More on planting
I ended up not planting out my annual bed Saturday. I decided to rest during the hot part of the day and pick up again around 7pm. I was able to pull back the black tarp from last year, clear off the plants that had decayed on the top thereof, spread the compost (but not till in; way too tired) and replace the tarp, but by the time I'd finished that, I was finished, too. I waited until 8pm on Sunday (ox in the mire!) to start planting the annuals, and got about 3/4 of them done before it was too dark to see anymore. I was too tired to set up lights (I could have used the solar-powered spotlights from the back yard), so I'll just have to do them this evening.
I was keen to get them planted before today because a cold front has come in, and I'd prefer that my little seedlings get used to the outdoors while it's cloudy and sprinkling rather than in an 80+ degree heat blast.
I went out this morning and cut a sampling of What's Blooming, and filled three vases at work: bearded iris, firecracker penstemon, trumpet honeysuckle, Tanacetum niveum, Ramona clematis, peachy rose (the first came out yesterday), Johnson's Blue geranium, Oenothera pallida (which seems to have reverted to speciosa), Prarie Dusk penstemon, red yarrow, Verbascum, and the dark-red climber rose that survived RoundUp®, so I let it live and now it's climbing all over the place.
I was keen to get them planted before today because a cold front has come in, and I'd prefer that my little seedlings get used to the outdoors while it's cloudy and sprinkling rather than in an 80+ degree heat blast.
I went out this morning and cut a sampling of What's Blooming, and filled three vases at work: bearded iris, firecracker penstemon, trumpet honeysuckle, Tanacetum niveum, Ramona clematis, peachy rose (the first came out yesterday), Johnson's Blue geranium, Oenothera pallida (which seems to have reverted to speciosa), Prarie Dusk penstemon, red yarrow, Verbascum, and the dark-red climber rose that survived RoundUp®, so I let it live and now it's climbing all over the place.