Garden Projects #12

Wow! that is a lot of amaryllis pots. I can imagine the display if even a portion bloom at the same time.

My house would look like a funeral parlor if more than 10 bloom together. I am just hoping they will bloom. Patti

Oh Thank you Patti for posting the pictures of all your Amaryllis pots!! You shut hubby right up!!! When he saw how many you had...he quit crabbing about my minor amount of 18. ^_^

My DH always complained about my plants as well.....I have 5 amaryllis, I'd love for one of them to bloom!

Heehee.

I bought. Ten more, but for gifts, except one just to make sure it is worthy of giving to friends. I have made pottery planters for them. So if they hate the pot they might like the amaryllis. Patti

that's awesome

Nice gift.Patti

I almost bought some budding ones yesterday.

Oh, very nice gift......I was given a pretty cyclamen by the Fellowship at church for serving as vice president the last 6 years.....I need to hunt up a nice pot for it....

Robindog, good idea, I may need to buy a couple of cyclamen for us for the xmas table too as I love them. I love giving plants, so making pots for them is fun for me to do. Hope they like them.

This year I bought for my gifts one called Hippeastrum Princess from A.D.R. Box of 10, size 28/30, DRY SALE $32.50 and most of the bulbs had double noses already showing, so I was very pleased. I normally buy white ones as they go with everything, but I thought this was such a yummy looking color. This one is one of the new Israel grown ones from a Kibbutz Saad-Assaf in southern Israel. http://www.saad-assaf.co.il/index.php

Back in the sixties I spent a few month on an Israel Kibbutz and while there one of my jobs was working in their hot house that grew roses for export to Europe. I was taught to be a rose picker and grader & packer which was an easy and pleasant job, except during a heat wave it could be wicked hot in the green house where you could only work for short periods of time without going outside for a break. I lost 8 lbs one day from sweating. However working in the sorting room was cool with a big walk in to put each batch of roses into as you finished grading them, so the best grades would be fresh when flown to Switzerland in the afternoon. We went to work at 4 in the morning so the sorting would be done by flight time. The Kibbutz only grew 3 colors, a long stemmed red and a yellow and a shorter red sweetheart. They had no scent so it was not overly exciting, but it was a feast for the eyes when you first walked into these huge greenhouses with a mass of color. It was near blinding. So I have a soft spot for Israel grown plants. Last year I gave my friends one from the same Kibbutz called Hippeastrum Athena which was a stunning double white with a green throat. Hope this one is a winner too.

Out to cage our Japanese Maples and anything else that I think the deer will devour this year. I did move a mess of them into the fenced part of the property this fall which I won't have to cage. I am hoping that once the kids planted still on the outside get bigger that the deer will ignore them and I can stop caging them, but that will take a few more years yet. Last spring I took the cages of on May 1 and the deer ate them that night. They killed a couple, and ruined a few very badly. I was not so very happy. So this year I will leave the cages on them well into May. I need to also protect them from of the evil bunnies who tend to like to nibble on their bark too. gggggggggggggggggggg. Beautiful day here. Patti

Patti, those amaryllis are lovely....all the colors were nice....

The white one is from last year at our house in March, while the other is the shot posted by the grower. Hope it is nice as I bought a box of them, but they were cheap as I got them through a whole seller. Patti

Between yesterday and today and with a great deal of help from the DH, the vulnerable Japanese maples and a few other things are now caged. Boy does it look ugly.

I cut back all the lily stalks today too now that we have planted all the bulbs. I cut them back to about a foot high in the fall so we could see where the lilies were so we don't nail them when drilling out the holes for the spring bulbs. But it means that we have to go back and cut them all down to the ground. Now that is done. I also did some whacking on some of the Hypericums and Spireas also, but many more to do. I need some nice days to rack next week as soon as I get back from a graduation of an "almost son". He just finished the masters program in Architecture at Cornell. It is about 5 hour drive from the Vt house so we are going to Vt tomorrow and then to Ithaca on Friday and back here on Monday. Feel like a yoyo. Patti

ITHACA ! !My old home town.
My sister lives in Trumansburg and GF's are still there.

