Posted on November 1, 2009 by janedata
I just finished watering my front and back yards. The front looks fine, lawn is still green and my various bushes and plants are thriving. That’s the good news.
The bad news? My back yard had a combination of hits and misses.
The hits: Most of my roses (primarily hybrid tea) are standing strong (a few perished), [...]
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Posted on September 26, 2009 by janedata
It may be autumn, but don’t tell that to my Chinese flame tree. It’s all aflame with exquisitely beautiful paper lanterns! Many of the yellow flowers that preceded these paper lanterns have been replaced by these lanterns, though in my other Chinese flame tree, it has a bit more yellow flowers than lanterns, so a [...]
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Posted on August 29, 2009 by janedata
I can hardly believe it but it looks like one of my Nagami kumquat trees is fruiting! I purchased and planted this tree in the ground just four months ago. Click on the photo to get a detailed view of the tiny green globes dotting this petite tree! It was in flower a little over three weeks [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2009 by janedata
It would seem that the graftings of other varieties of pear tree to the primary “host” pear tree are thriving (this is a 3-in-1 tree, 3 varieties of pear). A friend wondered if these might be suckers of the host tree, but I’m suspecting not. Upon closer inspection of this sapling, the leaves of the host [...]
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Posted on August 2, 2009 by janedata
This was a bit unexpected since my Nagami kumquat tree sapling is a bit young, but I enjoy surprises such as this! Those of you who have grown citrus trees have known the sweet fragrance of these flowers in your garden. It gives me great pleasure to know that a few months after being transplanted from [...]
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Posted on July 25, 2009 by janedata
I’m guessing this is a baby palm tree, but it was not planted by me. Likely, a seed was dropped by a bird and landed in the soil and began to germinate. In any case, these particular trees sometimes appear in various parts of my garden and even between cracks in my cement patio. Right now, [...]
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Posted on June 28, 2009 by janedata
Following up on the last post, here is a photo of my mature dragon tree (aka Dracaena draco), branching. The beautiful branching habit of this incredible tree provides the structure for its dome-shaped canopy. Click on the photo to see how each earlier branch spawned at least 2 new branches, and so on!
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Posted on June 28, 2009 by janedata
It’s that time of the year again, when my beloved, mature dragon tree (aka Dracaena draco) is in flower. A few of these flower spike are now dotting this tree. Presumably, branching occurs when the tree flowers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_draco
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Posted on June 11, 2009 by janedata
One of my two 3-in1 pear trees is beginning to fruit, about 3 months after I planted them! Wow! This is really a nice surprise since both pear tree saplings did not show very many leaves or other activity. These two photos are of at least 3 fruits from the same one tree. My other pear tree sapling does [...]
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Posted on May 11, 2009 by janedata
Opportunities abound! Each initial seeming gardening “disaster” is an opportunity for me to learn and potentially expand my gardening universe! I recently planted my 2 Nagami kumquat tree into the ground. Today was unexpectedly very windy, and a sucker or shoot growing from the side of one of these trees snapped off.
Normally, suckers are removed since they can [...]
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