fall blooms in garden

 

Immortality iris

 

Mister Lincoln tea rose

 

John F. Kennedy tea rose

 

                                                      Pink Rose of Sharon...
                                                  I didn't plant these here

 

New Day tea rose

 

squash bloom

I decided since the bugs took over the squash earlier in the year I would

replant some ....

 

                                               and lastly, here is what I am trying to do with
                                        my rows of iris...I started this year...( trying to separate my
                                      NOIDS into colors)....laying old carpet down in between the rows
                                     I think it looks nice, what do ya think....
                                      this is just one section .I have three sections in this rows of three
                                        just a beginning

                                    Well I hope you all ENJOY!

 

 

fall clean up

 

first off

Working in the lower section of the Angel Garden

Canna`s are first thing to dig up

cut them down

let them dry a bit

 

the stalks after a few days

after being cut first

 

 

all bulbs in this area dug up

letting them dry a bit before storing them for winter

 

now the next area

 

 

one green leaf canna

 

 

I had more of the darker ones

now to let them bleed some before digging them up

this is all for now

so I hope you all ENJOY!

 

 

made great plans

Here it is almost Fall of the year. Looking back my garden and me didn't produce a whole lot for the year...Last Winter while I was planning on what I would plant in my wee garden I had great plans, Then the new year came and I seemed alittle slower about getting things started...I did planted some tomatoes , peppers inside before danger of the first frost, I don't know if I planted them too early or to late, they didn't make it. I had to buy some tomato plants and a few pepper plants ...The tomatoes really didn't produce a whole lot, the ones that did make it...or didn't get eaten by critters.
        I did manage to plant some cantaloupe and did harvest about three of them and, they were yummy. But I did want to plant more so I could give away or possibly sell. I did manage to plant some watermelon as well, still waiting on them to be harvested. I also planted pumpkin, not doing good at all, I think I planted it too late...Oh how I wanted to eat fresh watermelon and have a pumpkin from my own garden instead of buying from the store....You know, it is so much nicer to come from your own garden instead of the store or your local farmers market stand...
  But looking back on this past year, most of the time I really didn't feel that great to be working in the garden, My back did hurt a lot and still does. The weeds have taken over in some areas  of my garden...I am trying to battle back even with my back hurting and bouts of sickness( diarrhea, yes , I said, and other things )
  So now that it is fall weather I have started cleaning up the garden and working on redoing some parts of it. Hopefully I will get the parts done that I am redoing before next Spring. I want to do better in the garden next Spring. I do want to feel better as well.....
Well that is all for now I need to go and do my morning chores....yes I wrote this this morning

going a different direction...sorta

 The title is somewhat true, sorta of...I have been going at my garden for many years and I have tried a few chemicals, not that many because of the cost( extremely tight budget).
Anyways I do not do chemicals and I just don't like putting those things on my garden. I have fought with bugs, not the good kind....so I have tried a few things, but not that many due to cost issues....well I am tired of it...Bugs....I hate Japanese Beetles, aphids.....etc....so

 

so this is my first step

Sea Minerals, trying to do things organically

this will combat the aphid problem I have been told

My first spray on the plants was this past weekend, so hopefully this will work

I will spray again in two weeks...

I only have a 1 quart sprayer so I put 1 teaspoon of Sea mineral to the quart of water plus added 1 drop of liquid dish soap( Dawn)

now I need to find some Calcium Nitrate that is the other thing a person who grows organically ( veggies) told me....

this is to stop the aphids, hopefully

 

 

well that is all for now

blackberry season....

It has been Blackberry season for a few weeks....I have been a picking fool....I have picked about 12 gall , give or take a few....I sold about 6 gall, ok maybe not 12 gall have i picked ....more like 9 gall....
I have kept about 3 gall for myself/family...planning on making some cobbler...yummy....
maybe some jam with all of those blackberries....might included the few( handfull of raspberries ) to the mix.
Well sorry this is so short...but the heat has hit here and i must water the tomatoes...havent gotten a tomato from my 20+ plants ,but i am hopefull
i have also moved some of daylilies around ...spaced them like they should be spaced.

more daylilies...

