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Did not go back to sleep so now I am thinking about that nap too. Dinner time though. I'll probably fall asleep to the ball game tonight. I sleep better to baseball that jsut about anything. :0)

rvnsbrk, that is so funny about the ballgame, one night I fell asleep in front of the tv on the couch, then got up and went to bed. Seeing that I have to get up a 4:30 I was just steaming because DH was not coming to bed, he had the tv on and of course lights and I couldn't get to sleep. Sadly when we had the house built we have a see thru fireplace from the living room to the bedroom so more sound and lights get in than in a normal home. While I was laying there getting all riled up, the light bulb went off in my head, not 10 minutes ago I was sleeping just fine in FRONT of the tv and directly under the lamp and sleep was not a problem rofl, so I stopped blaming him LOL......... for some odd reason if I turn on the lamp on his side of the bed I can fall asleep with more light when he is still up than with less. go figure.

Slept great on the couch. DH woke me up after the game to go to bed. :0) Too hot to do anything outside. Going to stroll around and water some and then come back in.

You all have a fun day!

I am asking for prayers for my niece in Colorado. She was 26 weeks pregnant and had to have an emergency c-section last night. Her little girl is 12 inches, and weighed 1lb 9 oz. She had something called placental abruption. That is all I know. I don't know if there any problems with the baby or not. She is very fragile right now.

Linda prayers are going up for your niece and her baby. I pray that both will strive and go home soon.
God bless you all.

Praying for your neice and her little angel baby, Linda. I trust God to hold them in his arms. God Bless you all.

I talked to my Brother, and he said that Lillie is doing well, So far no heart or lung problems, she will have to stay in the ICU for 3 months, till she grows and develops more. Still lots of testing to do, but so far, all is well!

taters, I am so glad you have had some good news.

Saying prayers for your family, LK, and sending positive thoughts :)

Now this is a small brug who decided to bloom, I would consider this a keeper.
Anybody else have experience with versicolor 'Ecuador Pink'?
Right after it blooms it is going into a bigger pot.

If you can name me your top 3 brugs.
Then name me the worse brug or 3.

You know Debra I think you have the right idea, just take cuttings in the fall and get them going and they will be ready for spring. I have fought spider mites and hauled those huge pots but I am not sure it is worth it for all brugs, and who has that kind of room? Didn't Aunt B cut the stalk and put it in water and let it root? That is how she gave me veri peach it was a big stalk that had been in a 5 gal pot of water.

My top three brugs are any that are in bloom, There are no top three bad brugs! ^_^

taters do you have some that bloom more often, or have a bigger flush? That I guess is what I am asking.

I too love all Brugs that I've seen bloom. Happ, why are all of the leaves gone? Do you deliberately do that to make them look like trees? Are they in pots or in the ground. You are right, AuntB did cut back and root the stalks in water. I also have done that and they stayed in water all winter, in the garage.

If anyone has extra cuttings in the Fall, I'd like to try and again and will be glad to reimburse you with plants or postage. happ, what's the big plant on the right in the black pot? I see a D/L bloom peeking out too...lol The way you've used Autumn Sedum as a taller groundcover looks great!

I agree it looks great! I couldn't pick any 3 for anything, but I did have really good luck with the bubblers in the winter.
Bonnie does both things well, actually I saw her area for winter last year and she kept her big trees in their big blue tubs, and her long cuttings in water, and short ones in moss cup method. Gee, I sure miss her. Susan, no problem on cuttings. I have some actually rooting rightnow for people and as this summer goes on I will be cutting more. I just can't do the bring in everything again. Unless I get help. :P~
I am about to go over to sis in laws in wichita and check on the brugs I gave her. Taking camera.
This is the first Sunday I stayed in all day after noon. I hope it isn't like this all summer.

Thank you in advance for the cuttings, Debra. In fairness to you others, and my bad luck with them last year, one box is probably all I need to try. You stayed in because of the heat?

Happ my favorite from a multiple flush standpoint is Frosti Pink. It did fabulous last year. Not so good though so far this year. But then nothing seems too good the last few weeks. I planted all the brugs in the ground this year because I'm not bringing them all in either this Fall. Going to take the winter off from plants except growing greens and lettuce. It is so hot all my squash are dropping. Got started too late on that I guess. Had to try....

Too hot for much of anything. I have no ambition and no desire to do anything outside.

Hope everyone has a not too stressful week coming up. I'll be thinking of you all.

I have never had a good flush, but my monster white looks like it is about to give me one for the first time. This will be my 3rd year for brugs. The first two years I had just a few blooms here and there.

