Weekly Garden Thread - May 22-28, 2021

May 22, 2021 | Diana in Wisconsin/Greeneyes

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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[MomwithHope]

right in the middle looks a little like lavender

[MomwithHope]

Nice, thanks, I knew about the last lines but never heard the song

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I see a big Hosta in the background, I see some ‘pinks’ to the left and to the right I see Bee Balm.

Am I right so far?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Lopeover]

👏🤣

[gloryblaze]

DIW, did you get snow? Here, West Central Wisconsin, we got snow this morning. I mean the heavy stuff - and lots of it. All the trees were fully leafed out, so there are branches down all over creation. I just trimmed my two long alpine current hedges to perfection two days ago, and now they are smashed nearly flat. Lilacs, dogwood, burning bushes, azaleas and everything else - all horizontal. WHAT A MESS!!!

[bitt]

right in the middle looks a little like lavender
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yes, those are the ?plants? right in the middle I’m wondering about -
I have never had lavender..AFAIK,..
and this particular plant isn’t anywhere else I’ve found in the yard..I have ooodles of weeds but not anything like this..

I can’t remember what I’d planed there, lol, i would have been a cluster
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I see a big Hosta in the background, I see some ‘pinks’ to the left and to the right I see Bee Balm.
Am I right so far?

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yes! and the little spikeys are looking to flower today - I’ll post a picture when I get back Monday!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oh, no! What was your snow total? I couldn’t find a new feature about it - which is weird. This IS Big News!

Just really cold rain and temps in the 40’s, here. Warming up for the weekend, but just into the 70’s - and I hope it does by you, too!

Get the broom and get the snow off what you can and I’ll bet if a branch isn’t broken off, it will perk back up.

Prayers Up! I mean, seriously - this can be a landscaping disaster! :(

[gloryblaze]

The snow accumulated to about an inch and a half - on unfrozen ground! I did take a big old push broom and shook off a ton. This stuff is heavy, the kind that makes shoveling bring on heart attacks. Most branches will be better than I thought, but out will come the saw for some, too. I am calmed down a bit. It happened to one hedge a few years back, and we drove in steel fence posts and tied them up with green baler twine. It works, but what a PITA. Sun is out now and there's melting going on. Freeze watch here for tomorrow early morning, just a mile from the freeze WARNING county... Lots to cover and move inside this afternoon.

Enough of my pity party.

[MomwithHope]

Here is a picture of our lavender. There are at least 8 varieties. It flowered early next year it will be later.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

We have all been there, my FRiend! We’ve got frost warnings tonight and Beau and our foster son just helped me put tarps over the peppers...and of course the new puppy had to ‘help’ so I’m down one pepper plant. *Rolleyes*

(I have spares.)

It’s always something!

There was a little news blurb about your snow on our local weather forecast. Turns out you missed the record ‘late snow date’ by ONE DAY which was May 29, 1949! ;)

[MomwithHope]

Well I have some more info about your plants. Yes they look like lavender to me and Yes there are many varieties. I went back and enlarged your picture. Yours has serrated leaves and I just went out and picked a few leaves of mine and they are not serrated Then I found this link -

https://www.gardenclinic.com.au/how-to-grow-article/know-your-lavender#:~:text=Lavandula%20dentata,Trim%20in%20early%20January.

Check out the first type - French lavender, the only one with serrated leaves. If this is what it is I can guess you’ll be scratching your head over where it came from. It’s a small patch so it could have started from a dropped seed head. Depending on where you are it is more of a mid-summer flowerer .

[gloryblaze]

...It’s always something!

That sums it up...