2022
Get Walter's Viburnum for front of house, left side: https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/nassauco/2017/06/11/fact-sheet-dwarf-walters-viburnum/
2021
Fertilize citrus and avocado
Prune porterweed: Cut the shrubs back vigorously in late spring to encourage new summer growth. Throughout the year, you can prune them lightly to maintain an even height and attractive shape
Harvest oak bloom and use as mulch
Cut back all leggy coleus. The plants by the backdoor lily bed greatly benefited.
2019
In Bloom: JASMINE!!!
Seedling sadness: the milkweed grows like there's no tomorrow, but, um, it's called milkweed maybe for a reason. The other seedlings I ordered in February are struggling. February must be too late to start plants in Florida. Plus, I have such a small yard, do I really need two dozen of anything? The cuttings from coleus and polka dot plant are doing fine. I did get a new set of vinca, to 'improve my gene pool'.
Got a delivery of 2 cubic feet of soil builder from the city, almost $50 bucks. I thought I would want more when I saw the pile, but now that I've started sharing it out, I may change my mind. It's great stuff, like real dirt.
Future thought: How about if I tidy up the neighbor's side yard and take out all my blue porterweed? They'd never notice. It would improve my breakfast view.
2018
Have a bed going in the front, meant to be like a REAL flower bed. Also mulching under lemon tree, which seems actually not to be dying. Where to put my flat of Mexican heather?
Started some peppers from the lovely new pepper plant I got at the Saturday morning market. Fingers crossed! It is a beauty:
I added some cockscomb and some Little Sunshine as well as some mini purple lantanas. I've tried to propagate the Little Sunshine and it's doing well, as is the lantana.
Green Thumb
I reined myself in and purchased only two plants at Green Thumb this year. Cristina pointed out that I have quite a lot of purple and lavender already, and she's right: persian shield, purple queen, lantana, lavender itself, and all that Delhi primrose.
So I bought three milkweeds and some sedum. I like the sedum so much, I'm thinking of plugging it in anywhere it'll be safe from trodding feet. But I purchased it to put at the feet of the tall milkweed; I'm hoping they will group together nicely, in the full sun in the front yard!
Update: One of the milkweeds has already produced a seed pod, just one week later I've tried planting the seeds from one of them.
March 10, bought two beautiful bamboo graecilis plants from Island's Bamboo in Pinellas Park. I hope they do well in the shady location where I've placed them. It's wonderful looking out the window at their pretty leafiness. The people at Island's Bamboo were very, very nice, and I saw the fencing of my dreams there -- bamboo framed out in redwood. Really gorgeous.
2013: They're taller than my house, and the three little stalks in each clump have multiplied so nicely. My window now looks out onto a garden instead of a fence.
