New bees chit chat - come on in!! 06/07/2010

i will plant in anything like little netties wash pot

grandmother would probly not like her wash pot used to plant flowers in but better than it setting in the shed rusting i like to use things like that reminds me of the people they belonged to. that armadilla has been in the back of my rock garden, im not gona mess with him he is after my lily bulbs. wish he would just leave but im afraid hes noy going to. im going to bed love hugs all good things.

hello i am new here and it is the (most) for any info your looking for . I have found that most of the ones i have talked to are very friendly and i really enjoy being here. i am a paid subscriber and i live in zone 6 which is in greeneville tennessee. I am a mother of 2 beautiful girls and a grandmother to 1 handsome grandson. Been married to my wonderful husband for 11 yrs. My mom was green hands not just the thumb she could grow anything anywhere . Dont think she ever lost or killed a plant in her life. I lost her to the good lord 2 yrs ago this july 1st and it has taken me this long to get back into plants when she passed i gave all my plants away , mowed them down , or whatever i had to do to stay clear of the beauty . I couldnt bare seeing all that she had loved all her life to still be here and her not. SILLY HUH !!! But im back into my plants now . So thanks for having me here .

Welcome and thanks for joining us Brady.

Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful dads out there!

It is going to be 98* with a heat index up to 108* here today so I don't guess we'll be doing much outside.

Everyone have a good day!

brady welcome to the wild and crazy forum we love new people that makes us happy enjoy yourself lots of smart people on here, not me you have to mind read with me. most peaple on here are good at that. nettie, when my mom died i saved everything she left we all do it diffrently the missing is the hard part but i feel verry close to mom and grandmother when im in the gaeden. have alot of there plants i share every chance i get mom would like that was smoyhing she was good at, we all share with each other. love and hugs nettie you have a good day you are going to be fine.

Brandy, she's looking down from above knowing you couldn't stay away from the plants. she's probably smiling and clapping her little hands together, "go, G'daughter, grow them plants"....
Welcome Brandy.

mekos i found a not so good picture of the little orchid blooming and im gona try to load it

mekos see [f th[s [s go[ng to be p[nk enough for you. nettie iwill try and leave the leaves on them so you can see how tall they get i always cuy yhem back in the fall they do good either way they make new leaves [n the spring mulch them good and they will be fine. ive got to get some things started and fenished im getting behind for me thats not a good thing. love nettie

Hi Brady.. Welcome to Daves and to this forum.. My Mom passed away Dec 06, and I do understand it can tear the heart right out of ya...Father time is a good healer, tho I do still miss her greatly.. Im glad you've decided to get back into plants again..I find my gardens bring me a feeling of closeness to my Mom.. She loved flowers..


Happy Fathers Day to all you Gentlemen..

josh kill some grass make more flower beds less grass more flowersand vines grow up. this works ive done it and i have a big yard which keeps detting smaller. less grass to mow.

Nettie, your orchid is beautiful! I love the color.
Brady.. people deal with grief in different ways so what ever works for you is what you do.
It will get easier as time heals. I'm sorry for your loss.

On a lighter note, does anyone know what this flower is? The name of it.

The Stem makes me think of eucalyptus , does eucalyptus flower?

thank you all for the kind words . I love meeting new people and i think im home here ...

Hi, All. While I've been using Dave's Garden for years for plant info, and have even posted many pictures from my own gardens, I have never participated in the forums. Decided this morning that I'd go ahead an get involved with you all, if you think you can stand me! I participated for years in another garden forum, but it seems to be breathing it's last.

I've been gardening here in Central Alabama about 24 years ago, though didn't call myself a gardener for the first 5 or so years. I had so many different gardens ... full sun, part sun, dappled shade, deep shade. I was on a forested mountain ridge and it seemed I had the best of everything. DH and I got tired of dealing with all the leaves, etc. We built a new home in a new subdivision and moved in fall of 2007. This is my 3rd gardening season here and I'm still working on improving the soil. Not only was the top soil the builder brought in the worst you ever saw, it was placed on top of rocky hard subsoil. It was very tricky to create well-drained beds, but I'm beginning to make friends with it all.

