My friend Sabs had a plant that she said was dead (but it's only mostly dead), so she gave it to me because she thinks I can revive it...we'll see. I'm curious to find out what it is!
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I had two tulip bulbs left over after I planted them last December and nowhere to plant them, so I decided to try to force them. I put them in the vegitable bin in the fridge in a bowl with pebbles and water. I read later that Tulips are not the ideal flower to force, In fact the article I read said that it won't happen, but I'm trying it anyway.
Over the last few weeks they've been in the fridge getting their chill time in, and I took them out this week to find that one of the bulbs totally rooted! the other, not so much... in fact, it has a little spot of mold near the base. I still have hope that it can be saved.
I'll keep you updated on how it goes.
Last July, I went to a garden that had an interesting Manzanita, I asked if they propagated it in their nursery, and they said "no, they couldn't propagate it from cuttings." to which i thought "BS." So, since no one was patroling the garden to tell me not to - I took a small twig off the bush (yes - I know, I'm a terrible person) and tried to propagate it at home. The twig made about 6 cuttings, two of which never sprouted roots, and three of which I killed by letting the growing medium dry out in the fall. One survived, and now it has a bud on it! I'm so very happy about that. Hopefully it will make it to an actual plant.
A couple of springs ago this plant started growing in the backyard along with all the other winter weeds, and we were super lazy that year about cutting them down.
I have no idea what it is but I liked it a lot so I held on to some of the seeds from a bloom or two and have been calling it the weed from my backyard.
This Winter when I planted my seeds, I planted some of them to see if anything would grow. To my suprise and delight, a bunch of them came up!
I have transplanted three of the plants into wine barrel #2 in the front yard(the three stringy plant on the left side are the weeds). as I recall this plant got to be about 4' tall so they should have a bit of an impact if they make it...
If you are wondering what happened to the morning glories that were on that side of the wine barrel, the two that weren't eaten were killed by a front that came through.
I try to keep track of what I've done in the garden every year but haven't been ready to spring for a fancy pre-printed garden journal. Here are a couple of free journals available online. One of the benefits of these is that you can print out just the needed pages.
http://www.arbico-organics.com/gardenjournal1.html
http://www.gardening-quick-n-easy.com/Garden_Journal.html
I took one of the plugs from the seeds I've been growing, and replanted the Parsley into larger cells. A couple of them are kinda weak we'll see how many survive...
I've been meaning to go to this for a long time, I heard last year that it wasn't going to happen again, but it's here again this year, so maybe there are just new people running it...
I think I need to transplant these seeds now, they are getting pretty big.
Some of the seeds did well. Others not so much...
- Seeds that came up strong and numerous:
- Weed from my backyard
- CA Rockcress
- Flat-leaved parsley
- Blue-eyed grass
- Dill
- freesia
- Nicotiana
- Seeds that came up, but only a couple of them:
- Echanecia
- Sweetpea
- Lunaria
- CA poppy
- Neighbors mimosa
- UC Arboretum Tree
- cynglossum
- Ones that came up and then promptly died:
- CA Bluebells
- Penstemon
- One's that never came up:
- Summer blue delphinium
- morning glory
As a gift to myself this Christmas, I bought a set of jewlers cases from Lee Valley. I'm using it to save the seeds I've collected from my plants and other plants. I was using the little half sized ziplock snack bags, but they were starting to get a bit untidy.
Today I took a sharpie marker and numbered the top and bottom of each case so I can track what type of seed is in each case and reuse them for different seeds in the future. I'm very happy with the results and think this solution is going to work well for me.
I was sitting out in the chair swing today and my nose was pleasantly tickled with the sweet scent of daffodils. What a fantastic way to start a new year and decade!
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