Temperate Climates Kick Butt

This is the time of year when everything just sort of goes nuts. It's usually been raining like mad, and the weather is warming up, we're getting more light. This year the rainfall has been pretty low, but that's not holding any of the plants back in the garden.

I know you non-garden people find these posts really boring, so here's my warning to just sort of move on, because I have a bunch of plant photos.

The freesias have started to bloom.

As have the peaches and nectarines (they bloomed first last year, too). I sprayed them with dormant oil to treat peach leaf curl this weekend; we'll see how well that worked.

Here are those tulips, opened up in the sun. They're a species tulip, so I'm hoping they do well in this climate.

The quince is going gangbusters. I don't know how people can resist planting quinces, because they are so vigourous. Well, OK, maybe being pelted with hard, inedible fruit from a monstrously tall tree isn't everybody's cup of tea. At any rate, we've got leaves and perhaps a few flower buds.

Here's the overall garden. As you can see, we've got a nice mess going, with dog toys, flats, and pots all over the place. The fences are holding up nicely to the dogs' attempts to get behind them, which is good news for me. Rosie likes to eat tomatoes, so when I plant the seedlings I've started, I'm going to need more fence.

And finally, the roses. They've been looking kind of scrawny, but the recent rain and warm weather had cheered them up. Now we have a bunch of leaves forming and these nice red shoots. I went looking for alfalfa meal this weekend, but the local hardware store didn't stock it, so I may wait until I have time to stop by the feed store.

I'm in the home stretch for this quarter at school, so posting will be a bit slow for the next couple weeks.

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posted by ayse on 03/06/07