sleet, hail, sun & rainbows

Category: weather report | Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:08 am

well, we've had it all this Easter weekend. I have never seen this variety all together. Power outages from electrical storms on Sat, gray, gloomy and WET on Easter Sunday. Today, we're just at the rain & sun mix, thus the rainbow..........hopefully, a sign of things to come for a few days.

I did sneak out between showers today and put some rose food on a rescued rose garden here at the new place. Since I'm gardening on a budget (what budget? I'm gardening for free here this season), I picked up the box of plant food from our local freecycle group. Hope these roses appreciate my attention. They were almost ignored when I inherited them in Oct. I waited all winter, then cut them back, now they are leafing out all over. Just need to get in the garden with my clippers & cut out the dead canes...........I'm so new to roses, I wasn't sure what WAS dead when I was trimming them back. Now it is obvious, even to me!!

Re planted the plants the kittens had pulled up when I was gone over the week end. I don't know how to cat proof my plants, but I need to investigate something. I'm so grateful I'm not paying for these plants!!!! I would string the kitties up if I had money invested in these new additions. As it is, I just keep re planting things.... Frustrating.

My acorn squash seeds are almost 75% up now. Oddly, no sprouts in 2 containers of seeds I planted. Interesting experiment here.......maybe they are just taking their time?? If all these get to the garden & actually grow...........I'm already double the usual plants I have put in. Progress!!

Watching the cuttings from hydrangeas and a mystery shrub I put in..........all doing well. Another 4 or 5 years & I'll have actual plants!! :) Good thing I'm patient! (and have a sense of humor)

Hope to be bringing more free plants home from a meeting tomorrow..........I'm taking empty boxes & buckets so I can raid my moms garden. Many native forest type plants there and I've got one shade garden just waiting for plants!

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Gardenstew wrote on Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:54 am:

Regarding keeping cats away from precious plants read this topic we had a few days ago contrareeone:

http://www.gardenstew.com/about1220.html

So you have a mystery shrub? Maybe we can help you identify it, that is if you want it to be identified :)

contrareeone wrote on Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:03 pm:

I probably have a couple! But, the cuttings I took from the old house, I didn't mark (bad habit, I know) So I'm unsure of what they are at this point. Just sticks with little buds. I'm no good on names of things. I call them things like the green bush with the pinkish blooms that's near the path.... No help to anyone! Maybe when it starts to actually look like a plant I can get a picture of it here.