• my place
  • the rural story
  • gardening tips
  • using garden tools
  • Privacy Policy
  • Join Me

    • Facebook
    • Pinterest
    • RSS
    • Twitter
    • YouTube

Home Garden Companion

Ilona's Garden Journal

  • Plant Library On The Journal
    • All Season Garden Color
    • Sitemap
  • Garden chores
    • Essential Garden Tools For Beginners
    • Garden Tips and Advice
  • Ilona’s Garden Home
    • Old House Blog
    • Garden Librarian
  • Ilona’s Garden Flavor Shop

Seasons

Extreme 2007

That is how I am beginning to think of this gardening year: XTreme. Today it is around 90° That means I need to water the containers more attentively and be very careful about new plants and seedlings. Of course, a lot of hot weather is ideal for weeding- everything that you root up dies.

I do not like how some of my trees and bushes look- at all! They are recovering very slowly from the late frost damage, and I am probably going to do some severe pruning soon. But maybe not, I hate to have to prune something unless it absolutely needs it. The pyracantha that absolutely needs it- but not because of damage, it is just much too bushy. I planted it in a protected spot and the severest cold results in no more than leaf loss. It is, however, swamping the window and the electric meter. I like to give it an architectural pruning when I can- although I come away looking like I got into the middle of the mother of all cat fights. I seem to remember an old Hayley Mills movie with a mob of cats in some ruins… like I went into the midst of that place!

But it must be done. I tried weeding yesterday, but ended up with what seemed like an allergic fit- I have no idea what caused that! I didn’t see any farmers out spraying, so I don’t know what the problem was…

The corn hereabouts is sprouting nicely, but the doom-sayers might have been right about the hot and droughty summer being hard on the corn crop. Everything went in late and it is already very hot. But Ohio changes- so we will see. It sure seems like summer is coming now, though. Now that I’ve said that, it will probably cause some sort of cold front to blow in… just to make a liar out of me.

I meant to go to buy some garden plants, but went to Curves™ and got my exercise in instead. Tomorrow, tomorrow- there is always tomorrow. It did cost me to take time out of the central growing season to go on vacation, though. But the exercise program is paying off in enabling me to work more readily.

Oh yes… in the stream of thinking about positives. The sour cherry doesn’t look like it will recover, but it has a strong scuptural quality – so I am going to prepare ground for a clematis to grow on it- shades of English Garden Design-whoopee! I am almost glad it didn’t make it. I just have to decide which clematis cultivar I want ….

Technorati Tags: garden chores,

Blogroll Me!

Share this:

  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)

Related


« Next year: The Lilac Festival
Once Upon A Time: the lavender walk »

Oh, hi there!

I was a garden blog pioneer, and began writing on this blog in 2003. Before that I had begun a garden website that has been at its own domain since 2006, Ilona's Garden.

I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

Mission

Finding your way home via the garden path

Portrait of a Gardener

gardener musings

Musings

What’s Wrong With Today’s Gardening?

Modern gardening

What Is Wrong?

Garden Journal

fine garden journal

Journal, Planner and Log Book

Newest Postings Here

  • Deals from Amazon
  • Hawaiian Flower Arrangements
  • HELLLOOOO, From The Other Side
  • February Gardening, Last of Winter in the Flower Garden
  • Compilation of Past Mini-Posts of 2003
buy quality plants

On Facebook

On Facebook

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Standouts

10 Useful Gardening Tips For Spring

You might also like

seeds

National Seed Swap Day in January

Garden advice

What Makes a Low Maintenance Garden?

Create A Child’s Garden, Grow Love For Nature

Growing Indoor Flowers In December

I Found Out About “She Sheds” And Coincidentally, About Friends

Top Posts & Pages

  • Mugo Pines: When to Trim and Prune
  • Flowers that Monet Grew In Giverny
  • Grandma Can Make Fairy Houses From Forest Finds
  • A Little Something For You: Garden Journal Template
  • St. Francis Joke All About Gardens
  • How To Grow Lavender For Its Heavenly Scent
  • Pruning Your Mugo Pine
  • Scrapbooking Garden Journal
  • Furnishing Grandma's Fairy House
  • Old Fashioned Gardening

Past Posts

ilonagarden

Instagram post 17959863785360234 Instagram post 17959863785360234
Instagram post 17989258745013455 Instagram post 17989258745013455
Instagram post 17976222752103831 Instagram post 17976222752103831
Instagram post 18056018824416584 Instagram post 18056018824416584
Instagram post 18335731483076224 Instagram post 18335731483076224
Instagram post 17977547744261532 Instagram post 17977547744261532
#atlanta #beautiful day☀️ #atlanta #beautiful day☀️
#atlanta #chattahoocheeriver #atlanta #chattahoocheeriver
Load More... Follow on Instagram

Copyright © 2023 · Part of Ilona’s Garden by Ilona Erwin

Copyright © 2023 · Ilona's Garden Journal