Country Marathon. Alouisa.

Hi everyone! May came, at me "the call of ancestors" woke up again and pulled for country works... There is a wish to update and improve the flower bed, to take care of perennial plants and to derive pleasure from beauty around us.


Of course, nothing grows and blossoms itself, except... weeds. But I do not want to see the flower bed in such look in what it is now.

Therefore the purposes at me the following:

1. To remove weeds from a flower bed.
2. To plant new plants / flowers.
3. To replace flowers in pots.
4. Those that do not need change, regularly to fertilize.
5. To achieve from the husband that sprinkled a little chemistry my flowers from wreckers.
6. To buy new plants in pots or for a flower bed, depending on mood and existence in greenhouses.
7. To implant shanks of some plants which usually easily give roots and I have an experience of their rooting.
8. To buy various jewelry for flower beds / pots. That it was beautiful.)))

Well I will also show that now... Also demands immediate intervention!
What was put, I do not remember. (((But dried. Froze...
Kalanchoe...
Tree / bush, I do not know the name... Waits for change.
Succulents after the wintering. (((

The hibiscus waits for change in a flower bed.

Weeds...
Still weeds...
New plants are required...

Successful to us marathon!!!

Week 1. May 10-16.

The first week was not difficult, is made... it is not enough! But does not depend on me: at plants the rhythm, they... just grow! And we help them with it.
The hibiscus is planted in soil.
Powdered shoots of mint with the earth for rooting.
In a flower bed beauty and order.
A month later after purchase of parsley, I planted it in soil. The husband wanted to put, I everything waited for him... But made it.
New flowers.

The mountain of weeds from a flower bed. Worked more than an hour! Removed weeds and planted new florets.)))
And it is still new purchases:
Here that now in a suspended pot! At last were not too busy to put in it something beautiful.
The daughter chose. Probably, these flowers are called barkhatets. I am not sure of the Russian version of the name. On - it is Greek metaksakya (silk).

They constantly blossom, leaving special is not required to them.
I bought new zamiokulkas. I love them for unpretentiousness and rare watering. Water at us expensive.

The son wanted to himself a new cactus a mamillaria. It was necessary to buy.

During the second week I plan to replace all kalanchoes, to put in order (in feelings) aloe sprouts, to replace some succulents (it is necessary to buy a pot - a flat dish)
Not to forget watering with fertilizers of all plants in a flower bed and in pots.

Week 2.

By kalanchoe it is replaced! As there is a lot of them... I do not buy! Give! Plants expand and lose attractiveness. Threw out dry branches, fresh cut off from roots and planted in fresh soil.
Watered.

Sansevyeriya after winter will not recover in any way. Replaced it in a pot more. Young escapes will go to growth.

Separated escape with a root on a gift.
Transplanted 2 more escapes in other pot.

New flower in a flower bed---the son chose, I bought. It is a calla, higher than 2 meters grow and in width---how many the space allows.
The daughter liked a flower, we it were so given. I do not know the name. Not it is similar to a delphinium, but.
In one empty pot planted 3 different flowers: a geranium and two others (I do not know names).

Portulak placed in the sun as in a shadow ceased to blossom. For a shadow I will find something else.
Peppermint shanks, raise roots.
The plant without the name---after landing in soil went to growth.)))


And this decoration of a table on a verandah. Composition from succulents in one pot as now it is fashionable.
Decorated with stones from the sea and shells.
All my plants, put shanks. To buy expensively, we have such prices... horror...
Now it is beautiful and cozy.)))

There is a wish to make much more---works a lot! But I understand that hour a day is enough. Watering, change, fertilizer,---everything takes time!

Week 3.

Week passed in a quiet rhythm. Little made, was engaged in the health, then the daughter got sick with cold. Made tests on kovid, negative. We treat it cough.
I have a mood on zero. Observed the Full moon this week. Very beautifully. But some melancholy in soul...
For a raising of mood some of orchids blossomed.



The others with buds, are ready to blossom.
Put a shoot of a sansevyeriya separately and decorated on a gift, already presented.))) It is a grade "Moonlight", it is light.

Portulak blossomed again when moved to the open sun.
Nevertheless seated a distressful cactus in 2 pots. Poured roots cinnamon and filled fresh soil.
The geranium blossoms.
These are plans for the next week:

To put a chlorophytum in order.
To weed parsley.

Put tradescantia shanks, stolen.))))

Week 4.
Everything grows and turns green. Everything needs watering.
Did not deal with a chlorophytum as planned. The suspended pot new is necessary. Did not buy. And other purchases that wanted to make, could not.
Shanks of mint were gone, without having given roots in water. Gave earlier. (((
Nothing, I can replace ready shoots with roots.



