A few pics from the last couple days. The daylilies are winding down. The hostas are continuing to flower, and the sedum are getting ready for their showtime.
Winding down
Tag: Sedum
Happy Mother’s Day!
Coffee Time
Every year, as the perennials emerge, they get a haircut from anything I left for the birds over the winter. Then they get a sprinkling of coffee grounds around them. Not to wake it up, but to keep the slugs away. I started that years ago, and it has served the garden well. The holes we get on leaves each year since then are usually after the Japanese beetles hatch.
Last Saturday I gave the sedum out front haircuts. Then I sprinkled them with coffee grounds. There were also the tulips and one daylily starting to pop up, and they got some coffee grounds love too. May as well. Can’t hurt, I don’t think …
The tulip and crocus areas out back also got the coffee treatment. Hoping it deters sir bunimous from chomping down. If not, I have an all natural powder I buy. It worked at the little house up north to deter deer and bunnies. The downside of that is it looks not so pretty, and it is only good through a couple rains. Hopefully the coffee grounds will work and it won’t be needed.
And the winner is …
The winner of the first “green” spotted in the gardens at the townhouse is …
a sedum!
More to come.
70s ahead.
The amur maple and broken off limb are still sitting in the front yard 😂 The birds and squirrels have been seen sitting around the broken off branch – easy seed eatings, right?
A volunteer opportunity came along today, for the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. (Angels sing)
Sooooooo tempted!!! It is even one of those opportunities where I can use my 16 hours of paid volunteer time through work! (That’s how I heard about it 🙂 ) The date listed right now is smack dab in the middle of a busy work week next week though. Still sooooo tempted. To be even a tiny part of that glorious place and love on the plants and be around others who love it and share and learn from and with them? (angels sing again!) Please believe me when I say I love and have loved that place since the kids were very young and we lived 10 minutes away and took them there to exhaust them – lol. Work events there, church events there, anniversaries there. And oh how it has grown! Contemplating. Seriously contemplating. Last time we were there I was actually jealous of the people weeding and working with the plants! It is just quite a drive now to get there. But still contemplating.
Did I say I am SERIOUSLY contemplating? Maybe a Saturday thing.
Triple BZZZ
It is Autumn Joy Sedum time, and the honey bees are enjoy every minute.
BZZZZ BZZZZ
What a wonderful sight! Honey bees enjoying the late summer, almost fall garden.
Stretch!
I don’t remember the Chocolate Drop sedum and the Sundazzle sedum stretching so much toward the sun in prior years. Maybe. I suppose that will be another research project for the winter.
My daughter-in-law puts the shorter sedum in the front of the taller sedum. I have a couple rootings in the seedling box. I may try that.
Can you see it?
Ever so slowly, the Autumn Joy sedum are starting to pink up.
Better stuff
I say no to some very “good” stuff, so I can make time for better stuff. Sometimes there isn’t a choice, but when there is – think. Time is finite. Use your voice. Make that choice. And then … Rejoice!
Here’s some Rejoice in the Garden time
The start of the sedum blooms (2022)
I am watching and waiting for the Autumn Joy sedum blooms to begin to turn color.
While I wait, the Chocolate Drop sedum and the Sundazzle sedum are beginning to bloom.
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