seeing some new faces stop by say hi

Thanks guys, what more can I say? You are far more appreciated than words can describe. God bless you for your help, support and kindness.

Jon

Jon, Becky is right, this too shall pass. Let us know if there is anything we can help with.

A.

Short of showing up at your doorstep, we are here for ya, Jon! :-) Sherman99 is right ... friends are there for you!

I'm still hoping to hit the lotto! If so, I'll come out to visit you and of course ... supervise that home extension you are working on! (A WINK & A SMILE!) ;-) And play with the kiddos, too! :-)

Show up at my doorstep and ya'll be more than welcome, believe me! sleep on the floor, eat Japanese, take you places and show you the sights.

Jon - Sounds like a real treat to visit Japan! I'd love it! :-)

Yea it sure does. Wish I could go. I know I would love it as Much as My daughter.

Well here it is an open invitation, come and see us as we really are!

Hi, new face on this forum...and praying for Jon and family to be safe.

We are are OK but had some serious damage, many thanks!
Jon

Good to see you here Jon.
A.

Whew, glad you and yours are okay! Sorry to hear about the damage. Prayers still coming your way.

What can I say? Well a big hug and thank y'all for a start! These things bring home to me just how important friends are.

Jon

Jon, much relieved that you and your family are ok. I can't believe that you and I
were just talking about the possibility of this happening a few days ago.

I don't know if this is significant or not but I sometimes get very depressed for a few days, then the disaster happens. A week before 9/11 and Christmas 2004 are the ones that spring to my mind. I don't pretend to predict the future but somehow I seem to know when something bad is about to happen. Lord only knows why! Disaster allergy perhaps?

I am just glad you are all right. People say to know when its going to rain and stuff. So maybe you just sense things. Just take one day at a time. We are all here for you. Hugs!!!! Rie

Nope I'm no good at predicting rain, or reading tea cups! LOL

Hi y'all! Some of you know me. I'm NancyAnn. I've been around DG for years and GW before that. The daylily addiction hit me badly a few years ago. I managed to collect about 500 named daylilies and many unnamed ones. Last year, it dawned on me that most of my garden was daylilies and when they're done blooming, it looks pretty bare around here after that.

So I found some new addictions. Hardy Hibiscus are big winners. I look for the newer hybrids with huge blooms. Ornamental grasses also inspire me. One of my favorites is zebra grass, which all visitors comment on. And I grow Arundo Donax Variegata, in the can family, looks like Bamboo. It starts out white with thin green stripes in the spring and changes to yellow. By the time it gets hot, it becomes a dull green color like bamboo. It has bamboo-like canes that I use to stake my tomatoes. Gosh, it gets 12 ft tall or so in my gardens.

My dear friend Gourd has been trying to addict me to MGs for years. I've grown a few. Rose Silk and Hatsu Arashi are two of my favorites. I didn't have much room for vines until the past year or two. I built a fence and several arbors to grow vines on, so Gourd may finally be successful in creating another MG addict.

My biggest challenge this season will be keeping my new puppy from digging up all my plants. He's already brought me some bearded irises he decided needs to be transplanted elsewhere. He's always digging holes; I'm afraid he's gone dig to China...or maybe to Japan. Jon, if he shows up over there, call me and I'll come get him. LOL Here he is fishing in my pond.

Here he is in one of my ornamental grasses (bull rush I think, often grows along ditches). He's going to be a great garden pup, I think. I just have to teach him to quit digging up plants to bury his bones, shoes, and toys. LOL

Here's one of my gardens last summer. My entire yard is a garden; I have no lawn. You just follow all the paths to the different pavillions, gazebo and gardens. I am in the process of redesigning everything so I can have themed gardens: A romance garden, a "honeymoon suite", a spiritual garden, a butterfly garden, an edible garden.

When I get it all done, I'll rent it out for small gatherings occasionally and to photographers for photo shoots.

Here are a few of my daylilies. I love doubles and somehow I ended up with this one. It was supposed to be Raspberry Candy but obviously isn't. I'm was pleasantly surprised to find it's a double. Wish I knew its name.

No self-respecting hillbilly could be without a HILLBILLY HEART.

I spotted this in a hybridizer's garden and fell in love. Each time I visited him, it would be blooming and I kept asking him who it was. The last time I asked, he said, "You ask me that everytime you visit. I think you have to have some." So BEAUTIFUL JEALOUS EYES now grows in my romance garden quite beautifully.

your garden is so beautiful.

And this one takes my breath away--FANCY FACE. Ain't she purty??

Hi NancyAnn, how the heck are you!?
Nice to see you here, if ya hang out long enough you will be a MG addict before you know it!! Great bunch of people too!

