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As a gardener, I believe you know spring is a great season for your garden to grow plants, flowers, vegetables and fruit. However, before growing new plants, your yard needs maintenance after the long winter. Hence, get your landscape off to the best start with these hints and tips for the early spring.
Survey the yard. Make not of tree limbs that should be removed or cabled, especially those that overhang structures. Hire an arborist to maintain large trees if necessary. Cut down last year’s perennial foliage and toss it into the compost pile. Rake mulch from beds planted with bulbs before foliage appears, and refresh mulch in other planting areas after soil warms. Check fences, steps, and pathways for disrepair caused by freezing and thawing.
Check soil PH with a soil tester, taking several samples from different planting areas for an accurate reading. Enrich soil as necessary: add dolomitic lime to raise the PH or elemental sulfur to lower the PH.
Prune trees and shrubs. Remove dead, damaged, and diseased branches from woody plants. Thin and trim summer-blooming shrubs such as butterfly bush, hydrangea, and most roses, except for old-fashioned once bloomers. Prune cold-damaged wood after plants resume spring growth. Prune spring-blooming shrubs and trees after flowering.
Prepare new beds. Clear the planting area as soon as soil can be worked, removing sod or weeds and debris. Spread a 4-inch layer of compost or well-rotted manure and any amendments over soil, and cultivate it to a depth of 10-12 inches with your garderning tools.
Choose a cool, cloudy day to plant new trees, shrubs or perennials if you want. transplant container-grown plants anytime during the growing season except midsummer; be sure to water them thoroughly. Sow seeds of cool-season flowers like poppies and calendula, or vegetables such as spinach and parsley.
Hope these tips can help you to refresh your garden in the early spring.
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Flowers from my Garden
Started by Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry. Last reply by Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry yesterday. 2 Replies 0 Likes
The builders had planted a rose hedge as part of the landscaping of the…Continue
What Ive been doing in my garden..
Started by ënagualí ~ Ꮙℓἇ∂ἇ ኔጡ።. Last reply by Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry May 2. 13 Replies 2 Likes
What I've been doing in my garden in the past & coming weeks..I've been busy in my garden... yesterday I was clearing an area that was over grown along the fence line as I'm wanting to create…Continue
Desmodium Gyrans the dancing plant
Started by ënagualí ~ Ꮙℓἇ∂ἇ ኔጡ።. Last reply by Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry May 2. 9 Replies 1 Like
Desmodium Gyrans the dancing plantCodariocalyx motorius - formerly Desmodium gyrans.Codariocalyx motorius, known as the telegraph plant, dancing plant, or semaphore plant, is a tropical Asian shrub,…Continue
The Deep Living Project- Exploring Regenerative Living..
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The Deep Living Project- Exploring Regenerative Living..Identifying Edible WeedsI had a chance to go for an edible weed foray with my friends.. It was early autumn here and quite dry but I still…Continue
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Comment by Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry on April 28, 2024 at 12:39pm
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Very cold April here too, there's been loads of country lanes with giant puddles that turn into flooding, lots of cold winds and storms. The birds are busy though nest building. Ive just been sitting in the conservatory watching the birds. Little robin came and sat nearby, he's a lovely bird. The dunnocks are nest building, they're all pretty busy so it must be spring.
The iris are all in bud in the front garden, they'll be fully flowering soon.
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Comment by Ametrine -(MHZ) on April 28, 2024 at 12:19pm
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Thank you Julie, I came back from France Yesterday, I do not know about you, but it's was freezing cold. Very cold April.
This is a very beautiful Bush :o)
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Thanks Ametrine, good to see you back on site. The bush comes in red too but without variegated foliage
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beautiful bush Julie, I have never seen one like this before. Thank you for sharing .
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At the moment the pink bush is coming into bud, particularly the top branches....another few weeks it looks like the above. The black cat in the video was called Vinegar, a lovely cat, really the neighbours cat but he spent most of his time in my garden. He was a three legged cat with no tail, he got about the garden, jumped fences and throughly enjoyed his life. Video taken 13 years ago in my garden
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Thank you for the invitation Vlada.
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Comment by ënagualí ~ Ꮙℓἇ∂ἇ ኔጡ። on April 27, 2024 at 3:12pm
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Blooming Tibetan Bell Flowers,
I'd love some of these in my garden..
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I'm glad you're enjoying time off, a good adventure, hope that sunshine keeps shining, it makes a big difference to how we all feel. Especially good to have more gardening days. A bit of rose pruning yesterday and weeding.
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Yes I thought after our talks it was necessary,cos we didn't have one in here..I'll share my garden and things I've done in it so far..Just I'm on vacation at present and heading out to a beautiful garden,created from a old closed & abandoned quary, I will share images of it soon..and yesterday I headed up the Coromandel Peninsula to Barry Brickells Pottery Driving creek Railway,woah what a day it was beautiful,will do a post on it all also..
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