Garden Pic Wednesday: Yellow Gerbers!

-
Garden Pic Wednesday: Yellow Gerber Daisies!
I have several in-ground Gerber Daisies in several colors, including these sunny yellow ones! 
The winter over and come back yearly, but I must not have done enough for them in the way of fertilizer last fall, because in early spring the plants looked pitiful. So I dug in some time-release fertilizer, then put down newspaper topped with mulch to stop weeds and hold moisture.
I guess it helped because all the plants got healthy looking and have been blooming along pretty well. This yellow has been blooming extra-profusely this year!


Comments

Post a Comment

Thanks for leaving a comment!

Popular posts from this blog

Good Eating Monday: Old Fashioned Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding!

-
Image
Welcome to the first week of February! It's supposed to be 31 degrees tonight, so after cleaning up the front walk beds, I went around covering various things that either are blooming, about to bloom or that have sensitive leaf buds, like my hydrangea's.  I picked all the yellow daffodils and brought them inside for a cheerful vase on my counter. For Garden Pic Wednesday this week I have an excellent photo of a pine tree flower! You didn't know pine trees flower?  Well, you'll have to stop back for a look! Today's Good Eating Recipe is a family favorite my Mother used to make often for us as kids: Old Fashioned Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding! What Old Fashioned Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding Looks Like This is just your basic wholesome old fashioned bread pudding made with just eggs, bread, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, sugar & raisins! No sauces to make. Just simple bread pudding. We'd eat it hot with a little evaporated milk poured over the top....
Read more

Garden Pic Wednesday: More Florida Winter Color!

-
Image
There's plenty of winter color to be had in Northwest Florida--if you know what to plant or where to look. Last week I featured Firethorn , a shrub that lights up with bright red berries birds love and brightens up the drab evergreen landscape! This week I'm featuring Dwarf Nandina & Asparagus Fern! First: My Dwarf Nandina: This shrub brings fall and winter color to the Florida landscape and stays small. Max of 2 feet. I only have the one. I love that it's orange in the fall and red in the winter! Dwarf Nandina Next: My Asparagus Fern Thick with Red Berries: It's not actually a fern, but is in the Asparagus family. It's scientific name is "Sprengeri." (pronounced "Springer-Rye) This is both a good evergreen that has tiny white flowers in spring and bright red berries in winter that birds enjoy.  It thrives southern zone landscapes and, anywhere, as a houseplant. Here, it's planted in both shade and sun. It's upside is...
Read more

Good Eating Tuesday: P.F. Chang's Frozen Mongolian Style Beef Review

-
Image
I've been trying some recipes, but results are so-so. The last really great recipe I tried was that French Coconut Pie! I'm going to try it again this week with a slight adjustment to sugar-to-coconut ratio. In the meantime, I've  decided I'd review frozen meals we try. We were at the commissary this past weekend and purchased a P.F. Chang's Mongolian Style  Beef meal to have something easy to make for dinner. It was perfect for us since it serves just two really. This is the picture on the bag. Just put in skillet and heat and it makes it's own sauce. No need to add water or anything. (You provide the rice.) This is the meal on the plate. (I added some frozen peas) It's a little saucier then pictured, but otherwise very close. (photo is mine) * The quantity of beef pieces in this meal was generous and they were good size. Plenty of meat for two people. * It had lots of uncut green beans and red bell pepper chunks. ...
Read more

Garden Pic Wednesday: Fall Gerbers!

-
Image
My Gerber Daisies were going strong up until Christmas---when we had a hard freeze for 3 days. So this photo is from Dec, sometime before Christmas.  It's not uncommon to have a hard freeze or two on the Florida Panhandle, but rarely does the thermometer dip much below 28 or 29F--which generally just kills the various annual flowers. But over Christmas, it was around 22F for 3 days and frost-burnt all the Mexican Heather, the Amaryllis leaves, my Plumbago shrub, my Butterfly Bush--even my Winter Jasmine shrub---all things I haven't seen get frost-bit, had their leaves all turned brown. Even so, they are still alive, since roots weren't frozen and most, if not all, should regenerate. I was able to save my clumps of Calendula daisies & bachelor buttons only because I covered them with plastic and a double layer of towels. So those are fine. Other things weathered the extra cold without issue: the sorrel, the green onions, the parsley, the thyme, the lettuce in the vegg...
Read more