She's about to...59... Spring is here!

I lost some brugs too, Ang, it happens. We will load ya up again, no worries. I lost ones I paid for and that hurts, but no way will it let my day be ruined for very long. I have tried NOL and NN and Adeline for two years and lost them every year, so it isn't meant to be I guess. I am glad my Missbhavin made it, she is outside in the ground RIGHT NOW. My biggest mistake in winter is overwatering.
Faye, I wish I could have surgery, I am so tired of wearing trifoculs just to see. It is not fixable, and I am going to eye doctor to prolly get stronger ones, as if they aren't strong enough already. How's your DH?
Sure wish it would rain, we are 2 and a half inches behind for the year..

Faye, glad you had your surgery. Wow, wish I could have lasic surgery, but at $1000.00 per eye, it may be awhile!!!
Were low on rain here too! It has been 56 days since any rain, and it looks like it will be awhile longer. It is supposed to be 101 Friday and Saturday.

Debra I'm so sorry you cannot have the ReStor lens so you could ditch those glasses. I am so thankful that i could get this type lens verses the reg. Cataract lens. Linda, the ReStor lens is expensive too and insurance will not pay for them. They are $1900. each eye. But with all I had wrong with my eyes, this was a blessing for me.

Oh goodness. That is a lot of money, glad to hear they are helping you. Geesh, I have been wearing glasses for so long, I think I would feel naked with out them.

I remember going to contacts Linda Kay, and I would catch myself poking at my nose like to raise my glasses that weren't there...rofl

I used to NOT wear glasses all the time, wore contacts ( bi foculs) for ten years, used glasses when they weren't in, been in trifoculs for ten years, and they still do not make tri contacts yet. My nose hurts all the time even when switching from one pair to another. * sigh*

GM All
SPRING IS Findly Here :) My Tulips are peeking through , busy day ahead so can't stay Wishing you all a great day .T.G.I.F :)

Hello to everybody and praying your day is good.
Linda Kay, you are right, that is a lot of money but if I check my want list, VISION will have to be on top and that makes it worth it to me.
Debra, what color is Dola & Taylor Dawn? Never heard of them. If you have extras lol, please add them to the box you are planning to send me.
Susie love the color of your Tulips.
Hope each of you will be happy today and if any pain, i pray it will be minor.
Love & hugs, Faye

ty faye I planted 100 of them there in that area & As you can see only a few came up . so I want to get more :) this fall wish i could remember the name of them .

Today after work I drove to emporia to get college girl, then raced out back to pull up more leaves to ready for the tropicals and brugs, and it started hailling on me, so I laid all the tall plants down that were in pots, and thne it started raining ( finaly) after Joe and college girl and I ran around picking up big golf ball hail stones and putting them in the planters and pots, ( we didn't think it would really rain) some people here in kansas got basemball sized hail.
Faye, Dole is a dark pink, have no clue about taylor dawn she is just a small stick atm. once she gets big and blooms out, we will see what she is all about. I lost Wretched Mess, Culebra, NOL, Lovey, and a few more, but can't remember. Dola is a great performer.
today is my mothers birthday, and she would have told me to prune her roses, so I pruned mine tonight before the rain. I Pruned Carribia, American Eagle, Dream Cycle, Double Delight, My Angel, and another one I can't remember its name. I have the cuttings I pruned in the bean patch for the night. I pulled up a huge bunch of Pink Supreme Monarda. Excellant pink and great smell.

I Just love the BEE BALM Wish I Had some white I Have many other colors but not the white :) & Deb if you have any DOLE Left this year I Would like some you shared with me last fall but it didn't make the winter . I have to go take count of what did or didn't make it :)
well going to be a great day & I Have a load of garden soil comming in this morning , & a load of MANURE :)
so guess i best get off here & get my spot ready for them :)))

HAVE a Great Day & weekend .

FRUITY A SPECIAL DAY FOR YOU GIRL "HAPPY B_DAY ""

Morning everyone! Coffee is ready!
Debra, you have been so busy! Why are you pulling up the monarda?
Happy Birthday Fruity! Have a great day!

Look at the beautiful Lilies decorating the cake. Which reminds me I need to get going on the boatload of Lily bulbs received from Bleek yesterday.

Susie, this is one of the Tulips blooming now that you sent me last year.

Debra, is Pink Supreme a dwarf? I keep seeing it in catalogs listed as a dwarf monarda.

Beautiful blooms..What is a Monarda?
Susan I think I read somewhere that you wanted to make your entire yard into gardens and with all your already plants, and your ordering, I do believe you will do it. What lilies did you order?
Happy Birthday....Love you lady.
Faye

Debra, could I get some of that monarda you are pulling up????

I got a box of bulbs from a coop I ordered from. Hope they do well here. Do lilies have to have full sun, or would doppled and afternoon be OK?

Brunello
Gironde
Monte Negro
Toronto
Elodie
Casa Blanca (have a rose named that at the other house)
Dizzy
Salmon Star
Robin
Conca d'Or

Any of these familiar to anyone?

LOL.....they sure are, Patti, and then some. If you're labeling change Robin to "Robina".

Faye, I'll bring Lilies for you at our RU. Monarda is Bee Balm, a shrub-like plant in the Mint Family. This is a pic I took last year of mine. If you like the Raspberry blooms, you're welcome to a clump. Or anybody else here for that matter. Patti? I've been digging clumps getting them well-rooted to either trade or give away. Just be judicious where you plant Monardas as they readily self-sow and spread easily. Seems like mine bloomed from about June to frost and before growing season was over it was about 5' or so tall.



