https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:03:27 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1677195 Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:27:25 +0000 JAileen 1677195@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Here are a few new pictures:<br /> 1-2. The path by the house is lined with lavender. They are meeting from either side. You can't have too much lavender.<br /> 3. Peaches are starting to grow. We get peaches about every other year. If we have a late frost, you can kiss them goodbye.<br /> 4. Tomato plant. We had them in WallsOWater until the chance of frost was past.<br /> 5. Squash plant, with volunteer parsley. Parsley, arugula, and Greek oregano are among our "weeds." I hate Greek oregano with a passion.<br /> 6. Strawberries. They usually don't make it into the house.. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1672906 Sat, 04 Jun 2016 02:46:21 +0000 JAileen 1672906@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks, Donna!</p> <p>Carla, what I know about orchids is not very much! I do have some orchid fertilizer. It's a liquid that you dilute even further. I don't use it very often. I water them about once a week. I don't know how much, but I water until it comes out the bottom. Mine are from the nursery, the grocery store, and a wedding. I've been told repotting them is tricky. So I've never done it. This I know: don't cut down the vertical stem after the blooms have dropped off. I have one that has put out flowers more than six times, putting out a horizontal stem at a lower part on the vertical stem each time. I do think light is important. I used to have them in the bathroom but they seem happier near this east facing window. They keep surprising me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1672889 Sat, 04 Jun 2016 02:10:41 +0000 Carla 1672889@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You will have to advise me on orchid care, JAileen. My grocery store orchids are still throwing sprays of flowers 3 full months after I brought them home. I'm just giving then 1/4 to 1/2 cup water every weekend. Seems pretty low maintenance at this point. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1672881 Sat, 04 Jun 2016 01:54:51 +0000 MTBGirl 1672881@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh sweet! That is so neat! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1672845 Sat, 04 Jun 2016 00:32:33 +0000 JAileen 1672845@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Donna, here's another picture. It's hard to photograph, with the white background. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1672777 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 23:20:19 +0000 MTBGirl 1672777@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's awesome JAileen. It kinda looks like a jalapeno! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1669924 Tue, 31 May 2016 02:35:23 +0000 JAileen 1669924@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Anna, your container garden is very pretty! Is that the lavender in the corner? I've never seen one pruned like that. I love lavender and have a lot in the backyard.</p> <p>I noticed a blessed event the other day: my orchid is having a baby! I had to google it to learn what was going on. I had thought about cutting off the dead stems. I'm glad I didn't! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1669909 Tue, 31 May 2016 02:13:15 +0000 rachylou 1669909@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ooh, lovely, Anna. Everything looks full. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1669859 Tue, 31 May 2016 00:57:13 +0000 annagybe 1669859@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My deck. I had some survivors from last year. Including a miniature rose that I bought from Trader Joe's as a tiny 2" thing &amp; a lavender bush.<br /> I know geraniums do well.<br /> New plants are a purple daisy thing. African daisies aren't doing as well I expected. Carnations, I was initially over watering because I forgot to pull plugs on container, hopefully they'll recover<br /> ETA I need to work on the whole layering &amp; level thing in containers, where's there's different interests at different heights </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1669789 Mon, 30 May 2016 21:11:57 +0000 JAileen 1669789@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Donna - wow - I've never seen such a large Johnny Jumpup plant! Your tomatoes are a lot further along than ours. We planted ours two weeks ago and some are still quite small. Your garden is really pretty!</p> <p>ETA: I love that you started a maple from seed. We have an oak that we started from an acorn. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1669661 Mon, 30 May 2016 17:07:15 +0000 rachylou 1669661@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Your plants are looking good, Donna! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1669619 Mon, 30 May 2016 14:50:58 +0000 MTBGirl 1669619@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I thoroughly enjoyed reading about and seeing everyone's garden pictures! I went out and took some pictures of my own which I haven't thought to do for awhile, so thanks J'Aileen!<br />1 - Peony (this is its second round of blooming)<br />2 - Lush ferns<br />3 - Maple we started from seed<br />4 - Coreopsis<br />5 - Succulents<br />6 - Hops<br />7 - Oregano, Sage and Geranium baby in an area we are working on<br />8 - Tomatoes<br />9 - Johnny Jumpups!<br />10 - Shady spot</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1669403 Sun, 29 May 2016 23:43:25 +0000 Ledonna N. 1669403@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no Runcarla I'm so sorry.. I hope the thingy keeps the rabbit out. If it makes you feel any better a squirrel chewed threw the wires of my engine block and created 400$ worth of damage. To my old car.</p> <p>Jaileen. I'm not sure it looked like a wedding party. Her dress was so so pretty </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1669297 Sun, 29 May 2016 19:21:14 +0000 JAileen 1669297@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Carla, I'm so sorry about your rose. If the tent doesn't work, try a terrier. They're very tenacious. Your garden is lovely. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1669220 Sun, 29 May 2016 16:30:22 +0000 Carla 1669220@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I could just cry (but went shopping instead). A rabbit ate half of my most promising new climbing rose! I have trimmed it, and built a Rachylou style tent over top to protect it. Something is getting the columbines as well. Could be slugs. </p> <p>Got quite a bit of work done during my stay-cation, but not as much as I wanted to due to a last minute, week-long visit from my mom.</p> <p>Pics below - work in progress... