Mom's Day Eve.

5-7-11 SHORT HILLS: We have had a pair of sunny, cool and breezy days. Yesterday I re-potted the tomatoes in larger cups, mostly one to a cup. I have six each of four varieties at this point and hoping for about four of each for the garden at the end of the month. They have been spending days outside in the sun and seem to enjoy it.

Today was a busy one. I watered all the new plantings, transplanted some feral day lilies, transplanted some star-of-Bethlehem volunteers that were growing in the mowed parts of the yard. [That part which is referred to as lawn in other yards.] I pruned a bit, did the May fertilizer applications, and started the sprinkler system and checked out all the zones. A couple sprinkler heads needed cleaning.

New blooms: more viburnums, including siebold, Korean spice and double file, more azalea, wild strawberry, May apple, Solomon seal, false Solomon seal, first rhododendron, leucothoe.


Wood Hyacinth comes in pink, blue and white and is reliably perennial.

Leucothoe. The flowers look like andromeda or lily-of-the-valley. The hardest part is pronouncing it. Try this: lu-KO-thway.