#4 - still laughing with joy

I'm happy to mail order - I had actually ordered them already but the place I ordered them was in OR and had bad freezes this winter. Thanks for the links!

Stark Bros is sold out, and I generally feel one should buy roses from a rose seller, not one of those a little bit of everything people. I had bad experience with Springhill before - let me check the reviews of the other place.


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Thanks for letting me know. :-)

Happy, Happy, Carrie!

Debra

Debra, Do you ever get down to the Tyler TX Rose gardens.We use to go there some. Here's a link to one of the Tyler rose grower sites.
http://www.chambleeroses.com

Vickie, I used to buy five or six dozen bouquets from the side of the road vendors when I visited my mother, but never went to the gardens there. Would love to go to the David Austin gardens, too. They used to allow visitors, don't know if they still do. Have a couple of Austin roses and love them.

Debra

Thank you, Debra!!!!

I'd forgotten about the roadside rose vendors. I used to pick some up also, I don't remember the price but they were so cheap it seemed.

Vickie, they were a buck a dozen for most of the time I traveled to Tyler. Once, I had "orders" from every woman on my floor at the office and had 22 dozen in the car on the way back. :-)

Debra

Wait, rose plants or cut roses?

Cut roses. "Honor-system" stands lined the road leading out of Tyler to the Interstate. You'd pick out your bouquet(s) and put the money in a container (a coffee can most often), then away you'd go. I haven't been off the highway there in about 15 years, so I don't know if the stands are still around.

Carrie, Cut roses. I bet that was one sweet smelling car!

Somebody stop me, please!!! LOL Looked on Bluestone site to see pricing on catananche. Had some last year and really liked them. But, uh-oh...50% clearance sale. The box came yesterday. Six echinaceas, three coreopsis, three blue catananche, three lavenders, and another red daylily (Chicago Apache). Whew. Now I have to pace myself to plant them...and find a place TO plant them. LOL

Debra
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LOL Debra, When you run out of room you can always plant in containers and start planting upwards.

Vickie, yeah, but I made the mistake of looking again today and EVERYTHING is on clearance now...oh, boy...

Vickie, forgot this. Took it for you. My 50 cent clearance lilies. They are just spreading away. See that rosemary behind? It is one plant that stretches across that entire width of yard. Had to put a "collar" on it to keep the middle upright. Probably should cut it way back, I just like it all huge and sprawly when I know it came out of a six inch pot to begin with.

Debra

Hi, Everyone. Still trying to catch up on what you've all been up too. It used to be that one of the advantages of being a VI was no impulse buying, but now most nurseries have their catalogs online and Zommtext will read it for you. The catalog compilers are so-o-o good at description. Impulse buying is a problem again. LOL.
Oh, Steph! Thank you so much. The package arrived yesterday. You made my day! Your work is beautiful. I love the texture of the yarn. I don’t handle cold well at all and I routinely make trips to PA, NY and VT so it will be useful. The winter gear sold here is mainly marketed to hunters and serious outdoorsmen so it is very utilitarian looking. Now, I have something pretty for my next trip.
Jim laid claim to the Standing Cypress seeds you sent because those are said to be a hummingbird magnet. Every year there seem to be one or two more hummingbirds taking up residence here. They’ve gotten so brazen they literally get in my face when their feeders are dry. I’ve come to think of them as Jim’s troupe of spoiled, demanding prima ballerinas and world class ballets. They are graceful and gorgeous and they know it. LOL. Their antics keep Jim laughing though. He talks about the individual birds and their doings like some people talk about daytime soap operas and soap opera characters. I think watching hummers is almost as addictive. LOL. Kay*

EVERYTHING at Bluestone is 50% off? More than used to be off? Yeesh, my order just arrived today and who knows when I'll able to plant them. I'd better not look.

Carrie, So proud you got your new flowers. Will have to check Bluestone out. Dadgum it can;t buy anything till next week tho.
Oh well it'll be fun looking tho.
Vickie

Hi Kay! Hope you are feeling better. :-)

Carrie, everything is on sale/clearance. Most are 50%, but some are only 25%. I looked again a few minutes ago...but I was strong!! Deleted that cart before I could hit checkout...LOL

Debra

Hello everyone, I just came in from working outside all day. I weeded, cut grass, cleaned the carport, sprayed the house and porches with bug spray and cooked a huge meal this morning, enough for 2 meals. I love getting work done and checking things off the mental chore list. However, my body does not. But I took a little time to rest before a long hot shower. I feel better now. I can sit on the porch and look at my yard all neat for a day or two.

Kay, I am glad you liked it. I like the plants you sent so much I thought you deserved a treat. I have a hummingbird feeder and enjoy watching them while sitting on the porch. I did not know they would fight over it. They chase each other away from it. I cannot tell them apart unless they are different colors.

