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Wild City Times Online :: Wild City Gardening :: Wild City Gardening :: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 Page 1 of 3 » Jump to page   Go     Author Topic: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 (Read 782 times) Carly Administrator member is offline Queen of the Universe Joined: Mar 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 10,077 Location: Toronto, Canada Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Thread Started on Oct 4, 2006, 12:46pm » So it's the 3rd and I'm just getting around to starting October's journal. Ha! Who cares - when I get to heaven, God will say 'well, did you start your journals on time?' I'll say 'well, sometimes I forgot and started a couple of days later'. God will say - hmmmm . . . better go back and do that one over, eh? ------------------- Yesterday was so warm I was sweating at times - 22 celsius! Today is still warm - going up to 20, but it is raining a lot - we had a big wallopin' thunder storm early this morning. Still, there was a dry spell so I went out and raked up some wet stuff for mulch. Also, raked some into the goutweed around the back of the stick circle. Don't know if I'll do much gardening today - maybe, maybe not. Even Skitter's taking it easy - she had her shots yesterday, and the vet did a lot of fuss budgeting with her - she had some fleas, so she had to move over to a new flea treatment. She's curled up in the chair here, sleepin' it all off. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Wild City Executive Administrator / Global Moderator Carly Administrator member is offline Queen of the Universe Joined: Mar 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 10,077 Location: Toronto, Canada Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #1 on Oct 4, 2006, 12:49pm » So a few days ago I posted this bloom that turned out to be one of the snapdragons finally showing up. Yesterday, the one beside it has a red bud - that 'might' be the gentian finally getting a bloom. « Last Edit: Oct 4, 2006, 5:09pm by Carly » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Wild City Executive Administrator / Global Moderator Carly Administrator member is offline Queen of the Universe Joined: Mar 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 10,077 Location: Toronto, Canada Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #2 on Oct 4, 2006, 12:53pm » I don't know what you call this wild flower (or weed, as some would say) . . . it has spindly leaves, with little red flowers on a stalk that's usually 2 to 3 inches long. We have a lot of this growing around the lot - I just took a bunch off the retaining wall and mulched it into the square (I think - I don't really remember - might have put it somewhere in particular). « Last Edit: Oct 4, 2006, 5:27pm by Carly » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Wild City Executive Administrator / Global Moderator Carly Administrator member is offline Queen of the Universe Joined: Mar 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 10,077 Location: Toronto, Canada Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #3 on Oct 4, 2006, 12:58pm » I gave this picture the file name of 'roadkillmulchedin' . . . ha ha! These are something Symon found in the road in early summer - he brought them to me and I put them there - they weren't bulbs, they are like big clumps (rhizomes, I guess ya' call l'em? Not sure). Anyway, they grew nicely but did not bloom - they could be some kind of iris - some flower that blooms only in spring. All this time, I kept telling myself I had them too close to the curb, then yesterday I realized I had bricks there - all I needed to do was tip the bricks on the their sides to give the plants more room. I did that, then added some of my compost/mulch to it. Come spring, we'll know what they are, I guess. (Unless they do something in fall) Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Wild City Executive Administrator / Global Moderator Carly Administrator member is offline Queen of the Universe Joined: Mar 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 10,077 Location: Toronto, Canada Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #4 on Oct 4, 2006, 1:09pm » I don't think I've showed off with the work I did on Tulsi Corner last week -if so, I'm showin' it off again . . . And here's Washington Point which had a good going over yesterday afternoon . . . I clipped back all that 'feverfew' in front of the birch log. Those clippings went into that new patch I'm building up on south island - where I had the fern plant. And there were some pieces of lemon balm in there - those went into the island patch too. A piece of that pink flowered plant (which I'm pretty sure is an Australian Hibiscus) went into the fence garden - that rooting wasn't flowering and it's too close to the azaleas, so it would be lost when it all starts flowering in spring. I'm saving seeds from that 'Hibiscus' as we'll call it just for now. If I keep those kalanchoes in there, I'll have to protect them in some way - they won't over-winter like that. Maybe I'll bring them in. It seems safe right now, 'cause we're getting pretty mild winter, but there are around 5 to 10 plants that will have to be brought in, given away or protected in some way if I want them to live. I realize I could let some of it just die off, but I don't want to do that. « Last Edit: Oct 4, 2006, 5:31pm by Carly » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Wild City Executive Administrator / Global Moderator Carly Administrator member is offline Queen of the Universe Joined: Mar 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 10,077 Location: Toronto, Canada Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #5 on Oct 4, 2006, 5:57pm » Here's Jeff's 'Autumn Rat' . . . And Jeff's Autumn Witch in the Sconce . . . Those witches are holding up nicely under this stormy weather - must be witchcraft . . . Photos by Jeff Svamvour Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Wild City Executive Administrator / Global Moderator Carly Administrator member is offline Queen of the Universe Joined: Mar 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 10,077 Location: Toronto, Canada Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #6 on Oct 4, 2006, 5:59pm » The Balloon Plant is making her last blooms . . . Thanks to Photo Bucket for the free image hosting . . . http://photobucket.com/ Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Wild City Executive Administrator / Global Moderator Carly Administrator member is offline Queen of the Universe Joined: Mar 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 