Love your gardens and the double DL is stunning!

Thank you, Sherman. I'm such a plant addict. I tried the 12-step program for plantaholics...but each step lead me right to another plant! And I just had to have it. Can I be like Charlie Sheen and claim I'm cured...while I check out the Plant Trading forum to see if I can find another plant?

Here's a beauty: RED EYED FANTASY

Ronnie, now you know you've been enabling me for years too! Between you and Gourd and all the MG seeds you've sent me over the years, you knew you'd suck me into the MG world. And now I have lots of fencing to grow them on. I'm really excited to get some planted this year!

OK this is the last daylily I'm sharing with you guys today. Another eyed one that takes my breath away. MEXICAN MAGIC

And since this is the MG forum, I'll share one of my faves, Rose Silk. The bloom is huge and spectacular with variegated foliage. It may be common to some of you more expert MG growers. But it must be a classic surely and classics are never common, are they?

Oh my lord, Please don't addict me to daylillies, please. You know what you did to me with cannas 10 years ago..lol

Those Rose Silk are just beautiful.
A.

oops, I typed so fast I forgot to say , your gardens are beautiful as ever... and those daylillies are so nice.. very, very nice cultivars you have. I love that last one too.. sheesh.. I purchased so many about two or three years ago and none of them made it here in this hot heii of a place.. the soil got baked so hot into hot clay rock, combination.. I don't know what will make it here, so we use raised beds for almost everything or pots.

Ah come on now. Turnabout is fair play. If I get addicted to MGs, A., I'm dragging you into the daylily addiction. You'd love them! What fun you could have hybridizing them.

Unfortunately the last two winters have killed almost all my cannas. I have less than 10 varieties now. Remember, at one time I had about 75 varieties, some real beauties. The ones that have survived our worst winters are the very old ones (Robert Kemp, Florence Vaughn, & Richard Wallace). I probably won't add any back into my gardens. I was crushed to lose so many when they'd survived for years and years.

A., call some tree trimmers and ask for some free mulch. They can dump you a huge truckload. Here I get all I want. They have to pay to dump at the landfill, and they're delighted to dump here for free. I get about 15 commercial truckloads yearly.

It's great for amending your soil. I started with all red clay that turned to rock during a drought. Now, almost all of it is rich black gold. It's so nice!!

I used to get truckloads in CA for the couple of acres we had there, but, here the mulch you can get is Pecan mulch and there are still a few remaining nuts in the mulch, so guess what, MICE all over the place, We decided to flagstone most of the yard and garden in very small areas. I live now in the middle of Pecan Orhards and Corn, Alfalfa, onions, etc.. whatever they decide to plant and rotate next.. Kind of nice too. We are blocked in the irrigation rights so, we have our own well, but it is too much for me to keep up with by myself. NO GRASS, maybe a few feet of it for the dogs and turtles, that is it.. Mostly cactus, but this winter most of them froze too, so, we have ALOT of gravel..lol

A.

P.S. Nancy, let me know if you are ready for some MG seeds, I'm getting Nick's ready this next coming week, can send some then.
A.

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Speaking of Nick, how do you go about nicking the mg seeds before planting?

Here is an old thread where I posted pics of mg that grew wild here. The english ivy has choked nearly all of them out, though, so last year there were very few. I never did pull the ivy, as it's so thick, it's intimidating! It started out as a hanging plant that spilled over onto the ground thirty years ago.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/758940/

Hi, I am a " new face" on this topic and want to say Hi to you all.
Last year I started Ipomoea ' Star of Yelta' , I. ' Crimson Rambler' and I. 'Milky way'. I liked them very much and put some other on my want list. Thanks to DG member I received new seeds: I. Chocolate silk, I. Gypsy bride, I Heavenly blue, I. Jamie Lynn, I Joyce Cobb, I. Lavender hige, I. Sunrise seranade and others. I 'll start my seeds in April. Here in Holland the last chance of frost is 16 May. Is this early enough to start the seeds?

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Hi, Flinter, I was in your country once, when in the army--I'll never forget the gorgeous gardens!

Welcome to all the new members to this forum! I look forward to your adventure growing MGs and always enjoy photos of your vines and blooms!

NancyAnn - Your gardens and daylilies are truly beautiful! Welcome to another plant addiction! :-)

KyWoods - That ivy is something indeed! :-) To nick a seed, I use a small nail clipper and just slightly nick a MG seed. Don't nick too deep or you might damage any seedling that could emerge.

Thanks, Becky! I was just fondling last year's seeds a few minutes ago, lol.