We were investigating the architecture program at Cornell. They set the standards for the field. Congratuations to the young man for his impressive achievement.

The Architecture program has always been tops.As a native Ithican I can remember the Frank Lloyd Wright quote" I may not always be Frank,but I am always Wright"
As a youngster he lectured at the school and his Tree windows are in the Johnson Museum.
http://architecture.about.com/od/greatbuildings/ss/peicornell_8.htm

I love the area around the Finger Lakes. My dad spent his youth in that part of NY. I am going to have to go see those windows! Thanks.

Cornell's program is very good. He had lots of choices and most came with serious money, but he felt their program was most connected to what he wanted to do. He re-visited U. of Mich and U. of Texas and a couple others, but ruled them out as he figured he really wanted to work in NYC during the summers while in school and he would most likely have the best connections with NYC firms from Cornell. He didn't like the Princeton programs direction for him and so he didn't apply there. He got wait listed at Yale, but he decided he wanted to pull the trigger on a school that wanted him first, plus by the second visit he was pretty high on Cornell. We were pretty proud as we have been his editors for all his school applications and an ear for all his hair brained architectural thoughts. I am giving him a thin book called The Banned List:: A manifesto against jargon and cliche by John Rentoul for using with his future proposals and applications.

He got a standing ovation when he presented his thesis recently. His design was for the rebuilding and re-purposing the Red Hook Container Terminal. Cornell has asked to keep his work for their collection and it will be on display when we get there, so we can see it. Pretty cool. He has had summer work with Richard Meier and then with Eisenman Architects which were both amazing and plum jobs. He has some irons in the fire for his real Job. Though he actually has gotten paid for his summer work which has been a bonus. He is a great kid, who never showed any inclination to become an architect until about his junior year in HS. I guess he was wandering around NYC as a child and soaking it all in while we thought he was just oblivious to anything but sports. Off to catch a ferry. Dogs are staying home with a friend and they are giving me the evil eye, so I am going to sneak out. Patti

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Congrats to him,well done,what a bright future.

Congratulations to him.

Jumper 2 has her degree from Ithaca college as a theater technition.

IC Has a fantastic drama school.It's also known for Phys Ed.probably known as something elsenow.
I left Ithaca in 1957 ,but return there a few times a year.

I loved Ithaca and the area when I was there. The Theatre school is very good and well known.

And don't forget the vet program.....that's where my vet graduated from, my friend's daughter, & now her grandson....

They have a beautiful botanical garden too. Patti

I remember the vet program at Cornell.I used to go to th barns and watch some surgeries thru the windows,this was in the late 40's.Now its the school you go to before Cornell med School.
DD tried to get in in the 60's.No room so she went to a local school and then Uof Min at Duluthfor MS,studies Organic Biology and is a Assistant Global Regulatory administrator manager for a large pharm company. Big bucks and lots a prestige.I am such a proud momma.

You should be! Vet school is difficult to get into ...my niece was in prevet at Uconn, ended up going to Quinnipiac for asst. to pathologist....paid off, she married a pathologist...although he was a regular doc also....

I love wandering around Ithaca, so many hidden waterfalls to discover. Just need to be careful because there are many high cliffs to fall from! Also the Moosewood restaurant.

My brother lived in Ithaca for 10 years and he raved about the waterfalls and beauty. I have always wanted to go....maybe soon. :)

I'd meet you there!

It's a deal!! ^_^

same here.the hiking might present a problem but my heart is with you ladies.

Thanks, Jo....I hope you are feeling much better!

Thingsn are coming along.
I just watched The Ghost and Mrs.Muir.Rex Harrison Gene Tierney.

A favorite of mine!

Did Bill's caladium offer end already??? Can't find it.

Here ya go Victor http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1289645/

So far the ones I lifted are doing well

Thanks, Celeste!

Anyone order yet?

not yet.. but I am soon