My husband's grape vine, finally now with a sturdy support structure, is rewarding us with bunches of buds and the promise of bunches of tasty grapes to come. Hopefully this year, we'll get to taste some of them and the whole bush won't get stripped overnight like it did last year.
In the front border, the Lantana "White Gold" is also covered in buds. I like "White Gold" as well as "New Gold" lantanas because they are smaller, mounding varieties and I don't have to hack them back like I've had to do with other varieties. They also don't form berries, so they continue flowering without needing to be dead headed.
I put these bulbs in a pot last year and promptly forgot about them. They didn't even come up last year, but earlier this spring, several sturdy stalks came up and now they are about to bloom. I can't wait to see what they look like!
Finally, I had to show off more of the Gaillardia "Fanfare" that I first showed a couple of weeks ago. This has been putting out a continuous show of 3 inch blooms -- I'm sure it didn't do that last year.
I must be doing something right!
Words and photographs by Jayne Wilson, Green and Serene, Jayne's Country Garden.
6 comments:
Dear Jayne, I love your coming attractions and your Gaillardia "Fanfare". You are most certainly doing something right. P x
I would certainly say that all your hard work is paying off. Imagine, bunches of delicious grapes. Are they for eating or making wine? I'd love to find a lantana that didn't grow too big. Unfortunately my 'new gold' are always monsters.
The grape is Mars, it's a table grape. I hope we get to taste some this year! So far, so good with the lantana. I've got quite a lot of them, but they all stayed less than a foot high and 18 inches or so across. Which is good, because they are tucked in among other things.
Hi Jayne,
I love your coming attractions! I hope you get to your grapes before the critters do. I planted some raspberries last year. I also have some strawberries that should be established enough to get some berries this year. I imagine I'll need to get some netting over them in order to get any of the berries.
The promise of the flowers and fruits is always exciting, isn't it? Ooh, love your 'Fanfare'? Did you get it as a plant, or start from the seeds? Would love to have this myself :)
Hi Ami, I got the "Fanfare" from Park Seeds last year as small plants. Amazing how they can send live plants through the mail :-)
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