gardening: the cycle begins again
Jan. 30th, 2023 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twoelevena little seed porn, since all of this spring's seeds have arrived.
one company offers a collection of ornamental sweet peas. i'd wanted a darker purple variety to contrast "cupani's original", which is what I usually plant, but they exercised their option to substitute the "beaujolais", which doesn't work as well.
the top row are the varieties i'm definitely going to plant. we like those. i'm not sure what i'll do with the bottom row.
these are plants that we like that have done well before. the extra packet of violet cornflowers are a gift for a friend.
...and these are all the new kinds of seeds we're trying out. i expect not everything will grow or look good where it ends up. my main garden bed has a foot of topsoil, but most don't have anywhere near that much. and the beds that we can see along the walkway are on the west side of the house, which gets too hot and dry for some plants.
these are mostly new. the tassel flowers did well last year, and we liked them, so we're getting more. they'll supposedly self-seed too, so we may get a lot of them.
the inset is a catalog picture of what the monarda should look like. we like the flower form, which contrasts with pretty much everything else in the gardens. but they're perennials, so i have to be a little careful where i put them, in case they don't work out.
for us, it's hard to go wrong with hot bicolored-flowers, so i'm gonna try the runner beans. i just need to figure out where to put them, since i think they're too hot to go with the peas and other violet/pink/purple flowers in one bed.
one company offers a collection of ornamental sweet peas. i'd wanted a darker purple variety to contrast "cupani's original", which is what I usually plant, but they exercised their option to substitute the "beaujolais", which doesn't work as well.
the top row are the varieties i'm definitely going to plant. we like those. i'm not sure what i'll do with the bottom row.
these are plants that we like that have done well before. the extra packet of violet cornflowers are a gift for a friend.
...and these are all the new kinds of seeds we're trying out. i expect not everything will grow or look good where it ends up. my main garden bed has a foot of topsoil, but most don't have anywhere near that much. and the beds that we can see along the walkway are on the west side of the house, which gets too hot and dry for some plants.
these are mostly new. the tassel flowers did well last year, and we liked them, so we're getting more. they'll supposedly self-seed too, so we may get a lot of them.
the inset is a catalog picture of what the monarda should look like. we like the flower form, which contrasts with pretty much everything else in the gardens. but they're perennials, so i have to be a little careful where i put them, in case they don't work out.
for us, it's hard to go wrong with hot bicolored-flowers, so i'm gonna try the runner beans. i just need to figure out where to put them, since i think they're too hot to go with the peas and other violet/pink/purple flowers in one bed.
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Date: Jan. 31st, 2023 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Jan. 31st, 2023 04:27 am (UTC)the community association rules forbid growing food crops. the way it was explained to us when we bought our house is that they didn't want people growing stands of corn, or keeping animals for food. in practice, nobody's noticed my blueberries. admittedly, they're behind the house, in (tiny) flower for only few weeks, and i pick the (small) berries as they ripen. nor has anybody noticed the ornamental peas going to seed when i forget to deadhead them, and they grow on a trellis around the streetlamp out front. i suspect i could get away with growing runner beans so long as i didn't bring in a tractor. :)