Perfect Mother’s Day for me - my people helped me get all my annuals and get the herb and veggie garden started on Saturday and then a day in the Botanic Garden yesterday.
I made a vertical planter out of a discarded pallet but need more herbs to fill it.
Love your outdoor setting! And fun on the new planter! Also I’m a sucker for vintage metal patio sets. That one is 
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None of my hydrangeas are blooming this year. I guess my lack of knowing what fertilizer they might need finally caught up with me. What do I do for them?
I’ve heard that hydrangeas need really acidic soil.
Gotta figure out the right fertilizer. They always bloomed before. Different colors at different times, but always big blooms. Not this year
Do you prune them? Do you normally fertilize them?
I haven’t tried this myself BUT remember reading that it can be more effective with a special (higher acidic content?) vinegar, not your grocery store variety??
Just a thought to research a little more
Something like this
https://a.co/d/a7pxtGt
Like I said, they’ve been on their own, unless the lawn guys do something. The one year I cut the blooms they didn’t bloom the next year. I’d read something about not cutting certain hydrangeas at a certain time so I just don’t cut them now.
We bought a house with several hydrangeas last fall. Big mop head hydrangeas and oak leaf hydrangeas- I’m worried some of mine won’t bloom because not knowing I cut one small one short and one or two I cut the blooms (and actually used them for display) - some I left alone. They are currently nice and green and growing full of LEAVES. It’s too early here for blooms yet but I’m a little anxious that I screwed up!
It works!! I use it to kill weeds that come up in walkways with pavers and my driveway. Takes a few days for the weeds to die.
Do you use a higher strength vinegar mix or just grocery store vinegar?
I’ve used white distilled vinegar from the grocery store, but a landscape guy told me that you can get a commercial strength vinegar at a garden store. I’ve not tried it.
Are they usually blooming now for you in Georgia? Mine in Maryland won’t bloom for awhile. Obviously different types bloom at different times and the weather here would typically delay blooming anyway.
Yes, there are specific times and ways to prune specific varieties. I prune mine right after they are done blooming.
They have bloomed for years. Maybe climate change could be an issue, but neighbors’ are blooming.
Do a google photo search pic of it and see what comes up. Or google if there are any types of mint that you can’t eat!
Not sure where to post it, but gardeners might appreciate this. A bunch of crows decided to hang out in our yard every morning! Pecking at the trash can, trying to rip through bags of topsoil, making a racket, crapping on anything they sat on… ugh. So my husband researched the issue and purchased a fake dead crow off Amazon. Tied it to a stick and hung that in the front yard after the sunset so the crowd wouldn’t see him doing that. The fake crow seems to be doing what it is supposed to! Not a crow sighting so far in three days. He has since moved the fake crow to a different spot as it was recommended. We shall see… 
I feel like I’ve seen this in some garden settings!
D24 graduated high school yesterday!