The cranberry hibiscus is in its second year and it is going wild. There are a
lot of flowers and calyxes and I'm gonna make some wonderful iced tea with these
flowers today. This is the vetch blooming and these are the flowers that just
knock my socks off. I love them, but I just noticed that there's a variation in
color and I haven't seen this before. I've only seen the lilac, but I see a few
here, and here. As you can see, I have not cut the vetch. So this is what I call a
twin and I did pollinate this one. The flower of this one was not open, so I
didn't pollinate that one and now you see, I don't think this can amount to
much at this point. I just spent about an hour and a half, two hours in the garden
working in the front, working on the tomatoes, and I thought let me just take
a quick look at the peppers. I sprayed them with kelp spray just a couple of
days ago, so they're looking very good, but just when you stand here for a while
you see little gnats flying around. Now it's already 10 o'clock so it's really
too late to do any spraying for bugs. And I have a lot of bees overhead in
the passion fruit. But I did take off a handful of leaves and this leaf concerned
me, and this leaf concerns me.
And looks like there's an aphid. Where there's trouble, there's always aphids.
Okay, that's all for now.
What am I going to do with all of those passion fruit? This is the latest
configuration on the container garden. My Amish paste tomato I moved to the front
yard. And this morning, I found a lot of aphids on one of these plants, and
there's another... I went through and I took off leaves and I sprayed... oh, shoot.
Every time you look there's something, but the squash has taken off
and I do have Tomatoes. I still don't know what this is but it may just be a 4
o'clock. Well all of these were sprayed this morning with a product called Green
Cure, which is basically baking soda and a little bit of dishwashing soap,
plant-based, to help with the aphids. I just spent about an hour on this
Parkway section watering my flowers, cleaning up the tomatoes, and look at
this. These are the cornflowers I saw in Germany and England and had to have, and
this is the Cerinthe, which is stunning. I've got the yarrow, Cosmos I grew from seed,
I've got the comfrey, zinnias, that is California fuchsia, sweet Annie, Lichnis
Viscaria. This tomato had a lot of nasty looking
leaves on it, but it's got a lot more so fingers crossed. This is California
goldenrod getting ready to bloom, and these are the the bulbs that Dotty and
I planted.. what were they? Starts with an A, from The Music Man. Help me out.
Zinnia, snapdragons are kind of in between, and that's it.
This is my worst looking tomato, however it has beautiful tomatoes on it. I've
taken off almost every leaf and it doesn't seem to be responding to
anything. So I have moved my Amish paste out here, which looks fabulous,
at the moment, and I'm gonna put it right over there. As soon as I take these
tomatoes off, this plant's coming out and I'm going to put the Amish paste in here.
This is the red crimson clover that has sprouted from a couple of weeks ago but
what's absolutely bonker's are these purple beans and I
can't wait to try them out. The walkway here has disappeared again because this
African blue basil just doesn't quit.
And here are my celery, 3 celery that I planted... oh, thank you,
raccoon! You dug up my celery. I just plowed through there and I asked
the bees to let me pass so that I could come over here and fix this. This whole
digging is from the raccoons, no doubt, so I'm going to tidy this up, put in some
coffee grounds, and more water. That looks a little bit neater and just give it
some coffee, make a little well. This soil is so dry
that it just runs off. Okay, better than it was.
Look what I just spotted coming out of the bean bed.
You guessed it, borage. Okay here we go.
That wasn't too bad. I turned on the irrigation and I was just checking this
area here and I discovered something wild that I haven't seen because it's
hidden. It's coming out of this pot where I had carrots and I believe it is a huge
carrot gone to seed, look.
I hadn't even noticed this and it's a whole big plant, and it's so tall, so long,
I guess because it was looking for the light. So I'm gonna get a stake and stake
that up. Now that I've got it all staked up I see that it's not carrot, it's
cilantro, coriander. This is a collection of California fuchsia, woodland strawberry,
which is California native, and I also have this ground cover here, which is a
California native, and it's very invasive. So it's all running together but it's
beautiful, because I can't grow any vegetables here. There's not enough Sun.
This is a California native blueberry. It's never made any blueberries, and
somebody trashed out this this fence last night, look at that.
So I've got to replace that.
Let's see if we've got any buds here on our... Oh!
Look what the goldfinches have done and I know this is the handiwork of
goldfinches. I saw one yesterday. It flew right over to my trellis not ten feet
away. And what do we have up here? Oh!
Following up on the climbing rose. I've had a lot of yellowing of leaves. I'm
hoping that it's just transplant shock and it's gonna start flowering again. Oh,
there's another bud. I have tried so hard to have good roses and something always
goes wrong with these heirloom roses. This is typical. This looks like mildew,
and they don't open. This has to be something specific, the way it dies back
like that and dries up, and these have no intention of opening either.
And I sprayed all these for mildew, but... Okay, Rose people, help me out. Oh! Just
look at this, that's really bad. In fact, I haven't
really had one good one yet. This one almost it almost made it. And look at my
new addition! My friend, Hazel, picked this up in Ventura County today.
This is French lavender and I just can't wait to find a place for this, and I
can't wait to dry these flowers and use it in my balm. Okay, here's your little
mini-tour of my garden, Saturday June 16th.