Spring May 23/24, 2018

Spring Events

Besides the mosquitoes, the poplar fluff was late in coming this spring as well. It "decided" that the May long weekend would be a good time to start floating down on everyone! It was crazy! Fluff and mosquitoes floating around everywhere!  Luckily we had a rain shower on May 23rd, along with our first thunder storm which helped to beat down the layer of fluff on the ground and it is no longer a problem.
But we probably shouldn't complain. It was snowing on the east coast (in Newfoundland) on May 23rd!

Plant development on May 23rd and 24th (2018)

 Lilacs blooming in back yard

Bergenia looking good aside from a bit of frost bite on the leaves

Hostas, Rocket Ligularia, Little Juniper bush and ferns

This is the shandy side of my Stack Stone bed. There's an El Nino Hosta (new), Sleeping Beauty hosta, Green Juniper, Red Lady fern (new), chives and Forget Me Knots which are all doing well so far.  I also transplanted an ostrich fern from my round perennial bed into this area. There are still a few Obedient plants surfacing, although I dug out dozens of them.

First Anemone to bloom (Stack stone bed- West side)

Just lounging around the triangle bed looking cute. :)

First lamium to bloom. Such a tiny, but cute perennial and easy to grow in zone 3

First lilac bouquet- May 24/18 

Lilacs and Tree Swallow house  May 24/18

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Quick Fire hydrangea shrubs are both showing signs of life

WE dug out the Double Flowering plum which I planted last year (as it was dead), and I replaced it with a bigger one that I bought at Tail Creek greenhouse. Unfortunately for me, it had already finished blooming. I have to wait another whole year to see blossoms on it.

The rhubarb plant outside the garden is growing well and ready to start harvesting stalks

Stackstone Bed- red pot lilies with Morden Ruby on right growing shoots finally (May 24/18)

My roses had a really hard winter and most of the top stems of the shrubs are dead, but they are valiantly growing new shoots from the lower branches and up from the roots which luckily survived.

One of my many little baby spruce saplings

I have given away 6 spruce saplings this year to neighbours and friends. There are about 2 dozen tiny sprucelings in the Stack stone bed, long perennial bed and the triangle bed. I have been letting them grow and hopefully will find good homes for the ones that we don't plant ourselves.

Miss Kim Lilac has green leaves now.

Miss Kim Lilac has green leaves now. The 2 yellow day lilies in this bed are starting to grow as well. The Splendins is sprouting leaves, the bearded irises are turning green, but no sign of life yet from the 2 peonies or Siberian iris. 

Time to start fertilizing the perennials, and adding blood and bone meal to the roses.