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This message was edited Apr 10, 2011 7:20 PM

Meant to say Lilies prefer Full Sun, Patti.

Thanks Fruit Loop. I've heard people talk about monarda, but never had any. I have the perfect place for it and the raspberry is perfect too. Now to get that darn garage finished! ^_^

Oh, and yes I do plan to start tagging. Never have done it before because I saw no reason ............ now there is!

Oh I Love Monarda ---- Bee Balm, it don't spread here any to fast, I have a purple & pink Looking for other colors :) so some day fruit when someone wants you to send plants to me Just drop some in the box for me :))) hehehe . Good Nite all

Happy Brithfay to youuuu happy birthday to youuu happy birthday dear Fruityyyyyyy Happy Birthday to youuuuu,,,, and many moreeeee..Hehe..
You an me are Aries I see..


I love Raspberry wine, I also have Cambridge scarlet, jacobs cline, gardenview scarlet, Pink supreme, Lavender petite wonder, and a couple more so I had to clean out a few of them along with the penstamons, obedient plants, and a bunch of other stuff. I have a huge tub now wrapped up with all this stuff, will be sending out in boxes promised. Got a new one last year supposed to be almost black so dark, but havn't seen it bloom yet. I like to dry the flowers for pouporie or howver that is spelled.

Well if anyone has extra just let me know I will be happy to take it off your hands :) for postage or trade.
off to the gardens this morning its going to be 80 :) today & I have over 100 blubs to get into the ground .
TATA

HAPP LATE BIRTHDAY, Fruity Girl!!! Hope you did something fun....

I got my bulbs from Bleeks also, but didn't get them planted. DH had me up at 5am to go to a swap meet yesterday. I didn't find much but did get a new garden hat with string for 4.00 Then came home and planted 8 bressingham blue hostas, cut down the big grasses, and then chopped more on the dead pines. Everything is a mess....inside and out...rofl.

We went from frost to 90, my daffs and tulips are NOT happy about it.

Plant sale today and a friend is coming over at 8:30am and we are off for a day of plant shopping and fun....yeah.
Hummm wonder if that is why everything is a mess...rofl.

Debra if your rose starts start could I swap you some stuff for them?

Think I will try to figure out what days it won't rain next week and take off and try to get things under control. I need to go out to the old farm cemetery and get it under control before it is totally wild again. Wish it were closer it would make it easier.

Happ you can come help me cut down my Grasses usually burn them but its been to windy to Burn
Just waiting for daddy to wake so i can get his BKF & Get outside for awhile lots to get potted up yet today .

I have everything ready for dinner just have to pop it in the over at 11:30 am & WAHLLA Eat at 1pm :)
well off to change the laundry have a great day HUGS To all

A BIGGGGGG thank you Susan.
Hugs everyone!

Gotcha, Faye, and can hardly wait to see you at the Round-Up!

The few Pampas Grass plants we have I cut down last month, just in time since new growth was starting to shoot up at their bases. But then again, we're a tad bit ahead of some of you. Same thing here, Susie, we have a burn band from April to October unless it's after 4 PM.

It was absolutely glorious here today and reached 86 degrees. Clear skies, just a little breezy, and I broke a sweat. First thing this morning, the crop of wild garlic growing in my long bed was calling my name and spent the next two hours digging them out. Pretty easy after our rains, but ended up with a shiner blister, stupid gloves. Then I planted perennials a nursery let me have for 1/2 price Saturday for my B-day. They have never done that and I was tickled! But they know I'll be back for loads of mulch and will back up the bucks. One new plant is Rudbeckia "Black-Eyed Susan". Can you believe I didn't already have one...lol And another was Coreopsis "Jethro Tull", had to have it just because of the name. It felt SO good to be outside digging and planting. Spring has definitely sprung but bet we get zapped with a surprise frost between now and May 15th.

Photo attached is IRIS "Irish Chant" Maxine gave me, and is blooming today.....

Ahhhhhhhhhh, my favorite flower!

Is it really, Patti? I had no idea. My tiny patch only has 8 or so named cultivars and a few NOIDS.

No Band on burning here YET Anyway but i don't burn till i have my brother or someone else here with me
My little brother brought my trailer home last nite so i can go get my LUMBER :)

so off to get my day going you all have a great day also :)
susie

Yes FOTV, it is. My DH and I were married in late April, our colors were white and lavender. I had iris in bloom that color (when I lived at my other house) and had a big bouquet on the reception table. I just wish they bloomed longer, like all summer! :-)

Morning everyone! Coffee is ready! It is nice and cool here this morning. Only 52 and it feels really nice! I am going to see if I can get a glove over my splinted fingers, and get some brugs in the ground. I have a few in water, and thier roots are getting so long, and they are about 1 & 1/2 foot tall with the new growth. Can't wait for hubby, or it will never get done!

And a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DEBRA!!!! Hope you have a wonderful day!

Happy Happy Birthday Dear Debra! And many more...

Happy Birthday to Debra!

Happy Birthday, Debra. Have a wonderful day!

Have a wonderful day Debra!

Super Birthday Wishes Debra!! Enjoy the day. Eat cake and celebrate like a teenager..

Don't you mean like a "college girl" .... tee hee