Growing Plants-Yard-Garden

This growing year has been so good and long, that all my plants are doing GREAT. What I thought was a crab apple tree in the back yard (one of the two intertwined trees), the apples on it are Red for the first time since I’ve owned the house! Four years now. And it’s so laden down with their size and number, that it’s literally bent to the ground. I REALLY want to pick the apples and do something with them, but I don’t know what.

The two Dogwood trees have put out more berries than ever, and larger than I’ve seen before! The Silver Maple in the front yard that I’ve been worried is sick – because its leaves grow slight bubbles on them, with spider-web-like silky threads on the underside, which then turn black as the sun burns them leaving maybe half of the actual leaf cover living for the tree – started to have that burn problem in early Spring but quickly stopped and seems a healthy tree all the last two seasons until about a week ago!

I already posted pictures of the lilacs in Spring. Well after they shed their flowers, they started another flowering growth! I was certain they were going to bloom again, but then the Summer heat hit.

My garden, however, did bloom twice! And two of the plants are now on bloom round #3. Amazing! Of course the weeds have been doing amazingly well too. I’m about to have to do the third round of weeding too.

In fact, now that I think about it, the only thing that didn’t grow well was the trumpet vine… odd. That has done the best of everything for the three previous years.

Oh, and the tulip bulbs, but they always have had a hard time due to crowding. I pulled the front yard garden line back towards the house this year, transplanted as many of the tulips as I could, and have been pulling up the Buckthorne roots all around them (still have three more to go I think). So hoping very much the tulips make a return next year!

P.S. – Oh wait! Spring pictures show a couple of the tulips did bloom this year too!