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My garden is undergoing change due to our continuing drought (in our 4th year of drought). We have mandatory water conservation measures in effect, including how much water we are allocated per month, how often we may water the garden (3 times a week), when (odd or even days based on if your address is odd or even; before 9:00 a.m. and after 5:00 p.m.), for how long (10 minutes per station, if using sprinklers), etc.
I've more or less stopped watering the lawns, reduced watering frequency down to once or rarely, twice a week, planted succulents along the wall in the front, and have started replacing more of my plants with succulents. I used to have almost 100 rose bushes; now I am down to less than half and I discovered 3 more rose plants that are dying. I don't plan to replace them.
The gardener cleared out another flower bed last week. It used to be filled with geraniums, but now, just two plants are still alive (he left them in). I will probably plant more succulents there.
But all is not doom and gloom. On the positive side, the white agapanthus has started to bloom:
I used to have blue agapanthus, too, in the front garden, but, although agapanthus are considered drought tolerant and heat hardy, the front garden gets such strong afternoon sun, with the reduced watering, they died. These white agapanthus are in the back garden, where they get the morning sun and relative shade in the afternoon.
And there are two tiny peaches on my newly planted peach tree, which is not quite 4 feet high:
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| Peach #1 |
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There are little pomegranates forming on the pomegranate tree, too, but I didn't take a picture of them. Not all of them will grow to full size, as some will drop before they become bigger.
Do you have a garden? How is your garden coming along?
Hi, Bless! Remember me? I was CountryOrg on the GON forum. Your flowers are beautiful - even with the drought. So sad that you are losing your roses, but the new plants are lovely, too. Glad you're doing well!
ReplyDeleteCarolyn, of course I remember you! Lovely to hear from you. I'm sad, too, to lose the roses, but I am not able to give them the care they need. Temperatures, today, for example, are up to 108F! Plants require a lot of water when it is that hot. Thank you for stopping by and commenting. :)
DeleteThanks so much for visiting my blog and commenting! Would gladly send you some rain if I could. It's been dry here the past couple of days but we had over 20" last month - unheard of!
DeleteI heard about the rain on the news; glad you didn't have floods, though.
DeleteI don't have a garden, we could never get anything to grow here. My brother and parents purchased a bunch of land several months ago and they have a large garden growing as well as several fruit trees and other things. It used to be half cow pasture/half tobacco fields and owned by my grandparents. We'll get to help out and take food from there.
ReplyDeleteJess, that sounds nice - a family garden plot! And the part that was a cow pasture would already be nicely fertilized, too! :)
DeleteSo sorry about the drought and the roses..
ReplyDeleteI live in Ms.. , we are so blessed to be able to use water freely.. We have been having rain nearly every day.. We do have a vegetable garden planted..But, it hasn't grown very much [too wet].. The last couple days, the sun has been shining , so hopefully, we will be able to work in it soon. We usually are able to fill our deep freeze with vegetables [which is such a blessing and a help to the grocery bill]. We have several different type of fruit trees.. Last year the late freeze got all the fruit, but this year we have a good bit on there. Looking forward to that..
Have a blessed week. Judy
Judy, I hope you'll have lots of vegetables and fruit, this year. My garden flourished when my mother was alive as she took very good care of it (she loved to garden). I just don't have the time, with working, housework, crafts, etc. But I did spend an hour today, weeding.
DeleteI do my best to grow cherry tomatoes, two types of lettuce and pole beans on the patio. Our season is short and it's a battle with rabbits and various insects. Most years I have abundant hanging flower baskets but DH asked me to forgo these this year.
ReplyDeleteOur food costs are sky high this year; currency exchange rates are brutal.
Hon, I see all kinds of things grown in containers on various internet sites. Very inspiring. If you are growing some salad stuff and vegetables, that would help keep the grocery costs down.
DeleteVery sad about the Rose's, but the agapanthus are beautiful. And you also have peaches to pick?!? Green tinted, to my eye! 😉
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm now down to about 10 rose bushes! They are the ones that managed to survive. That particular peach tree got scorched during a hot summer (the following year, I believe). I replaced it with another peach tree which did really well, last summer - it had so many fruits that it bent over, completely, and we had to prop it up with slats of wood! I canned some of the peaches, made jam and chutney. I am hoping it will have another good crop, this year.
DeleteHow lovely. ("Rose's" was an auto-correct ... it's a chocolate brand here and my tablet doesn't seem to consider that I might be talking about flowers. Grrr.)
ReplyDeleteHa, ha, love those auto-correct errors! :D
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