My single peonies bloom right after the tree peonies..I grow 4 types..all from seed!Years ago..This is Adrienne Clarkson.
I have some that look like fried eggs:) and some are peach with pink interior..
It takes yrs from seed I don't recommend it..they were actually seedlings..
The perennial poppies will pop next.I grow two kinds..the soft peach papery beauties and the shocking red ones..
My faves? Guess:)
I am looking forward to the ones that reseed..and the Shirley Grey ones..later;)
With all the fires way way north of us..and the Maritimes..
I am shy to complain.But we have never had a drought like this this early in the season.
The grass is jute in many areas and so sparse in others.
Perennials are shriveling..
I get excited when garden time arrives.. and I am gung ho.
My ho has left.
I need a lot of rain to see the gardens as pretty again.
That is a gardener talking.
Strictly thinking ..here and now..
When even people in NYC are suffering w/ the fires repercussions air quality wise.
Tis is however the first yr..that SOME roses have been so hardy..not due to the drought..winter must have had an effect..
And this is the first yr I have spotted garlic scapes already.
This is why we love it so..
I still have last yr's harvest left..many bulbs..
and look..
Look how fresh after almost 1 yr in our home.As you can see I removed the outer peel..on..you could not see the ind cloves..
It's still juicy..fragrant and pungent.
Looking forward to seeing this yr's:)
Anyway I LOVE growing garlic as you know:)
Have a good week..
Stay safe..
Those first radishes of the season are such a treat. Love your painting! Such beautiful irises and peonies. They lift our spirits, don't they? We had not had rain for weeks, and then yesterday we received two-tenths of an inch. Such a small shower, but it made a big difference. Everything looks revived. I hope and pray you get rain soon, Monique! It will come.
ReplyDeleteIt is unsettling weather in QC..lots of fires raging..Maritimes also.I can't continue to complain about my gardens..it's useless..and insignificant compared to everything.:( But I do love watching things grow and grow:)
DeleteYour single peony is interesting and your description so appropriate ...it does look like a fried egg!! Yes, our climate is changing. Today here it will be 73 which is perfect for me. No rain. Can't count the times I watered my balconville yesterday. Not complaining, it is my great joy. Have a good weekend.
ReplyDeleteI am so happy you have your beautiful Balconville!!
DeleteI loved so many of your comments M. Especially “My ho has left.” Made have a good laugh. I am away in Maine and I asked Larry if my poppy buds have opened yet. He doesn’t know! Makes me wonder how well he is looking after the garden.
ReplyDeleteGlad you got that;););):)Have a great weekend..LOL Larry..
DeleteGOOD MORNING!!! I almost said SUNSHINE, but you would be glad to waken to any clouds, I imagine. My back door opened to even more GREEEEN this morning---I swear, somehow we brought KUDZU seeds up here on our shoes or our tires, way back in the days we used to travel South to visit kinfolks. If you're not familiar with that particular Southern plant---originally to keep hillsides from eroding a century ago, I think, with its creeping fingers and grasping arms, it has taken over many a hill and dale all over the Southern states. Driving down the Interstate, you can see vast green tableaux where shapes of houses and barns and whole forests of trees have been engulfed into soft rolling quilts of green, like those tiny fabric fields and soft calico barns of a baby's quilt Do have a look sometime at the way the stuff spreads. Anyway, our yard is a great Green mass of trees and bushes and vines---I love the look of the draping grapevine, and the wisteria and the honeysuckle. Who knew there were honesuckle TREES? know our wonderful neighbors think these Southern folk will soon be putting out an old toilet of zinnias and a rusty Maytag on the lawn.
ReplyDeleteBut the sun was RED, with a ruby glint through the lowest trees just now, and that's a Sailor Take Warning, so maybe that's a harbinger for us all. I just commented yesterday to our HandyGuy that this has been the most beautiful April and May I can remember in all our thirty-three years since we moved to the Heartland. Our NJ son called yesterday to see if we were "getting smoke." He had driven through it getting the little ones from school, and some sections were just low clouds over the roads. I'm so sorry this is happening to your wonderful forests and farmlands---I've visited Canada only twice---both to the Falls and back across to London and down MI to home.
But my all-my-life imaginings make it green, so vast and green and new that it's a whole 'nother world up there, with the scent of pine and wintergreen and huge meadows of blowing flowers (Summer Camp with a lake-swim before breakfast and canoeing for hours de rigueur, along with sleeping porches and cooking the trout we'd just caught). I pray rain for your wide spaces and beautiful vistas, your people safe and your beautiful GREEN left unharmed and restored. I know you'll stand out in it, without your umbrella. Now THAT would make a painting to remember.
I had to Google Kudzu.I have heard of it but wanted to SEE...NJ is having a very rough time air quality wise due to the fires..Heartland..love that word Rachel.Rusty Maytag and the toilet lol..When you say Heartland..which particular state? Did I miss that..?You go through Michigan?Ive met so many Heartlanders in Fl:)Those days are over..but I did:)Mostly Michigan.We did have rain:) Not enough but some.I do have a photo f myself in Provence w/ an umbrella..had to ask J..he's not a picture taker.:)Have a great weekend ..Authoress par excellence:)
DeleteIndiana is our thirty-three-year home, after a whole lifetime in the Mississippi Delta (thus the kudzu familiarity). We're in a teeny-town engulfed by Indianapolis, close enough to downtown for the Opera and Symphony, and removed enough to hear a High School Band and cheers of Friday Night Football through our Fall windows. Still wishing you rain and clear sunny days to come.
DeleteIndiana:) Thank you.
DeleteBeautiful radishes both painted & shot ! I Love radis ❤️ PB
ReplyDeleteMerci..oui je sais que tu aimes les radis..les cerises..les fraises:)
DeleteThings are coming sooner than usually here also with the heat and dry weather! I checked the weather for your vicinity and it looks like you might get lucky, rainwise. Fingers crossed. We got a good rain shower Tuesday morning but things were already dry the next day. Your radish painting is charming! You really should frame that and hang it in your kitchen. ♥ Many of my irises have already come and gone in the hot dry weather ;( You made me laugh at my "Ho" is gone too - LOL! Even though it's not really funny you find humor in it. How I wish I could store garlic like you do! You've given me suggestions and nothing has worked so far. Now, I have tons of dill and cucumber seedlings growing where I would have planted garlic. All is good. I'm watching out my little office window a hungry deer munch on my hosta as I type this! Some plants only have stalk left. OY.
ReplyDeleteI found a tip for our plentiful dill!Cut..clean..dry..chop.sprinkle with salt...put in a mason jar apparently keeps all year! Can you imagine? Google it..The people swear by it.We did get a good little shower but honestly it's just passing clouds with risks of showers:(Need more..Honestly I was just out there for a tour of duty not pleasure.Oh no Bambi!!!
DeleteWhat a great idea! I will definitely try it! I love dill and plan on using lots on my cucumbers when they arrive. Also in chicken soup, yum! :) Bad Bambi - LOL. When my daylilies start to bloom I have to spray with 'Deer Fence' otherwise I won't have one flower left.
DeleteWe will both be trying the dill..the first rose chafer appeared.Holy heck.
DeleteOnly in our younger years could we grow peonies from seed. I think it takes 3 years to germinate, if I remember correctly. That makes growing hellebores from seed quick. But they are beautiful. I can’t believe how fresh your garlic looks too. My roses are in bloom and no Japanese beetles. Are you lucky enough to have escaped your rose chafers (that’s the name right?).
ReplyDeleteGreat memory..sometimes I think I have lucked out with the chafers and boom..They fly in:( Only a few roses are blooming..we have been having that weather that threatens rain..but never arrives:( Pour for heavens sake..pour...Everywhere except flooded areas.But drown those fires..and re awaken the gardens.
DeleteI’m on Vancouver Island and the mountain outside our town is on fire,. The debris has slid onto the hwy and we are cut off. The fire is out of control and it’s too hot for the geotechsto assess if the slopes are stable. Not a great summer for us.
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side my Hardy Geraniums are magnificent.
DeleteI am so sorry for you..we follow the news ..we see the horror...Meanwhile US and French firemen have arrived here to help.I hope you get help also.You're an optimist.You found the bright side:) Take care...
DeleteI'm so sorry this is happening to you! What a convergence of mishaps and damage---a burning mountain would be a fearsome thing to behold. And you're marooned? No exit at all? I do hope it means just cut off from a part of your island, and not from flight if need be. Prayers and all safe wishes from the Heartland.
DeleteLove your radishes!…and irises! My hydrangeas are going crazy, so big and pretty…wish they would not bloom all at once…a bit too early this year. My roses look spent…wish I could grow peonies…oh well, keep trying…I’m gung ho also…but like you, my ho is wavering quickly….happy weekend. xo, V.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha:)And you see the lack of rain has made our hydrangeas so very slow..uncannily however my Blue one will have it's greatest year:0 Have a great weekend!
DeleteWonderful radishes, a pleasure seeing your garden flourish. So sorry about the drought. I hope you get rain soon.
ReplyDeleteMe too..have a great weekend!
DeleteWhat a beautiful post! And I love your painting of the radishes. We didn't plant any this year -- maybe in the fall. I've thought of you often with the fires. Fortunately, not in the path, but we are feeling the effects of the air quality here in Michigan so I'm sure it has been far worse in QC. And we, too, are on about our 23rd day of no rain. They are predicting some for today and the temp has dropped -- but it has yet to arrive and I begin to wonder if it will -- or if it will be enough. It's always something. Your blooms, garlic -- ravishing!
ReplyDeleteYou are right..it is always something;) Air quality is fine here..need rain..supposed to come tomorrow:)Fingers crossed!! They do prefer cool weather these radishes..I panted others..not so stellar;) Have a great week!
DeleteWow your garlic looks so fresh even a year later! Your iris's are gorgeous. And your peonies, chive blossoms, etc. Your garden is thriving hot weather or no. Our weather is all up the chute I think. Warmer winters, hot, almost unbearable summers. Drought. Many have lost their homes here to the fires. Thankfully here in the Valley we have been protected from most of it, even the smoke. The winds have carried it elsewhere. We live in a bit of a microclimate here in our little valley. We don't get the bad weather, etc. that they get elsewhere. We are protected by two mountains. Mom always said that the valley was her little piece of heaven on earth. xoxo
ReplyDeleteI thought you might be nestled in a micro climate..How wonderful:)Her little piece of heaven:) Lovee that Marie.xo
ReplyDeleteThe peonies are so pretty. Did you grow the radishes too? I love the painting of them. :)
ReplyDeleteLove the pink-lavender iris with its frilly edges. My husband complains about the horrible garlic available at the market. Small cloves that once you take off their papery coat are shriveled and brown...nothing like yours. Karen (Back Road Journal)
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