How is your garden looking today?

That's awesome eoe. Are you sure it's not too late to do that though, considering your location? Haven't they already popped through the soil?

Such a beautiful picture, eoe. I especially like what you've done with containers -- I want to get into that more.

How can you tell that they're choking? (I have a bunch of hostas, some of them are BIG, not sure how to know when I need to do something about them.) (I don't think any of them are as big as yours, yet.)

Thanks. I'm very proud of my garden as it's my first, having lived in apartments all of my life.

Well, I sacrificed the hostas and planted them near ivy and it's a constant battle to keep the ivy from strangling them. They're about six years old now and one barely came up last year and was smaller than the others which indicated, to me, that it was being choked so I'll dig up the four on that one side, get out as much of the ivy roots as possible and replant. Divide and replant. The ones on the other side are big and lush and in need of division as well. The ivy isn't so intense on that side of the walkway.

Only the two lower plants are really peeking through. The others are just beginning to come up. I read that early spring is an okay time for dividing and replanting. Fall is best but it's not fatefully late yet.

beautiful picture, eoe. You should be fine as long as the leaves haven't uncurled.

Soz, many hostas never need to be divided and some of them are large leaf varieties that look big but aren't overgrown. What eoe describes (barely comes up and poorer performance than previous years) is the key.

These are flowers of Crassula portulacea in my house.

Hooray, neko, the first signs of spring! It won't be long before your garden is absolutely perfect again & Nekochan lives outside, in it, every day!

Beautiful picture, satt_fs. I still have the cherry bloosom picture from last year hanging by my computer.



Hehheh, I'm sure he can't wait to hide in the flower beds, msolga.

I think Neckochan is a she, J_B. (Isn't she pretty? ) And I'll bet she can't wait, either!

Nekochan was born to be a garden supervisor; already she's showing me where to set out plants by digging into spaces where more will fit.

This is not my garden of course, but we'll go now and visit
these flower fields that bloom every year in abundance and
are color coordinated.

Here is another picture of it

Next she'll be helping you choose the plants, neko! Catnip?

I took a panorama of my back yard this afternoon. This is early spring.


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I'm going to try and post more when plants grow and bloom.....

Early "bunnytime", k?

That's certainly a very interesting time of year, I agree! :wink:

darn, the pix didn't line up right...... oh well. Yes, bunnytime is good time..... <giggle>

Got the hostas divided and replanted.
My muscles are screaming at me but...

It's crocus time here.

It's Full-On Spring here. Dogwoods, azaleas, tulips and everything. It's gorgeous.

Cherry trees are starting to peak. Magnolias are in full bloom.....

Ah, spring!

<sigh>

Enjoy!

My little garden received a good drenching this afternoon. Despite the cooler temperatures here, it's still been quite dry so far this autumn. So now everything is looking rather pristine & sparkly after a good wash.

Soon I'll have to give my little mandarin tree (now 2 years old & growing in leaps & bounds!) a good feed of citrus food. This morning I noticed aphids on the new leaves, so hosed them off. (Aphids are such annoying parasites! )
I'm delighted my (3 year old) feijoa bush (also growing rapidly) is doing so well. Not a huge amount of fruit (first crop) but they were big & juicy! I'm very proud of my little garden. All my own work!