The Tea Corner

I think I want some grass and poppies there. Sounds easy somehow, I’m sure it’s not and I’ll complain about something late but at the time it seems like a good idea.

Annual poppies and feather grass (stipa pennata). My feather grass does not look like that, I hope it will one day… mine are just a few straws. Picture found here.

Current plants at The Tea Corner
1. Poppies, annual and perennial
2. English Poppies (I don’t want them there and I’m removing them the moment I see them)
3. Aquilegia (removing them)
4. Tulips
5. Allium
6. Lavender
7. Bleeding heart
8. Climbing rose “Flammentanz”
9. Elephant grass (miscanthus)
10. Lily of the valley
11. Anemone nemorosa
12. Daisies (bellis perennis)
13. Peony (There should be but I haven’t seen it yet, have I killed it? That’s what I thought before and I bought a new one)
14. Iris
15. Scabiosa
16. Rudbeckia
17. Boxwood
18. Forget-me-not
19. Tiger lilies
20. Garlic

There could be more plants, what a horrible mixture of plants… I don’t like it at all but it’s become a place where I just plant things because I don’t have many flower beds. What are the colors here… red, pink, purple, blue, lavender, green, white, yellow, orange. Sometimes I just want to start over… but what would I do different if I started over?

I think I have some Stipa seeds so I'm off to plant them.

Updates and crappy pictures

Popcorn corn: Just because… (I planted my sweet corn just the other day and they looked very different from popcorn). They grow fast and I need to replant them soon. I still don't know where to plant them, not really...

(Corn)

Tomatoes: I like tomato plants because they smell so nice and they don’t give you any trouble. Well, they haven’t produced many tomatoes lately but other than that they are nice plants.

(Tomatoes)

Leek: Growing pretty good but how will these tiny little straws become leek? Guess we just have to wait and see. Don't know where to plant these either... I always do this.

(Leek)

Ginger: Growing kind of slowly but she’s making her way up. She's not much to look at but it's fun. I'll give her a bigger pot and I'll let her be outside during the summer and I'll see how she likes it.

(Ginger)

Basil: I have three pots of basil so I guess I have to make some pasta sauce along with the tomatoes and garlic this summer.

(Basil)

Garlic: I have some garlic that started to sprout (is that the word) and instead of throwing them I planted them in pots indoors so we’ll see what happens when I plant them outside later.

A few days ago

The dahlias started to peek up and today the sweet peas did too. I still have loads of seeds to sow… But hopefully it will be worth it.

Now we waiting to the poppies to grow, come on cuties, make mamma happy…

More sowing

Last year my Tall Verbena did not grow all that well. No flowers and the ones that I tried to store I think are dead. Have a few outside under a whole bunch of leaves and some in the flowerbeds but who knows if they will live or not. So I got more seeds this year and I’ll try three different methods. Keep your fingers crossed. Love the plant (at least in pictures)

(Picture found here)

What else did I sow? Blue Vervain, Common Vervain, False Dragonhead and Sweet Pea.

Grow little Sweet Pea, grow...

(Picture found here)

It’s growing!

(Tagetes)

Some of the seeds are peeking up. Tagetes, Ipomoea purpurea and Mauranthemum paludosum.

Yesterday and today

Yesterday: I check the dahlias again, no change since the last time I check them.

Today: I sowed lots of seeds, begonia, violets, dahlia, Mauranthemum paludosum, tagetes, Impatiens, bleeding heart, Japanese poppy, hairy poppy, Papaver lateritium, atlas poppy and Ipomoea purpurea.

Keep your fingers crossed now…

Today…

I planted three eryngiym planum pots and two pansies. Keep your fingers crossed.

Wolfs Bane

Planted two pots of Wolf’s Bane (aconitum napellus) on January 13. Let’s see if they feel like growing, keep your fingers crossed.

Wee!! Soon it’s sowtime!

I have to get organize (ha, what a joke!) and see what I need, not buy too much since I don’t have that much room. I want spring and I want it now!! I really do need to sit down and draw a plan on how to make room for all the plants, even if half of all the seeds I have will grow it’s going to be tough.

(I had been stupid and put my poppy seeds in a plastic container, bad idea… mold. Thank god I have more than I can sow.)

First one out to be sown is my Wolfs Bane. Supposed to be soon in January. If he doesn’t grow I will buy a plant! (I have no idea where to plant it…)

I should have put gift certificate at the seed companies on my wishlist, stupid me…

Didn’t plan for it but…

My dog ran into my azalea so instead of just throwing the branch I saved it for cuttings. No idea if it will work. I kept them all inside for a few days because I forgot about them (and it was raining) but today I finally got them into a pot, all by the edge of the pot (people say that’s good for cuttings) and all of them I used some rotting hormone on. Have to remember to buy some more of that in the spring…. I should make a spring list.

Today

Planted some poppies by the greenhouse, “Victoria Louise” and I still have a few pots left of her but not idea where to plant her so I will have to tuck her and all of her little friends in for winter and come up with something next season. I wonder how long it will take before they bloom… Maybe tiny little blossom next season? Let’s hope so. So that means that it was probably “Carneum” that I planted by the Tea Corner. (I’m very sloppy and I always lose track of what I plant where and so on.)

Took a few lavender cuttings and another yew, I used some rooting hormone on all of them. Even though I have several small plants of lavender everywhere and will most likely sow more next spring… why? Because I can I guess.

Yew cuttings

Got four yew cuttings from my little escapade. I scraped the stems a little before dipping them in some rooting hormone and them planted then in individual plastic pots. Now I have to wait until spring (or more) to see if they were a success.