I spent a few hours weeding today instead of completing work on the computer. Then, after feeding the dogs and giving them their last walk. I got an idea to help the aeoniums I have growing on one side an archway get higher. These things are very shallow rooted so as I'd trim branches else where, I started putting the cut end through the four by four inch gaps in the metal archway so that the ends would just barely be in the dirt. They've all done pretty well. But the branches rarely get higher than 4 or 5 feet so there is some bare metal left showing. So my big idea was to screw a pot clip up around 5 feet and put the two branches I pruned away earlier today higher, with both of their cut ends dipping into pot which I filled with cactus medium. They don't look like much now but before long they'll figure it our and start growing up from there. If this works I may do more. Here are pictures showing the aeoniums growing on that metal archway last year.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I am "hoarding" anything that Needs to be done....
AnneWimsey
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Mar 21, 2020
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Afraid of running out? Two of the tasks I still haven’t completed I blame on the virus. The videos I’m supposed to watch in advance of my knee replacement in April. The class which the video replaced was cancelled to avoid congregating in one place and I’m afraid the same will happen to the surgery.
The other is completing write ups of two garden social events I’ve arrange for my Society which would have happened in May. (I even lined up my replacement in case my knee healing was still an issue. But I find it very unlikely either can happen May.
The last is the census and I really don’t want to get a paper copy in the mail. Yet the other two though they seem doomed by the virus also seem more urgent.
And irrigation system on them?
Zoohome
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Mar 21, 2020
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Hasn't worked in years. Now I just use the hose during extended dry times but mostly let things go a little dormant in late summer. We don't really have a cold winter so I think of it as a time the garden must 'get by'.
Lovely peach color .
Cast1es
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Mar 21, 2020
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Probably the color at the top of the frame? That is the climbing rose 'Autumn Sunset'. Lower down in that raised bed there is a lot of alstroemeria contributing a similar color but not very visible in this crop where I was trying to show that succulent growing in the metal archway. Here is a wider crop.
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