learning to garden part 2
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I spent the winter reading, watching, and learning, and I started visiting local nurseries for the first time in 2009.
I made my first pesto using the Persian Basil planted the year before.
I tried to start about a million seeds. Moonflower, coral vine,
four o’clocks, basil, thyme, other herbs, other flowers, a ton of vegetable seeds. I even tried cuttings of Rosemary.
We had the old wood siding taken off of the front of the house and hardi put in. After the construction was done, we turned our attention to the two small strips of dirt near the front door. I bought 30 or so tiny (very tiny) bulbs of “Prairie Sunset” rain lilies, Daylilies: Best of Friends (online dailiy vendor), Metaphor (online daylily vendor), Breathless Beauty (crappy bag of dead mystery roots from big box store), Moonlit Masquerade(crappy bag of dead mystery roots from big box store), and Rose Passion (crappy bag of dead mystery roots from big box store). Two “Grand Primo” narcissus. Two red double knockout roses, and one pink knockout.
I didn’t have to wait long to be rewarded with blooms.
This daylily that bloomed from one of the big box store bag of crappy dead roots didn’t look anything like the labeled daylily it was supposed to be.
Right after enjoying my first few blooms, our house was severely damaged in a terrible hail storm on March 25th, 2009.
Most of the million seedlings died that day, but I went on planning the ones that looked like they could make it.
We had to have many things repaired replaced at our house (windows, roof, skylight, doors, siding), and the damaged plants that I had taken care of were moved away or killed by the construction. The back yard went back to square one. Dirt and nothing more.
Surprisingly, the front yard plants weren’t too badly damaged, and the roses kept on going.
The “Metaphor” daylilies bloomed a few times. But besides the small mystery orange/yellow daylily, and the “Metaphor” no other daylily bloomed in 2009.
My very eventful, and sometimes stressful spring 2009 ended.
Related posts:
- some daylily mysteries solved
- learning to garden part 1
- learning to garden part 3
- bowling ball garden bees
- thyme lord
This entry was posted on Saturday, April 17th, 2010 at 3:59 pm and is filed under garden, our house, photos.
