Welcome to Mary and Gary's Garden Diary for April
April 1st, was the intention but we didn't get the plants moved until the 16th. This year I bought 80 bags of ground wood mulch. The annuals are up and my garden helpers dug up and divided all the day lillies. I now have 4-double bin com[post containers. Right now, they contain only ground up leaf mulch.
The green house is left open as the low at night has been 44 degrees.
Things are changing daily but that's just April. The Snow Fountain Cherry
exploded over night and these little Tulips opened for an 85 degree
Saturday. Each day now, the color and variety of the blooms will be
getting better and better. Below-middle is our brand new Weeping Norway
Spruce.
We are battling large colonies of wasps the past 4 or 5 years. Each time we kill a nest, they relocate somewhere nearby.
With only volunteer help it is not likely to upgrade the structures. I want to add more brick to the path ways.
I couldn't pass up this Red Banana from Wilkes Nursery. The Marigolds in
the greenhouse are booming up a storm. Below is a Bonfire Euphorbia, our
babies we bought at the Spring Affair and an emerging Asiatic Lily.
Despite a cold, wet and dreary Spring everything is waking up.
The blooms are lagging but the textures are not. Here is a soft green
Larch and a prickly Hen's Chicks. Below the Crab and Pear's are
blooming some with an Emerald and Gold Euonymus between. Only four days
left, come on warm weather.
My last two pictures prove that Tulips dominated this years
April. It's still cold and persistently wet but barring any major cases of
root rot, our May pictures should be unbelievable. We will be planting
more than 25 new plants this year that we have never had before giving us
many future fabulous photos.
