New Transplants

A week behind on this post, but hey, so it goes....

Last weekend we headed out to Queens to do some tile shopping for my parents' kitchen, which turned out to be a wonderful opportunity to rescue some plants.  As I've mentioned before, my mother is the master gardener.  But then the plants go off and do their own thing - they grow in cracks, they grow where they'd otherwise be mowed down, or there are little runts that will never make it among the alphas in mama's garden.  And, since I have empty spaces, they come back home with me.

So, if I may, I'd like to introduce the new little ones.

 

In the bag in which they were transported - most prominent are a few hibiscuses and lilies of the valley.

Intended home of the hibiscus - a little weedy.  There used to be a hibiscus in this planter - the one on the blog cover.

Uprooted weeds, turned under, in hopes they will compost themselves and support the new transplants.

One set of lilies of the valley - transplanted into a pot behind the sweet grape tomatoes and Husky red tomatoes to the left, and the planter with the honey suckle and calabrochoa to the right.

More lilies of the valley - to the right and behind the bird basin, to the left of the planter with the old Japanese maple.

Bag with the little clown violets.

One of the fingernail flowers was sprouting in the Japanese maple planters; it got moved to this little pot where the calabrochoas were springing up, those having moved in with the honey suckle.

The calabrochaos - in with the honey suckle.  The calabrochoas growing in the little pot at the foot of this planter were a surprise - none reared; they came in on their own.  None of the seeds that I TRIED to cultivate actually took.

Planter in the corner - the trunk belongs to the deceased Japanese maple. The clown violets were transplanted; one may have been the offspring of some of last years.  There's a little violet, too.  And then the transplanted new Japanese maple - reared by my Mama and saved for me.  Although, it's not looking so robust here.

 

Hibiscus - three plants transplanted.  The center one is definitely the strongest, and my Mama gave me some of its native soil.  The one on the right looks ok, but it was growing in a crack, and when I tried to uproot it, roots did come out, but the main root also was stripped and scraped; a little worried about this one.  The tiny one on the left should be ok.