Garden Tour
Oct. 3rd, 2009 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billeylerWe're a couple of weeks from the first frosts. The mornings are cool and crisp, but not really cold. The days are in the mild 70s. Fall is definitely here, with the cottonwood showing yellow splashed all through it. The Russian Olive is quickly losing it's plentiful little leaves. But in spite of that, the garden is rolling through a last bloom for me.
A newer little patch I've started with Valerian (a weed here), a red-hot poker, and some holly hock. The Valerian blooms for months at a time.
Iceberg roses are one of my garden favorites. Usually a climber, I have several bushes scattered in a row in the upper terrace in a shady area free-growing where it thrives happily with Oregon Mountain Holly. And it does thrive; I have to cut it back several times a year.
Definitely late to bloom this year, I put these marigolds in the upper planter part of my Tomato Tower. They're performing much better than the tomatoes, which are going limp again.
I've had this neon plant for a number of years now. It seems to favor the late summer and fall for blooming.
The hollyhocks were spent months ago, but there are a couple in moist areas that seem to keep on going as dwarfs.
Texas sage that I've had to cut back a couple of times. The four o-clocks are spread all around it that are trying to drown it out, but this sage is still proudly persevering.
I'm getting bad on names. These two heavy bloomers (Russian Sage and something else) are prolific here in Albuquerque. You see them in nearly every Xeriscaped garden. Bees love em.
Again, bad on names, but this rose color is luscious. After I cut the Russian Olive tree down this winter, these roses should start performing more prolificly.
Another of my fave rose colors, again, with a forgotten name. It's too shaded to do well all year long.
After my tomato tower experiment looked like it was failing badly, Danny bought me a couple more plants I put out in the garden. Must have been very late, because they grew slowly, but this one is a little bush with over a dozen tomatoes waiting to ripen. It might happen before the frosts.
I'm not very successful in getting rid of the Virginia Creeper that volunteers everywhere here, but I have trained a bit of it on the back wall and fence behind the pyracantha. For a few days, it gives us a red color then it's gone back to the bare vine.
A view of the kingdom from the back deck. Decided the Russian Olive I planted on the 2nd level of the terrace some 13 years ago has to go. Too much shade and too much debris. I've got the mower out for the last mow of my lawnlet.
A newer little patch I've started with Valerian (a weed here), a red-hot poker, and some holly hock. The Valerian blooms for months at a time.
Iceberg roses are one of my garden favorites. Usually a climber, I have several bushes scattered in a row in the upper terrace in a shady area free-growing where it thrives happily with Oregon Mountain Holly. And it does thrive; I have to cut it back several times a year.
Definitely late to bloom this year, I put these marigolds in the upper planter part of my Tomato Tower. They're performing much better than the tomatoes, which are going limp again.
I've had this neon plant for a number of years now. It seems to favor the late summer and fall for blooming.
The hollyhocks were spent months ago, but there are a couple in moist areas that seem to keep on going as dwarfs.
Texas sage that I've had to cut back a couple of times. The four o-clocks are spread all around it that are trying to drown it out, but this sage is still proudly persevering.
I'm getting bad on names. These two heavy bloomers (Russian Sage and something else) are prolific here in Albuquerque. You see them in nearly every Xeriscaped garden. Bees love em.
Again, bad on names, but this rose color is luscious. After I cut the Russian Olive tree down this winter, these roses should start performing more prolificly.
Another of my fave rose colors, again, with a forgotten name. It's too shaded to do well all year long.
After my tomato tower experiment looked like it was failing badly, Danny bought me a couple more plants I put out in the garden. Must have been very late, because they grew slowly, but this one is a little bush with over a dozen tomatoes waiting to ripen. It might happen before the frosts.
I'm not very successful in getting rid of the Virginia Creeper that volunteers everywhere here, but I have trained a bit of it on the back wall and fence behind the pyracantha. For a few days, it gives us a red color then it's gone back to the bare vine.
A view of the kingdom from the back deck. Decided the Russian Olive I planted on the 2nd level of the terrace some 13 years ago has to go. Too much shade and too much debris. I've got the mower out for the last mow of my lawnlet.
