Garden Update: June 14,2007

Welcome to our sunny roof garden, now in its 3rd year. Some plants are new. Some have survived since the beginning. Click on each image to view larger size. Some of the individual plants have links to pages with more photos showing their progress since they were first acquired or planted. I'll be adding more of these links as I have time.




Click here for more info about these poppies.


Click here for more info about this mirror bush.











Click here for more info about this lavatera.



Click here for more info about this centaurea.

Click here for more information about these citrus trees.






 

Poppies

June 14, 2007: These California poppies were planted in Spring, 2005 (see below.) Unlike their relatives, the Icelandic poppies (also below,) they survived the frost this winter and came up again.


2006: The poppies came up again in Spring of 2006, but sadly, the Icelandic poppies died during the winter freeze.
August 6, 2005: Progress of new California poppies.

August 6, 2005: Beautiful Icelandic poppies on the roof:




June 27, 2005: The Icelandic poppies finally bloom!!!



June 18, 2005: New California poppies planted on the roof garden of our new home on Hermann Street.


June 18, 2005: The transplanted Icelandic poppies are thriving on the roof!

April 29, 2005: The very first sprouts from a packet of Icelandic poppy seeds planted in the ground at 5582 Taft Avenue. After a couple of weeks of me staring at the ground each morning searching for signs of life, they finally started to come up! (If I'd known we would be evicted a month later, I would have planted them in pots.)

Lavatera 'Bicolor' (Tree Mallow)

June 14, 2007:




September 19, 2005:


June 27, 2005:

June 18, 2005:

Coprosma repens 'Pink Splendor' (Mirror Bush)

This was one of the first plants I purchased for our roof garden in 2005. Got it from Long's. It's done very well on the roof.

June 14, 2007:


August 30, 2005:

June 18, 2005:

Centaurea g. 'Silver Lace'

June 14, 2007: One of the first plants purchased from Long's in 2005 for the new roof garden. It didn't do so well this winter. Much of the lower foliage died, and the plant, while surviving, is much thinner.


April 23, 2007:

September 19, 2005:

June 18, 2005:

Citrus Trees: Meyer Lemon & Lime

June 30, 2007: These trees were a wedding gift from the Drapers. We would love to have planted them in the ground, and I'm sure they'd rather be in the ground. But since we are renters, we'll keep them in pots until we have some ground of our own for them.

So far these poor trees have had a hard time. The main problem is nasty scale, and ants which farm the scale. Last week I found a recipe online for a spray (rubbing alcohol, water, and a tiny bit of dish soap to make it stick,) and I'm trying this every 3 days to combat the scale, as well as diatomaceous earth around the pots to combat the ants.





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