Winter garden

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Winter garden
Topic Started: Apr 28 2015, 01:34 PM (320 Views)
Kahu	Apr 28 2015, 01:34 PM Post #1
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	We are now into winter ... torrential rain and thunder last night ... this morning, very low cloud, frequent light showers, 18°C. I got the surprise of my life when I discovered several cymbidium orchids were already well into the flowering stage, and all the rest had thick flower shoots quite evident. They're getting earlier and earlier! I hadn't lifted the tulip bulbs which I'd left in the fridge, and planted after we got back from Canada ... now they're all sprouting too. I've got another lot of tulips in the fridge which I'd intended to plant out in another month or two as well. I suppose I'd better get cracking on planting them as well. I'd intended to set the Blue Poppy seed experiment experiment at the beginning of our winter, but the current temperature is a bit high (60°F, 17°C is needed) ... so I'll wait a bit. I've also planted quite a few daffodil bulbs in troughs for a seasonal show too. My Aunt, who had a farm over in the Wairarapa had the whole of the farm road boundary planted in Daffodil bulbs and that was her way of fund raising for the Cancer Society ... It always used to look just like "I wandered lonely as a cloud ..." Daffodil Day NZ Cancer Society Mine won't be as spectacular, but it'll brighten up the place! Posted Image Posted Image Early cymbidium flower stems Posted Image The lemon's still bearing well. I've given it a booster of blood and bone, and N6 P5 K7 - flowers, immature fruit and ripe fruit all at the same time. Posted Image Fuchsia Mary under the ferns Posted Image



Durgan	Apr 28 2015, 01:35 PM Post #2
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	NZ should export lemons. They grow so well and are huge.



Kahu	Apr 28 2015, 01:48 PM Post #3
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	The summer has been quite hot and dry and I've mulched the area surrounding the tree thickly with shredded branches off the trees and leaves through the chipper. That helped to keep a bit of moisture in the ground over that period ... the blood and bone was added just to assist the much to break down more efficiently. The NPK levels are what keeps the tree healthy ... although I seem to have an area which is infected with borer, which means I'll have to be into some judicious pruning soon. We do export lemons mainly to Asia, and for industrial juicing ... mine don't look so pretty because of verrucosis, but we don't mind. Edited by Kahu, Apr 28 2015, 01:51 PM.



Darcie	Apr 28 2015, 02:37 PM Post #4
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Looks so green, here only the buds on the maples are out.



Kahu	Apr 28 2015, 02:52 PM Post #5
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	Darcie Apr 28 2015, 02:37 PM Looks so green, here only the buds on the maples are out. Green all year Darcie ... autumn year round too.



Darcie	Apr 28 2015, 03:05 PM Post #6
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	:sigh:



blizzard	Apr 29 2015, 04:34 AM Post #7
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,152 Group: Member Member #1,012 Joined: July 8, 2013	My daffodils only produced one flower this year. No idea why as I had not planted them. However, considering we have had all sorts of flowers blooming in the area ever since January I cannot complain. I am waiting for some sun to get the starter tomatoes and beans into containers.



Trotsky	Apr 30 2015, 01:56 AM Post #8
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	For me to see anything pretty I must go walkies: Posted Image[/ Yesterday's walk



Darcie	Apr 30 2015, 01:59 AM Post #9
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	So beautiful.



angora	Apr 30 2015, 02:54 AM Post #10
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	My perennial beds are all peeping up. Peonies looking good and all the phlox too. The sedums coming along. All my bushes in bud. Things are proceeding just as they should.



Kahu	Apr 30 2015, 08:26 AM Post #11
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	angora Apr 30 2015, 02:54 AM Peonies looking good and all the phlox too. Peonies are a bit of a hit and miss here. My mother had a great bed of them and they did very well, but we lived further up the valley at that time and frosts did occur reasonably regularly. My next door neighbour had a good bed too, but it hasn't shown a bloom for a long while now ... and looking over the fence, they seemed to have disappeared. Being in a valley we can get frosts here, but I can't really remember many at all in the last few years. Perhaps, I'm losing it?



Kahu	Apr 30 2015, 08:28 AM Post #12
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	Trotsky Apr 30 2015, 01:56 AM For me to see anything pretty I must go walkies: It does give you a bit of a lift doesn't it?



angora	Apr 30 2015, 08:39 AM Post #13
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	We had frost over the weekend and again this morning although it burned off pretty quickly. The peonies are not up far enough to be bothered by it. It happens every year. The things that are bothered by a bit of frost come up later. Mother Nature takes care of her children. :)



FuzzyO	Apr 30 2015, 08:52 AM Post #14
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	The magnolias are almost out here. They are spectacular in full bloom, but you have to hope there is no wind or rain as that quickly strips the blossoms. When very young my daughter got a little mixed up and would refer to the magnolia trees as magnificent trees. Pretty accurate.



Kahu	Apr 30 2015, 10:45 AM Post #15
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	angora Apr 30 2015, 08:39 AM We had frost over the weekend and again this morning although it burned off pretty quickly. The peonies are not up far enough to be bothered by it. It happens every year. The things that are bothered by a bit of frost come up later. Mother Nature takes care of her children. :) Peonies, like tulips, need that cold snap which I have to replicate by storing them in the fridge for a few weeks. The climate is changing and we do notice it down under.



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