What have you done today in the Garden?

A fav I planted a Sequoiadendron giganteum when it was maybe 5’ it is huge now and very stately in a corner of the pasture.
Other trees I have planted . Another fav is the vitex tree, western redbud, magnolias, acer striped bark tri color leaf , several dwarf maples, paper birch, Dollar eucalyptus, weeping acer palmatum tricolor, thuja occidentalis pyramidalis, weeping blue atlas , dogwoods, several different weeping cherry , several bi-color American holly, eastern red cedar- grows blue berries , and many trident maples, to name a few .
I know …I’m a Dendrophile…

 

Looking good @Daniel W and @Doghouse Riley.
Hubby has finished pruning the roses, I've sown cosmos, pot marigolds and polyanthus seeds. The cosmos is coming up but I'm not sure about the polyanthus seeds they might be to old.

 

Daniel— the plants have perennials in them. I planted some gifted Camassias in two plots.

Your seedlings look soooo good. The plant pots look really smart. The “hold water” remark did not escape me.

 

Started to cut off the old flowering stems on the lavender plants, still got 5 to do.

 

Far too cold today to do anything.

 

Same ole same ole.. had a 60 degree day so I mowed the bumpy pastures.. 11am thru 3pm couldn’t get the big tractor to start again so used the little garden riding tractor has no shock absorbers like the big tractor..so now achy bum… I’m gonna sit in the hot tub for awhile. Got it cleaned out, hit it with burn out added new filter and its sparkling clean and ph balanced.

 

Sjoerd So Sorry I miss this earlier…and since you love tree you can join Danial and I we are Dendrophile’s - definition someone who loves trees…. Hehe..

See pic of just one fave tree out of 12 that were scalped. It will never look balanced I am heartbroken. I grew it from a tiny seedling. 30 years of caring for my trees. This tree is topped totally unnecessary.

Thank you for your kind concern I appreciate your support.
It’s been 2 years and the scars and off balance look on the trees will last forever. Pic of my fav tree before and after the wack job…Also imaging one entire side of a 3 paper birch trees totally missing and so lopsided and scary will fall over in a storm.

Thank you may have to put a gate in now.. But generally never had any issues with them coming on private property before in 30 years , they usually cut under the pole elec lines across the street.

After they topped and cut branches from my fav tree and rare to find.note the stripe bark.striped maple tri color leaf.


Before the tree was scalped. Left of the pic. You can see it is a small understory tree. See the one wire at the top, it was 10 feet away.

the tri color spotted leaves


Closeup striped bark. Maple
tri color leaf striped bark. Beautiful colors… and rarest tree in my collection.

 

I'm up to date with everything at the moment. Being a "garden manager" rather than a gardener, I don't have to supervise my work force (me), with any jobs, as I don't do any propagation. Saves a lot of time and effort.
It's been raining, but it's stopped now. But more is forecast for later today and tomorrow. So I'll just flick between golf and football on the TV until the tennis comes on this evening. It's too cold to be outside today.

 

Nothing today it's raining all day today.

 

Cool pics, Pac. That Maple is indeed special in appearance. I have never seen that one. What about that bark ! You have an admirable collection there on your terrein. Such an amazing place.

 

Darcy Bussell came to my house today. So did Silas Marner. I welcomed them as new friends. And Boscobel and Bring Me Sunshine.



With a minor amount of root pruning, a little soaking, and after mixing a small amount of my "special recipe" additives to the potting soil (a little crushed eggshell, a little crushed bonemeal, and some meal made from roasted, finely ground and hot water processed seeds of the Coffea arabica plant), I planted three of them. I ran out of potting soil, so Boscobel will have to wait a day. It's in a temporary container of the same soil.

Silas Marner was planted in a half barrel that I prepared over the winter.



Not far from this one is Vanessa Bell, that I planted last Spring. She's looking good.



Darcey Bussell and Bring Me Sunshine are in two of the new planters.



It's a nice day for planting roses. Rainy and drizzly and over cast. I think their new growth won't get any sunburn.

Those planters will be on wheels for easy moving.

Meanwhile, the climbing rose "Tropical Lightening" has lots of new growth. I still haven't built a trellis.



The old rose cuttings - unknown variety, very double pink, old rose scent, and very thorny - show they survived the winter, a good sign.



Also cuttings from a red rose from the old place.



And the thornless blackberry cuttings are still alive.



I can't promise they will all grow, but so far, so good. Those cuttings are just the "cut to good size and push into soil in late fall" method, so no big deal.

Tomorrow - a trip to the store to buy so e more potting soil.

 

Sjoerd thank you and what a nice thing to say.

 

Daniel— Super-dooper rose collection, mate. I did not know you knew the famous ballerina. And that you have her as a guest there. Bow-weee, I am so jealous.

Pac— it is all true though, you DO have a very special place. I like seeing your stuff so much.

 

Today was a golf day all eighteen holes open, for the first time this year.

A sign of Spring. The feeder had a visitor last night.





I'd left pellets in there for a couple of weeks, but not checked the camera, as it wasn't disturbed when I checked each day. But when I came home this afternoon I could see it had gone, so I took the card out of the camera and found this, I'll put some more food out tonight.

 

It is so good to see that walking, prickly teardrop again. Mate, I am all set for a season of egel pret.