Gardening Thread

Yum strawberries

I'm going to take pics this weekend too, my roses are almost ready to open.

Three things about my garden this year:

#1. I wish I would have taken seriously, what all the reviews mentioned about ants loving cedar chips. I never really wanted to lay them across my property, but hubby loves them (cedar chips that is). He won...I lost...and well, now we have the friggin' little buggers (ants) galore!

#2. Some of my cedars planted last May didn't last the winter. No brainer there...I was already warned. Dang!Finnicky, high-maintenance tree.

#3. My Black-Eyed Susans (Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida) look like they're struggling this year (after being planted last May).

I continue to pray to the Nature Gods, to please preserve the lives of my greenery. I hate to see anything fail (and well...die) on me.

too lazy to post all the pics on here... but here is a facebook link

https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=174211&id=516179698&l=31eb4b2450

cureforboredom wrote:

Planted hollyhocks and lupins today -and some lovely deep purple-flowered perennial pilfered from a friend's garden. Tomorrow: delphiniums, columbines, aster, sweet peas, bell flowers, and busy lizzies. Hope it rains tonight! That, or I hope my hose elongates over the night so I can reach all my garden patches.

Funny for me to hear of people planting lupins. Guess I take it for granted that our ditches and fields are POLLUTED with lupins each and every year, and growing in number. I still think they're pretty, but you end up taking them for granted living here. They're almost as plentiful as dandilions.

A few pics...

Found her when I moved a rock...eww


My daughters garden


My peonies


once my roses bloom I'll take pics of those.

Susan wrote:

cureforboredom wrote:

Planted hollyhocks and lupins today -and some lovely deep purple-flowered perennial pilfered from a friend's garden. Tomorrow: delphiniums, columbines, aster, sweet peas, bell flowers, and busy lizzies. Hope it rains tonight! That, or I hope my hose elongates over the night so I can reach all my garden patches.

Funny for me to hear of people planting lupins. Guess I take it for granted that our ditches and fields are POLLUTED with lupins each and every year, and growing in number. I still think they're pretty, but you end up taking them for granted living here. They're almost as plentiful as dandilions.

lupins are weeds here in NB..

My back yare this year is infested with bull snakes YUK

Nice pics mousey. They're weeds, but they're pretty nonetheless. Yorkie, what are bull snakes, and yikes.

bull snakes are non venomous snakes that get quite large around and about 3 feet long and sometimes bigger. they won't hurt you,well they will strike and it hurts if you startle them, but they just seem to pop out of nowhere when you least expect them

Nice. Yeah, a spider or June bug is a lot easier to deal with IMO. I hate them, and will run or shriek, but nothing like a snake. It's one thing to talk about snakes, and another to have them randomly pop up! Yorkie, do they make you bolt, or do you poke them with your hoe? I imagine you wouldn't get much gardening done with that many around if you kept bolting. I picture you chopping them repeatedly with the corner of your hoe and having a smoke afterwards. :lol: Maybe I'm wrong. haha

You are right I poke them or do them in with the hoe or shovel,have done
five this year and the damn things just keep coming,if they are just in the grass I don't bother with them as they eat mice and bugs so that is a good
thing,but I hate it when one pops up in the flower beds. and yes a smoke afterwards is a good thing LOL

OMG June bugs...eww!!! I don't mind snakes, I like them but I hate spiders!

EWWWWWWWWWWW, I hate june bugs,and this is supposed to be
a bad year for them

Why is it supposed to be a bad year for them? They are horrendous. I don't know if it's true, but I always thought they had sticky stuff on their wings, and so I fear them landing on me and getting stuck in my hair like molasses. Is that true? Gross. Gross. Gross. I HATE them!

No I don't think that is true,I don;t get that close to them
It is a bad year they say as they run in a 7 year cycle and
this is supposed to be their year,and Ihate them too,they
are huge and ugly and nasty

I was gonna post a picture of one for you Yorkie, but thought that would be mean. lol

I googled if june bugs have sticky wings, and found out they have sticky legs or feet.

I found the funniest description of them and laughed my arse off; I had to share it. Maybe it's just me, but it had me in stitches.



I hate these bugs for no other reason then the fact that they are dumb as fuck (well, in comparison to other bugs I guess ).

They sometime fly; then other times they will just decide, "Nah - I'm gonna crawl for a bit here"...then they will just randomly fly again. They can't hover very good - they suck at turning mid-air and they have no brakes whatsoever. They seem to be some sort of drunk kamikaze bug.

Made my evening

Made my evening also,that was funny

Finally today the garden got tilled and 1/4 planted. Was the rain that held us back. The crops around here are just begiing to get planted also. Whacky year. Oh and I did plant the tomatoes yesterday...it's a beginning.

cherry tomatoes here are ripe and I had my first one yesterday YUM

I have a question for all of you Gardener's out here. Do you know what type of shrub this is? I have a bunch in my back yard and this is one at my work but I would like to know what it is. I am kinda duh when it comes to plants. Thanks!!

Very pretty, dont know what it is though.


I like snakes. Last week there was a large one right outside my door, it was rattling, scared me but I didnt think it was a rattlesnake.
I did google and found out it was a bull snake, harmless but will copy a rattlesnake by banging its tail on the ground when it feels threatend. He crawled under my deck, have not seen him since.

It kinda looks like a lilac bush.

Image taken from photobucket

KewlChick wrote:

I have a question for all of you Gardener's out here. Do you know what type of shrub this is? I have a bunch in my back yard and this is one at my work but I would like to know what it is. I am kinda duh when it comes to plants. Thanks!!

Kewl, I'll dig around my tags that came off my plants a few years back. I have the same one/ones. Mauve like yours and another with pink flowers and yellow/green leaves. Can't remember it off the top of my head as most plants only come home with me to die, so I don't ever get too familiar with them.

SPRIREA !! There's all different kinds of it