When I moved to this house I noticed that our garden needed care and some female touch (of course). However, it was almost winter and I had few important tasks to finish before invest my time in the garden. In addition, I did not know what plants were there, so I decided to wait for the spring to work on it.
During last autumn we found out a rose growing in the middle of the hedge, one that no one knew because it was very short before and it was covered by other shrubs. I remember that I looked outside and saw 2 pink roses. At the begning we thought that these roses were from our neighbor garden, but talking to them and looking in the middle of those shrubs we found its location.
After that we pruned and prepared our rose for the winter and cut some plants around it. For all the jobs I did in my garden I collected information from some gardening websites that I follow, such as Garden.ie. I receive weekly emails from them to know what I have to do in my garden and how to take care of my plants, which helps me a lot.
Other flowers that we had were daffodils, but I wanted more color and flowers. So, we bought 2 bags of mixed crocuses on a sale. Each one of them had 98 bulbs. I decided to plant in containers instead of plant in the ground to know if they would grow or not. Because of my experience with seeds bought in supermarket or other non-specialized shops, I wasn't expecting a good result. However, for my surprise, all of them flowered and all are the same color.
In February is the time to start our spring cleaning and that is what we did. We found many rot branches that we had to remove, so we cut a lot our shrubs. I hope they recover well. I also planted some summer flowers to keep it colorful longer.
In summary, here are few things that I learned and observed since I moved to here.
1 - Many people here and in UK treat roses as annuals, which means that they throw their plants away when they begin to lose their leaves. What they don't think is that this process means that the plant is becoming dormant and storing energy for surviving without enough sunlight and water.
2 - Even if my roses (indoors or outdoors) don't lose their leaves I have to cut them before the winter and prune them again at the beginning of the spring to stimulate new growth. I didn't do that in November, but I had to do that last week because some branches were dying and now they are developing very well.
3 - After flowering we can't cut the leaves of bulb flowers. We need to let them dry naturally, in order to let them store energy for next year. My crocuses are drying, their leaves are ugly, but I can't cut them if I want more flowers next year.
4 - gardening is hard, but if you are like me and love flowers you will love it.
During last autumn we found out a rose growing in the middle of the hedge, one that no one knew because it was very short before and it was covered by other shrubs. I remember that I looked outside and saw 2 pink roses. At the begning we thought that these roses were from our neighbor garden, but talking to them and looking in the middle of those shrubs we found its location.
After that we pruned and prepared our rose for the winter and cut some plants around it. For all the jobs I did in my garden I collected information from some gardening websites that I follow, such as Garden.ie. I receive weekly emails from them to know what I have to do in my garden and how to take care of my plants, which helps me a lot.
Other flowers that we had were daffodils, but I wanted more color and flowers. So, we bought 2 bags of mixed crocuses on a sale. Each one of them had 98 bulbs. I decided to plant in containers instead of plant in the ground to know if they would grow or not. Because of my experience with seeds bought in supermarket or other non-specialized shops, I wasn't expecting a good result. However, for my surprise, all of them flowered and all are the same color.
In February is the time to start our spring cleaning and that is what we did. We found many rot branches that we had to remove, so we cut a lot our shrubs. I hope they recover well. I also planted some summer flowers to keep it colorful longer.
In summary, here are few things that I learned and observed since I moved to here.
1 - Many people here and in UK treat roses as annuals, which means that they throw their plants away when they begin to lose their leaves. What they don't think is that this process means that the plant is becoming dormant and storing energy for surviving without enough sunlight and water.
2 - Even if my roses (indoors or outdoors) don't lose their leaves I have to cut them before the winter and prune them again at the beginning of the spring to stimulate new growth. I didn't do that in November, but I had to do that last week because some branches were dying and now they are developing very well.
3 - After flowering we can't cut the leaves of bulb flowers. We need to let them dry naturally, in order to let them store energy for next year. My crocuses are drying, their leaves are ugly, but I can't cut them if I want more flowers next year.
4 - gardening is hard, but if you are like me and love flowers you will love it.
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