Bees, Dogs, Plants, and Pictures

[dawn_felagund]

Welp, it's been a busy past few weekends, hence my relative silence here. Bobby and I have been spending most of our time outside, getting ready for planting season. Everything was crunched into April and the first few weeks of May (versus beginning in March) since we were under a blanket of snow for just about all of March. And last year, what

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[indy1776]

I'm glad to hear your garden's growing! I'm just about to pick my spinach. I didn't get a lot, but there's enough for a salad.

Good luck with your bees.

Dogs! Big, fluffy big dogs! :D

[dawn_felagund]

I didn't get a lot, but there's enough for a salad.

Our lettuce garden is so far behind because we were weeks late in getting it planted thanks to the snow. On the date we were supposed to plant lettuces and greens, there was about a foot of snow on the ground! :D I'm glad you got some; we've yet to start harvesting ours.

Good luck with your bees.

Thank you! :) We installed a third queen about an hour ago. Hopefully this one pulls through.

Dogs! Big, fluffy big dogs! :D

The fluffiness was unreal! Four big dogs in the house plus a cat ... my allergies were driving me crazy. I can take my dogs (and the cat); adding a third dog starts to get a little dicey, but four?? :^|

[indy1776]

I'd love to let it grow a bit longer (I have one large plant and several tiny ones), but it's supposed to get hot again this week, so they'll bolt.

I hope the new queen lives!

[angelica_ramses]

Lantana! didn't know the name. I have one that showed out of the blue and decided to grow quite out of control on a spot that spoils a triangular flower bed. I don't like trimming it though it tends to hog the other plants - true to its wild origins, I suppose - and the triangle has becomes well rather square. Here it's perennial and there are flowers throughout the year.

Dogs are the best! (*Angelica glowers*)

[dawn_felagund]

I love lantana. Drive about two hours south of here to central Virginia, and it will overwinter as a perennial. I once found a variety claiming to be hardy through zone 7 (we're zone 7), but it didn't overwinter. (Of course, we're a cold zone 7 because of our elevation, and I stupidly planted it on the north side of the house. But it was a mild winter! So I think there was some wishful thinking on the part of whoever grew that particular variety.) But even as an annual, most of the lantanas I've ever planted get huge, so you have my sympathies on the spoiled garden. (Although I am a bit envious of having lantana growing as a weed! :D The prettiest weeds we get around here are the dandelions, of course, and violets that we've allowed to start colonizing the shade garden since nothing else flowering will take there.)

[pandemonium_213]

"That's some professional-ass shit."

AH HAHAHAHAHA!

Bobby's right though. The landscaping does look good!

Your clematis is already blooming!? Mine are all growing well (3 years old now) - Polish Spirit and Sweet Autumn in the backyard; Betty Corning, Julia Correvan, and two Prince Charles ("the Chucks") in the front - but it will be a while before they bloom.

Love the lantana. That's what I plant in my two big terra cotta pots I put on my front steps. They do well in the heat.

[dawn_felagund]

Yep, clematis is definitely in full bloom here in Maryland. Driving to the farm after work today, I noticed a house where half the front was liberally covered with two huge patches of clematis in full bloom. A second blossom opened on ours two days ago. I expect it's because I'm quite a bit south of you? I posted pictures of my yard in full bloom about a month ago and Janet complained that she had seen nothing blooming but weeds in NYC!

They do well in the heat.

Yes. Definitely an advantage! Mine now are all small and I-hate-my-life-woe-is-me-why-am-I-here?? because we're having a rather chilly spring.