After a cool few weeks, the above-normal-temperature weather is back. It got to 80 yesterday. That seemed much warmer than 80 degrees will feel like in July. Windows have been open much of the week. Plants are going outside, trying to find the shade to avoid sunburn.
The garden is going into overdrive. There is just so much going on.
It has been a great season for daffodils. Cooler weather will do that. I will give you a daffodil show in just a bit.
In fact let us have another vote. Is anyone listening?
Before I get to voting and daffodils, let me show you several different white daisy like flowers, which were out in groups yesterday.
This is a nice clump of the special blootroot we have been selling for several weeks. Right below them, in the middle of the bottom of the picture, are two shoots of cypripedium orchids.
I got my 10,000 steps in the garden yesterday, which wore me down by the end of the day.
I potted up my first hosta. I will need to spray them this weekend. Deer will leave hosta alone while they are still just shoots emerging. But when they begin to unfurl, that it when they can be munched. I have a lot of hosta. Of course I have a lot of daylilies which is another deer favorite.
The jumbo caladium bulbs arrived on Thursday. There are 100 of them. Scott and I got the first 25 potted Thursday. I left work at 3 and came home and gardened. I potter another 25 yesterday. They are put in 2 quart containers, and get placed somewhere inside. They will not germinate unless the soil temperature gets to 65.
Daffodils
Let us have another vote
Let us see which you like from this group. Since I am somewhat challenged on daffodil names we will give them numbers,
#1 pink cup
#5 Orange ruffle
Other daffodils that are not in the poll this week.
#6 |
#7 |
#8 |
#9 |
#10 |
#11 |
Right Now
This is a hipatica. I have not had the best luck with hipatica. But I did get some nice little flowers this spring.
Julia's recipe
Salmon and oranges
Another simple and tasty thing to do with salmon. As I have probably said before, I did not have fresh salmon until maybe 10 or 15 years ago. I had been exposed once or twice in my younger days to canned salmon, and it turned me off the whole species. Canned tuna appeared often in my childhood, and I liked it. When I finally got around to fresh tuna, it was a (whole) nother thing. Then I liked them both. But not so with salmon. Anyway, this is a simple baked salmon with a nice orange-y glaze. Tasty and pretty.
Odds and Ends
No much went on in Iowa City this past week. As the world knows Catlin Clark finally lost.
Raygun had a t-shirt, or at least they said there was a t-shirt, that said something like
Catlin Clark lost.
The sun came out.
Then it was taken away.
When it comes back a billion bugs will rise.
I found another sign that the winter was mild. I found a parsley plant that over-wintered.
I saw a story this week that Greenland's gravity is weakening. I had not included this on the things to worry about.
I hesitate to look at the news these days. I do appreciate gardening all the more.
But we must put one step in front of the other.
Pray for peace, and for reconciliation.
Pray for kindness.
Pray to find the little ways to move out world to a better place.
Philip
2 comments:
Those daffodils! Wow. Hosts of golden ... plus hosts of not so golden but gorgeous nonetheless.
What must your garden look like upside-down? That is, looking up from underneath in an earth-side view? All those bulbs and roots and various sorts of hairy nodules extending down from the ... ceiling? While the tenant upstairs is traipsing around doing his 10,000 steps and keeping everybody in order.
Salmon and oranges are two of my favorite things. That dinner looks so good! I have a recipe for a side dish that consists of thin peeled rounds of orange, with tarragon and some kind of sweet liqueur, baked in the oven. A Thanksgiving sort of thing. Pretty and delicious.
The two of you are a bright spot in the wilderness. Keep doing what you do.
Pink cup #4 got my vote. Something about the lighting in the other photos seemed rather harsh to my eye this morning.
Salmon & orange sounds yummy, a fantastic change from the commonly used lemon.
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