Lets Talk Clivia

 

I have been ask for information on Clivias

and just received this from another grower 

which I think it is good advice.

I recently was on a quest to find the best way

to clean the water spots off the leaves.  Last

year I put them in the brug house with the

eppies over the top of them, so when I would

water the eppies they would drip and water

the Clivias.  Some folks recommend the 

cleaning of leaves monthly.  What I found

that works best if equal amounts of Lemon

juice and water.  Some of the ones that 

haven't been cleaned a while the water

spots need another rubbing.

2/24/2022 View

 

Got up to 29 degrees this am and a covering of

the White Stuff!!   By 3PM most of the snow is

gone.

It maybe cold outside but we are warm and

toasty inside!  Here is the bloom found this

am!

Spring Cleanup

 

Back yard all raked of fir needles and I noticed

some eyes of the hostas are up.  Hellebores

are starting to bloom.  I know the fence needs

some attention again but until they remove the

trees we aren't going to fix it.  Veggie Garden

will be cleaned up after the trees are remove.

The plastic over the beds are covered with 

fir needles.

Have been working on the front yard to get

it ready to grow.  Cleaning up and stirring up

the mulch, I have some seeds to get out but

they say our weather should turn cold for a 

few days.

April 15th Opening Gardens

 Every year we open the gardens on April 15th 

but this year it's going to be delayed.  We 

received a certified letter from the neighbors 

to the west and in this letter we were 

informed that they are taking out the 

last 4 -- 80+ foot fir trees on April 9th 

and they stated that it could take

2 to 3 days.  

We are glad they are finally taking them 

out due to all the damage these trees have

done to our fence and yard over the past years.

Again recently we had branches come down

and again a letter was sent to them due to

branches dangling.

On Nov. 16th of 2017 if you remember that

post they removed 2 trees on the north due

to what our Arborist we hired and a local 

tree trimmer told them that they were split.

Here is the mess they left us during the 

growing season.  We had asked in our 

letter that they do not do of this during

the growing season as our yard will

take the blunt of their removal.  

We had wood chips all over the yard

roof and driveway out front.  No notice

and no way to protect our beautiful

gardens.  We watched their tree

trimmers cut these down and no way

would we allow them into the yard

due to the plants were already up.

Again they have offered to cleanup

our yard and we have written them 

back with a decline as again this

isn't the time of year for them as 

our gardens will be up.   Our 

original letter to them in 2017 

stated they need to do their

cutting when the yard is dormant.

Besides I have just spent the last couple

weeks cleaning up the winter mess to

allow for the plants to come up.  We 

are already seeing spring plants pop up.

The cleanup was done so that when I

have knee surgery it won't have to be

done and I can rest for the gardening

season.

It's cleaned of the fir needles and it better

stay this clean!

Last date for frost is the 15th of April!

We are in the process of trying to figure

out how we can safely cover the back yard

and not do damage to the plants that

are currently coming up.

We also are concerned about the branches

that have been dangling for the past year

that were not taken care of.  

Sadly, we are not going to be opening

the gardens until it's safe to allow

visitors.  Please make an appointment

so your trip isn't wasted.  Click the 

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address at the bottom.

Thank you!!

We have the first two pieces of putting

up some shade to keep our hostas safe

when these are removed.  

Plans have changed the the greenhouse

isn't going to work like we had hoped.

Here is the plan now.  We are in the process

of putting up two gazebos back to back

and hope to have the tops up by this weekend.

A Big Thank You Dr. Upham!!

 Today I was scheduled to have a consultation 

with Sports Medicine to go over the knee 

issues.  The water on the knee and Baker's

Cyst.  After doing all the vitals by the

nurses, Dr. Upham comes in and bless 

her, she did the aspiration of the right knee

Baker's cyst and then gave me an 

injection of corticosteroid!!  Ouch!!   

It is so good to have this part of the 

knee injury fixed and behind me!!  

I'm really slow now and off my feet for the 

next 48 hours.  Crutches will travel!!

A Big Thank You!!

Wisteria Down!

 

Had to remove as there is a limb coming down

right above them. More information on keeping

track of my time 2022.

All potted up!!

Now to get back out to clean up this area.

2/5/2022----52 degrees

 

The Yard is coming alive, way to early!

Sable's Last Haircut

 

The best groomers in town!!