Weekend Project

With a full time job, the weekends usually are the only time I can tackle some garden projects (although sometimes I also use weekday nights if I am too eager to wait).

This weekend I did quite a few moving and planting...

Four newly purchased dormant rose bushes were finally put into the ground. All of them already have new leaves emerging.

This is the corner of the flower bed that contains six rose bushes now, including two "New Day", two "Peace", one "Double Delight", and one pink tea rose (lost the name tag). I will call it the rose corner :) 

Two new gazanias were planted in front of the west flower bed of the backyard.

With this winter's unusual cold weather in south florida, I feel my garden is in half sleeping state except for some blooming annuals. So, this friday afterwork, I directly drove to the garden center to buy a few more plants to add more color into my garden. This gazania's brilliant color really cheers me up!

This is another plant I bought this friday, a double layerd pink Kalanchoe. I love its long lasting rose like blossom!

It is planted in a partial shaded area of the west back yard flower bed, next to the ground orchids.

There are four clumps of Agapanthus Africanus planted in the front garden by the previous owner. When we moved in last summer, two of them were still blooming. The other two that did not bloom are located more deep and behind ixora bushes. They hardly get any sun during the day and I think that is the reason they did not bloom. From this picture, you can see the ones in the back is much smaller than the ones in the front, which get the morning sun.

I decided to move the two smaller ones to the back yard west flower bed, where they would receive morning sun, and a few hour of afternoon sun in the summer. I hope I am making the right decision.

Anybody knows how much florida sun this Agapanthus Africanus needs for it to thrive?  And how much is too much?

Here is their new location.

Oh, one other thing I did was I planted one Angel's Trumpet cutting that I got from my friend.

I found Angel's Trumpet is very easy to propagate via cuttings.  When I first got the cuttings from my friend, all the leaves wilted by staying in the car trunk for the whole day.  After a few days in the water, the old leaves fell off, and the new sprouts emerged.  Now you can see a few sets of new leaves are already growing. Small roots were also developed. 

I can not wait to see those gorgeous trumpet shaped white flower dangling down from it! I have been drooling over this one when looking at the pictures on the internet...  When it blooms, it should look like this:

I also did some other work in my south east corner flower bad in backyard. I will do another post about it once it finishes.

I always feel a sense of achievement after a busy weekend in the garden.  Do you feel the same thing? 
Hope you all had a very good weekend!