Weeds & Grass

Have you ever noticed how you clean the little weeds out of your garden, you plant your your cute little plants, you fertilize them, mulch them down, water them and those darn weeds grow faster that your plants.  I swear I think they come imbeded in the mulch.  When  you water they send those long, long roots down looking for your very fertile, cultivated soil and they plant themselves and create a weed system all tangled around your nice, cute little plants.  

Since I don't have much shade in my back garden I do my major gardening in the late afternoon when the sun is on it's way down.  I planted 3 new daylilies this evening, divided and replanted some ajuga and spent the rest of my time (an hour and a half) fighting with the weeds and grass.  

Well thanks for listening to that little rant.  It's just part of the garden but is entirely exasperating.  For the positive I got three of the daylilies down and the ajuga divided and down and I've got all my equipment set up and ready to start in the morning.  

Here's a couple of pics of my "Marsh Garden".  We had a wet, soggy area where the drains all seemed to lead.  Instead of building the entire area up I left the center to back area low so it would stay marshy. We have a camp down in Boothville (right before Venice, LA) and since it's a the tip of the boot of Louisiana there are a lot of marshes.  Harry dug up some marsh lilies, another white lily that I've yet to find a name for and some elephants ear and I planated them in this area.  I had a pirogue that a friend had built for me many years ago so I turned it upside down in the Marsh Garden and added a small concrete alligator and there is my marsh garden.  The front side which is higher is where the daylilies and ajuga are located along with a Sylvestri Date Palm, white irises and some new plantings of yellow Canna Lilies and Lily of the Nile.  I'll take more pics when things are in bloom.   Tomorrow I'll post pics of the East Citrus Garden.  

The Marsh Garden in April 2013.  The plant tower is for a Clematis that's makding a slow comeback from the winter.  

Newly planted Lily of the Nile and Canna Lilies.

May 2013 Newly planted daylilies on either side of plant  tower.

The area to the left of the plant tower was full of weeds..now clean and daylilies planted.

Good pic of the pirogue & alligator

Back side of the Marsh Garden with plants from the camp.

Been making a photo garden journal so when I get ready to transplant and divide daylilies, lily of the nile, etc.  I'll know which colors are located where.  I'm also trying to find out what daylilies I have and which ones passes away last summer while I was in Canada and the Southwest.

So here's my garden and how it's growing Spring, 2013.

Here are some April & May comparisons.  The Tickseed (Coreopsis), Vanilla Marigold, Melampodium are all coming up and blooming.  The varigated leaves of the Red King Humpert Canna Lilies are up and growing much better than they did in their previous area.  They normally don't bloom until July-August so we'll have to wait awhile for them.  Some caladium from two years ago are popping their heads up inbetween the Marigolds.  I had never seen this Vanilla variety before but them are spreading and blooming nicely.  The transplanted Drake Elm in the center seems to be over its  shock of transplant and adding new leaves.  Now if it will just thicken up a bit.  So that's it for garden at the entrance to the equipment area.  I'll take more pics this afternoon as I'm working in the Swamp Garden and the East Pool Garden.  Let me know your thoughts on my garden and I'll let you know when I have plants to share.

Lovies,
Ruth

May 2013 left side of entrance to equipment area

May 2013 right side of entrance to equipment area

May 2013 Entrance to equipment area

April 2013 Right side entrance to equipment area

April 2013 Left side entrance to equiupment area