Radogast's Non-420 Garden Creation Thread

[Radogast]

Since the hazelnuts think it is spring, I transplanted Roman Chamomile outside into urns

I grew the seeds indoors in 4" pots. I think they will be happy in the extra space

The resin urns were an auction purchase over the winter. Yes, the wife feeds sunflower seeds to the squirrels and birds.

 

[kelticBlue]

Hi Rad.
In your experience with the Chamomile is it hard to kill?
I tried to get rid of it in my lazy way, I buried it, just covered it with dirt. It keeps growing back sometimes after 3-4 months under ground.
I dont mind it, i have no plans on letting it flower just having my fun in the garden.

Could just be some magic i don't see.

Grate Day.

 

[Radogast]

Hi Rad.
In your experience with the Chamomile is it hard to kill?
I tried to get rid of it in my lazy way, I buried it, just covered it with dirt. It keeps growing back sometimes after 3-4 months under ground.
I dont mind it, i have no plans on letting it flower just having my fun in the garden.

Could just be some magic i don't see.

Grate Day.

Chamomile as a plant is new to me. As a tea, very familiar.

On the one hand, being a creeping plant, it can handle being a little bit burried.

On the other hand, the root ball looks like evey other root ball so I imagine it's not that hard to kill by uprooting.

Witchipedia mentions chamomile as one of the 9 sacred anglo-saxon herbs - so there might be magic there

 

[kelticBlue]

Witchipedia mentions chamomile as one of the 9 sacred anglo-saxon herbs

Okay now I am interested, and dang how do you know this ?

 

[Radogast]

Hi Rad.
In your experience with the Chamomile is it hard to kill?
I tried to get rid of it in my lazy way, I buried it, just covered it with dirt. It keeps growing back sometimes after 3-4 months under ground.
I dont mind it, i have no plans on letting it flower just having my fun in the garden.

Could just be some magic i don't see.

Grate Day.

Witchipedia mentions chamomile as one of the 9 sacred anglo-saxon herbs - so there might be magic there

Okay now I am interested, and dang how do you know this ?

Because Google search 'chamomile magic' took me to the chamomile entry on witchipedia

Then, just now, the nine sacred herbs of Wodin are: Mugwort, plantago, lamb's cress, venom-loather, chamomile, nettles, crab apple, chervil and fennel.


Mugwort made it onto my Rain Garden planting plan I sketched out today.
We talked about a crab apple tree yesterday, but will try to find a Downy Hawthorn for that spot.
Fennel was considered for a low hedge, but the wife talked me into a taller hedge, so I decided on Summersweet - more for the bees and butterflies
Plantago/plantain is one of those weed/herbs that follow human occupation. There is some in the back yard/driveway edge.
I don't have a clue about venom-loather

Sacred plants tend to appear in my garden choices without being conscious choices



P.S. I checked out your Timber 200w CREE link. Nicely done. If I ever go that route, I'm reading in detail. !

 

[SweetSue]

If you have a protected area try some sweet woodruff as an edging plant. A wonderfully engaging profile with delicate white blossoms with the most divine aroma. I can still conjur it in my memory. It's great indoors, gathered in a bunch, roughly wrapped and hung to dry. Reach up and crush some in passing for a delightful healing scent. It was historically hung in sickrooms as an air purifier.

Camomile makes a good plant for between the paving stones or along the edge of a well-traveled walkway. The trampling they endure crushes seeds into the soil and keeps the planting vigorious. Not to mention the delicious apple smell that wafts up when you do step on the overhanging branches. One of my favorite plantings.

Yours are off to a great start Rad. As they mature and seed, consider broadcasting the seeds along the front walk.

By the way, I adore the way you guys develop your home and property, and it's so delightful to be able to share in the joy.

 

[Radogast]

If you have a protected area try some sweet woodruff as an edging plant. A wonderfully engaging profile with delicate white blossoms with the most divine aroma. I can still conjur it in my memory. It's great indoors, gathered in a bunch, roughly wrapped and hung to dry. Reach up and crush some in passing for a delightful healing scent. It was historically hung in sickrooms as an air purifier.

Camomile makes a good plant for between the paving stones or along the edge of a well-traveled walkway. The trampling they endure crushes seeds into the soil and keeps the planting vigorious. Not to mention the delicious apple smell that wafts up when you do step on the overhanging branches. One of my favorite plantings.

Yours are off to a great start Rad. As they mature and seed, consider broadcasting the seeds along the front walk.