                                               Dan White

                                              Bela Lugosi
                                               first year blooming

 

Rosy Returns

A Walmart one

trying to rehome this one

 

 

Another Walmart one

Cherry Candy

                                                Rosy Returns

 

American Revolution

first year blooming for me

 

 

Earlybird Cardinal

 

and last one for the day

Miss Tinkerbell

 

some of my daylilies in bloom

some of my daylilies have been blooming and still have more to go...

 

the common lily

 

going bananas, at least that is what I think it is right now

or could it be happy again

 

 

this one I call peach

it was suppose to be blackberries and Cream

 

 

don't remember the name of this one

right off top of my head

                              
                                               this one either

 

the spider...

 

I hope you all Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

Angel garden blooms...Etc...

 

black hollyhock

 

heirloom

 

 

tea rose

 

just a red and white mini rose

girly girl got it for me for valentines day on clearance

 

 

a quote in the pathway to salvation

 

 

the bed the quote is in

a work in progress

 

 

the lily pad

 

 

well that is all for the day

so

I hope you all

ENJOY!

 

Angel Garden- upper

 

well today I thought I would show you the upper portion of the Angel garden

this area will be redone

I didn't work on it today though

I need to do a couple of things first

like get a couple of steel posts and a few cinder blocks for the first bed

 

 

I am happy with this bed at the moment

noticed at the moment

I will probably not mess with this bed at all

just saying

as you can tell

you can see a glimpse of the lower portion

the naivety

now what I worked on

I know their is another bed in this area

but I'm not going to show it ya today

 

 

 

What I worked on today

I planted  some daylilies

replanted a couple of roses

replanted a couple of daylilies

I already had the rose Mister Lincoln planted here

I had the daylilies Chorus line and doll house planted

already here

Today I replanted a Pristine rose here

replanted First prize tea rose

replanted daylilies American revolution and Tuscalia Tigeress

planted Brindled beauty iris,

dug immorality iris to plant here( I had an extra one)

also planted vera biglow daylily and my Melinda here

now I need to wait for the potatoes on the left to finish and then

try and get some more daylilies  to plant on that side

 

well I'm tired

so that is all for now

I hope you all

ENJOY!

 

winding down of my irises

I have been busy around here trying to catch on garden work while getting both of my girls ready for graduation.  Irises are winding down for the season....here are a few of that have bloomed for the first time...

                                              Back to black

 

A No id that I have found up the road

daughters dug one up and it bloomed after I planted

yes I am a iris addict

love irises

 

this was suppose to be brindled beauty

I contacted the company I got it from and

they stated it is lilac haze

 

 

another No id

ok this one isn't new bloom for me

but you have to admit it is pretty

 

another No id

and not a first

 

another no id

 

 

another No Id

 

last but not least this white

No Id

 

well that is all of the irises for now

at least I think it is

roses are starting to bloom, some are blooming

next are my dayliles

 

I hope you all enjoy!

 

What i got at Baker creek...

You knew this was coming didn't you.....So many pretty plants....were at Baker creek...I do admit I did go there to get plants---daylilies...I had a feeling someone would be selling them....the last time I went to the May festival/spring....someone was selling them...I got two of them way back then
Ice Carnival and I don't remember the other one I got.....I don't think it survived, but then again it could have.....Any who....I picked up 6 daylilies yesterday...Doll House, Purple Waters, My Melinda,
Magic Dawn, Vera Biaglow, Chorus line, ...a bag of assorted iris( the lady didn't understand I wanted a couple of certain ones she had pictured, so had to buy assorted)...also got

 

mystery Day Dahlia

 

 

Lady Darlene Dahlia

 

snow country Dahlia

 

I have never grown dahlia`s but I thought this year I would try

I have already planted one

I forgot where I planted it though

 

oh well

well that is all for now

so

I hope you all

ENJOY!

Baker creek

I finally got to go to Baker Creek....I haven't been in a few years...It`s just about 45 minutes from where I live here in the Ozarks...

 

last time I was here they was working on this display garden area

I love it

 

a pretty fountain in the middle

 

 

a look at I assume are growing gardens

 

just one view of all the tents set up of people selling their wares

plants, soaps, etc

 

                                                           One of the Peacocks that were there

 

just had to take a pic of this iris

 

now to plant everything I got

yes I got me some plants, daylilies, assorted iris, dahlias

 

hmmm where oh where to plant them

 

Well that is all for now

so I hope you all

ENJOY~