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I finished planting petunias and lantanas this morning. My roses are beautiful and I have salvia blooming also. I'll be picking zucchini next week from the looks of the fruit growing. I've already picked peas. I ordered a yucca and an Apache Plume from High Country Gardens out of NM and they...

Some of my vioet cuttings take a couple of months to put out new leaves. I've found putting them in a plastic bag to keep the environment humid helps.

I live in the high desert and have dificulty starting seed sown directly into the soil as I can't keep the soil damp enough for the seed to germinate. I plant seed indoors in peat pots and then put the pots into plastic bags. This gives them the humidity they need for the seed to germinate...

I live in the high desert of CA and in zone 8b. I have over 100 bearded iris and they tolerate the cold, heat, drought and our high winds. I have all colors and color has nothing to do with whether it's the best plant or not. Everyone is giving you good advice here and I would advise buying...

I did some flower planting today, just odds and ends. I fertilized flowers and shrubs and fertilizes my tomatoes. The green peas, onions, potatoes, radishes, beets, asparagus and cucumbers are all coming up as well as the runner beans. The zucchini, summer squash and butternut should be up...

What lovely iris. With all the colors I have I don't have any those colors. They're so striking.

I have all colors and multi colored ones.

My favorite flowers are roses and bearded iris. I have at least 18 roses and 70-80 bearded iris. I love other flowers also like peonies and clematis and fortunately they all do well here in the high desert. My roses and iris are beginning to bloom now and I have two buds on my clematis. The...

I planted green beans (pole) and green pepper plants yesterday and also some gerbera daisies and moss rose. The daisies and moss rose went in a half whiskey barrel I bought to go with my old, old, water pump. I would have liked a water feature in it but we get too many dust storms and the sand...

You did just fine. Hope you'll be on here often now you've learned how to do it.

Just as I was afraid would happen. The frost got two of my tomato plants. I had them covered too. The wind was very bad last night and it got down to 29. everything else looked pretty good except for a small trumpet vine. It got nipped also but the bigger one didn't. It's warming up again...

I planted more super petunias today and spent several hours weeding until the wind came up and started blowing dirt in my eyes. I have so much blooming that it worries me since we have a storm coming in Friday that will drop temps to 53F in daytime and below freezing at night with snow levels...

I had 97 here yesterday in the high desert and today is windy and only 80. I spent the morning planting crocosmia, liatris, wild onion, rock roses and two different heights of sunflowers. I also planted the drip line. I have petunias, shasta daisy and nemesia in bloom and when I looked at the...

I'm in zone 8b and we have potatoes, peas and beets planted and also carrots. I have tomatoes in a raised bed and they're doing great. I cover them at night though as the wind can get downright cold at night. I have radishes coming up in the same bed. I'm trying a few different tomatoes this...

I'm in zone 8b and since it's desert we do get high temps even at 2500 feet. We also get wind, wind and more wind. Our rhubarb is in partial shade which helps but we do have to plant it differently. Our winters sometimes get down in the teens also.

Hi SweetMissDaisy, It was dead on here for a while but it's like spring, waking up. Anyway, welcome. When everyone gets to gardening it will gey busier. About that....I planted petunias, candytuft, nemesia and cosmo's today. We put in potatoes yesterday. Our peas are coming up and so is...

Rhubarb grows here only if it gets more shade than usual. It also doesn't get as big.

I worked on more irrigation lines, a necessity here in the desert. and then we got peas, beets, carrots and rhubarb planted. The asparagus is already poking through.

I planted irrigation pipe today and then took two big pots of succulents that needed divided and separated them and made four pots out of two. My plum and peach tree are blooming and also my flowering cherry. There are more daffodils too. Time to clean up the iris bed.

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