Today's Garden Progress.
May. 28th, 2011 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsubasahomeI:
1. Deadheaded Paula Fay. Damn...those red peonies really can't hold up to the sun.
2. Spent about an hour pruning a forsythia bush to an attractive shape, like Don King's head. It had a lot of dead branches on the underside. Unfortunately, as I was finishing up the job, I somehow took a big chunk out of my right thumb. I don't think it's serious but it stings really bad. =_=
3. Paced around like an idiot.
My last three herbaceous peonies will be Scarlett O'Hara, Buckeye Belle, and Coral Sunset. I ordered Scarlett O' Hara from Cricket Hill Garden, since I was so happy with the size and vigor of the Philomele and Moonstone divisions they sent me last year, and I ordered Buckeye Belle and Coral Sunset from Hollingsworth Nursery. I've heard a lot of good things about Hollingsworth Nursery, and the owner has actually hybridized a fair amount of herbaceous/intersectional peonies himself. I was at a bit of a loss about where to put Buckeye Belle because of its unusual color, but at the same time, I had to have it because of its unusual color. It's the only red peony I've ever seen that's a brown-toned red as opposed to a blue-toned red like the other red peonies. I figure that if I plant it next to the tree peonies, it won't matter because Buckeye Belle will bloom after them. That weird black-red color is seen much more frequently in tree peonies...I wonder if it's some kind of distant cross with another kind of peony(much like the standard herbaceous peony was crossed with a wild red peony to get the coral color).
Lauren and I started watching the DVD of the 1939 version of Goodbye Mr. Chips last night, but it got too late to finish. One thing I noticed about it compared to the Peter O'Toole remake is that the 1939 version is actually funny. Also, you can sit through it and not feel like you've been camped out in front of the TV for a week.
::laughs:: There's that one song from the remake(sung rather ineptly by Peter O'Toole) that Lauren says sounds like he's reciting the names of all the colors of Lucky Charms. Ouch.
1. Deadheaded Paula Fay. Damn...those red peonies really can't hold up to the sun.
2. Spent about an hour pruning a forsythia bush to an attractive shape, like Don King's head. It had a lot of dead branches on the underside. Unfortunately, as I was finishing up the job, I somehow took a big chunk out of my right thumb. I don't think it's serious but it stings really bad. =_=
3. Paced around like an idiot.
My last three herbaceous peonies will be Scarlett O'Hara, Buckeye Belle, and Coral Sunset. I ordered Scarlett O' Hara from Cricket Hill Garden, since I was so happy with the size and vigor of the Philomele and Moonstone divisions they sent me last year, and I ordered Buckeye Belle and Coral Sunset from Hollingsworth Nursery. I've heard a lot of good things about Hollingsworth Nursery, and the owner has actually hybridized a fair amount of herbaceous/intersectional peonies himself. I was at a bit of a loss about where to put Buckeye Belle because of its unusual color, but at the same time, I had to have it because of its unusual color. It's the only red peony I've ever seen that's a brown-toned red as opposed to a blue-toned red like the other red peonies. I figure that if I plant it next to the tree peonies, it won't matter because Buckeye Belle will bloom after them. That weird black-red color is seen much more frequently in tree peonies...I wonder if it's some kind of distant cross with another kind of peony(much like the standard herbaceous peony was crossed with a wild red peony to get the coral color).
Lauren and I started watching the DVD of the 1939 version of Goodbye Mr. Chips last night, but it got too late to finish. One thing I noticed about it compared to the Peter O'Toole remake is that the 1939 version is actually funny. Also, you can sit through it and not feel like you've been camped out in front of the TV for a week.
::laughs:: There's that one song from the remake(sung rather ineptly by Peter O'Toole) that Lauren says sounds like he's reciting the names of all the colors of Lucky Charms. Ouch.
