Yeah, we got drunks and this guy caused a 4 car accident. Two other cars were hit and 3 of the 4 cars were totaled. It's a miracle nobody died. There was glass, car fluids and dislodged tires laying on the road. It was my first accident ever. It happened at the main intersection leaving this neighborhood. There's no way to avoid that intersection so I'm still a little anxious when I drive by there each day.
Yeah, there are some wild Cannas Blossom. I think the most bizarre one I've seen is called Canna "Phaison". If you like LOUD bright variegated foliage you'd like "Phaison". I'm sure most everyone would either love that variety or absolutely hate it.
Couldn't do anything outside today. Just non stop rain from Tropical Storm Nicole. There was no wind at all. We might have had a wind gust to 10 mph. LOL
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Man, that is something. 4 cars. We have had a few infront of our house living on a highway. They have crashed my fence, flipped, dipped and hit and run. People are so stupid drinking its discusting. Had a stupid one try to run us off the road. Yano, if they want to do themselves so bad...makes ya wonder. Geez.
I had one accident in my younger days, flipped a vehicle, but I avoided hitting a kid on a bicycle as he darted infront of me as he ran a light. I am soooo very glad I did not hit him, but I went over 1 and half times. To this day I hate roller coasters! ACK! And that was back int he 70's so I know what you mean about getting anxious. Just relax...you will be fine.
I played outside much of the day. I still have stuff to pot up....I never dreamed I had so many bulbs in less than 10 pots and so far I am not even half done thinning them to 3 bulbs to a can and got about 25 nursery cans! I got the increase there boy! *G*!
Well, here is one of my sedums.. man this head is huge, must be 7-8inches across!
Another sedum.... I like this one.. I think the big one above is Autumn Joy.
This one might be Rose neon or something like that, I really dont know and am guessing.
Had a strawflower boom... I hope I have more, but only saw a couple more plants and they might not make it through the frost before they bloom.
my "pank" Endless Summer... I was disappointed in it.. first off, the ph is wrong for it, the flower should be blue so I need to adjust that. Secondly, it seems unhappy where it is as I only had ONE flower on the whole bush! But it was pretty anyway!
I think this is an aster frikharti, but its too rangy and wild looking so could be several generations out or perhaps just a wild variety.
Some of the containers I humped to the house... yup, filled one plant stand.. guess I need to get the junk off the other stand to load my imps tomorrow...
That's a nice Sedum. I tried one of them for the first time this year, even though they're not meant for our growing zone. It grew well all summer and it's bloomed, but it is real ugly. The blooms look like they were burnt from our tropical sun. Guess I'll just leave it alone and give it another year. I told that sedum "I'm gonna give you one more year to behave or you're outta here" LOL
You're taking bulbs out of pots and putting them in to cans?? Why? I'm totally confused. They're overcrowded or something like that?
Bingo. My Sedum is "Autumn Joy" also, but it bloomed like "Autumn Misery"
Need to prune these baby sunroses....anyone want the cuttings, speak now... Im open to trade them off and they are easy to start.....
I also found some pot marigolds (calendulas in the cutting bed.. will post them in the Marigold thread....)
Oh poor you!! My sedums did great I have matrona that dos fair... it took awhile for it to get established... they like pith poor soil and dry...but yeah, they can be ugly at times!
Yes, they were over crouded and had to be divided... on that garden we mangled yanking out that maple bush.... we left destruction in its path and there were spring bulbs that I put in nursery cans years back and they got rumped up in the process of the tree removal, so we yanked the cans out and they had multiplied so well they were actually busting the nursery cans they were originnally planted in so I thought to yank all of them in that bed and man, I have a haul to replant. I sink my daffs, hyacinths, lycoris and the like in one gallon pots and leave the rims showing just a hair above the dirt line so I can easily lift them in the fall when the time comes. It recycles alot of my nursery pots too!
My last rose of summer......
Give me that rose!! They don't do too well in South Florida. They're pretty good for one year and then very few blooms after that. Only have one hybrid tea rose left. The others were dug up in the past two years.
Why do you have to lift those bulbs that are in the one gallon pots in the ground? Don't most people just plant the bulbs and leave them in the ground year after year?
