Disrespectful!

I will be deleting all Ricky's photo emails after

reporting them to Microsoft.  The man is dead! 

Today In The Garden -- 6/22/2023

Spent most of the morning cleaning up

again!  Then it was time to mow before

I could spend the time with the camera

in hand.  Enjoy the photos!

 

Iochroma In Bloom!

 I have been watching ours for several days

and haven't been able to capture the blooms

as they are deep into the plant at the bottom.

Iochroma 'Alba' was the first to bloom.

Our back up Iochroma is not in bloom.

Getting Back To Normal!!

Wanting to get back to normal here, please!!

Peace and quite for the old gal, she has a lot

work to do now that the yard is growing so 

if I disappear you will know why!  I will try

to post photos!  

I have been asked to setup my own Garden

Forum and that is still being looked at.  Update

when it's ready. 

Welcome to Summer!!

The first day of Summer!!  

As I sit here to type the fall fog is

rolling in as we have been cool and 

wet for the past few days.  We are

to start to warm up today and be in

the 80s for a few days before dropping

again to cooler 70s.  The cold front we

had over the weekend brought snow to

the mountains around us.  Sending this

front to the east so we can warm up some.

It was a great time to start the spring 

blooming trees and shrub trimming. 

Still have a few to go to shape up.  

The past  strong winds from the week

has taken a tole on some of the clematis 

plants that were young so yesterday 

was a day to clip the dead ones out.  

So much to do for the next few days 

here!  

Still picking up after neighboring trees!

 

Brugmansia Buds!!

 I have been watching for a week as 

the the buds have been forming!  With

cooler temps they are coming along 

nicely!   Blooms should be showing up

soon!

 

It's now time to clean up the limbs

and remove all the new growth to 

the top, so one can see the blooms.

Plus get small cuttings for next year.

I found a couple more brugmansia

that have new buds!  

The brugs when we moved them out

were in bad shape due to loosing 

power for over 6 hours in the cold

winter.  Even the rainbarrel's water

that we keep filled in both greenhouse

started to turn cold.  We knew that we

would loose some limbs!  It's just a

part of gardening up North!  Time

to get more cuttings and now is a great

time to get them while they are actively

growing.  I was impressed with B. Shorty's

variegated cuttings that I took a week 

ago, they have now skipped a beat. We

lost some year old plants but that was due

to the fact there were walnuts found in the 

pots.  Plus the wild fire /neighbor's burning

smoke isn't good for these plants!

 

This is our cross B. Jutner Peachy Cream,

should be open something this weekend.

Sunday 6/25 morning's bloom.

This morning she was fully open.  She is so tall I'll

have to cut her back to get her in the Brug house

in the fall.

With the heat they are drying out

fast.   

B. Shorty's Variegated 

Photos taken 6/30/2023, very fragrant!!

6/30/2023 Evening photos:

Last photo as she fades.

B. Frosty Pink

7/10/2023

Today was the day to clean up the 

Brugmansia due to weeks of smoke

and the leaves were smelling of smoke.

So we have to strip the yellowing leaves

and hope for the best!

Here is B. Shorty's Variegated all cleaned up 

and getting ready to for the second flush!

Smoke can be very harmful to these plant!!

7/12/2023

Second flush starting to open.

B. Jutner Peachy Cream

New bud to open on our oldest 

B. Shorty's Variegated.

7/16/2023 --  With the heat comes

some awesome blooms.  Not normal!

Some one made a request last week

that I post the collection.  They wanted

to see how it was going as they saw the

stick coming out of the pots early in the 

season.   

Yes, it's a jungle out there!

I'll tell you with 90 degree weather it's

been fun keeping them all watered.