Season 2022

Cedar Court Gardens will have Season 2022 but no Garden Committee. Whether we have more seasons may depend on whether or not management digs up the burdock in time. See report at bottom.

In January on one of the coldest days in the dead of winter some of us met on the parking lot beside mountains of snow to discuss gardens. Predictably, the most enthusiasm anyone could kick up was the blog I’d made with last year’s photos. Our next garden meeting held in late April on moist earth in shirt sleeves concluded that we did not have adequate interest to create a garden committee. But a key person had been unable to attend. Meet Dorothy and her best buddy Levon. That’s pronounced leVON when you meet him in the lobby.

“This is my donation to the garden,” she told me.

Dorothy’s donations to Cedar Court Gardens, some annual flowers and a perennial butterfly bush like she has had in all her gardens to attract hummingbirds, May 7 2022.

The Gardens After Planting

May 8 2022, 11:00 AM

Left of Gate

Squirrel Destruction, 2:45 PM

I went out this afternoon at 2:45 for photos of individual plants and arrangements in time to see a grey squirrel scamper out of the garden and up the fence, leaving behind two destroyed flowers. This is the culprit.

Squirrels are known to feed on garden plants on balconies and in gardens.

What’s left after the squirrel’s feast.

Before the squirrel’s feast, this arrangement centred on the purple lungwort had been very pretty.

Lungwort and Plant before squirrel got it.

Individual Plants

Right of Gate

Bright red geranium on the left, bush trained to grow up by the fence, and on the right is the butterfly bush.

Red and white geraniums arranged by purple violets right of gate.

Butterfly bush right of gate.

Back Corner & Behind Deck

May 8 2022 Periwinkle and blue violets in full bloom among spring-green grass. Rosebush on left, tree root and deck on right. Rock and footpath in middle.

Red Peony Plant

Young Tree growing back from root.

Flowering bulbs

Violets

Spirea Bush

Our Other Gardener

Robin Redbreast

Garden by Tree

Garden In Front of Deck

THREAT: Burdock, a Vicious Weed

Unless the plants are dug up as soon as possible, burdock will take over the garden. Last year we had one healthy plant growing by the fence. Now we have three healthy young plants out there.

Burdock plant from last year gone to seed.

One young burdock plant is in the middle of this bare bare patch of soil.

The other two young burdock plants are those broad-leaved plants on either side of the red geranium.