Pool Garden Update
For all you with snow on the ground, I am sending warm, hibiscus laden thoughts. Making good on my commitment to show updates of the garden at least once a month, I'll show the gardens today. December and January just kill me when it comes to the garden. Everything starts to go dormant and dull. Oh well - Spring is right around the corner. I'm lucky enough to live where spring will start in late January, first of February. The above hibiscus bloomed in the pool garden today, but the plant may not live through the night. Even though yesterday was in the 80's, we are expecting a frost tonight that could take out many of my plants. Long ago I accepted the fact that the hibiscus never makes it out of the winter alive at my house, even though my work and my mother-in-law have had beautiful lush bushes for years. They are only 20 minutes south of me!
The algae is growing beautifully!
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8 comments:
I am way south of you and all my Hibiscus died of disease a couple of years ago. I haven’t replanted any, but I love the flower.
Hey, I like your style. I'm 65, in Savannah, and those could be photos from my garden. Keep up the good work!
Rusty - If I were a little less lazy, I'd dig them up and take them in for the winter frosts. For right now, I'm content on treating them as an annual.
Karensav - Start blogging and post those pictures!!
Love your pictures. Your blah season is so rich compared to our snow laden gardens. I love to see what is going on down south.
You've got a double edged sword going - if you shade the pool, you'll have less algae, but if you plant a tree to shade it, then you've got all those leaves to skim. Tough situation. There are some non-toxic algaecides you might look into.
Good luck. Our hibiscus are still in bloom here in Santa Barbara, CA. Luscious color, but we get hit really bad with white fly.
And thanks for stopping by my blog today.
Yipes! Almost forgot why I stopped by your blog. If you liked the analysis of the design I posted the other day, you might want to go back through my archive and find this one. This post also helps with people who might have a tendency to exhibit the dreaded "one of each-itis".
http://gardenwiseguy.blogspot.com/2007/08/santa-barbara-county-hort-society-tour.html
You can't have it all, you know. I wish I could grow those (bananas?) you have in your garden in mine.
And plus you get spring earlier than I do up here.
Mr Brownthumb -
You might be right. I may not be able to have it all. But that can't stop me from wanting it REALLY, REALLY bad!
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