Welcome to Robert and Michael's Gardening Page - Fellsway East, Malden, Massachusetts 1998 Edition |
Well, what a very interesting spring/early summer this has been! March 28th, 1998, it hits 89 degrees and the fever strikes. Dig, dig, dig, enrich, enrich, enrich, plant, plant plant. May arrives with two weeks of rain which leads into June with 2 more weeks of record setting rain (15" inches in fact) and now in July we've had 2 official heatwaves. But, luckily we've only lost 6 marigolds and 6 New Guinea Impatiens (to some kind of fungus) and one Clematis (we think to rot). We have been hand picking aphids off the roses as well as some Chinese and Japanese Beetles and Red Lily Leaf Beetle, which has invaded New England. They love to chomp on your Asiatic hybrid lilies (but not daylilies) as well as Lily-of-the-Valley. But overall, we have been very lucky and successful.
Just remember, there was nothing here when we started!
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 Looking up towards the rose and flower
garden. On the right by the lattice is our herb garden which is starting to flourish now
that we have dry and hot weather. |
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 Rose: variety Bonica |
 Pink Lily |
 Stargazer Lily |
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Last Updated: Sunday, March 19, 2006 07:39 PM
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Looking down towards
the vegetable area with the new trellis for the Dynamite rose.
View of the Lily bed with some Zinnias at
the far end.
The new front yard
with the Rocket Red Impatiens, wintergreen, winterberry, azaleas.
Fondly known as the Purple Bed as all the flowers are lavender.
The shade garden
with astilbe, cardinal lobelia, nicotiana, tiarella, bleeding heart and clematis.
Helianthus
Decapetalus Plenus - Perennial Sunflower.
Rose: Taboo variety (source:
Jackson and Perkins: Mahoney's Rocky Ledge, Winchester, MA)
Yellow and Red Glaxinia (source: Mahoney's Nursery,
Winchester, MA) with purple Integrifolia Petunia (source: 
Osteospermum Sparkler - white with deep purple center.
Rose: variety Graceland
Common Red Geranium
Gladiolus
Priscilla
Gladiolus Este Bonita
Hedge Rose: variety
White Simplicity
White Lily with pink center 
Orange Lily
Scaevola Aemula
"Blue Wonder"
Rocket Red Impatiens
(source: Mahoney's, Winchester, MA)