STORIES OF BASIL,LAMBIC AND CORN

fresh honey...yummy...and the honey combs don't taste that bad either served with soe vanilla ice cream

Venice, I don't think I can get a camera in position to take a picture. The opening is only about 4 or 5 inches and is almost against the back of the bin, just a couple inches of clearance. Did that to keep the oppossum and raccoons out of the hive. Had a hive chunk a few years ago and left it open so we could check on it. Darn critters got into it and mangled the comb and the bees. a month or so later one of the oppossums made a nest in it and had a litter of kits....not what you want in backyard suburbia....grin

yeah Moon word is out about the loonies loose on DG hahaha

hey now...I have documented proof of my looniness darn it!

Of course with 5 teenagers who wouldn't be loony?

Well, what is the size of the comb now?

hey moon...I gotta dumb question for you

Trina, you are loony? I just thought you were a little witch?! Since I haven't known one before, I just assume you only have characteristics of a witch!!!

of course I'm loony

We like you that way!!!

I like me that way to or I would go crazy and shoot people...speaking of people I would like to shoot the former bad neighbor with the dog wants me to call her.....uhg....darn me and my too niceness!

Moon oh Moon where are you...I have a silly question for you...Moon are you hiding over there? Nope she wasn't there

Where oh where could the Moon go to hide?

lol sounds like one of the kid's books

Now that I re-read it your right it does....lol
Better than this morning when I was singing "Oh tinkerbell Oh Tinkerbell how jagged are your fangs" to my dog to the melody of Oh Christmas tree!

I am here. Got six irons in the fire and trying not to get burned...grin. Your question Trina?

Your answer Venice, The comb appears to fill a cavity that is almost the depth of the trunk's width and about a foot and a half tall. I cut the chunk about three feet long, and the ends are solid so I got all of it. My arm span, from finger tip to finger tip is about 68 inches, and I could not quite encircle the trunk, so I would say approximately1.5 ft by 2.5 ft at a guess. It is an old active hive and has probably been around for a few years.

What category does a "Hen and chicks" plant fall into?

Moon I am just curious to see how much bigger it gets. I am glad you have it more protected from the critters.

They fall in the group known as succulents. Sempervivum tectorum...and yes, here is your link....grin

http://landscaping.about.com/od/plantsforsunnydryareas/p/hens_and_chicks.htm

Venice, I would imagine they will continue to hollow out the trunk as much as they can and when they break through the ends, they will possibly relocate.

LOL and here is my pic...they were hiding under the marigolds

What a happy mama hen with her chicks....you need to mulch the area around them for the winter to help keep them from heaving in the cold.

You have a nice little family there!!!

Trina, we have the same sneakers! and this is a turtlehead:

uhg! the evil Chupacabra puppy was attacking me...she goes to the puppy doctor tomorrow!

Honestly...I have to say its the one plant I DON'T like....can't I just use the marigolds to mulch it when they die down?

I love my skechers!!!! And I like those I will gladly take some turtleheads off your hands!

Maybe they can compete with my neighbors nasty suprise lilies that are trying to take over my yard and are growing through the fence

I sometimes wish I didn't work. Then I could play all day. I know I'm not freaking out, but when I came on earlier, on the home page, on the right, it said "chat room open". so I clicked on it and felt like I walked in the wrong door, so I left. But I know it was there... but now (and every other time I've been on DG) it is the spot for "today's articles". anyone else experience that?

weird things been happening all over the site for two days....I went to tools then plant files and was redirected to a porn site...didn't know a human could bend that way!

Moon, my gaura bush is a little scranny. I have cut it back twice since spring and I have forced it to bloom twice. There aren't many blossoms and they are small. There are woody parts to the center of the plant, left over I guess. But the plant just doesn't look full. What does it need?

Trina, watch where you put those fingers!!!

The chat room pops up at odd times throughout the day and night....ya think they might want us to go there instead of here? laughing derisively....grin

they DO spread like the dickens. and they have really cool winter bones. and if someone would kindly tell me how to send them, I surely would. oh, and they're about as tall as I am (5'3" or so). blooming now, too.

oh my gosh, roll me over laughing. was I talking about the turtleheads spreading or Trina's porn site?

Smiley, I think that is a weird plant. The leaves are a little freaky with those delicate blossoms.

ok we have the same shoes, we're the same height....scary....LOL

send roots in fall before it freezes at night would be my suggestion

LOL Smiley!!! I ain't never shut my laptop so fast in my life! My 12 yr old daughter was looking over my shoulder when it happened!

Moon, did you see my gaura question?

I think Moon's galavanting again she'll get to it when she gets back I'm sure

Here ya Venice....down to just a few irons in the fire. This should give you some basics. If ya have additional questions holler, I'll hear ya. Grin

http://www.estabrooksonline.com/catalog2/perennials/perennial.asp?id=Gaura

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I would Moon but my little Netbook here doesn't print....and the kids downloaded a virus onto our regular puter that even our techno geek can't figure out right now...he's been working at isolating it for a week now

Venice, turtleheads are hardy. they don't look delicate live and in person.

Trina, I sent you a d mail if you really want them. or anyone. I love to share. can't find the pecan praline recipe yet.

back to the grind.

TTFN Smiley and thanks