Red salvia and white salvia are blooming. They are native to this area. Also have a pineapple growing, not quite native.

 

Nice!

I just paid to have 3 trees in the front yard cut down and the stumps ground. Hopefully we will be able to get grass to grow, and trying to decide what we will plant in the front yard. Our house faces almost straight north, is kind of a boomerang shape on a corner lot, so I'm not sure what beds are going to full/partial/shade, to know what to plant.

And I don't want to screw it up since plants and small trees and shrubs are damned expensive!

 

Some of the easiest things to plant and grow are native plants to your particular area. They can handle the the heat or cold or dry or wet or soil conditions that are naturally occurring. We are doing mostly natives and edibles. Some of the non-natives are for bringing additional pollinators around. But the native pollinators in your area will be looking for the native plants from that area.

Are you still in Oklahoma? http://www.oknativeplants.org/

Edit: There's a long list of choices on that site.

The allium stellatum (prairie onion) is native and should be really easy to grow, as most onions are. You can enjoy the blooms and greenery and also eat the greens and of course the bulbs.

 

Here's something else on the Oklahoma list you should plant just to tell people you have them. Anntenaria neglecta, commonly known as "pussytoes."

 

Yep, still in OKC. It's not so much figuring out what's native, as how much sun everything is going to get.

Here is a satellite pic of the, the yellow represents trees that been removed in the last year, and the red is front/front of the house. You can see the front door points just slight West of dead north. With this being a winter photo, the sun is lower but you can see in front, all the flower beds are completely shaded (inbetween the sidewalks and house). So I'm not sure how much that is going to change in the summer (didn't pay attention last year because those trees were still in the front yard).

 

Just looking at the list here I see you're quite a few flowering choices for shady areas.

http://www.oknativeplants.org/upload...andscaping.pdf

 

Stones on top of plastic sheets would work well between the walk and house. I would concentrate on plantings where the trees were.

 

Thanks!

There is some stuff growing there now, we just don't like boxwoods and want to make the house look nice. With the big vaulted ceiling over the master/living and cathedral in the dining room with huge windows facing the street..........now with the crappy Bradford Pears removed, the house looks really nice sitting on the corner. So now I want the to be as nice.

 

It's been so insanely wet here. Finally got the garden pretty much all the way in. Just have to turn over one strip, i may try onion and garlic again we'll see. I also need to get my herbs going again.

Here is all the morels i've found. Hopefully after this week things will warm up with some decent humidity. I'll try again this weekend.



Built this easy little cage for the beats. Rabbits keep eating the leaves and i think that is why i have low yield.



I've got Romas, and cherry tomato, no beefeater this year. My plants got like 9' high last year and were falling over with the heavy tomato on them. Bell, habanero, banana and jalapeno peppers.


I'd like to get rid of that dumb plant by the telephone pole and put another rhubarb plant in. My last one i had was awesome but for some reason it didn't last as long as i thought it would.

 

Any recommendations for a vegetable plant-friendly herbicide? Two of my three raised bed planters (the short ones) are chock full of grass and starting to grow some weeds. I don't want them to smother my habaneros or jalapenos out.

 

https://www.acehardware.com/departme...YaAnmAEALw_wcB

Just rake it up. Toss it to the side.

 

It's a pretty small box (4x4), and the stuff growing up is spaced far enough apart (like 1" on centers with a split leaf for most of it) that you can't get at it too easily with most tools without hitting one of the plants. I was hoping to not have to take the time to yank it all out by hand.

 

Yank it all out by hand.

 

Pull them then mulch.

An easy way to keep weeds down is to
0. remove as much of the weedy stuff as possible. cut, pull, whatever.
1. unfold and flatten some paper grocery bags and lay them over the soil. You could also use some cardboard (brown). Leave a ring of uncovered soil around your plants as big as their drip line.
2. mulch over that to hold it in place.

it'll block the sun and kill the weeds. and the paper will biodegrade quickly.

or use glyphosate and sue for 2 billion when you get the cancer.

 

Honestly after the end of July I hardly bother with weeds or grass. Only pulling the big ones.

Up until then I just spend 15 minutes a week with the rake thing turning over the dirt. I never have problems.

 

My bleeding hearts I planted a couple years ago finally came in nice.





Added an arch and Vine type plant, I forgot what it was called. I may need to help it because it looks real flat.
And my $40 **** kicker jap maple is looking real nice. Bought it at Lowe's years ago for what I think is cheap because nobody wanted it.

 

I really like the flower bed with the stone wall and wood fence. It has a very happy look to it.

At first glance I thought that Maple was a red hibiscus. I forgot they don't grow that far north.

 

That looks nice! My little Japanese Maple turned into a monster after about 3 years. I need to trim it back quite a bit this fall, it's practically touching the ground.

 

Azaleas are blooming now.

Nice



Herb garden that I thought I was going to touch. I don't think I will now. It had completely died off from last year and came back looking like this. Guess we'll see how it does..

 

Ahh crud. Had a response but the uploader failed. Thanks. All the dark rocks were stolen from the Gatlinburg area.

Yada yada. Shady Fern garden.