Black pot is another brug, with calla lilies planted around, that is the spotted leaves. I usually end up sticking something in with the brugs cause they always look naked down by their feet...LOL

Saturday around here was suffocating, heat index of 109 again, this morning was like winter...rofl, at least I could push mow, plant, and weed up until about 2 then wowzer the winds were out of the north but felt like a blast furnace. I cut some plant tags, then drilled them, labeled with black pen paint, then couldn't find my wire, I had to search everywhere. Wish I had all the time back I spend looking for things.

Check the humidity gage and it says 85% back to suffocating and not a breath of air which is not normal up here. Very strange weather even for us.

Linday Kay, I got my monster white to flush after a year old, but it is a heavy feeder. I started it in spring and during the winter in the solar room it gave me blooms, but I fed it miracle grow watered down almost every watering since it was in a pot. Kind of like I do my annuals that are in pots. If it is in the ground I don't know since I have never done that.

My monster white flushed all last year. it is slow getting going this year, since I had cut it back so much inside. Frosty Pink and Isabella and Kaitlyn all have flushed for me twice now and they are all budded again, but with this 100 plus heat and no rain, it is all I can do to get out int the am to water and the pm to water. Too dang hot to sit on the patio and watch the critters, but can see the hummer and the flutterbys from my window desk where my laptop is. It is 87 out right now. Ugh. I picked three worms off the three brugs I sent to Danas ( SIS in LAW) I hope I got them all. She is the one that grew my cross seedling to a flush. Then I gave her a Peach Versi and a b. arborea seedling. I also gave her the plumeria Bonnie gave me and the weird tri leaved stick that Dollie sent me my first year here. I still have no clue what that thing is. She has grown the things to very nice plants, my sis in law, and I am glad she likes to Garden. I have been afraid to see my daughters plants and brugs I gave her, the purple queen saturas and other stuff, prolly all dried up, and the insignia that Faye sent me is doing well last I checked at My Sons, but it is in a good location there. I am not giving them plants next year. Well. maybe Dana. Paulas garden I put in only does well cuz I go over and water it for her. Sheese. She doesn't work, but hates to be in the sun and sweat, and that is another person I won't share with next year.
It is just too hard to know these things I have kept alive all winter just get neglected in their care. Okay enuff venting. sorry.

rvnsbrk, I laughed out loud about the "logical" place, I try to put away "logically" and where DH won't find it....rofl. He thinks everything plant wise should be in the garden room, but that just isn't practical for me to walk all of maybe 50 steps to get what I want...rofl.

Talking about do overs, I am just about sick, every pine tree I have is infested with pine borers! Means they will all have to be cut down and burned! I probably have 20 pines. I am terrified they will get in my shade trees around the house. I keep checking the cypress tree and I think it has them, just not as bad so there goes one shade tree. This is a monumental problem to cut these all down, they are huge and have been here 20+ years!! My neighbor down the road had a Christmas tree farm and then one year I kept noticing they were dying off. I thought it was the fungus disease that is attacking pines, but now I wonder. Eventually he burned the field off.
I hate losing trees. I won't live long enough to see them at this size again.

taters, how is everyone doing?

All is doing well. Mother and Grandmother were allowed to go hold hands with Lillie Marie yesterday. She said her tiny hand barely wrapped around her pinky finger. Her foot is only an inch long. Mom will be going home today, but most likey, just long enough to go home, pack some clothes, and go back to stay at the Ronald McDonald house across the street, as she lives 30 miles from the hospital. She will be allowed to visit anytime she wants. Gonna be pretty hard to be away from new baby for the next 3 months. But she is in good hands, there in Colorado Springs. I guess they have a preemie specialty hospital/unit there?

So glad things are still going good. Such a little one.

Oh Happ that is terrible about the trees. Isn't there anything that can be done? I don't know about pine borers, we don't have any evergreens on our property. I can imagine how big they are. Will you all be able to cut them down or will you have to hire someone? I hope you can do it yourself. Tree work is astronomical around here.
I remember several years ago when our ex neighbors decided to cut some trees for lumber. Some lumber company came around and offered money to us for some of the big oaks and other hardwoods. I basically escorted the dude off the property at the end of a shotgun, but our neighbors bought in. I am sorry, call me a tree hugger, but no amount of money can replace a 100 year old tree. Spare me the BS about the good of the forest. Nature takes care of itself if you let it. Anyway, long story short, that was the worst summer I ever spent in my life. For a month the chain saws and crashing trees could be heard inside the house even. I was a basket case. I almost had to leave until it was over. There was this humongous oak tree about 3 feet across that was tagged to be cut. It was right on the property line and one night I went out and took the tag off of it and moved it to another tree. If I go to H**L for that one so be it. :o) All by way of saying I feel your pain.

