Pink Ladies – Wordless Wednesday
Beautiful double pink Peony (name unknown)
All the Ladies together
They grew in a line so they could each show off
May 26
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May 16
What’s Blooming May 15
Heuchera
Hardy Geranium & Mr. Bumble
Columbine
Azalea
Dutch Iris
Bachelor's Button
Peony
Weigela
Common Moss Rose
Iris 'Lenten Prayer'
Double Peony
Alium
Red Hot Poker
Ruffled Oriental Poppy
Double White Lilac
Hebe
Hardy Geranium 'Bill Wallace'
Oriental Poppy
Iris 'Ovation'
Snowball Bush
Foam Flower
White Bleeding Heart
Goldflame Honeysuckle
Chives
Old Fashioned White Rose
Candytuft
Hens & Chicks
Strawberries
Bleeding Heart
What happens to your Daphne when fertilized...all bush & no flowers
Alium
Potted Succulents
Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day takes place on the 15th of every month and all started with May Dreams Gardens.
May 12
Inside My Secret Garden – Wordless Wednesday
My secret garden today.
Here’s a video I also took of my front garden today: http://twitvid.com/WMQUR
May 5
There’s Something for Everyone at Jennings
Today was my first day volunteering at Jennings – one of the Snohomish County Master Gardener demonstration gardens. As an Intern Master Gardener I will complete 16 hours of volunteer time in this garden. If it was closer to my house I’d be there all the time – it’s that amazing.
Not only are the garden “rooms” unique and charming, but they includes space saving techniques like vertical gardening, straw bale gardening and stacked raised beds. It was hard to catch the charm in photos, but I still wanted to share a slideshow of the different gardens, trellises, arbors, pathways and plants.
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- Walking up to the Jennings demonstration garden
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- Welcome! This beautiful arbor was built by an Eagle Scout
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- Succulent garden
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- Succulents planted in the block holes
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- Blood Veined Sorrels
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- Lime & burgundy garden
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- Love these pea trellises
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- Beautiful, rustic & recycled walkway
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- View back to the front entrance
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- New fence around the perennial garden
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- Perennial garden – my favorite
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- Charming Sedum combo
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- Native landscape
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- Espalier apple trees
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- Dry creek bed & grass garden
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- Arbor & red benches – view of perennial & veggie gardens
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- All American Garden
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- Little spot to rest on the potting shed porch
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- Blue arbor in the All American Garden
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- Sweet little lettuce bed – Food Bank Garden
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- The first of MANY vertical trellises for veggies
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- Vertical veggie garden
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- Vertical veggie garden & bench
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- Potato plantings & vertical gardens
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- Vertical gardening
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- Vertical veggie garden trellises
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- Pea arbor
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- View of the Food Bank veggie garden & potting shed
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- View of the veggie garden & perennial garden
The Jennings demo garden is located at 6915 Armar Road in Marysville and is open to the public. Master Gardener volunteers will be on site to answer questions every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday from 9-1 (May – September). It’s well worth the trip.
May 2
Potting My Nasturtium Seeds for the GROW Project
Spitfire Nasturtiums from Renee's Garden
Can you believe it’s been a month since I started growing my Spitfire Nasturtium seeds for the Seed GROW Project? You may remember last month I was having a hard time getting my seeds to germinate. I got a couple tips from reading the posts of other participating bloggers and had a little more success.
I was able to get TWO seedlings to grow by scoring the seeds with a knife and soaking over night. I started these on April 4. Only getting two is still a little disappointing.
As I mentioned before, I’m planting these two out by the chicken coop in one of the rooster pots.
My chicken coop/rooster pots
I’m excited to have these TWO beauties grow up my chicken coop. They’ll not only provide stunning color but they’ll also give the chickens some shade.
The chicken coop (see the pot in the background)
Nasturtium, Climbing “Spitfire”: Brilliant, scarlet-orange blossoms shine out among trailing green foliage, attracting hovering hummingbirds. Train up short trellises or tripods for a cascade of bright blossoms.
In case I haven’t mentioned it, my garden is zone 8a/7b. My soil is a sandy loam and I get quite a bit of rain. I’ve planted these first two seedlings in full sun.
If I can get any more of the seeds to germinate I’ll find some other spots in the garden to tuck them in. I did start some more seeds indoors on April 23 but haven’t yet had any pop up. I’ve got my finger’s crossed.
Seed starting container
In case you’re wondering how I started my seeds to get such horrible results, here’s what I do:
1. Clip & soak seeds overnight
2. Plant in sterile seed starting mix
3. Place in plastic covered lettuce container for moisture
4. Kept moist and next to the window for warmth & light
It’s funny that I’m having a harder time growing these than tomato and pepper seeds. Those seedlings are HUGE. At least I have TWO Nasturtiums. I’m not a total failure.
You can follow my progress using my Seed GROW Project tag for this site.
You can read all the participating blog posts here on the Seed GROW Project site. Like all the other participants, I’ll be posting my progress every first Sunday of the month.
“I’m growing Nasturtium “Spitfire” for the GROW project. Thanks, to Renee’s Garden for the seeds.”
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