That rose is over 50 years old! I have no clue what variety it is, its sort of a longstem. Has another bud.. so soone the first rose of fall will be upon it! Um, sorry its not mine for me to give, its had. If it sets a hip, you can have that though.. I will have to watch it as it does not always do that! I cover that thang every winter. Got two pank tea roses, another viney rose that are also heirlooms and then another climber that probably is old, but I cannot verify it. The rest I know as they been in the family for that long if not longer! Normally I dont do roses, but these have been inthe family so long adn they are all the ones I will do. I tried others and kilt them.
Id plant those spring bulbs direct in the ground but the moles and voles like to dig around them and kill them so they all go in cans and it just makes it so much easier to find them whe its time to thin them out and spread the wealth! The cans deter the monsters! When I say can, its those plastic nursery pots... one gallon or othersizes!
started a seed saving thread....
go here if you want to join on!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1132079/
the imps perked up.. maybe if I get time today I will prune them back to bring in the house.
my banana peppers for fall! Pretty colorful...
Nice. Lots of stuff still thriving up there. From your photos you wouldn't think tomorrow is October 1st. Had to laugh when the local meteorologist stated we're going to drop down to a cool low of 72 degrees tonight. So many South Floridians think its freezing when it gets below 70. Scary.
They got no blood! Heck I run around in short leeves until its nearly 45 here! I did quit the shorts though...
Heres that rose again... it flattens out huge!
Nice. The only rose I have left is Hybrid Tea Rose "Tahitian Sunset". Just can't get rid of it because it's so fragrant. So many of the newest ones have had the fragrance bred out of them.
heres matrona...sorry about the weeds... LOL! Somedays the balast of the garden gets that way especiallythis time of year...
Was gonna post the pink tea rose but ran a much in technical difficulties so its coming.. and so is Christmas.. but anyway, matrona is a leggy critter. It is the kind you need ot put in a zeriscape. Autumn Joy and a few others make great hedges, but matrona is a pill.
Ok, heres the pinky....first rose of fall....
Thank god for the Helenium. They're doing a good job of hiding the "Autumn Misery" Sedum that's behind them. Just pruned quite a few of the brown blooms off the Sedum. The Helenium's look nice in bouquets for some added height.
NAS~!
HEY GANG! Just running in quick before I'm off again.
Here's my first Oct. Blooms. I call it Audrey II. Not even open yet and the bud is HUGE! I'll post pix when it finally opens.
Oh dear Lord, if thats a stapelia, get it out of the house, it will smell like carrion!
DANGGGG! That thang is huge! WOWOWOWOSER!
Welcome back.. we missed you..
It got ccccold yesterday during the day.....thought it was gonna frost so I played mass destruction with the mater beds and yankged green maters until my hands and feet were black.
Then of all things, did we get frost? NOOOOOooo! Well, Im, glad there becasue the loofas are still hanging and dangling! I pulled a few gourds that I thought were hardened to dry, but man I got a ton that I hope I can save. (Go loffa thread see pics!)
I also dragged a bunch of outdoor plants indoors.....
Busted humps too moving pepperplants to the barn...
Oh why?
That indeed is what it is but it's still out on the patio...one because it will be stinky when fully opened and two,because I was afraid if I moved it from outside to inside it would abort it's buds. It's still not open so I don't know exactly which species it is yet.
I have most of my houseplants moved in now.
I spent a nice day outside weeding,mowing,cleaning out my dogs pen and putting some smaller wire up so my little chu-who-a-who-a could go out w/ the others and not be able to slip out between the bigger wire that the pen is originally made of.
I still have the maters mess to clean up.
Got a light frost this AM and hosed off the loofa and the remaining cherry maters. The cherrys I blanketed last nite and the blankets had fros and my hose was iced up.. UGH. They both are still surviving, but I think I may take some advice and whack the gourds off the vine and put them in the garage to dry them. God I hate to bring them in the house due to their not so pleasant smell.
I have booooocooo cherry maters and most are gareen.
Need to mow, rake and do a lot of fall work yet and got a pile of housework too.
I need to find places to bring my spiderplants in...
That reminds me, I must move my Christmas cactus in... It did not do as well as last year.
So many things still left to do.
I noticed "Big Stinky" was open this am when I took Cassy out @4am...will get a pix later
Talk about BIG STINKY, GOD was the air quality poor this morning...smelt almost like your Audry, but werst. More like the real thing.
Had a harder frost this AM. The loofa appears to be still safe. Hope to pull more gourdos off and finish cleaning up the mater mess. I got vines laying all about like a mass mater murderer here. Did get several bushels of big materers though.
