicky now too. what the hell?
all the greens and aromatics are doing ridiculously well, ditto the peas and soy beans, the runners are trying to make up their minds on the weather.
does anybody know anything about the medicinal florals, like arnica and feverfew? (2/12 feverfew so far after 3 weeks, ZERO arnica = replanted last week and still waiting) i'm starting to wonder if i've got some duds on my hands.
all the veggies (except the tomatoes) are ready to transplant out of the 48/tray seed cups, hoping to do some of that tomorrow. our ground's still not ready so still into 4"s and solos.