10,077 Location: Toronto, Canada Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #7 on Oct 4, 2006, 6:16pm » Pretty well 90% of my plants are indoors now . . . Still fuss budgeting at that fence garden - here's where I'm arranging last year's mums - they haven't done anything yet and I'm noticing nobody else's has either . . . maybe we're getting something in October - dunno' - there's buds on them. I'm presently thinking of going outside to sit on this - oh, aren't I brave? It's windy and stormy out there. Maybe I'll just settle for having a smoke up against the fence. Thanks again, Photo Bucket . . . http://photobucket.com/ « Last Edit: Oct 7, 2008, 8:40am by Carly » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Wild City Executive Administrator / Global Moderator YoYoWithTheMojo Senior Member member is offline Don't Sweat the Small Stuff! Joined: Mar 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 533 Location: Toronto Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #8 on Oct 5, 2006, 2:33pm » I've had a change of heart on that kalanchoe - I've potted most of it . . . http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Crassulaceae/Kalanchoe_blossfeldiana.html http://www.greenbeam.com/features/plant092903.stm The particular species I've been raising for the last couple of years is Blossfeldiana Kalanchoe . . . it originates in Madagascar. There are three places in the yard where I 'might' try to overwinter, but this will have to be done by giving them heavy protection. Most likely, I'll just keep on potting. I have another species of kalanchoe too - I don't know the species name, but I have been raising it since 1995 . . . as you have heard me say before, I managed to give a lot of it away to tenants in the building here. There was just too much of it. I started the summer with one big pot of it - it was only recently I realized that I did not still have that pot. I saw it in another tenants apartment when I was visiting and kinda' wondered about that - well, if her partner was drunk and carried the thing in as a peace offering (as I suspect is what happened), then that explains it. I'm not angry about it - in fact, I was kinda' hoping somebody might swipe some of it 'cause I just don't have room for the stuff. The present owner of that pot is going to give me a couple of pieces of it so I can start it all over again. If she doesn't, it's ok, one of the other tenants will still have some. Crazy story, eh? « Last Edit: Oct 5, 2006, 2:56pm by YoYoWithTheMojo » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged If you have any objection to my haunt, consult the moderator - ;-) YoYoWithTheMojo Senior Member member is offline Don't Sweat the Small Stuff! Joined: Mar 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 533 Location: Toronto Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #9 on Oct 5, 2006, 2:59pm » Anyway, there are now 3 more pots of kalanchoe (blossfeldiana) ready to come in the house - I'm going to give them all a good dose of my tobacco insecticide first - I stretched my potting soil by using my mulch. I'll be dunking them into hot water first. The lowest temp you can go with Kalanchoe is -2 celsius . . . we're down to about 3 celsius at night. But if you read one of the articles I linked to, it's the temp at sunset that you go by, so I don't think it's harming them to sit another night on the picnic table out there. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged If you have any objection to my haunt, consult the moderator - ;-) YoYoWithTheMojo Senior Member member is offline Don't Sweat the Small Stuff! Joined: Mar 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 533 Location: Toronto Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #10 on Oct 5, 2006, 5:58pm » Ha! Done! I put all the extras on my cart, wheeled 'em out to the street and before I even finished putting them out a guy came and took six - the girl across the street took the rest, including the two geraniums I had left. (I have enough geraniums too - I gave her a really pretty fuschia one, but I didn't mind parting with it.) So now I can take my time meandering around, raking, putting mulch on my patches, raking, transplanting, raking, mulching . . .yadda yadda. Tomorrow the pots on the picnic table get their bug treatments - hot water sink, tobacco cocktail, and into the office they go. Poor Jeff says 'Hey! I have to do business in the office, ya' know!' Business, schmizness . . . ha ha! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged If you have any objection to my haunt, consult the moderator - ;-) Carly Administrator member is offline Queen of the Universe Joined: Mar 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 10,077 Location: Toronto, Canada Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #11 on Oct 8, 2006, 9:10am » She's a Lavatera! A member of the Malvacae family . . . Finally got a positive i. d. on this thing . . . Go to this link and scroll down all the pics on the page - you'll be able to see it's identical to my plant here. http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Lavatera/galleryS.html Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Wild City Executive Administrator / Global Moderator Carly Administrator member is offline Queen of the Universe Joined: Mar 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 10,077 Location: Toronto, Canada Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #12 on Oct 8, 2006, 9:12am » Now - I gotta check on exactly how it's to be looked after. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Wild City Executive Administrator / Global Moderator Carly Administrator member is offline Queen of the Universe Joined: Mar 2003 Gender: Female Posts: 10,077 Location: Toronto, Canada Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #13 on Oct 8, 2006, 9:21am » Aw, Phooey! It's an annual! But . . . on a positive note, it blooms much longer than perennials in the malva family. You collect your seeds, and plant them indoors in peat pots - put the seedlings out after all danger of frost has passed. http://www.ehow.com/how_6758_grow-annual-mallow.html Yahhhhhooooooo! I've been saving the seeds as the flowers start drooping. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Wild City Executive Administrator / Global Moderator YoYoWithTheMojo Senior Member member is offline Don't Sweat the Small Stuff! Joined: Mar 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 533 Location: Toronto Re: Carly's Garden - October 2k6 « Reply #14 on Oct 9, 2006, 10:50am » So whaddya' mean, the gardenin's over? 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