Gardeny Stuff
Just some little backyard updates.
Here's the azalea. Its two to three times larger than when we bought it... it came in a quart sized pot, I think. I left the fence in the picture for scale. Anywho, it was happy happy grow grow for awhile, until last week. Then, suddenly, it went put. It folded up and dried up and shriveled in on itself. We thought maybe it was getting too much sun, so I dug it up and moved it to the back corner of the fence. Digging it up was too easy. Turns out it was rootbound... all these months and all its roots were still in the shape of the original pot! So, as soon as I dug it up, I stuck it in a bucket of water and let it sit there while I worked around the yard. It perked up almost instantly. By the time I came back to the bucket, less than an hour later, it was halfway back to normal. Seeing that it was rootbound, I worked in the water for awhile loosening up the roots and separating as many as I could. Then, I stuck it in the ground, filled the dirt back in, covered it with pine needles (both for the acid and to kill the weeds), and poured three buckets of water over it. Tada! Instant happy plant! There were still a few folded up leaves yesterday (I did this two days ago), but its all back to normal now. Yay!
A view of some of the zinnias. We're really starting to think that's sunflower, back there. Its getting really tall. It looks like it wants to be as tall as me before it blooms. Oh, and its growing fast. That's nasturtium way down at the bottom.
Our happy rose. This is the one we bought in a gallon pot when it was too tiny to hold up its flowers. Hee. Its missing a bunch of leaves, and a couple of stems, because I had to prune off some blackspot. Grrr. But its still doing pretty well, and its about three feet tall.
The hydrangea in front. There are three other hydrangeas, but none of them look interested in putting out flower. Mrr? Perhaps they're too young?
The mini rose is pleased that I pruned back the lindheimeri. It never had leaves as big as those on top before. And this is after I pruned off a bunch of blackspot. Go mini rose! I can't wait to see how big it gets! And maybe it'll bloom again! Squeee!
Here's the azalea. Its two to three times larger than when we bought it... it came in a quart sized pot, I think. I left the fence in the picture for scale. Anywho, it was happy happy grow grow for awhile, until last week. Then, suddenly, it went put. It folded up and dried up and shriveled in on itself. We thought maybe it was getting too much sun, so I dug it up and moved it to the back corner of the fence. Digging it up was too easy. Turns out it was rootbound... all these months and all its roots were still in the shape of the original pot! So, as soon as I dug it up, I stuck it in a bucket of water and let it sit there while I worked around the yard. It perked up almost instantly. By the time I came back to the bucket, less than an hour later, it was halfway back to normal. Seeing that it was rootbound, I worked in the water for awhile loosening up the roots and separating as many as I could. Then, I stuck it in the ground, filled the dirt back in, covered it with pine needles (both for the acid and to kill the weeds), and poured three buckets of water over it. Tada! Instant happy plant! There were still a few folded up leaves yesterday (I did this two days ago), but its all back to normal now. Yay!
A view of some of the zinnias. We're really starting to think that's sunflower, back there. Its getting really tall. It looks like it wants to be as tall as me before it blooms. Oh, and its growing fast. That's nasturtium way down at the bottom.
Our happy rose. This is the one we bought in a gallon pot when it was too tiny to hold up its flowers. Hee. Its missing a bunch of leaves, and a couple of stems, because I had to prune off some blackspot. Grrr. But its still doing pretty well, and its about three feet tall.
The hydrangea in front. There are three other hydrangeas, but none of them look interested in putting out flower. Mrr? Perhaps they're too young?
The mini rose is pleased that I pruned back the lindheimeri. It never had leaves as big as those on top before. And this is after I pruned off a bunch of blackspot. Go mini rose! I can't wait to see how big it gets! And maybe it'll bloom again! Squeee!
posted by Patrick and Melanie Zabawa at
8/17/2006 05:37:00 PM
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