Wow, can they be treated? Sure hate to cut down trees also! They are wonderful plants for shade, and swings...

"Her foot is only an inch long." LK, that gave me chills. I can't imagine such a tiny baby and am pulling for her :)

There are stands of White Pines along two sides of our property line and the borers have destroyed several, mostly right after we moved in 17 years ago and lost over half the stand between us and the neighbor on the left. The pic today is on the right side. Even one dead tree in the middle is sad to see. I would have moved that ribbon too, Neener. Last Spring my MIL paid a crook of a guy $800 to cut down one dead pine tree in her yard and haul it off. Course she never asked for an estimate before he started and had we known ahead could have rounded up a neighbor or two and done it for nothing. The guy claimed he had to pay landfill fees but my guess is he dumped the cut up pieces down a holler and pocketed the $$$.

Debra, how about a couple of Morning Glory blooms for a pick-me-up? I've never grown one with White edges, looks like they were painted, and I thought the Pink throat was lovely.

It was sprinkling this morning when I took a stroll and thought at first the spots on the petals were raindrops but they're actually tiny "dots". A fucshia MG, another 1st for me and want to keep this one around a long time.

I want those MGs. :0) I got some started, but they aren't growing much at all. Don't think they will be blooming any time soon. I am a lousy gardener. I can't get anything to grow from seed here.

They're doing pretty well around our ugly telephone poles, even in full sun. One that hasn't bloomed yet is already 8' tall, is loaded with buds, and has wrapped around nicely with a little coaxing. I'll save seeds and share but, Debra, you'll need to tell me how. The few spent blooms are still there. Didn't know if I should deadhead or wait for them to fall naturally. Don't give up, Neener! I didn't plant seeds til early June.

The "dots" closer up...

I just love 'em for sure. When I was kid and it was just my Mom and I before she remarried, we lived in a mobile home. We had this really nice lot with a great yard. We also didn't have much money, but my Mom was always trying to make things nicer for us. We had morning glories every year. One little pack of seeds brought so much joy and I still remember that.

Those are the best kinds of memories! The first home-away-from-home I lived in was an older single-wide mobile home out in the country, 15 miles from work and the city. I just loved that place. The park was small with 10 mobile homes and each of us had a big yard and used to get together for community cook-outs. So many nights laying in bed listening to rain on the tin roof just lulled me to sleep. Sometimes I think life should be simpler like it was then, the more room we have the more we fill it with "stuff". Starting out was hard having a measley paycheck and trying to live from week to week. After paying living expenses and a car payment there wasn't much left and I remember rolling quarters more than once for gas money. In those days I ate plenty of P & J's, toasted pimento cheese and egg-salad sandwiches for lunch and dinner. Looking back, the three years I lived there were some of the best of my life, always grew flowers from seeds around the perimeter of my tin can and took extra plants I'd grown to work and sold them to co-workers. Talk about early trading...lol It was a sad day when my landlady told me she'd sold the property and I moved to the city.



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Everything I have read about the borers is it is all over once you get them because they are under the bark so sprays won't work and systemics haven't worked. I about cry coming up the driveway. We planted those when we first bought this place over 20 years ago. If I were to lose all my trees and be sitting in the middle of this bean field again without shade I will be devastated!

Pretty pic fotv. Those mgs are really pretty. The ones my Mom planted in this strange container my sister got her are not doing too well. Kind of reminded you of the upside down tomato planter and you were suppose to be able to grow mg's from the top and bottom......I will have to take a pic.

Going back to the daylily farm with some of the mgs Sunday morning to see the late bloomers......blush blush, kind of like me....blush blush....rofl.

Beautiful mgs, Susan, let the dead heads fall off and you will see little brown pods ( green at first) , bag them with oraganza tie bags ( walmart for 1.00) and id them. I could send you some tags that I use. .. My vines are alljust now getting going ( the i. nils) which is what you have there.. the i. purps are the ones that take down the barn so to speak.

I am so anxious cuz I have so many buds on brugs all around, but no rain and 95 plus heat everyday... ugh.
Went to see the brugs and water at Danas, picked worms off but no buds yet, today I went at lunch and took a quick 30 minute dip in their crystal clear nice cold swimming pool.. ( a luxury for me now, but had one for 5 years in California)
As I sat at my desk and watched out the window here, I saw a bunch of American Gold finches plucking away at the sunflowers in the patio barrel, I use them to let themg vines climb on. I havn't seen them in this yard before, and the ones they were all over were the red ones chianti and the small ones yellow with green centers. It was cool.
Here is a few of my morning glory blooms this year..

This is a nice one "hanafubuki"

This is "Rebecca" above the gloriosa daiseys.

shibouri x grey lady