The cherrymates are still onthe vine yet, but been gettign those as I can.
So far the margolds are doing great and some of the other plants I want to brig in stil nbeed digging and got a pile of daffs to pot up yet.
Place is a royal mess.
I spent most of the day,yesterday,trying to weed out what was left of my rock garden. Removing all the plants so I can just hit it with weed killer when needed. I put it in a bad place any way. Down hill so it get's too much water when it rains. I was shock to find sempervivums and sedums still surviving in the weedy mess. Few more plants to rescue and other taken out yesterday to pot up.
I have trouble with hen and chicks...they always get weedy and eventually croak like we need things croaking around here. I lost all my semps
Been watching the buzzards overhead and looking and listening for timberrattles. The reptiles are looking for nooks to hide in. Should have seen the buzzies the other day... WOW! thicker than fleas. They have thinned out a bit, but still groping around. Will be for days I suppose.
moved my peppers back outside, I think I will just let them go. No room to bring them in the house and they are done putting out. Need to dig more imps though.. those I am havign good luck and want all I canfor next year
Last night was mild and no frost and sposed to get back in the 70s or so I heard.
Hi everyone,
Well I am back. All my treatments are finished and I have that whole cancer ordeal behind me and then Steve and I took a fabulous trip the month of September. Now here we are all getting ready for the cold temps.
It has been chilly here in the 40's and 50's but calling for one more nice weekend this one in the 80's so I'll be out there in full garden gear, gathering the last of the blooms and trying to harvest more zinnia seeds.
Got the fountain covered, mowers dewheeled and drained for the season, cabin pipes covered, boat out of the water in the pond, all my tropicals tucked neatly in our bedroom, and still more to do!
Better get to work for now, catch you later.
Candee
Oh praise the Lord Candee! Glad your better.
Been doing shut down chores aroudn here anbd gathering seed too. If you have any spare zinnias d-mail me, I will take all I can get!
Have to get back to the grind so will yak with you later. Just came in from potting up imps and daffs and mowing and for a quick break.
Glad to see you back. Hope your health continues to improve.
Well, been doing fall cleanup, moving empty pots for storage, moving daylilies to plant, bulbs, cleaning trash off beds and more winter shut down stuff.
Need to water the houseplants
Been planting planting planting and more planting down here. Worked on the vegetable garden yesterday then planted the Ranunculus bulbs last night. Put some petunias in the front flower bed and some "Snowball" marigolds on the side of the house. Gonna get some Sweet Pea seeds planted this afternoon. Weather is finally showing signs that summer is over. Low 80's today after a start in the mid 60's this morning. Sat outside with my coffee this morning.
I did not have any luck with sweet peas this year.
Got a weird marigold though..
Oh ick, coffee? LOL! cant get past the smell of it.. its not my cup of tea!
Moved the bulb pots out to the cutting bed to get ready to sink into the groound there.
Got boooocoooo clocks out there.
We finished cleaning the big hoophouse. what a mess that was but its near done.. just need to do somethign with that floor there.
Now the GPS is a mess and the pot stash. Moved pots to poth places and well room was tight and just stuffed stuff for now and need to go back to organize those areas...
dug the last of the imps and had only 2 snaps. I dug some small gomphrena to try to bring indoors.. will let you know if they get past the shock.. I doubt it though, I never have good luck transplanting things with tape roots. So, Jon, plant those direct to a pot or in the garden if you do get a chance to try them.
Shot a fungus, a salamander, got in some mums and just piddled around.
One of your beaucoup clocks huh!!!! I've only tried Sweet Peas once before and I failed with them. Started them too late in the winter. Hoping a nice and early October start will help. Repotted 50 tall snap seedlings earlier in the week. Need to get larger before they can be put in the ground. Have to grow the tall ones myself each year since they only sell the short varieties down here.
Found a nice yellow and red striped mum at Lowes yesterday. Had to buy it because it was quite different from the normal garden mum.
I got in three new mums. Yano, about a decade ago I had a great collectionof mums.. had about 75 varieties. They are a great plant, but I cant get them goign to much here due to the wet.
Here is my white one for this year...
I think if I didmums strickly as a pot crop I would have good luck with them, but to do them like I did them at the old farm here.. no way.
I sure miss my perennial garden at the old farm.. but life is what it is.
Heres the new lavender one I also got in
