Ooops again…

I can’t find my little note with where I storage what so I don’t know if I dug all of them up or if someone is still down there in the backyard and it’s an awful awful mess there right now so it’s impossible to know. I look around a bit more and hopefully I will find the note, I don't want to leave anyone behind.

Yesterday

I was digging up the cuttings I had stored for the winter under the rhododendron (wow, I spelled it correctly!) and by the looks of it my azalea cutting has survived and looking well! No place to plant it but hey, a cute tiny little mini azalea is enough to put a smile on my face.

I did not remember to buy some rotting hormone though…

I only dug up one of my little storage places and mixed result. The things that looked very promising was, pampas grass and creeping baby’s breath. A tiny little thing was peeking up in a Physostegia Virginia but it could be something else. Anyway, placed them all in the greenhouse along with the cuttings and let’s see how it goes.

Check the dahlias in storage

Most of them (knock on wood) looked just fine but one thing is sure, the bigger they are the easier they are to store. Some of the smallest one, the ones I sewed last season, I doubt they will make it through the winter. This was the first time I check on them.

Arabian Night: 4 (all very nice)
Fantasia: 1 (very questionable due to size)
Unknown: 7 (five questionable)
Children of Oxford: (1 fine, 1 okay, 5 small and will most likely not make it)
Tomas A Edison: 2 (both looking nice)
Le Baron: 1(Nice)
My Love: 1 (ok) (There might be two, I put the one I think is a “My Love” in the same box and it looked nice too)
Lucky number seven: 1 (Nice)

I’m also trying to storage a small pot with tall verbena, looking questionable, gave them a little spray of water…

Turning off the radiator

Today I put my precious Amazon lilies (which I have named, I tend to do that with my potted plants, only two of the three lilies are named, Roberto Carlos, he’s the oldest and then Santiago Solari who’s a few years younger. If you know football you might see a pattern :p) and two pelargonium which I’m trying to store for the winter. The Amazon lilies need a cold period to bloom.

I turned down the radiator to one in my bedroom, it’s already pretty chili in my room and now I guess it will be cold. I should get a thermometer so I can see just how cold it gets. But if the pelargonim will live until spring and my lilies will bloom I’m okay with wearing hat and scarf indoors.

Tucking the little ones in for winter

By the Tea Corner
1 pampas grass (not really hardy here so keep your fingers crossed)
1 tall-verbena (not really hardy here so keep your fingers crossed)
3 feather grass
1 Molinia arundinacea
2 Physostegia virginia
1 Creeping baby’s breath
1 Verbena rigida (not really hardy here so keep your fingers crossed)
1 Perovskia

Let's hope they all survive the winter...