Debra, I enjoy your pictures so much. Those yellow lillies are great.

Vickie, I am so broke I can't even look at the flowers online or I might get in trouble. I am having to sneak them in already.LOL. I give my DD a few bucks and she buys them and gives them to me as gifts. If I get caught I will get the death sentence.LOL. Love and Prayers, scraps

Scraps, I'm shocked. Deceiving your poor DH that way. ROFL. And, you, Debra, are a wicked influence. Leading innocent gardeners to lust after strange plants. Kay found some hardy geraniums on that site she now thinks she HAS to have. lol. The Advance Search on that site works altogether too well. :-)
It looks like I’m going to become a regular on the Plant and Tree ID forum. I’ve been shooting for identifying a plant a day and linking it to a PlantFiles page. I thought today’s would be easy. Fern-leaf yarrow. Everyone here says it is fern-leaf yarrow. According to everything I’ve found the bloom is supposed to be some shade of yellow. The blooms on ours are white. Everything else fits, but the bloom is undeniably white. I’m beginning to wonder about those old Creek superstitions about this place. Or, actually White Spirit Creek, the tiny spring that forms our northern boundary. Albino deer, albino squirrels, albino fish, albino fern-leaf yarrow? lol.
Vickie, think we can compromise on navy blue for the wall of our garden? The paint color there now was supposed to be a very, very dark blue. But, I have to admit it is black with blue undertones. Dark blue will contrast nicely with the pink, don’t you think? Lol.
Kay is evicting any plant that does not have a scent from the VI’s fragrance garden so I am creating a new garden area with all of her rejects. A lot of native daylilies and glads that mirror the daylilies’ colors. Also, Lots of spiderwort and blue salvia. I hope the general rule that orange and blue make a good contrast applies to bright orange and bright blue. All the colors across the front strip are carnival colors. There is an electrical pole and some other related eyesores in that space so it has generously been given to the men. The presence of burn hazel and poison ivy might have something to do with the ladies generosity, too. The creation of the Wild Men's Garden has officially begun! I’ll post before and after pics. The soil is so poor in that corner that Kay knowingly and willingly planted yucca as erosion control. (Sh-h-h, don’t tell Bonnie.) I will find out for myself if all I’ve heard on these threads about the toughness of daylilies is true. Everyone calls the gladiolas “native glads”. They came from a long abandoned homestead and survived complete neglect so I have hope for them in the space. (Jim)

Jim - If you want to tone down that bright orange wall, a beige tone done with the scrunched plastic bag method or sponge would look good.

Sheri

Jim, I recently picked up some Valspar paint color samples from Lowes. I was thinking of repainting my living room to match a copy painting of sunflowers. The colors included your orangy color. The combination i liked best was Church hill maple and cream delight with the orange. You might try looking at Lowes to pick a color. To know what combinations already go together.Personally i like startling color combinations. Makes a statement. LOL
I think i have some native Glads i picked up somewhere.I don't remember what color they are. The nice thing about having a rotten memory is you can be totally surprised over and over. LOL
I just hope Bluestone has some flowers left in a couple of days.
Most of My daylillys are covered in buds.What more can one ask for in life.
Vickie

hello everyone,

Jim, I am going to have to put you on a retainer fee and say you are my legal counsel or my Dr. so that the confidentiality clause will keep you from telling the DH on me.LOL. I am sure all the ladies know about keeping secrets like that. He has tools that I am sure he did not ask me about before purchasing so I think he will understand my not mentioning my purchases. However, If he sees them come in the door he will say "More Flowers? we are going to go broke over stupid flowers". So I am just saving him the hassle. He always says the yard looks good when I get the grass cut and work done so I have to keep things looking good.


Sorry got to run BBL scraps

Steph, In my experience most all husbands are like that about flowers unless they get the bug themselves. We won't go into wives and fishing gear.LOL
Try giving him a plant for Fathers Day.LOL Something easy like a daylilly.

Vickie, he would think I have lost that last marble and have me committed. Of course, you get to do crafts in the looney bin. I might could use the break.LOL.
Tomato plants or something he could eat maybe. When he was in kindergarten or first grade the teacher told him to color a flower on a Mother's Day card and he refused and she told him someday he would have a wife who loved flowers and he would have to help her plant them. He said he shook his head really really hard and said," Oh no I won't" She was so right and may be psychic.
scraps

Steph, In that cse give him a tomato plant AND a marigold and tell him marigolds keep bugs away from tomato.
I'm a pro at arguing with DH,s for what i really really want. LOL

Vickie and Scraps, Was only married a couple of years and that was 25 back. If ever I finally choose to do it again, I'll come to you two for advice on "persuasion." :-)

Debra

Debra, Think you'd better leave well enough alone. I would'nt get married again.LOL

Cubits has gone off line!

