Propagation: Plant Propagation part XXVII based on my own experience, 1 by Pughbear7

Pughbear7 wrote:
Katie i am sorry but i missed the bad part of what the neighbor has done or said. personally i would just tall her I've been ill and that xmas was great got time to visit with family and friends. How was your xmas?
for some reason i feel like I missed something that they said or did that was not nice. Personally i love to make people wonder why tjey did not upset me especially with people that like to play games and stir stuff up so they can sit back and watch. it really bums them out to not have you participate in their games.
well we have snow predicted for today through wednesday. the high today 30 low teens with windchill of close to zero.

I had a wonderfull visit with my family in florida. i got to reconect with cousins I have not seed in over 10 years. My step aunt got married and has gotten her advanced degree's I am not sure if she has her phd but I know she has her masters and teaches both via internet and in the classroom. speach, conflict resolution and communications are the subjects she teaches.her new hubby is a phd and does conflict resolutions and negotiations with different big companies as well as a few nations. he did one in swedan.
Her brother hosted the xmas gift exchange and dinner. we over ate but what else is new. I did cut down on my plates this year. instead of four plates I only had 2 so I think I am on my way to a good diet. I am trying to take less and let it settle and then if I still am hungery in an hour or two then I get something small like a yogurt or bananna.
My grand father is looking very tierd and sleeps most of the day and night. but hey he is 90 i think if he wants to nap then he should, he has earned it. he keeps busy with his tomatoes and okra. anyone familiar with okra?? its one of those veggies that a little is good but too much and you are overwhelmed.
My grandfather has his tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets and on wheels. he put in a timer for the 2 double bulb florescent fixture. Its on a pulley system so he can raise it and lower at will. he replaces the plants when they get woody. when we were there he had new buds and lots of fruit. the only thing i would do different would be to insulate the garage a bit more than it is...ok it has no insulation on the overhead door. It was fun finding new tomatoe starts at HD. they had everything covered up because of the cold weather earlier in the week but we just unsnapped the cover and picked out the best looking one.
our family is one of those that is different in structure as my grandfather married his wife when I was 14 and she is 20 years younger than he is. she take great care of my grandfather and he is very lucky to have her to look after him. On her side she brought in 3 kids all yonger than I am so I have aunts and uncles younger than I am. I think it speaks volumes that they have been married for over 34 years.

Sharon Plant delights is a wonderfull catalog, they have a lot of different things that are on the more difficult side of hard to find. I think this year my goal is to add lady slippers and more rain lilies to my flower beds. I think I will put a few phlox out in the front hosta bed as well as some different dianthus and some of the more hardy snapdragons. my goal is to eliminate the annual pansies and to expand the bed in front of the red tip photinia as there is no room for anything to be planted in front of them. I have to slowly chip away at the turf as kim really likes it and I am not a huge fan of bermuda grass. it tends to get into everything. its tough to get out of the daylily bed as roundup will kick it in the rear and wipe it out all the work I have done on my DL bed.
I am looking forward to it this year (DL bed) as it will be its 3rd year. ok anyone want any of what I call my ditch lily? Please dmail me so I can get a list going. i would like to be done with DL's by the time my plugs come in. the plugs are suposed to arive the 1st week of april. I supose I can hold some of them for the last 2 weeks of the month if I need to. see the pick attached. they get long and are a nice orange color. I just like the more contrasting colored ones with pie crust and edge color on them.
Katie I don't know what the restrictions are for sending plant material into mexico so if you want any please find out what needs to be done to get them through customs. I know on my visit to cancun and cozumel they are really funny about plants, fruit and beef coming into mexico. I can understand it because the envirornment is such that one thing gets through and its out of controll the moment it hits the ground

.I may be reworking my DL bed to fine tune it which means I may have some splits available of some of my other DL's. I know Merry Moppett has got to go as its too big for my available space.
I hope everyone manages to skate through this weather unfazed. Its wierd. we have snow advisory for the top 1/3nw corner of the state as well as the upper counties that meet up with Kansas. the other advisory is for the bottom SE corner of the state. The SE corner always get the weather because it part of the Ouachita Mountains go through it and there are some deep vallies and tall cliffs. its very natural and unspoiled. the black bear have made a comeback and they have opened up a very limited hunt for them so that the balance is kept in check. we also have puma (mt lion), fox, beaver and a lot of other live creatures. we had a neighbor set up a night motion sensored camera and it got pics of cyote and gray fox in our neighborhood.... here Kitty kitty kitty

well thats about it for now I will try to post pics later today and this following week ... ok the pic was the wrong one so I will have to repost it but at least i found the text above so all in all I a ok
Dave

This message was edited Jan 9, 2011 12:40 PM