Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Dawn Redwood, about seven years later.

 I planted this Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, in 2017.  It's starting to leaf out now for spring.

Quite impressive.  Here is the tree when I planted it in 2017.

Considering the root pruning, I'm still amazed it grew.

Freeze Damage To Tasmanian Alpine Eucalyptus (E. subcrenulata ). 18 Apr 24.

 In 2020, I planted a Tasmanian Alpine Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus subcrenulata.    It was marked as cold hardy to this area.   Last winter had some major cold snaps.  If I remember correctly, as low as 19 F.

I haven't taken much time to examine the tree, since the freeze.   It's quite tall now, no way can I look at the top growth.

Low branches definitely had a lot of freeze.  Many are dead.

For comparison, here is new growth in 2021. 

I think the top is OK.  It seems to be maturing from juvenile oval leaves, to mature lance shaped leaves.

It would be fun if the mature growth bloomed this year. As always, time will tell.

Mini Rose Update. A Bud And Some Aphids. 15 Apr 25.

 The first of the yellow mini rose, that I think is SunMaid, has a nice bud.

I check every day for aphids.

It helps to hold the plant on its side, so the aphids don't just fall onto to soil and climb back up.

Last year with the peppers, the only satisfactory solution was to spritz off the aphids, so that's what I'm doing now.  As the season progresses, I think they will go away.

Another observation - some of the plants have new shoots coming from underground.  

So I think they'll become more bushy as the plants mature.

This is a fun project.

Planting The First Dahlia and Four O'Clock Seedlings. 15 Apr 24.

  The seedling cart is pretty full, so I wanted to test to see if I can plant a few seedlings in the garden.  Nights continue to be in the 40s F.  I forgot to measure the soil temp. 

I planted two dwarf dahlia seedlings is a container that has rose cuttings and some onions for seed production.

I planted two four o'clock seedlings in the outside (outside the veggie garden deer fence) border.

My plan is to watch them for a week, then maybe plant more.  If the soil temp is 50 or above, I might sooner.

They have slug bait and bird / deer / rabbit fencing for the usual reasons.

Rehabbing / Restarting a Garlic Chive Colony. 15 Apr 24

 

Yesterday I mostly cleaned out a planter box where I had transferred a patio pot of garlic chives that was waning.  Unfortunately, the load of grass seed in soil was so high, the grass took over.  I was  never able to pick out all of the grass, which took over and killed off most of the chives.

So,I cleaned it out, dug out the top layer, which was all grass, except two bunches of garlic chive.  Then I mixed in a bucket of compost from the bin.  Then worked on cleaning up bunches of garlic chive, two from this planter and the rest from a large container I had in the back yard.

These were from the back yard container.

The bottom photo is what I saved from the planter.  I split the large bunch into two.  

 They might be too close together, but I think OK for a year or so,  After filling in the soil, I covered with about 1/2 inch of the too-fast-drying potting soil that I had already, for mulch.  Then leaves, as shown in the top image.  I gave some dilute low-nitrogen liquid fertilizer.  When they look settled and have some vigor, I can up the nitrogen.