Accessible Gardening: #4 - still laughing with joy, 1 by lovemyhouse

lovemyhouse wrote:
Nadine, did you ever take Carnations and put them in dyed water? (We used to do that at school for Mother's Day and Valentine's Day.) Just read you can do the same thing with cut white roses. So you could make your own blue ones temporarily until the plant geneticists can give us some to grow in the ground. Wonder if you planted a white one, then kept pouring blue-dyed water around it, would the shrubbery turn blue? Would the flowers? That would be fun to try out...

Daylilies do seem to be addictive. I've certainly been bitten by that bug this year. Still have two or three more to get planted before mid-November. We don't usually get too much below freezing in Winter, but we generally start getting our first 32 degree lows right before Thanksgiving and I want them in the ground beforehand.

Among all the other stuff today, dug up what was left of a Nutmeg Thyme to replace with
a Franziska Maria Clematis, using an old tomato cage as the frame/trellis. I am soooo excited about next Spring. So much new stuff going in. The thyme went in a pot. Think I will bring it inside and try to nurse it back to health. It did NOTNOTNOT like the heat and dry this year.

Debra