January Garden Tasks

 Pruning bouquet:  'Bishops Castle'
The busiest time of year for the Southern California gardener.  Much to do.  Bite the bullet and cut off all the flowers on the roses.  The leaf buds are swelling already.  
Pause to admire the last 'Golden Celebration' flower of the 2018 season.  
Ready for 2019 flowers now:
Cut off the top 6 feet of Salvia 'Amistad' #3
Avoid temptation of writing "dust me!" in the construction dust on coffee table.  Instead admire how the sun is touching the Till. xerographica
Pause to admire beauty

Move an 'Endless Summer' hydrangea to a shadier spot.  It burnt badly here last summer.
 Put it there where that pot is

No...move it over a little
 That's better
Now move 'Burgundy Iceberg' rose to the hydrangea's old spot
 If a hydrangea fries there, it should be sunny enough for an 'Iceberg'
Several Tagetes lemonii seedlings.  Can we find places for them? 
 Work-work-work-work, but also pause to admire beauty.
 Because that's just as important!

Comments

  1. Oh, to have beautiful roses even as you start pruning! I still haven't finished mine and I have a tiny fraction of the number you do. The foliage on the 2 'Mutabilis' I inherited with the garden looks better now after the rain than it ever has and I feel terrible about cutting them back. the fact that they're planted in a nearly inaccessible spot on the front slope doesn't make the task attractive either.

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    1. You might do Mutabilis in October next year; it's different than a modern rose.

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  2. Oh my goodness, those green and white leaves in the second to last shot -- that's that Alstroemeria, isn't it? I forget its name. It won't grow like that here. It's beautiful. I need to get out and move some things now while they're dormant, but it's still hard to find the energy. And it's cold.

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    1. Yes that's 'Rock n Roll' Alstroemeria, which is how I get my Hosta fix, since Hostas do not grow here. The flowers are completely unnecessary.

      Unfortunately it is not cold here. It's 80F. :( Hopefully it warms up just enough so you can get out there, and cools down a lot here.

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    1. Our winter is your spring. Our spring is your summer. Our summer is your winter. Our autumn is your spring (we get two). ;^)

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  4. Thank you for the reminder to cut back my roses! Between you and the Huntington, I'm always reminded...

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    1. Have fun doing you roses! Some lovely weather ahead (and then hopefully more rain after that).

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  5. I am a bit envious that you can get out and work in your garden now. It always feels so good to accomplish these chores. The bowl full of roses is so pretty. I hope you get some rain to rain in all your transplants.

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    1. A sense of accomplishment really feels good, doesn't it?

      I did water in the transplants with precious rainwater saved from that last storm.

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  6. Slowly pruning my way around, trying to open up a too much too much overgrown garden. (Which sounds a bit ungrateful after our drought)

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    1. Overgrown is overgrown--less top growth, less water needed!

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