Lilies: Is it spring anywhere?, 0 by billyporter

billyporter wrote:
Ge, the bears are right up my alley. Instant love!! Especially standing in flowers! The kids like to garden too? That's great! I love the shirley poppies. I have the double pink, and red. I used to pull the singles when they came up, but not any more. The pink is such a pure clean color.

Donna, we went to a conservation area and pilfered a few bluebells. They have popped up everywhere and I like every one of them :o) I had one bunch stay pink for a long time. The grandkids were sucking the honey from them and I asked how the pink tasted. The five year old said "Oh, it's a little sour. It's not ripe yet."

Steve, you got the rabbit right. They're cute and loveable till you grow up and have a garden and flowers! I still love a baby bunny tho :o) There will be plenty of them in a few weeks. I was weeding in the rock garden one year, grubbing around and all of a sudden a weed squealed and got out of the nest. He was too tiny, so I grabbed him and put him back. Adorable! It reminded me of the time our neighbors little dog found and brought a couple out of our pasture. They weren't too little. We got them from him and me and my sister put them in a box in our room. We would wake up in the middle of the night and see if they wanted any milk from our doll bottles. We did not know rabbits fed at night. They survived and we let them go. Boy, be glad for the rain. Our dirt is just wet if you dig down. The top is rock hard so a dandelion digger is a must. Nothing pulls very well! I love salvias! I also planted the common Hyssop. It reseeds very well, and it's a bee plant. I want bees! Lets see your dutch iris!

Donna, people wail over garlic mustard the way I wail over the wild garlic. The bulblets are so tiny there is no way to get all of it. I even exchanged the dirt when I planted the new bed. It still showed up. I keep plucking the onion like leaves off hoping to deplete it's food supply.



Steve, aren't lilies a powerful flower? I can't wait for them! Oohhh, I can't wait to see your peonies too. Look at them standing tall! Wow, those sneaked in! They're pretty!

Ge, seriously? They are a pest?

It's been cool and WINDY here. There was so much dirt in the air yesterday that I gave up and came in. I swear the gravel they put down is the dirtiest stuff I've ever seen. They started using it last year. We have a gravel road that leads into town and the grain trucks and semi's will bring it to the end of the block. Then the fertilizer company across the road put down new gravel. Yeah!

If we're lucky, rain might be here tomorrow.

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