Crap. I really didn't think that would happen.

We haven't had any joys for a while so I thought I would post mine. First,my adult step-son moved out the other day. The room he was in is really too small to be bedroom anyway, and he kept it like a pigpen! So I had all these plans about how I would turn it into an office for myself. I am going to move the wooden shelves from the bedroom that don't fit in the bedroom and put the boxes of papers on them. I'm going to get someone to install a closet system to replace the wooden shelves. Etc. There's FABULOUS light in there. So here I am with all my plans. We thought he was moving out permanently! He's 27!

So he thought he was moving all his stuff out so we could paint! Hmmph. DH and he had a talk and he's probably moving back in but we'll make him a room in the basement where I can't go anyway. ANYWAY...

I went to HD and bought PAINT and PRIMER and of course many more FLOWERS!!! Which makes me HAPPY! So I am laughing with joy!

LOL. Carrie, you are right. Forget Disneyland. Home Depot and Lowes are the happiest places on earth. Did I tell you that the Valspar and Sherwin Williams Texas plants are within two miles of my house? :-) And the Dallas Arboretum is less than four? Not been to any of them (shame on me for not visiting the flower garden), but I feel surrounded by happy!

Debra

Man, can I relate to that! When you have children, you apparently have them forever. That is one thing I didn’t really understand when Mike died and I became Nadine’s guardian. I thought you got them thru college and out on their own and that was it. The job was done. lol. Nadine just called to ask if she could come back home. She told me she loves the landscape of CT, but the cost of living is so high she can’t get ahead. Kay laughs that her decision probably has more to do with the fact that her boyfriend has decided to return to his family home in Mississippi. lol. Kay also told me I don’t have to worry about gearing the guest area to her because she ask where on the property she could build her house. It sounds like she is planning to stay. lol. That’s okay. Amargia really does need an artist in residence. And, Nadi is as solid and dependable as someone her age can be. After dealing with J.’s erratic and flaky behavior, Nadi’s artsy-type eccentricities don’t seem like a big deal. I have an entirely new appreciation of her. And, she has been on her own long enough now to know how cushy she had it here so I think she has a new appreciation for me. My rules don’t seem so confining to her now.
Vickie, I’ll check that out. Those sound about like the colors I have decided on. Going with an Indian motif was too floral and gilded for my taste. I like the “Chutney.” I’ve just come to the conclusion there is too much of a good thing. The color is over-powering in such mass. I think I will tone down one wall with wallpaper or a treatment such as the one Sheri suggested. I’m setting it up to be a den/sewing and crafts room. I also thought I would put the exercise equipment in there, if there is enough space. High energy colors will work in that case. It won’t have to be toned down as much as it would have if it were going to be a bedroom.
Kay would probably tell you being married to a fellow gardener has downsides. She doesn’t get to landscape exactly as she wants anymore. I always put my 2-cents worth in. I’m tolerable only because I don’t have enough garden experience to think I know better than she does. Give me time. Lol.
Scraps, we can consider ourselves one anothers poorly paid psychotherapist. I think they have to keep confidences. (Jim)

Of course we keep confidences!

Hey you guys, Hope you are all doing well today. I had to come in out of the rain. We got a nice quick downpour. But now it is too muddy to do much outside. I am sure all the thousands of others who are online also keep confidences. If he ever googles my name it will probably send him here anyway. LOL who cares it would just be another battle over money spent on flowers and that is nothing new.
I have been trying to get the yard in order and looking good for my youngest DD who has a Bday party on the 12th and the downpour knocked all my plants over so I will have to stake some of them and may have lost some. It is my anniversary( June 9 actual date) and my mom's bday so it will be a nice gettogether for us. I am excited because it will be our first big party at the new house but I still have alot I want to do so I will not be online much so I just wanted you guys to know I am busy. Love and Prayers, scraps

Yay, congrats, Steph! Sounds like fun ... it's raining on and off here too, but it's a relief from the mugginess.

May I had your name to the real name screen name thread I have started? Bonnie and I were talking about how hard it is to keep track and I offered to keep a list, which I have seen done in other forums.

We got a little shower a couple days ago. Tomorrow i'll have to water my flowers. Thursday i'll be off camping again.
Steph, I know your yard is beautiful with all the work you put into it. Just thinking tho...Are we ever really happy with our gardens? Seems like there is always something else we dream of doing. Thats the beauty of gardening tho.

Watched a movie with John Denver tonight. Foxfire. Thought of you Kay, Denver sang with a terrible southern accent. Twas not funny! And i love southern accents.

Vickie, this one's for you. :-)

Debra