We got back from California yesterday and my plants survived. The sprinkler worked to keep the pots watered, the other stuff went a week without but they're fine. The seedling pots indoors were okay.
Today is very windy but warm and sunny. Rain, snow and 30 degrees is expected over Easter weekend. I have to remember it is still only mid April, so even though many things are greening up (columbines and one geum are even starting to open blooms), other things may not yet show.
But here's what I can tell so far:
🔺 Radio Red sages that were in the ground are coming back. The several that wintered over in pots are showing absolutely nothing.
🔺 Clematis vines are leafing out and stretching -- at least the Summer Love, Jackmanii and Venosa violacae. I need to get those fertilized soon.
No signs of life
◓ Windwalker Red sage that I had planned to put in front of the table by the garage seems very dead. I wintered it over in a pot in the garage, but it looks like a goner.
◓ I lost one of the dwarf purple Midnight sages in the circle.
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| Bush clematis going gangbusters |
◓ Despite the other clematis vines leafing out nicely, the pretty white Alba Luxurians has nothing up yet at all.
◓ I lost all of the scarlet monardellas that I had potted up and kept in the garage. And no sign of life in the small Cubano cuphea in the terra cotta trough. No sign of life in the various Kent's Beauty oregano pots at all.
◓ And one of the coreopsis plants in a terra cotta bowl is gone. The other looks good, coming up green.
Jury is Still Out
No sign of leafing out on either ironwood, the Persian Spires in the ground or the Vanessa I potted up. And yet the Vanessa by the guest room window, tall and graceful is fully leafed out. I'll wait.
Coreopsis pots -- one looks good, one doesn't
Okay, that's the early inventory. There may yet be something to show in the next month as the late ones come to life, or maybe not.
While we were gone the crabapple bloomed, but we came back to mostly green leaves. The viburnum is gloriously fragrant and flowery right now.
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| The crabapple and the viburnum are well underway |