BASIL MINT AND OTHER GOODIES

No Ican they got rid of the original mint thead

Well BAH Humbug! Somebody got their panties in a bunch didn't they?

they sure did, and there was a lot of good info on there!

You would have thought it would at least have wound up in classics....that's sad.

Very sad.......good afternoon Jean ^_^

Hi Kassy. How goes it today? Just spent the last 6 hours in Baton Rouge with DHJim....he had some outpatient minor surgery stuff today. Just got him settled in for a nap....goofy as all get out. Guess he'll sleep away the rest of the afternoon. I'm just happy everything is okay and I can kick off my shoes. Grin

Glad everything went well Jean.
Yes he will probably sleep for a while now.....hmmmm that sounds like me tomorrow.....sleep in day so I can go back to work tomorrow night.

Someone in Florida wants 2 things on my trade list, and so far and can only pick one off from their's.....LOL
Not a lot of things from Florida would winter over here.
He does have some ginger, so I may have to read up on the different kinds he has and see if they would be ok here in the house.

Most of the gingers don't mind shade so long as they get bright light. But, you can just dig them up before winter and store in a cool dry place over the winter. If you get the Hedychiums, they bloom on new growth, so you would have blooms every year.

I'll be back after I fight with my vacuum cleaner .........
Then I'll post what gingers he has on his list and see what you think.

Looking forward to it. Whup that vacuum into shape, girl, you gotta get some sleep...grin

No, no sleep for me today. I stay up most of the night and sleep in tomorrow so I'm ready to make it through the night on wednesday night....

Oh and way back before memorial day I had changed holidays with the guy who works when I'm off. I would work his memorial day if he would work my labor day that lands in my vacation.
The company changed our hours around and the hours did work out for him, so he has now transfered to a different house.
Before I went off rotation, I was told I was responsible to work labor day..........right in the middle of my vacation! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I talked to another girl, and she said she might be willing to take it.
When I got back I had a message from my manager telling me that she had found someone to take that holiday, (what do you want to bet it is the girl I talked to), and that we have another training that we have to go to.
My son asked when they are going to get the idea that I am out of down most of my rotation off? Good question, because the call came in on friday! grrrrrrrr
OK, going to get the list ^_^

What an aggravation. Maybe you should just use your cell phone for work. Hope things work out for Labor Day.

Jean, my work and managers are all totally aggravating..
If it wasn't for my clients and my benifits, I would have left there.

I was kind of looking to see what they had up where my BF lives for work for me, but the way the economey is, I'm better off just staying here and dealing with it as I know I have a stable job here. Son works in the Shopko office here and 35 people were just let go. I told him that didn't surprise me. He said "but they let all the good ones go and kept the idiots! I said, "lower pay for those idiots.

My cell is emergency only......so they will never get that, unless they want to pay for it. ^_^

OK, here is the list........Remember, it will spend most of it's time if not all at my BF's house, and at times he is not the best at watering house plants :(
Now that he his not working though, he does better.

Bloodflower
Asclepias curassavica


Pindo Palm
Butia capitata

Umbrella Plant
Cyperus involucratus

Daylily
yellow.............YES!! taking that one. But I can pick 2 as I am sending 2 thinks to him.

Daylily
Orange.........Looks just like my older ones ^_^

Elephant Ear

Rough Horsetail
Equisetum hyemale
Horsetail, Scouring Rush...........NO I don't want this one!!!!!!!

White Ginger
Hedychium coronarium

Oakleaf Hydrangea
Hydrangea quercifolia

Golden Rain Tree
Koelreuteria paniculata
Golden Rain Tree

Boston Fern
Nephrolepis exaltata
Sword or Boston fern

Peacock Ginger
not sure what type

Shampoo Ginger
Zingiber zerumbet

The H. coronarium is the Hawai'ian white butterfly ginger. It is actually from India, but that is the common name. You can put it in the ground where it gets morning and evening sun and it will bloom like a fool. Before the first freeze, you can dig it up and store it in the basement to replant in spring. The Peacock is not cold tolerant, it would have to come inside where the temps do not go down to 32. Probably the same for the shampoo ginger. The A curassavica is also a very tender tropical from So America...it would require potting up or seed collecting.

