Weekly Garden Tour - Secret Cottage Garden - Flower Patch
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Week 3 in July for the Secret Garden Tour. Be sure and look close as after this I start taking out plants and replacing them with new ones. Next week you will spot some of the changes then the following week you will see quite a dramatic difference.
Hi, I am Pamela and I garden in the mountains of Northern California. I am in Zone 8. I defy convention and break many garden 'rules' yet my garden is a tapestry of color and unruly beauty! I want you to be inspired to create a beautiful garden on a tight budget.
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I love your garden! So many beautiful flowers. This is what a cottage garden should be.
Thank you so much!
Hi Pam… Did you notice the leaf cutter bee notches on your Sexy Rexy Rose bush leaves? So cool. I love seeing leaf cutter bees in my garden. 🌸🌸🌸Liz
Yes, and they are on a few others. I was mentioning that in a video recently that folks should not be bothered by leaves with the little circular notches in them. It tells me I have a healthy ecosystem in my garden. Yay!
I think that spot where you said the stump deteriorated and you were putting coffee grounds would be a great spot for the Hydrangea. Maybe give it a try before getting rid of.
Sounds reasonable, thanks!
Gardening is my daily therapy now that I'm retired. However, recently I've had voles and a gopher. I tried castor oil, garlic and pepper spices, cinnamon spice, gopher cage, planted onions, garlic bulbs, daffodil bulbs at roots of bushes and trees, gravel on top of plants, put sticks into ground (deep) around plants to disrupt tunnels. Nothing worked until I used poison. Now I use mesh baskets and gravel on everything and put poison out every spring.
I just start lacing carrots with the bait and tucking them into the tunnels as I find them. I am hoping to keep them. Gophers love onions and garlic, so you were calling them in with those two items. So far the gopher cages hold up and I put many of the plants that are susceptible to gopher attack in them and so far, I don't have voles. But that doesn't mean they won't move in soon. Gardening is my daily therapy too and after that is my painting. When it is fabulous weather, like now, I am out in the garden, when it gets chilly, then I paint flowers. I am trying to remember to get lots of photos this summer to paint from this winter.
I follow northlawn flower farm. She grows lilies successfully in pots to safe them from critters.
Thank you, yes, I love NFF, I have a bunch of my lilies planted in the ground in pots. I failed to show the difference in size between the ones in the ground and in the pots...but they are small pots. ua-cam.com/video/WtF6hNStGlw/v-deo.htmlsi=PjvxqpZJBFq2S8aA
You must have a long growing season to just start zinnias and squash.
I just cut some breadseed poppy seed heads, still waiting for most.
Hope you are not near that fire-so nerve wracking. We are getting smoke in the sky.
The mosquitoes are backing off a tiny bit, still in our ears. More rain and heat/humidity.
Oh, looks like you have new area to develop where self watering pots are-Fun! Here we are heading close to fall. Whatever has grown has grown as we just sit back to see what produces. There is the fall veg garden, but any new flowers not so much unless you buy mums which I don’t.
Have you ever had forget me knots and if so how do you deal with those stick tight seeds? 🙄 I realized not long ago they were flower seeds not weed seeds sticking to everything. 😅
The area that I have forget-me-nots I don't walk in so I was unaware of the stick tight seeds but I just bought two packets of seeds to spread to get some blooms next spring. They will be closer to a pathway so I will learn how to deal with them. Our first frost is in mid October usually but last year it wasn't until November so one can hope for a longer growing season.
I have the most beautiful arch of morning glories growing on a diy arch. It is loaded with morning glories bit not blooming. I'm so bummed. Do you have any ideas why not blooming?
There are a few factors that can contribute to a lack of blooming...one is not enough sun, many MGs like 8 hours of sun to bloom, two is the soil is too fertile, or you have fertilized, and three is it could be a late blooming variety. I know I don't get Heavenly Blue to bloom until nearly September. Others will bloom before but for some reason Heavenly Blue is slower. I hope this helps.
Thank you.
I'm hoping it is late bloomers!
Are the Pardon my Purple Monarda as invasive as other varieties?
No, not at all. I have seen no real spread from it yet. And it is marketed as one that will not spread quickly at all.