urban thicket feb 2010

Facing north this is the right side of the garden. Those were unbleached coffee filters, i cold composted a lot on this plot because im trying to increase moisture, amount of soil and soil quality because it has all been stripped. The bottom right of the picture is dianthus. bottom left is trailing archangel, there is blue irises, herb robert, fox glove, in the majesty palm fronds is jacobs ladder, in the clay pot is a plant i cant remember the name of (i took a tiny baby out of the garden from the a and w on hasting near victoria), in the back is a plant that is similar to iris but is orange and has many flowers along the stem its another one that i knew the naem of last year but forgot over winter,  on the top left in the container is grape hyacinth, next to that is more herb robert, the vine at the top right I do not know the name of, though there is a tag next to it so i will look it up.

 

 

Still on the right side of the plot.

 

  

 

 Ive been growing snap dragons in here for years and finally this year theres a new one coming up from the seeds. It is possible that i got bored of waiting fo rthe seeds to come up and took a cutting, but this garden was starved of water last year so i dont know how likely it would be for one to have survived unless i did it around fall.

  

  

 

 

  

 

This picture make me dizzy, its over looking the balcony, its about a thirty foot drop and the thicket hangs about ten feet of it. The person who lives there is moving so i dont know if im goin gto be trimming it back or not, though it needs it as that is the undeground parkade entrance and after this year i estimate it will be dragging on the tops of cars.

 

  

I did a poor job of prunning, this is my first unsupervised pruning and ainc ei thought theat the maple tree is so vigorous it could handle something that didnt fallow guidelines. I was wrong, pruning has some clear guidelines taht can be played in. when you dont things happen, as you can see in this and the next picture the tree has a disease/fungus, i dont know what it is, the orange stuff at the badly positioned cut.

There is so many rose switches in this area becaues i was training the rose bush around the maple, i was attmepting to slow down the growth of the maple becasue it probably shouldnt be in this small contained plot with as it takes up to much resources, while also increasing smell and beauty, it does look really great when in flower.

 

This is a bit south of the last picture, it is a dangling water group of rose switches. Now its grown a lot and looks really nice, but should be removed as when the wind picks up it swings over to where the owner sits to smoke. 

This vine is reaching about 2 feet above the highest part of the maple and rose. This is the same vine that starts in the first picture. supposively it fruits but this is a north facing balcony.
 

  tulips and poppies starting in a box.

  

 

 

Ive planted herb robert along the wooden boarder.

trailing archangel on the left and spearmint on the right, didnt get much water last year so they are stunted.