Honestly, it seems more like summer than winter! We’ve had so many bright, sunny days in a row, I’m not sure what to make of all of the blue sky. Today was another planting, organizing day, with some mowing and pruning thrown in for good measure.
I started by planting a flat of seeds–sand verbena (abronia), verbena rigida, agastache, peach leaved bellflowers, calendulas, Shirley poppies, prickly poppies (argemone) and others.
Once the seeds were in, I moved onto some cuttings–I took a total of 18 cuttings, 6 of each kind of clematis in the garden. I’ve had success with these early spring cuttings in the past, so thought I’d try it again. I just cut some branches from the clematis vines that were showing bud growth, trimmed each growing bud down with just a bit of vine, dipped them in hormone powder and stuck them in some good potting mix and watered well. Here’s what the tray looked like:
The greenhouse had to be reorganized in order to allow for what I am hoping will be a spectacular clivia show in the next few weeks. This was the perfect day to pull everything from the greenhouse floor and rearrange with the clivias front and center. It was intensely fun digging through the plants and discovering all the clivia spikes. I counted a total of 20 spikes in all, which is probably twice as many bloom spikes as I’ve ever had in previous years. Many more of the seedlings, including the variegated ones and the Light of Buddha seedling that I’ve had for many years, are finally blooming size.
And here is the fully rearranged greenhouse with all of the spiking clivias front and center:
Here are some blooming things around the greenhouse and garden:
