Shes about too... #49

Congrats to you and your pretty girl for such a high achievement! You must be be strutting your stuff like a proud Peacock.


This message was edited Apr 20, 2010 11:39 PM

oh I saw the spider LOL, I have lots of pet spiders around outside in the summer.. here is a picture of one of the jennys, I have two kinds maybe three, the electric yellow/lime is my favorite..
it is there under those giant woodland violets and the other creeping sedum there..

She is going to go to a nature reserve tommorrow and pick up litter, pull weeds, plant wild flower seeds, and look for invasive wild honeysuckle... good thing I am going with her, I get to take pictures .. it is for a credit in some community class. Okay with me..

here is something you might like, Linda, creeping daiseys.. all this stuff winters over here and comes back.

Debra, they are all very pretty!
Congrats on the girl with honors! I know your so proud of her.
Enjoy your trip to the nature preserve with her? I know you will all have a good time.

Debra, those little daisys are a cutie....
Take lots of pictures at the nature work day....

Hello! Sure i8s lot's to do outside this time of year.
Susan, I have 1 pet Armadillo. LOL He just sits where I put him and collects dust. He once was a bike helmet.
Debra, I'm so happy for you on your Daughters "good sense" to do her best in School. My Granddaughter sure made a mess of her college opportunity. Her tuition was paid, Living expenses all paid. She didn't have to do anything except go and learn. Now I know it's not nice to call someone "STUPID", but she sure did a stupid thing. Partied at night and slept while she was supposed to be in class. Did not go at all. Her Mom pulled her out, No more $ was given to her, she was made to go to work for the first time in her life. (Mom wouldn't even buy her shampoo) My opinion, the cause of this was the fact that all her life everything was handed to her and she never had to even think of where the next "Want " was coming from.
Hugs to all.
Faye

That is hard to do, but sometimes we need to do the tough love for everyone! Make them wake up and see what life is all about!

dahtzu, that is a typical story. When I was in high school I wanted to go to college but Mom couldn't afford it, so I worked and went nights. My best friend had a full paid way (Father had died in military) she wetn one semester, got married instead, then divorced, and ended up working and going to school night...but did get her degree. So there is hope, but going to school and working is a tuff way to go and slow.....

we had a good night last night.. here is a picture of her and her Daddy my dh Joe

today she cleared out invasive native honey suckle in a place call Chaplin nature center.. she was tired at the end of the day, littler patrol and seed planting was the easy part.. cutting and digging and running into scattering ground spiders was what she hated the most.

she did enjoy finding wild flowers here in bloom, infact was quite proud of herself..( I was shocked)

I can just see you beaming from behind the camea .....congrats to you all.
That is a great cause. We have that problem in several of our public forest in Missouri.

This message was edited Apr 21, 2010 9:43 PM

She couldn't get over the litter she found.. such weird things besides beer cans, beer bottles, she found strip thc test packages, syringes, kotex pads.. sheesh!

The spiders sent her running .. hollering MOM you got to see this!
looks like an innoncent critter hole right? She wanted to step on it to squish it shut.. but I told her we needed these spiders..

here is the spider as he came back out for me..

I am adopting this nature reserve as a place to tend to.. the guy there said there weren't many native flowers, lots of native invasives.. so we planted over 5500 wild flower seeds today.
then we have a favorite place called cemetary road garden.. up on the hill are these iris that must be old old old, cuz I got seeds from them last fall..

lookie these aren't they so purty??

Debra, looks like you had a great time! Besides the spiders! YUCK!
Where are the seeds on the iris please. I have some growing for the first time, and don't know where the seeds are.

if you do not cut them like most peole do, and if they are left to seed, ( and they will) they are like yucca pods at the top where the flowers were.. they look like yucca pods, and the seeds look like a cross between an apple seed and a morning glory seed is all I can say. mine are planted. some are in the mixes I sent out. by the way..
watch out for your creeping jennys and other plants I have sent you.
guess what this is??

I don't know what that is Debra. I give.

Debra, is it a devil trumpet? Not for sure!

That is my beautiful fuschia cross that i developed of a four o clock.. here it is last year

next to it to the left is a pink..

i sent these seeds out in the mix bags i gave away... here is the salmon

I also sent these in those bags.. dames rockets
these are budding now... some are blooming, they smell sweet and come back like everything else I have prenniel

Debra, those are so pretty. I have my seeds planted, just waiting to see what is growing!

Debra, they are all beautiful but that fushia is something else.....

thanks.. i love them as much as I love brugs and morning glorys, and hmm salvias and zinnias and well marigolds LOL I love tropicals, but just now getting a relationship built up with those things. Funny how when you don't have them coming back every year it is different ...

How do you cross breed them to get the two colors?

with a paint brush, ( I use a eye liner brush) and then bag them with a gauze bag tied shut so no bees or moths can interrupt.. then the seeds develop and they fall into the bag. You record which colour you cross with.
This yellow smells the most fragrant, so I try to use it as a pollin donater alot.

Debra, you never told us what the mystery plant is?

Got me a new plant that I've been wanting. A Geranium maculatum 'Wild Geranium' for the shade/semi shade area.

Also bought two coleus
1. Black Dragon
2. Chocolate Mint

Garden is coming along.

Marti, I have to tell a terrible story on myself. I must of purchased Wild Geranium 10 times and every spring when weeding........it disappears......it isn't until later in the summer I figure out I once again pulled it up...ughhhhh!

Oh, I saw black dragon last night and loved it. I didn't buy it. I like chocolate mint also.

We also have Black Lace coleus and a Kingswood Torch coleus. Once they all get bigger we'll take cuttings. Not sure how to ship them, but will check into it.

Typed up a whole big thing and got a data error....been happening now and again.

Marti, I have starts of several coleus I took this spring if you wanna swap later. I have rustic orange which is a really hardy beautiful colues I think more of a copper color, then a lime green (don't remember the name but have it at home, would look beautiful with the really dark coleus) and something else but can't remember...LOL

The Greenhouse where we had graduation yesterday must have had 100 different Coleus. Too bad it was crawling with so many people...LOL
I bought Chocolate Mint two weeks ago. When I have enough different ones to trade, I would love to with any of you.

Wonderful cause, Debra, and always enjoy your pics and advice.

sorry I forgot to tell you that that fuchia colour up coming plant is a cross of four o clock, the ones next to it are also four oclocks, the colours of the shoots tell you what colours you have growing as tubers from last years plants.

Thanks for the info Debra. I did not know that about the new shoot color!

Hi, I am here. I completely lost this forum for awhile until Linda sent me the link. I do not know what happened. Hope you are all happy now that the snow has stopped and all we have to worroy about now are high winds and coastal storms. LOL.
The nor'easter before the last one a few weeks ago took part of my Greenhouse down. I had just left 1500 ladybugs loose in it to clean up the mealybugs. etc. and the storm came, the winds blew in the one panel of the GH and the pressure took off the roof and the doors. All my ladybugs went flying. WAAAA!
We had 60 inches of show and 10 inches of rain after that, so planting in the fields was delayed a few weeks. We finally got the last of the new Christmas Trees in last night. All is well now. I promise I will keep in touch, Linda. Sorry I got lost.Hugs to you all. I must go mow grass now. The little trees are needing some air and the clover is inches high. Off for now.

JB, so glad you found us again! We have all been wondering where you went too! So glad your not sick. Sorry to hear about the damage to the GH, and the loss of all those lady bugs! Geesh, must have been sick to see them all fly away into the wind!
How are your brugs doing? Did you manage to keep any alive over the winter?
Post again when you can!