General Discussion & Chat: Today, I am thankful for...#12

Thankful that two D G'ers sent me seeds to plant .
Sunshine
Moist ground , for awhile

Thankful for the magnolias in bloom, for the nice weather, and for more rain.

I'm thankful for another beautiful very early spring day, daffodils in bloom and a very healthy, happy friend who is experiencing the benefits of exercise and gives me credit for inspiring her.

Tam

Today, thankful for...
...brown sugar and butter on multigrain toast.
...African violets. Don't care for them per se, but they remind me of my paternal grandmother who raised them.
...quiet, flush-mounted ceiling fans.

Magnolias

Thankful to be back on line.Thankful for warm weather,pizza,spring flowers,daylillys showing signs of green,new Texas daylillys showing signs of life.
Chimes tinkling in the breeze.birds singing,frogs hopping,cats trying to catch butterflys. Deer running thru the yard. Open windows,
Also thankful I don't have ugly close neighbors.
Vickie

Thankful for citrus blooming. Tony doing the tiles on my kitchen counters. Finally. I assit.

Thankful for the new garden which is out fron by the road. Working there makes me less of a hermit, I wave to all the neighbors as they drive by.

Thankful that my neighbor who loves to point all that still needs to be done beofre I should be satified with my life is taking a break from speaking to me.

katie

Hi Vickie and Katie!! I am so glad you are here! (big hug!!)

I'm thankful to have a day w/o specific plans. And I'm very grateful to have a potluck dinner to look forward to tomorrow night.

Tam

After cleaning up his trash , after I leave for the summer the neighbor will be putting up a wood fence to hide future junk .
Thankful I wasn't raised in that family
" Cando and katiebear are back too .
" I'll see my son for a few days next weekend , go fishing with him and make him a coupla Pecan and a cherry pie . He can take home the excess . It'll be next Nov before I see him again .
Thankful for cell phones to keep in touch .

Thankful for a very rainy day and two more predicted. Sorely needed it what with it being so rain-less this winter ( which is the only time we get rain). Enjoying cool weather too as friends and family have too hot for March weather in NE and North.

Looking forward to trying my hand at daylillies for the first time. Never cared for the mundane yellow ones at big box stores like you see planted in mass in front of offices. I bought two online both 'doubles'.

Have not been too successful with my citrus in past in spite of seeing trees all over the area laden with fruit. The dwarf Meyer lemon bought last year has a baby and more blossoms. Fingers crossed. New peach tree from last summer has a ton of baby peaches but I am told it is best to cut them all off so growth goes into the tree for strength. Maybe I could just leave a few? Branches are too little to support that many when grown anyway.

Thankful everyone here is safe from tornados.

Uh-oh, quilty. You is about to be bitten by the bug. Daylilies have a way of grabbing and not letting go. I know. Only had a dozen or so until last year. Bought a few on eBay. Discovered virtually all daylily sellers send bonus plants. 157 daylilies later... LOL Happy about the fruit trees. :-)

QG , watch for peach tree borers . Be sure to treat trees for protection . Daddy used moth balls in a covered trench six inches out from trunk , two inches deep . Should be something else more modern now . I love peaches .

I love peaches too.They grow some in the valley but they won't survive up here. We have pear trees. Does that count?Apples don't do well either cause of the cedar trees and cedar rust. I am determined to grow strawberrys this year.
I spent the day outside with my container garden.fertlizing,replanting creeping phlox and planting tomatoes and onions.Got a couple pots ready for strawberrys.Need to work tomorrow to finish up as we're due for rain all next week.
There is no doubt that I am happiest digging in the dirt and watching things grow and bloom.I am so thankful for containers and a good outside chair.
We've got ticks but I won't sprey because we also have lightning bugs. I have to spray some for wasps,they're getting bad around the eaves of the house.
Quilty, You're really getting into a bad addiction. AND there's no cure! LOL Daylilly addicts are a pretty good sort tho.Most addicts wont share their stashes but daylilly addicts are always willing to share.
Been thinking about Carrie today. Bet shes busy as a bee about now.
Katie, Glad you're injoying your garden and neighbors.
You've got great Espanic neighbors anyway.
Debra, Are you going to get any of this rain we're getting?

Thankful for rain this week, carpenters who fix stickie doors, and green grass.

Vickie, we are supposed to have rain tomorrow. Maybe severe weather. THIS time I am putting my car under the carport. Getting $4500 in hail damage to a brand new car you hadn't even made the first payment on yet is an experience I don't care to repeat! LOL So I am thankful that I HAVE a carport and that it won't take much time to move things sideways to make room for the car.

I am thankful we are getting more rain. Even though the bugs and such will be really bad this year that is infinitely better, I think, than drought and water restrictions.

Like Vickie, I am thankful to have flowerdy stuff and outdoor chairs and experience this glorious time of year.

What a pretty mag! Magnolia grandiflora is a woodland tree here, but they don't bloom until April, at the earliest.
Thankful we never work on Sunday's around here.
Powdery mildew and cedar apple rust have forced Papa Jim to give up on growing apples. He is finally accepting that he "ain't in Pennsylvania anymore" and has turned his attention to fruit trees that grow easily here. We have an Owari orange in the front yard now. :-) Is it dry enough there that apples are still growing for you, Katiebear? ~N~

I am thankful to have had one of the most unique and entertaining afternoons outside. Digging in the dirt, pulling up grass clumps and weeds goes much more pleasantly when someone in the neighborhood is practicing outside to the tune of Ride of the Valkyries and Darth Vader's theme--on the tuba. LOL

Thankful today for 12 straight hours of rain.
Thankful for Pringles, colby cheese, and Claussen pickles. :-D
Thankful for Dianthus and Geraniums and Gerberas.