By the way, I adore the way you guys develop your home and property, and it's so delightful to be able to share in the joy.

In New York State, I knew it as Sweet Scented Bedstraw - Changing the bedstraw after a sickness is a good way to purify too

The list I put together is a 'First Year Minimum" plant list. If the City accepts me as a Rain Garden project, I am expected to complete the project. So I only want to commit to a list of plants and physical improvements that they will be able to sign off on.

At least that is my thought tonight. This morning I spent 3 hours on plant placement maps (and yes, I overplanted a bit ) Tomorrow I have a home visit from the Storm Water Technician who takes the lead on these projects. Who knows? He might talk me into adding a free Rain barrel

I expect they will accept the project. Local landmark house in a nationally registered historic district with a bonafide stormwater erosion problem. I have a competitive homeowner 'story.' Then again, they might spend all their budget on 401(c)3 properties.


If the project is approved, the back yard may have to fend for itself (except for a few vegetables and vines,) as I focus on the front and side yard construction. It is quite likely that most of the backyard will be ignored until fall. Then again, if the city pays me for the front yard, some of that money may buy us a backyard pergola

 

[kelticBlue]

Plantago/plantain is one of those weed/herbs that follow human occupation. There is some in the back yard/driveway edge.

Good ol' broadleaf grows everywhere, I have used this as a natural fertilizer in the garden in AACT tea or fermented plant extracts. high in N -- i think


I also use chamomile tea for sprout and early veg, trace amounts of calcium, magnesium, potassium and other such minerals.

lawd I miss my garden.

 

[Radogast]

The wife's Kitchen Pantry Cupboard


This morning the wife finished creating her Pantry Cupboard for the kitchen. Starting with a large, cheap bookcase and a mis-matched pair of shutters, she designed and custom painted a cute and functional cupboard.


First things first, we had to unload and move the Baker's Rack from the kitchen into the New Orleans room (the newly painted dining room.)

Primarily a bar, but also a cat sitting and plants in the window spot - whoops! I forgot the quarter round around the window

My wife did all the painting and stencilling. This morning I stapled on a center strip and added door hinges, knobs, and magentic latches.

See - the doors actually close

and open.

My wife loved doing the stenciling and chalk paint - She wants to do more!

I would never chose to stencil 5 stencil rows on one shelf. The Mrs. loves creating layers.

River Cat carefully monitored the unloading, moving, and reloading of the Baker's Rack and Kitchen Pantry Cupboard

My wife spent weeks on this - still plans to touch up paint and add painted draginfly paths on the doors. The wife doesn't like to brag, but she has that pleasant feeling of accomplishment and pride in a job well done. Like a harvest

Trust me. There will be more in and on this pantry by the end of the week!

Thanks for reading. I'm proud of my wife and her love for budget decorating.

 

[Tead]

The wife's Kitchen Pantry Cupboard


This morning the wife finished creating her Pantry Cupboard for the kitchen. Starting with a large, cheap bookcase and a mis-matched pair of shutters, she designed and custom painted a cute and functional cupboard.


First things first, we had to unload and move the Baker's Rack from the kitchen into the New Orleans room (the newly painted dining room.)

Primarily a bar, but also a cat sitting and plants in the window spot - whoops! I forgot the quarter round around the window

My wife did all the painting and stencilling. This morning I stapled on a center strip and added door hinges, knobs, and magentic latches.

See - the doors actually close

and open.

My wife loved doing the stenciling and chalk paint - She wants to do more!

I would never chose to stencil 5 stencil rows on one shelf. The Mrs. loves creating layers.

River Cat carefully monitored the unloading, moving, and reloading of the Baker's Rack and Kitchen Pantry Cupboard

My wife spent weeks on this - still plans to touch up paint and add painted draginfly paths on the doors. The wife doesn't like to brag, but she has that pleasant feeling of accomplishment and pride in a job well done. Like a harvest

Trust me. There will be more in and on this pantry by the end of the week!

Thanks for reading. I'm proud of my wife and her love for budget decorating.

Wow! Beautiful paintjob Mrs. Rad!

One of my exes (yes, there are more than one.... meh!) was an artistic soul. She once did an incredible paint job on a old metal glider with a complete fairy theme. It was awesome.

The colors in the Orleans room seem apropos. I don't know how or why the Yats settled on the pastel palette, but it sure does fill in the background of the local world. You can't fool me tho... I can tell that's not a local room simply because of the floorboards and molding. The bakers rack looks great in the window.