Just it is necessary to divide these bushes.

Orchids continue to open buds.



Zamiokulkas, that lives at me in the bathroom, saved from frosts few years ago, raises 2 large leaves at once.
Here one...
And the second...

The geranium pleases with blossoming. I hold with a hand, and that the breeze does not allow the camera to be focused.
In the same pot with a geranium that - that another blossomed. I do not know the name...

Garnet tree - flowers and small fruits.
I adore a shade of its florets!!!


The nectarine already kept up.

Apricots catch up...
Apples still small...
Formosa plum Japanese spet...




Here is how was two weeks ago.
And as looks now---everything went to growth! Succulents grow by leaps and bounds.


Green hedge from hibiscuses.

Week 5.

Practically, we were not at home. But something that is made.
The new ceramic white cachepot for my favourite---the very first orchid in my life is bought. Which is with me since 2011.


My beauty blossoms always the first of all. Also gives two tsvetonos.

Succulents expand and soon to them will become close. It is necessary to replace again.
The tradescantia in a week gave roots and was extended in length! This speed!!!
Favourite flower from the Soviet past... In each institution, like policlinics and offices of directors / directors of studies surely there lived tradescantias! Unpretentious, but charming room lianas.
The new suspended pot was bought it. And it is successfully replaced.





Also soil for houseplants was bought. It is already the third bag during a marathon.
The tree went to growth and plentifully clusters.
I wait for blossoming. It will be blue small florets.
The geranium fragrant went to growth. Earlier I had a bush---meter in height and two in width.
"Noble" weed. I do not know, a melon or a vegetable marrow... Decided not to touch and look. In a flower bed it does not fit, but is fine...
Red hibiscus that - that sits and thinks... Does not go to growth. Perhaps raises roots?...
Pansies my son prior to the beginning of the Marathon bought. Watered, then forgot. The flower almost dried up! Turned yellow... I thought what will not survive.
Gradually he recovered and responded with blossoming to leaving (mine, not the son).
Orchid - one of the oldest in a collection. Once nearly died from the gulf water.
But it oklematsya, we found a rhythm of watering and it gives every season me red flowers.))))
Plum is the Japanese Formosa. Speet the first in our garden. Branches rise to my verandah on the second floor.
The son thrust an aloe sprout. Also forgot to water. The earth dried up. Hardy aloe! I will replace itself and I will take care.
Sansevyeriya will be replaced! She already has no place to grow.

Week 6.

Not much, watering generally and fertilizer of plants is made.
But gave shanks here of such cactus, I will find its name... Put in a pot, will give roots and will branch... Blossoms red flowers when grows.
Put shoots of a chlorophytum in a suspended pot, watered.
Succulents in a pot - a flat dish already strongly expanded... It will be necessary to replace. Did not expect!
And it is other pot, the tozhe should think how to seat them.
Other succulent blossoms.
Orchid.))))
New liquid fertilizers are bought.
In structure main ingredients and additional. I show structure for those who understand.
Sansevyeriya does not want to leave a pot. Tore off several shoots.
Planted separately in soil. Watered.

Plans for the last week: to seat all succulents, to fertilize everything that is necessary, to order and sum up the results.))))

Week 7. Final.

Everything grows before the eyes... The nature rejoices to warm summer and... to plentiful watering from me.)))
I love the plants which are not bringing efforts! Various succulents, orchids, geranium and cactuses.
I do not know, but I hope that shanks of a passionflower (passion fruit) nevertheless took roots. Not all, many dried and I threw out. But those that look live, I hope, and will remain such. I do not want to disturb and dig out so far.

The hibiscus took roots and went to growth.
The presented orchid shank dendrobium for some reason ceased to grow itself, but let out "child" on a stalk, and it already with backs. I will plant in soil.
Replaced an aloe from the burst pot in new.
Portulak royal blossoms on the sun.))))
The tradescantia expands... The most hardy of plants.
The sister-in-law gave to the daughter several sprouts of a tsiliya which was sowed at it in a flower bed. Not all sprouts were accepted, only the strongest. Are going to blossom, it is necessary to replace in soil.







Children broke off several branches from a succulent and they just lay on the earth. I wanted to throw out, but regretted and thrust in a pot. Leaves gave roots and went to growth. It is an echeveria, the most unpretentious plant from succulents.
Here so grows.
It is my pot with the succulents planted at the beginning of a marathon. In 7 weeks mad growth!!!
Fragment from the same pot. Other grade of an echeveria.

Tolstyanochka from the same pot - was tiny boring...

I am happy with a marathon, I will sum up the results in the separate publication.))))
All thanks for attention!!!