Weekly Garden Thread - April 17-23, 2021

April 17, 2021 | Diana in Wisconsin/Greeneyes

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[mylife]

For all you One eyed purple pizza eaters..

[Diana in Wisconsin]

And...you get your OWN special PING because I typed your name in incorrectly on our Ping List, but I fixed it. :)

[Bon of Babble]

My garden is exploding in bloom! So glad b/c family is visiting this week - all the hard work is paying off:

Roses:

happy tree friends wallpaper
Sticky Monkey Flower, from my bee garden:

Irises and Amaryllis:

[Diana in Wisconsin]

'Midnight Roma' Tomato. Score!

I grew 'Brad's Atomic Grape' last year. It was OK, but it wasn't that much of a producer. Sure was interesting, though!

[Oshkalaboomboom]

We’ve been getting an unusual amount of rain so far this month but it’s good for the plants. Tourists, for the most part, can’t come anyway so it’s not as bad as if there was no lockdown.

[stars & stripes forever]

Should we cover our perennial flower gardens in the evening before it frosts this week?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Just beautiful! Do you know the variety of the yellow? Is it ‘Julia Child?’

I grow ‘Topaz Jewel’ and it is the prickliest thing EVER, but man the FRAGRANCE is heavenly! The rabbits didn’t chew on that one at all! ;)

My roses (first season planted in a special bed Beau constructed for me) survived winter well - looks like I only lost one of the 15 I added.

Pretty Kitty! :)

[mylife]

my buddy just sent a pic last night if tomato’s he planted behind the VFW post

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Tell us what you have that you’re concerned about. Most Perennials are tough as nails. They might get a little nipped around the edges by the frost, but there’s still plenty of growing season to recover.

I’ve had it SNOW on perennials with no problems. This time of year, even if we get some cold nights and/or snow, the next day or so it’s all gone, anyway.

[AbolishCSEU]

We have had unending rain however I did manage to plant several 5 gallon buckets with sugar snap peas including DIY trellis. They were planted April 2nd and are coming up now here in Upstate New York

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[tennmountainman]

Thx and Morning.

[MomwithHope]

Lovely pictures!

[tennmountainman]

Too much rain this year.

[stars & stripes forever]

That’s a relief. We turned our ingrown pool into a flower garden. It looks like most survived the winter,out. I didn’t want the 29-degree weather to take them out.

[Bon of Babble]

Thanks.

I haven't seen some of my family in over a year so it's really exciting to have them visit and I've been working on my garden for months to get it ready for their visit.

The photo doesn't do the petunias justice, they are spectacular. I think they're called "Starry Night" like the Van Gough painting. Got them at Lowe's this year.

[mylife]

I tried to grow these on my easement, no luck..

[Liz]

Just love that pic....thanks.