Blueberry Day

Blueberry Day. It took me all day to weed and prune our 19 blueberry bushes. Favorites are BlueCrop, BlueGold, Emerald and Legacy. After weeding, each plant got a top dressing of yummy compost. Fresh blueberries will be here before we know it so it is time to use the stash in the freezer.

Plants are waking up

 

I have two bushes started from Mama's Camellia at 509 M Street SE, Auburn, WA,

the house where I grew up. The original plant would be 75 years old.

The lavender clematis on our East fence is showing signs of life.

My Rosemary bush on the north side of the garage is happy there. I won't move it again.

Primroses seem to be happiest this time of year. They are one of the first harbingers of spring.

The Rhododendron buds are getting fat. Percy Wiseman in the foreground.

I have many Autumn Blush sedum plants now, all from a tiny start from artist-friend, 
Betty Jo Fitzgerald, many years ago.

Another one of the firsts for Spring, the Helleborus by our front door.

Every summer when this Bleeding Heart dies back,  

I'm sure it is gone forever but each Spring it reappears.

March 1, 2021

 

Some morning are still frosty.

Some evening have spectacular sunsets. This one was after a storm.

Two kinds of pole peas were planted in the vegetable garden February 27th.

Shelling and Snap peas. Info goes into my Garden Journal.

Welcome 2021

 

We are a few days into 2021 and mornings are frosty. 

The vegetable garden is asleep for the winter except for a few broccoli plants. 

I couldn't resist harvesting what was available for a dinner stir-fry. 

And, speaking of broccoli...a few months ago I emptied the Stargazer lily bulbs from the pots on the lakeside patio. These purple pots bloom all summer with annuals and lilies. After five years, the lily bulbs had multiplied and I could harvest many bulbs and bulbils to plant in other places. In the process, I lost some soil and replaced it from my extra-dirt pile kept in the flower garden. That pile is an accumulation of soil from various locations as well as emptied planters and pots. Surprise! Somehow, soil from an area where the first crop of broccoli went to seed got into my dirt pile and then into my Stargazer lily pots. See the third pot? Those aren't flowers coming up, that is broccoli!