I don't know what it is about crystal door pulls... never dug 'em.... not even the big doorknob ones.

 

[Radogast]

Wow! Beautiful paintjob Mrs. Rad!

One of my exes (yes, there are more than one.... meh!) was an artistic soul. She once did an incredible paint job on a old metal glider with a complete fairy theme. It was awesome.

The colors in the Orleans room seem apropos. I don't know how or why the Yats settled on the pastel palette, but it sure does fill in the background of the local world. You can't fool me tho... I can tell that's not a local room simply because of the floorboards and molding. The bakers rack looks great in the window.

I don't know what it is about crystal door pulls... never dug 'em.... not even the big doorknob ones.

The first project I saw my wife do was change the girls 'pretty pink princess' tubular metal bedroom set into a 'survivor philipines' beach motif with a hermit crab terrarium desk, and a canopy bed of faux bamboo and cheap luau decorations.

I'm not tearing up my 120 year old plain oak floor to fit a decorating theme - If I had left it covered with stains and ground in dirt you'd never have noticed Once the room comes together and then goes over the top with decorating, you'll see the flavor of the room.

I grew up in a 1916 house and the first house I owned was a 1906 house (gorgeous arts and crafts walnut inlay in the oak floors - soft pine in the bedrooms.) Those glass door knobs feel like home to me. The doorknobs in this house have fancy brass scrollwork on the plates and knobs. Beautiful, but more 'upscale' than 'home.'

 

[kelticBlue]

Very nice. Beautiful cupboard.

 

[Radogast]

31 degrees last night. I left the fountain on.

The grass greened up this week.

 

[Radogast]

Multiple flowers, 70 degrees, it feels like spring


My first Tulip to open - yesterday

My first Tulip to open - today

among the Daffodials (such happy flowers )

Grape Hyacinth

Grape Hyacinth in white

Creeping Charlie / Creeping Jenny

Dandelion (Dawn-de-Lee-own)

Wild Violet ?

I am digging a drainage trench for my Rain garden. Spent hours and hours this week reading about various plants and where to source them. I'm probably spending spending $400 on plants this season. It's sweet that the city is paying me to plant them


The first 30' of 8" deep trench with grass lifted.

The trench with grass replaced.

 

[Gauge Steel]

Nice work. I just removed 600plus square feet of creeping jenny and english ivy from my flower beds. I know about removing sod. Your place looks great. Your tulips and Daf's look great. I like your style of gardening. Subbed.
Gauge

 

[Gauge Steel]

Wife's anny present. 22 years of my dumbass.

Gauge

 

[Radogast]

Wife's anny present. 22 years of my dumbass.

Gauge

Nice.

An asian aesthetic (I'm a sucker for the lanterns) in a low maintenance setting.

Is that a cold tolerant bamboo? It's quite an attractive specimen.

 

[Gauge Steel]

Japanese lace maple Thanks. This pheno (lol) is not out in the bigger garden stores yet. Its one of the smaller green varieties.
Always check here for updates. Love gardening of any kind. your place is amazing. Look forward to watching it grow.
Gauge

 

[kelticBlue]

Multiple flowers, 70 degrees, it feels like spring

Tulips, Daffodils, Hyacinth, Oh my! Some of my favorites!

 

[Radogast]

Japanese lace maple Thanks. This pheno (lol) is not out in the bigger garden stores yet. Its one of the smaller green varieties.
Always check here for updates. Love gardening of any kind. your place is amazing. Look forward to watching it grow.
Gauge

The forest on the first page of this thread is not where we live anymore. It gives a false sense of where I am now, but it was a great place to experience. Although the surrounding forest was friendly, the yard was difficult/impossible to garden in, I would love to have been able to bring my rock waterfall and a few trees and animals with me in the move.

The new garden is shaping out to be a melange of native flowering pants, traditional herbs and vegetables, and crowded European cottage garden spacing. In my mind, it will be a true delight.

My wife is getting creative garden ideas. We have discussed a whole new layer of structures to add after I finished the ones I have planned

Tulips, Daffodils, Hyacinth, Oh my! Some of my favorites!

We had more bulbs come up and deliver better flowers from 4 bags of bulbs purchased at the midwestern grocery store than I had after planting 523 bulbs fom multiple sources back in Massachusetts. Plants just love to grow in this corner of the Midwest It really makes it satisfying to work on the garden.