In my original Garden binder I have
a lot of information on flowers, shrubs, and trees but only a little on vines, herbs,
and non-local plants. But it's a full binder and a long winter looking at
evergreens. I have suspected since the first snow I'd be looking up the names
of the local evergreens that I don't already know. I finally put it all
together, now I have a project that will take a while.
I don't talk about what my gardening binder looks like but
it's the pages from www.garden,org,
the National Gardening Association website, that I put in excel. I take
pictures either from their pages or from other pages based on the botanical
name and put them at the top of the page then put the common name and botanical
name under the picture. I copy the information from the webpage on that plant
under that. On the bottom I put the web page. I don't have all of the plants
but I choose which to include based on in my hardiness zone (6), interesting
names and/or familiar names and I only choose one or two of the same plant
(different botanical name) unless I am doing research. The two flowers below
are both Daylilies. My Mom has the top one but I have a soft spot for the one
on the bottom.
Hemerocallis Fulva
 I also have made notes on estimated preferred temperature ranges. There are many different Spruces and while I can tell if a tree is a Spruce or not I don’t know what type of Spruce it is yet. I will probably look into those things this winter. So to make room I expanded my Garden binder to be two binders. One is for flowers, shrubs and trees and the other binder is my winter project. It’s for vines, herbs, grasses, gourds, vegetables, fruits, non-local plants, and poisonous plants. I already had a few vines and learned something the other day when doing the herbs section, a lot of herbs and grasses are considered weeds.
something that should be an easy to
find reference. Luckily, there are only
the three commonly known: poison ivy,
poison oak, and poison sumac.
Poison Ivy and Poison oak are vines, something I
didn’t know before.
Poison sumac has more than the noted “three leaves” so it
was good to find
the reference that the telltale sign for poison sumac is a red
stem.
My mom plants basil and I learned a little more about basil care. I had to
laugh though because as much
as I know now how to tend it I also know
she won’t let me. She might not be
good at decorating and gardening but
it’s a sore spot for her that I am. I seek
her wise council sometimes but
there are just some things I’m better at. She
has never tended the Daylilies
but it’s better for them and for the appearance
of the front of the house if she
let me cut the leaves since they are long
dead. She refused to let me since she’s
never done that before. I love my
mother for many reasons but sometimes her
pride is outright frustrating!
included a section for lawn care and my garden
layouts. I separated that into
two small binders and now have one for Home
Improvement and the other for
everything garden and lawn. While doing that, I
realized exactly how big my
Forsythia will eventually grow. I can limit it’s
width a little to continue to have
room to move my chairs to the grass and back
but I won’t be able to always
have something in front of it. This weekend I
worked so hard on a backup plan
that I decided I will start it this year with
the exception of Spring since the bulbs
are already planted. However, bulbs
only last a year or two in this area, usually,
so some gardeners treat them as
annuals. That means in a couple of years Spring
will look like the below
layouts too. Now my only Forsythia concern is how to
always size it so we can
get the chairs through. That could take 20 years before
it’s a problem but you
know me, always thinking. Shrub stems come out of the
ground. For Forsythias,
the flowers occur on new growth. If I cut low enough on
the stems by the base
that will eventually be in the way my problem is solved. If
I do it as they
grow it will be easier to cut these stems. So far we’re only talking
one or
two. I took empty flowerpots from the garage so I know this will all fit as
laid out. Here are my new garden layouts that start this Summer.
It’s
been a fun project to build on and I’m happy it’s still a work in progress.
I also am happy to continue to be able to think about my garden. As for an all Winter every Winter thing, I like putting a facemask on sometimes and my skin gets dry so I decided to do mask and moisturizer to fill that time. I don’t need a lot of time filled. There isn’t a use in planning a project; they all seem to just come to me. I guess that’s the fun part. |
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