I can send you some H coronarium and some H coccineum (scarlet ginger lily.) I have dark orange and pale coral and it won't cost you a trade. Grin That way you can get 2 yellow day-lilies if you want.

This is the white

This is the coral

and the orange

Oh man, decisions, decisions, decisions.............Hmmmmmmmm

You can have some of each....grin

Jean, good to hear your husband is doing OK after his out patient surgery. Did you keep us all in the dark over that, or did I miss something somewhere. Lovely plant picture's you added as well.

Kassy, I may have some plant's you would like to have as well. I Can surely send you some Colocasia babie's if you would like and probably have a few more that you might like as houseplant's as well.

It was just routine stuff Rachel, thanks for thinking of him....just took forever to bounce from room to room and then he was a bit groggy so needed me there to drive him home. Was all set to settle in with a book when the little 5 year old became my new best friend.....patience and tolerance, patience and tolerance....my mantra...grin

Good to hear Jean. My moto here I guess is "Patience is alway's a virture" it's hard sometime's but ......I try;-)

OH wow, the guy from Florida who wants to do that trade was born in Wisconsin! Many years ago as he put it.............LOL

Not danKistner is it? Kassy.

Mine used to be Patience is a virtue, but yelling is expedient. Then the kids grew up...grin

No, the name is Don, but I do believe I have run into Dan on here, that was when Jim proclaimed me a redneck, after they both saw our snow pictures............LOL
I think Dan is from Penn, if I remember right

Just curious..Gotta get the kid to bed...catch you all tomorrow...Night, sweet sleep, all

Nite Jean

Glad your hubby is ok. Sounds like you are big in swapping Kassy. Next year when my day lilies bloom, I'll have to mark you some and send to you. Use to have a lot of colors but lost a bunch. I did find a pink one in the photos I thought I had lost but have no idea where it is planted. Got what is supposed to be a black day lily from my niece in Tennessee. Can't hardly wait for it to bloom.

Not big into it Jim, but I have swapped a few seeds in the year that I have been on here.
I have lots of seeds, and I'm always looking for homes for them.
GrammyJo is going to take a number of them off my hands.
But my Pink peony poppy has about a thousand seeds to one pod head. Sheeesh, that makes for a lot of Peony Poppies!
Wait till you see the vine I am trying to find a home for. The person who gets it will have to live close by. I'm not about to send it. Will have to go download that picture.

How on earth do you save the dianthus seed? I looked at the seed pods on ours and those are the tiniest things I have ever seen.

Well Jim, those chives seeds were pretty small too.............LOL
I usually bag the seed head and wait for it to dry and open, or sometimes when I check on them they are open, and then I take a container out by them and pick the open seed pod off and put it the container and take it in by the table to finish opening them to get the seeds out.

Actually Jim, I think the poppy probaby has the snallest seeds.
As far as I'm concerned, this one has the smallest.

I will see you fine folk on the morrow...have a sweet sleep...Jean

Wow, I just got here and everyone's asleep already. Call it backwards jet-lag?

That time thing can be a bear, Dave.....glad we had this chance to chat....grin

Sorry Dave, but I'm back at work :(
By the time you logged on I was on my way to work.........LOL
Only 3 more and then I'm off for 13 days again.
BF got the truck fixed, so guess where we will be going ^_^

Kassy's Photo Journal of the Back Forty.....grin

Hmmmm and now i'm trying to remember where that e-mail address is that Dave gave me. Didn't want to do it from my BF's house, because his internet connection kicks me off when I least expect it, and usually after I have typed it all out and hit send..........Poof, I'm off line then. Very aggravating..........Reminds me of the management where I work!

Not an excited camper eh, Kassy. Just 3 more nights...just three more nights....can hear ya chanting.

Oh, if you only knew Jean...........Then I go back to work for 4 and have 7 off ^_^
I knew how to work this vacation right!

Good on you honey. More time to live and be happy.