![]() And it won’t be a dirty, sweaty, often bloody life it will be all cold drinks and white shorts. Mosquitos and gnats will lose their taste for (my) blood and I’ll practically live in the garden. Weeds will be non-existent and rainfall will arrive perfectly timed and only at night. It’s still February and 2022 will be the most perfect and perfumed gardening year this plot of earth has ever imagined or experienced. I’m already imagining a hot summer night where the deck is filled with a jasmine fragrance, but of course I shouldn’t count my chickens before they’ve hatched since any number of things can go wrong between now and then. Night-blooming jasmine is a real thing and I enjoyed a thoroughly perfumed car ride for the tail end of my trip. Slowly as the scenery turned to night I began to take notice of a sweet scent filling the car. Of course I dutifully added them to the haul and didn’t think much else of it until the sun began to set as I motored home again through the mountains. “Take this, you’ll want this” was what I was told as branches were lopped off and pushed into my hands. It was one of those things which followed me home from a late autumn garden visit. Two pots of Cestrum nocturnum is probably one more than I need, but night-blooming jasmine is one of my latest favorite plants. Cestrum nocturnum (night-blooming jasmine) is the taller plant and I really hope I get some blooms on it this summer. ![]() This red salvia is the perfect color for February. Have a great week, and may your garden get all the rain it needs □ 17 Comments Posted in summer, summer bulbs Tagged flowers, garden, lycoris, pennsylvania garden A January Thaw Lycoris season is always full of surprises, and even if the surprise is in how disappointing they can be, the colchicums will be here soon and I can always count on them. Being stuck in front of the tv from now until snowdrop season or taking up a trowel and helping tile, or sitting through an entire football game? I think even a bad day of looking at weeds and wilted plants has its bright spots and I think I can do it for a few more days. ![]() That’s basically giving up for the year, and with school ramping up again, and construction crawling along, and with money evaporating faster than the rain, it’s never sounded better… until you consider the alternatives. This weekend I almost moved from ‘trying to get a few things through’ to ‘maybe save a few perennials and shrubs so they come back next year’. Today it rained, and although the 0.06″ is not the 0.50″ forecast, it should green up the crabgrass a bit and at least give me a day off from watering… assuming I still even water. I’ll take whatever fabulous successes I can get. With a timed drip irrigation system this at least is one part of the garden not miserable for rain. Other not-cold-hardy things filling space on the sand terrace.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |