a garden grows on booker street
my garden has been flourishing these last few weeks. we've finally started to overcome the rain deficit and the weather has been lovely and mild. spring time in the 'ville is truly gorgeous, when it sticks around for a while. as a result of the last month's climatic perfection, most of my garden glories have emerged from their winter slumbers. thought i would give you an update on what's growin' on.
i uprooted a number of poorly-located rose bushes in the fall of 2005. all but one weathered the disruption of the transplant ahd the winter, and of those, only one is not in bud. i currently have a gorgeous salmony-pink tea rose in bloom. it looks alot like this one called leaping salmon.
i have an amazing white rose - not sure what variety - that is covered, absolutely covered, in blooms. the blooms are unlike tea roses, which are the classic roses, in that they are very loose and amorphous. the petals have little or no strength in them, so when fully open they are very droopy. it's obviously an old garden variety like this one, called frau karl drushki.
i have been transplanting a number of wee clematis paniculata vines along our chain link fence. as you long-time readers may recall, my garden is a veritable oasis of this wild clematis variety. the transplanting and training along the fence worked wonders last summer and fall for concealing the ugly chain links in clouds of green tendrils and thousands of tiny white stars. just like this!
my elephant ears have multiplied (naughty elephants!) and they are slowly emerging from the mulch and unfurling their enormous leaves. i have tried to infill the spaces between the sprouts with wild cranesbill geranium, like this. you know i adore geraniums, of all varieties.
my next project is to root prune two very large flowering quince shrubs, so that i can transplant them to pots or different spots in the garden. flowering quince is my favorite shrub, and i can't believe i was so lucky to find a house with three mature specimen. for that matter, could i have gotten any more lucky with all the variety of plants i inherited from the cary family. a garden grows on booker street, for sure.
posted by bls @ 2:11 PM
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