Frank's Garden Talk

Monday, June 11, 2012

Gardner Lake pictures, Weekend of June 9th

Pink Deutzia

Not sure of the variety

Rose Campion

Mahonia

Random Pictures

Just some 'Pictures'

Updated Pictures from West Harrison

Butterfly weed which I all started from seed 5 years ago

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Louey T's Garden-Before and After

Here is a garden I worked on in the Spring.

I worked with the property owner Louie to make sure there was proper plant selection and placement.
Especially where his dogs like to urinate.
Picky Picky

It was fun and
Lou helped out a lot.

After

Random pictures of newly renovated yard

West Harrison, New York Garden Snapshots

Climbing Hydrangea up the street from my parents house.

Next 'Pictures' were taken in my parents yard.

We have some Torch Lilies, Maltese Cross and some Pink Silene.

Other plants waiting to bloom

Rose Campion in background center

Pink Silene

Will have seeds available mid-summer for anyone.

Good old Smoke Bush

Butterfly Weed with some Rose Campion, aka "a weed"

Monday, June 4, 2012

Deck Mania

Let the OCD kick in.

Never ending

Mostly all started from seed as well.

Staking Perennials/Shrubs

If you didn't stake any tall plants properly with all this rain, you already know that the damage is already done. You can still prop up those fallen or sagging plants.

I had some high growing Maltese Cross sag as well as my Pink Deutzia Shrubs flopping over.

Those are the only ones I had a problem with after all this rain. I staked everything else a couple of weeks ago in anticipation for this to happen from my past experiences.

I like to use green garden twine to make it inconspicuous. I use different methods with the twine and stakes.

I like to use natural stakes which I salvage from the trimming of larger shrubs in my garden. I also look for arrow wood viburnum shrubs which grow wild in my area. I will cut a few live straight branches from each plant without damaging it. They grow like weeds anyway.

These can be reused for a few years before they lose their strength.

I don't have any pictures on how to stake your plants it but its easy enough to figure out.

What I do with a sagging branch from a shrub is to find a stick long enough with a Y at the top and use that to prop up the branch. You can also tie back branches to a firm anchor of some sorts to get it to a more vertical position. Trial and error is the best method for what works for a specific plant.