I think it’s time to start my weekend Moby garden reports! Things are finally started to bloom and grown nicely… it was always fun last year to report on how things are going. All the spring flowers are starting to bloom and that really makes my heart sing! I read about this lovely lady in California who started planting daffodil bulbs at Lake Arrowhead in 1958 and now there are thousands and thousands of them blooming each spring. It’s amazing what you can do if you just keep at it year and year.
We’re up to about 400 planted bulbs so far, though I’m pretty sure that our little local squirrel friends helped themselves to a few that were out a bit further from the moby. Of course, being a lover of purple, I like the little hyicinths, they’re beautiful. But these multi-bloom daffodils are beautiful.
I really like when these red ones start to bloom. They are so beautiful when you look down in them. The black is very impressive at the center of the bloom. I’ve got some purple tulips that are coming up this year and they are very pretty as well.
The apple trees are all blooming, and there are bees a plenty pollinating them! Yahoo! We might actually get more than just one apple this year! The blooms are all so pretty. Of the five trees, four are doing wonderfully, but one is not thriving as well. We call it Little Sister because she’s the small little dainty one. She’s got a little green growth and budding flowers but not many. If she pulls through this year, it will be a miracle.
A lot of the 75% off perennials are coming up strong! Yah! Around the big pine that we call the kitty garden because of the little ring of vegetation that all the kitties like to hang out under. Even my lavendar plant is coming back up! I’ve never had success with lavendar before. It will be the first time I’ve ever had the stuff come back after the first year! How cool is that?
Luna has been loving the thick mulch in the raised beds. I catch her in there digging and rolling a lot. Been shooing her out because I really don’t want her in there when I get them all planted. But it’s funny to watch her play in it.
FINALLY!!!! A pepper plant has germinated!!! Just one. But that makes me thrilled… the others are probably just getting ready to come out. The rest of the little cold frame babies are doing well. Lots of them are good and strong.
But the best report of the weekend has to be how well the wisteria is doing. Back in the old days, when I lived in the big house, one of the first things I planted was a beautiful wisteria wine right up on the front porch. We added some poles for the vines to climb up on and for the first couple years, it was doing wonderfully.
But then we lost the home and along with it a lot of the dreams and all the plantings and such. So when I saw this wisteria last year in the discount pile, I was ready to start again. Planted it and hoped it would make it through the winter and it did! It’s doing wonderfully. This year is going to be good for it.
Best part of it, is that the vine has several pick clumps of flower buds on it! How neat! I can’t wait to see how it blooms off. I’m sure it will look beautiful crawling over the little shed.
It’s been a little too cold to plant much outside but hopefully the next week or so will prove a little better for planting. I have strawberries, grapes and onion sets to get into the ground soon. That’s the report for the past week! Hope everyone’s week ahead is full of blooming springtime delights!!!
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