Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

 It's like someone flipped a switch.  It was too-hot summer.  Now it's rainy fall. Most fruits are done.   We are starting to ge...

Historic - mostly - Iris Beds.  9.1.14 Recovering Iris Plants.  9.1.14 Recovering Iris Plants.  9.1.14  This is the state of t...

Bearded Iris Raised Beds.  8.10.14 Trying not to over-do TLC for the bearded irises.  It's hard for me to just leave them alone, ev...

Figs.  7.22.14  When figs start to ripen, first it's one, then another one, then a couple.  Sometimes then, they start to ripen lik...

Iris bed #1.   Iris bed #2 Now the irises are growing fast.  Each day they are larger and more sturdy.  I wonder which ones will bl...

Bionide Hot Pepper Wax Lilly Miller Chelated Iron Plus  I was looking for something else in the garage.  Found these products.  I d...

Repotted one of the Paphiopedilum plants. It turned out to be two plants in one pot. I was disappointed, because instead of one robust plant...

Today (Saturday), I... Weeded the rose bed. This bed now has almost as many fruit trees, brambles, and plants, as roses, but still contains ...

With the warmer sunnier weather, the Peach Leaf Curl seems to have stopped infecting the newest leaf sprouts. However, so much damage was d...

Here is the rose and fruit raised bed after adding a layer of yard waste compost. this is about 1/2 of a truck load, but since it's hea...

Again the title says it all. This Anigozanthos (Kanga red-green) looks like it's about to bite the dust. The dreaded " ink dise...

Neem Oil. I sprayed the Anigozanthos again. The Kanga Red-Green is looking very sad with inky black spot disease. It might die. The yellow ...

More accurately, continued from Sunday (Mar 17). - Pruned Meyer lemon to 3 main branches, more upright. It has new gropwth on each branch t...