You have some nice looking plants that you have been working with for the new house. I've never noticed that bark mulch helps with slugs or snails. Beer traps are supposed to work as a control (I don't drink beer don't have any to try traps with). At my old house I used Sluggo and it seemed to work well. All my hostas at this house are mulched with pea gravel. Although that doesn't kill them, or keep them entirely away, I don't get much damage. I am unsure if they just don't like the gravel (which is not sharp) or whether it is because the plants are in full afternoon sun so they stay drier above ground.
2 years ago these rhododendrons were pretty badly off from the excessive winter winds.They had never been like this since I've been here. Pictures taken May 2019. Order: from driveway, from mailbox, from road Last summer they were still in fairly rough shape - so much so that I didn't take any pictures and was still removing dead portions. This is the first year that they have been back to their former glory, and envy of the block. Pictures taken last night. Order: from porch, from driveway, from road, from mailbox.
Beautiful. I had an amount of freeze kill this past year. I pruned off the dead, brown branches and its doing fine. I also hand broadcast Holly Tone around the rhodis, azaleas, mountain laurel, and blueberry plants. It seems to work for me.
Wow bogieb , nice rebound! It looks as though the deer or woodchuck ate my yellow rose buds last night. They were about to open and were cut clean off. I'm ready to dig those out and give up on them. Something is eating the wildflower stems that are sprouting. Deer, woodchuck or rabbit. I moved three lupines from the meadow patch that I put in last year. Too wet and shaded. Really small. We stopped at a local garden shop and bought two more healthy lupines and put them in the septic patch. Lots of sun there. Also grabbed 2 echinacea plants for the septic patch. Mock orange in full bloom. Flebane should be open in a day or so. More cornflowers showing. It looks weedy, but they are mostly flowers here.
Wow! bogieb That really has come back spectacularly. fishingpol all my roses are behind fences as the deer strip them bare. Deer love tulips as well.
I left the "dead" until mid summer then started pruning branches that didn't show any signs of life. A lot of the "dead" put out new leaves and I left them. The next summer, some of those still struggled mightily, so I took them out. I don't remember doing anything other than that since I don't tend to fertilize anything (as you ca tell by the glimpses of the lawn. Also birds, bees and wasps are always in there, so I didn't want to disturb any of them. Last summer I did worry about how dry and droopy the leaves were getting and watered them occasionally during the drought. I was super surprised that they did this well after the challenges over the last couple of years.
Well that sux on the roses. I don't remember anything eating roses except the damm Japanese Beetles. Can you relocate them closer to the house to keep the deer away or are they too big to do that?
I can move them. They haven't grown much since planting them last year. I'll look around today and see if there is a good location.
We are back at the old house, these lily's fell over so the mrs. Cut them for the table vase. Beautiful specimens.
I know you know those are iris not lilies, you're just being tricky and seeing if anyone calls you on it, right?
