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Rose of Sharon sprouts leaves on 4/12/2012.
Rose of Sharon
Category Archives: Ground Level
Another View of the Forsythia in Bloom
This is the Forsythia bush’s moment of glory. After blooming it becomes a mere ordinary green bush that garners no attention from anyone.
Forsythia
Chicago is experiencing a very strange weather pattern. The Forsythia bush bloomed around 3/16. Last year it didn’t bloom until around 4/28. Management for the Bucktown Garden (i.e. me) has been unprepared for this development. The last bunch of years the weather has been so bad that fixing garden stuff like replacing rotted planters couldn’t even begin until May.
The flowers are more plentiful this year than compared to last year.
Alley vines
Here’s a quick pic of the morning glory vines in the alley that connect with the veranda level morning glories. In past years I seeded the alley planters with vines other than morning glories — like moonflowers. This year I just let them grow on their own so we’ll see if any moonflowers made it.
Note to future Mark: Alley container#4 needs to be rebuilt before 2012 growing season. Potting mix on all alley containers last changed spring 2009 (I think).
Another view of my Forsythia bush in bloom