Daylilies are at the top of my favorite bloomers, and I'm obscessed about deadheading every morning so that when I take pictures there are no spent blooms. The neighbors here in my new neighborhood have gotten used to seeing me every morning running around with a bucket in one hand and my camera in the other. They just shake their heads, say "Bless her heart!" and go on.

Sorry for the long post. Did I mention that I'm a little "wordy"? The first daylily I every purchased and planted was the Red Volunteer. It is still my favorite and I'll bet I've divided it at least a dozen times, and photographed it hundreds!

Welcome Blumz and Brady! WooHoo! New Friends! Blumz, I love that one! Going on my list! I love red flowers!

Thank you, Skellogg. I got it from Oakes Daylilies in Tennessee ... my favorite source. As a matter of fact, I'm going to their Daylily Festival this weekend. I've never been and have been wanting to go for years. I'll be joining approximately 4,000 others who never met a daylily they didn't love.

Welcome blumz! We always welcome new friends. We'll have to introduce you to the lasagna bed thread to help you with that soil! I have heard of the daylily place you're going to. Sounds awesome! Be sure to take lots of pictures for us if you can.

Have a good day everyone-- Hugs ;-)

Morning peeps...

Welcome to Bradysnana and blumz! We try and have fun here and being chatty is allowed - lol...

Gotta get to work - talk to you all later...

Kelly

Good to meet you Bradysnana and blumz....Love the red lily, mine is just budding out. I take the same picture of the same fower sometimes several times a day...they look different in the morning ,noon and night. Right?
I think my surprise lily surprised me and died. It got log and green leaves then immediately started to die back It was so pretty good thing I got pictures last year!!
Oh ny the way the chatty...you would get lost in here if you weren't chatty!!

Doesn't the surprise lily do that? The leaves die back and then it surprises you with a bloom stalk later on in summer?

Hi blumz.. Nice to meet you and have you chatting on this thread with us...We are all flower nuts.. Your daylily is a beauty..

naked ladies don.t bloom until late july or early august no folage lust the stem and flower which is lovely and has a nice smell. my mother left me 150 of these they have never failed to bloom. nettie

i also have the red spider lili they are pretty don.t have as many of them don,t know if they are blooming yet but don,t think so the naked ladies make alot of folage in october and november i always clean the dead folage off the plant after it lets go of the bulb, can,t stand that mess in the flower bed. love nettie. they also have a white and yellow one in the spider lily. love nettie.

blumz glad to have you aboard i love all flowers can,t help myself i think i was born like this. nettie good to have you.

need a rose on this thread golden showers

Such a pretty Clematis Nettie Naked ladies you call surprise lillys? You hae 150 of them wow must be beautiful!!!Here is my clem well ok clem next my newest grand-baby boy first!!

sorry about that ill try again nettie don,t know that happened the picture is just gone. im gona cry or not now my pictures are getting lost. story of my life.

Such a hansome little Man. I love him.

rj he is a winner makes you won,to kiss the whole face would probly make him cey and then you would have to love on him. love nettie

Yes he does make you want to kiss his face! Aww Rider!! Ok now here is the clem then one I dont know maybe you do Nettie

rj so many purple clem no telling . very pretty i love all of them. the president is one jack manni another lord nevilldurandii so many it would take all day to list them wish i could but nothing will help my memory . love nettie

Little purple flowers on the stem

No this one Nettie not the Clem I know the name of that one. See the tall one little tiny purple flower on it

rj can i mail in box i already have. does it need to be wraped in brown paper im new to this just need to get it wright. thanks nettie

Im sure you can Nettie what are you mailing? I reuse boxes , envelopes, notecards. Im the queen of reuse...

rj i don.t think i have ever seen a smsll one wish i could help but don,t have a clue nettie

im going to send some bulbs to mekos and seed to rrm need to get this done before winter is upon us im just a ringy old lady, love nettie

kelly honey we need a new thread love nettie, please

OK - hang on and I'll giterdone right now...

Here you go... new thread...

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1109781/

This message was edited Jun 21, 2010 5:02 PM

Arejay, I might be dumb as a rock, but I don't see NO purple flowers on that green giant plant! Where did you hide it?