This past week has been beautiful. Azaleas are blooming everywhere, the mornings are cool, and blue skies throughout the day. With everything growing so well, I find myself with lots of questions. I've been reading a lot about plants online, checked out some books from the library, and bought a couple books off Amazon that I know I want around as references. Here are some books that I have enjoyed.
These books have been helping me get ideas for my vegetable garden and with identifying which plants I can take cuttings from. I've also been starting a lot of random seeds lately. One example is Red Maple seedlings from seeds I've found around my yard. I also plan on taking some Japanese Maple cuttings from a tree at work during the early summer.
I emailed my locate agriculture extension today asking about the Wisteria blooming around town. I'm not sure if it's native American Wisteria or highly invasive Chinese Wisteria. I'd love to start some native cuttings and plant them around my ditch.
Here's what's going on around my yard:
Yellow prolific straight-neck squash about to bloom
Very healthy Red Potatoes and tomato seedlings
Seven sister rose bushes growing rapidly and starting another bloom (last week I wrote about how I start these from cuttings)
Day lilies starting to bloom
Neighbor's amaryllis by their mailbox
Giant swallowtail butterfly on our massive dianthus
This Eastern Redbud was a stick for months
Bald cypress growing needles
I found this 3 gallon Coral Honeysuckle in a "make offer" section of a local garden center. Hope I can get it to bring in some hummingbirds.
And our male bluebird catching bugs for his babies...
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