Everything is a month early here because it's been so warm. The magnolias usually bloom in April. What else is he growing besides Owari orange?

Tuba sounds like it could have been fun to weeding. Sets the weeding frame of mind.

Grateful for rain again yesterday, crabapples in bloom, and fresh fruit.

Its a full-on April bloom here too. Magnolia is in bloom, daffodils are peaking... just glorious.

yep - I'm grateful to be enjoying another beautiful spring
Tam

I'm back on line at home!!!! Boy, am I thankful. It has been months.

Hibiscus and jasmine are blooming. My schotia tree which I grew from seed and is now about thirty feet tall is full of burgandy colored buds. When they start to open every bird in the area (and many from out of town) come to enjoy the nectar. It's an incredible sight and sound.

katie

I looked that last tree up. Looks interesting. Does it have a scent when it blooms.

I've not noticed any fragrance. It is not as dramatic looking here in the subtropics as is a warmer climate but the colors are beautiful. New folage is olive-bronze green and the flowers are beautiful burgandy. It's best feature, I think, is that it is such a magnet for birds. Not so good if you have food plants nearby but I'm OK with sharing.

katie

I looked it up too and I could probably grow it here . Katie , you better start a list of us to send a few seeds to when they get ripe . I want four or five .LOL but I'm serious , it's beautiful

Lol. Debra. Maybe, it was a clever high school student. Playing a tuba can help get someone into a good college. There aren’t many tuba players so college bands are always in need of them
, I grow rabbiteye blueberries, peaches, plums, red and black raspberries, kiwis, figs, pomegranates and a few different kinds of muscadine grapes. I added to persimmon trees, two varieties of Muscat grapes from a DG friend in Greece, and something called a ‘Blue Velvet’ Honeyberry this year. The latter is a form of edible honeysuckle with fruit similar to blueberries. I like trying something completely new to me every growing season. This one qualifies. I want to try it because it is one of the few fruits that will grow well in partial shade. I would like to add a couple of pawpaw trees before it gets too hot to transplant. .I have indeed accepted that I’m not in PA anymore and apples will have to come from the grocery store. Now, if only my dearly beloved would accept that she isn’t in south Florida anymore. She still grows bananas and passionfruit. Although, if the weather keeps going the way it has, she may not have to.
Yes, daylilies can be dangerous. Two years ago I had the orange tigerlily and an old pink and yellow cultivar. Now, I have over 50 different cultivars…and am adding more every year. My wife just shakes her head and mumbles about there being worse addictions I could have…and points out the fragrant varieties in the catalog. Lol. A point of mergence for our different plant addictions.


Today I am thankful for Ohio spiderwort. It has started blooming in earnest. I really like the shade of blue. It rocks with all the bright yellow blooms around this time of year.

News this evening said it was officially the driest year on record in 2011 for Texas. Today, I am thankful for the rains of 2012.

I am thankful the Japanese Maple twigling is thriving in its container.

I am thankful for the boss' sudden cookie craving because, when he got back to the office, I busted my sugar budget with a rainbow sugar, a coconut macadamia nut, and a chocolate chip. Salad with no dressing for dinner, now, but it was worth it! :-D

Oh lord my brother tried the tuba. Actually, the Sousaphone. (The one that wraps around your body and carried in marching bands). Mom had a rule - each child had to take 1yr of music lessons. Any instrument except drums. My brother is an extremely talented man in so many areas... but not musically. It was torture listening to him practice. :-)

I hosted a mother/daughter pair today who came to buy materials left over from my groups flower show exhibit (Phila Flower Show). I am so thankful I put in the time to work on that exhibit as it has been wonderful to meet all the people I would not otherwise have met. 1-2months ago I was grumbling about all the time and today I am just happy I did it.

I really think it pays to do what your gut tells you to do.
Tam

Yes. I can see being happy about following your gut and also happy to have it behind you for this year.

Lot of fruit listed there. Must be nice to grow all those. Are you far enough south that you can also grow avocados? Any experience with hardy kiwi's? I've been wondering what they taste like and if it's anything like regular kiwis. I thought there was at least one hardy passion fruit.

Yes, Susan, there is Passiflora incarnata or maypops, as they are known locally. I guess I don't count them because they grow wild here.
What an amazing tree, Kb. I wish I could have such a bird magnet. Bet my hummers would love it. (Jim)


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Today, we are all thankful for “edit” when one of us forgets to log out and the next person to use the house computer doesn’t notice it. ;-)
I have avocadoes in the ground my two GS’s sprouted from grocery store avocadoes. They have survived so far, but I have my doubts they will ever produce fruit. I keep them growing because the boys got such a kick out of watching them go from seeds to plants in a glass of water. They are still young enough to see wonder in the fact that they grew them.
We grow the egg-sized fuzzy kiwis. I’ve never eaten a hardy kiwi, but I’ve seen the foliage on a male arctic kiwi. I think the foliage is a good enough reason to try them. They are more attractive than some purely ornamental vines I’ve seen. I just don’t understand why it is only the male vine that is colorful.
It is trees like Kb’s schotia that cause me to experience zonal denial. I am only one recommended zone north and the property does have microclimates and the winters don’t seem to be getting as cold and…….. lol.
Vickie, are you going to try June bearing or everbearing strawberries? There is a harvest-your-own farm nearby that specializes in strawberries so I don’t grow many, but I do like having a few everbearing in hanging pots. I don’t get many fruit from them. Last year a brazen bird nested in one of the strawberry pots. lol. I don’t have your furry, little strawberry guardians.
Seriously, I’m thankful the others didn’t wait until Mother’s Day to get me a new coffee pot. I’ve gotten too spoiled for instant coffee. k

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