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1669106 Sun, 29 May 2016 13:30:37 +0000 JAileen 1669106@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ledonna, is she having a Quinceañera? Her dress does look like a flower! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1669049 Sun, 29 May 2016 08:47:34 +0000 Ledonna N. 1669049@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't have a garden but I love taking the pictures when I see something lovely, thank you all for sharing your view.</p> <p>This was my view in Chicago Grant Park yesterday. I thought the young lady looked like some kind of exotic flower. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1668992 Sun, 29 May 2016 04:34:51 +0000 rachylou 1668992@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I will testify to that </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1668782 Sat, 28 May 2016 15:23:55 +0000 JAileen 1668782@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachy, Chris, one thing I've noticed about the more diehard gardeners, such as the 86 YO master gardener who lives next door, is that they often delight in reusing, repurposing, recycling odds and ends for their purposes. I do this too at times. The more creative and cheaper the better. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1668751 Sat, 28 May 2016 14:15:49 +0000 Chris987 1668751@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hey, gardening does not have to be perfect. If the hippie fence keeps the critters out, then I'd say go with it if it keeps peace with your mom </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1668744 Sat, 28 May 2016 14:04:17 +0000 Chris987 1668744@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just beautiful ummlila such lovely colors! Yeah I sympathize about ants on peonies but I always wondered if they really do any damage. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1668660 Sat, 28 May 2016 09:06:02 +0000 rachylou 1668660@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Please notice the netting my mum just threw over the tomatoes, making it so I have to crab walk inside this fence.</p> <p>I rebelled and put a hinged gate with a latch on the hippie fence...Does anyone else suffer like this? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1668659 Sat, 28 May 2016 09:01:40 +0000 rachylou 1668659@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>October, we are normally hitting super hot weather - 'Indian Summer.' I fear what it will be like this year...</p> <p>But ohmigosh. Can I say a word about critters and hippies? We have deer (and skunks and a scrub jay and raccoons). And although my mum is not a hippie proper herself, the dominant culture cannot be resisted. She gave me some sad garden stakes and told me to build a fence with them and complained about my trying to cross-brace the whole time. Felt fence building should take only 30 minutes or so. I have taken a pic in the dark for y'all of this sad, sad hippie deer fence. I should be embarrassed to show y'all, but I want everyone to feel my pain, lol. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures/page/2#post-1668609 Sat, 28 May 2016 03:55:58 +0000 JAileen 1668609@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Brie, yes, I live out west. We get gusty winds every afternoon in summer. Everything gets beat up and dried out. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures#post-1668590 Sat, 28 May 2016 03:19:15 +0000 BrieN 1668590@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>UmmLila--why would you spray the ants? I was told they didn't hurt the peonies at all..? Huh. Also your beautiful flowers are making me wonder why I never plant dahlias--they are beautiful and a long time love of mine. Hmmm</p> <p>Chris ( and everyone with veggie gardens) I hear you about the take a bite of each one - no garden moment more infuriating than when you see one bite out of every red tomato on the vine.</p> <p>JAlleen- I wondered if you were out west when you mentioned the wind as garden issue. I'm in the Midwest but grew up and started gardening on the east coast so you called that one. My garden palette is pretty restrained in spring but gets a little more adventuresome in the later part of summer. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures#post-1668457 Fri, 27 May 2016 22:34:16 +0000 JAileen 1668457@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>UmmLila, absolutely stunning! Thanks for sharing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures#post-1668442 Fri, 27 May 2016 22:11:37 +0000 UmmLila (Lisa) 1668442@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My first iris, dahlia, columbine, small geraniums, fuzzy white and small blue that I forget the names of.</p> <p>I'm still waiting for my peony and I'm displeased to see ants all over it. I hate to spray because of my garden toad population. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures#post-1668364 Fri, 27 May 2016 20:08:58 +0000 Chris987 1668364@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>jaileen, the rock walls are beautiful as you noted, but they have a few downsides too - they provide a nice home for chipmunks which although adorable can be very destructive, and they also provide a home for&nbsp;wasps which get pissed if you try to weed near their invisible nests....:-) </p> <p></p> <p>And totally sympathizing with all the stories here of critters eating&nbsp;the veg plants s...it's such a pain....our version is woodchucks. If DH forgets to turn on the electrified fence he put up they will get in and chomp on every single broccoli seedling, take one bite out of every squash...it's enough to make you insane.&nbsp; </p> <p></p> <p>Collete we back up onto wetlands so we have lots of wildlife too, many interesting birds (blue and green herons, mallard and wood ducks on and on and on), muskrats, &nbsp;plus mosquitos, ticks, and some garden bugs. Don't seem to be any deer lately. It's pretty cool isn't it...except when they are eating your plants or biting you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures#post-1668355 Fri, 27 May 2016 19:54:08 +0000 JAileen 1668355@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just looked through my pictures from our Las Vegas trip, and I didn't see any prickly pear. I did see a very impressive field of cacti. We walked through it and I was afraid I might stumble and be impaled. They were very scary. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/misc-spring-garden-pictures#post-1668322 Fri, 27 May 2016 18:53:23 +0000 Chris987 1668322@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Jaileen the prickly pear was inspired by one of my first visits to Sedona Arizona when my in laws lived there. I didn't realize they could grow here either until i saw them in a local garden center. </p>