11.07.07

‘Pillars

Posted in Garden Plants, Gardenia, JoMoWorld at 5:05 pm by AJM

My beautiful red gardenia has caterpillars eating away the lovely petals.

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Rose Bush

Posted in Garden Plants, JoMoWorld, Rose at 4:02 pm by AJM

The rose bush that I picked out with mom and planted with Kevin is doing well. It’s in the front yard, in the northern most spot. Seems to be enjoying it there. It’s a climbing rose. I treated the soil first with Amend, and let it sit for about a week before planting it. The week proved to me that the spot would be suitable. I harvested a few blooms last weekend and looks like I’ll need to take some more today.

This was a few days after planting it in the ground:

And here it is today:

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11.02.07

Bees are good, right?

Posted in Garden Plants, JoMoWorld at 2:14 pm by AJM

I found this little guy this morning on my yellow cala lily. Isn’t he cute??!!

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10.26.07

Cyclamen

Posted in Cyclamen, Garden Plants at 11:25 am by AJM

I planted two cyclamen near the tree in our front yard. The label said that it would be good around a tree, partial sun. One of them is doing okay and the other is doing not well. I’m watering 2-3 times per week. I treated the soil prior to planting with Amend. It seems to be draining water fine but remains very dry. As a result, the flowers are sagging and droopy.

Cyclamen: they apparently don’t like hot, dry air, which is precisely what we’ve been having for the last week with the fires and Santa Ana winds. I thought it was doing fine prior to that, so perhaps in a few weeks it will be doing better.

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10.16.07

New Life

Posted in Garden Plants at 10:37 pm by AJM

The first photos of my garden.

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