2022 was another strange year for growing things. We started some Morning Glory seeds inside and got a good response, but then the transplants didn’t do so well. A couple put out some half-hearted blossoms and then seemed to give up. Until September, when another pair took off and produced a number of decent flowers. Meanwhile, the “spares” that I didn’t plant, but gave to our neighbour, seemed to flower all year.
The potted Dipladenia plant that Anna brought home in 2021 and blossomed prolifically all that summer, survived overwintering indoors (thanks to David’s care, no doubt) refused to bloom until September, and now, indoors, still has one bloom.
The rabbits chewed through the stem of a beautifully coloured clematis – right at ground level, naturally – near the end of summer, so it’s return next year is debatable. Rabbits also savage our burning bushes each winter – last year the snow was so deep they were able to reach above the chicken wire that was meant to thwart them. Didn’t see many rabbits in Fall, so we may be better off this year.
Then there was the Potentilla. The holly bushes in front of the deck had not been doing well for a while, and the work on replacing our deck in March didn’t do them much good either, so they went to the happy compost pile in the sky. Mary-Jo chose Potentilla as the replacement plant, and, not finding any locally, ordered a couple for mail delivery. One yellow one arrived looking good, but that wasn’t the colour she had ordered. The other one looked very sad. She got the yellow one replaced and they let her keep the yellow, which I tucked in next to the black-eyed susans in the side bed. By the end of summer the two “official” ones were dead or nearly so, and the yellow one was doing fine, although the BES’s were doing their best to take over that spot.
However, in general the garden looked very nice, even if it seemed to be doing so all at the wrong times. Here’s some photos from this season.
