Sally don't think that link took me to the right place.
Your neck of the woods, countdown to SPRING 2013,4 days left
shoot what happened??
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1308150/
lets try this
Gita and Paul, did you know that when you google "wintersweet," the third result from Google Images is Gita's picture of it, before the transfer to Paul?
This one: http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/2007/03/16/Gitagal/082d77.jpg
Terry, that shocked me, until I realized that picture is in PlantFiles.
Thanks, SS.
That picture is from years ago.....not sure what year. I still see the Birch tree behind it--and that was
cut down a long time ago...maybe 5-6 years ago?
Someone from DG pointed this out to me several years ago---she said i was "famous" on Google...
I have several of my pictures of the WS on PF--if you go and look at the right one...
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/96504/
I need to post more pictures of different plants on PF--just never think about it till I look for
a certain plant and think: Hmmmm, I have better pictures off it than that!
G.
I was surprised to find just how often when goggling a plant you are directed to DG plant files.
I've been eying my awful front hill, which we finally planted last fall/winter.
We first amended the soil a lot.
But that brings me to a question. The soil is so soft that when I step on it, it sinks down 4" or more. The hill is quite steep. How can I weed it? Should I just wait until a really hot day and hope that the soil firms up? -- Except soft is probably terrific. But then it will be harder to pull out the weeds if it does harden up. I don't want to use chemicals to kill the weeds. One thought I had was to get a wooden board (maybe 3' x 1') and lie it on the hill, trying not to smash any plants, and then walk on that - though I'm likely to slip off. Any suggestions?
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I don't google I Bing, but that's how I found DG for the very first time
Happy. Snowshoes.
No sorry i really have no suggestion since im in the flatlands here.
A friend send this to me, he said, "I haven't seen you in a while what have you been up to?" Lol. Please take a minute to read it. It isn't funny though because I know everyone of us loves our gardens and spends eons of time in it. Obviously we would share almost anything from it, if we were able.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/flower-thieves-roil-washingtons-neighborhoods/2013/05/02/d9733576-b34c-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html
That is a great article. How funny "not funny" is that. I had someone steal a few inpatients from our front yard years ago. I remember at the time wondering who would steal a couple of inpatients of all things.
I read a write in question in Fine Gardening mag awhile back and a lady wrote in to ask if she could take flowers from a local business.
The writer asked" so let me get this straight you want to take something that doesn't belong to you with out asking? ummmm I think that is called stealing! so no! you can't"
The email group list server is pretty great to read as well. It isn't my neck of the woods but it is somebodies!
http://clevelandparkcomplaints.tumblr.com/page/2
It has been forever since I came to this thread last time. Missed all the fun.
Sally, my cat was named Max by a neighbor who fed him before I adopted him. The neighborhood kids called him Tripod because he had only 3 legs. The little guy just appeared in the neighborhood one day and we all thought he belonged to a new neighbor. It took us a while before we figured out that he was a stray. I took him in and had 7 wonderful years with him. He was super friendly to everybody, and was very popular among the neighborhood kids :-). He came already neutered and the vet said his missing leg was surgically removed. So he used to be somebody's pet. His original owner must be heartbroken to lose such a wonderful cat.
Awww...he was beautiful!
Donner, such great pictures. Don't you just love how he looks so relaxed, and the cat too LOL. Beautiful cat, and I can tell he had a wonderful disposition.
Hahaha! Very funny, Terri. Yes, you see how guys in my family helped with garden work.
We delivered our plants and helped set up the York Gardening Club's flower sale for tomorrow. Hopefully the weather will be kind. I was rather nervous setting up popups on the sidewalk and anchored them by tying them to the tables, I'm hoping we do not get enough wind to pull the tables full of plants or they may well end up in Oz. We've had some heavy thunderstorms pass through, mostly rain, little wind. I'll try to post a few pics after tomorrow. The whole event is a swap for money, our primary fund raiser, with many plants donated by local growers, landscapers, and garden centers.
They also sell food, crafts, yarden, and flower items donated by members. There is also a stand for gardening advice and a few demos, like container gardening.
Crazy winds and thunderstorms rolled through here for about the last two or three hours. Impressive.
Here too. Ric -- I hope your setup remains set up....
Flashback Alert! The "Today Show" just aired a special on 32 years of MTV. they had all kinds of clips and interviewed 4 of the original VDJ's . I think it's funny when you know all the Trivia answers because you lived it. There's no doubt what inspired my avatar all he needs is a copy of "Mother Earth News" in his hip pocket. LOL
I've been looking for deciduous azaleas and was just given this one. The owner wasn't sure if it was deciduous. Actually, he wasn't sure if it was a rhododendron. It apparently has lavender flowers. Are you able to tell what it is from these pictures?
We didn't blow away but well soaked. I was told the sale was a success.
ssg= ask Paul but I think it does yes match a deciduous azalea. browsed several dozen of them this morning.
Jill, Terri aspenhill, and I visited the Baltimore COunty Master Gardeners show today. Good assortment, some good prices. I got a yellow 'blue eyed grass', an Anemone virginiana, and a Golden Tiara hosta. Also a NOID which one master gardener called a sunflower of some kind, but on the way home I realized this thing was not opposite leafed as a sunflower should be. I think it's a Campanula, hopefully not one I already have. Yay!
Ssg. Hard to say without a bloom. I don't know of a lavender deciduous azalea they are usually yellow, orange, pink, white or red. Or a combination of those colors.
If it is deciduous it is probably not an azalea. It could be a lepidote or small leaf rhododendron of which I have a few that look like azaleas. I guess we can figure it out in time.
Thanks, Paul. I guess I need to make that trip to Germantown, after all. :)
It is worth it. The next time I'm there I will take pictures to entice you further.
So--what am I doing apres Swap? Glad you asked.....
I have been piddling around cleaning up the big raised bed before I plant something in there--
and mulching it after I do...
Decided I HATE Hardwood Mulch!!! Maybe I just got a bad batch--but it just have too many
big chunks and pieces of branches and chunks of palates in it. A bit rough for a vegetable bed...
Will get Pine Bark mulch instead--when I have used up the 5 bags of the hardwood ones.
I think once I decide to tackle all the containers--a lot of my purchased and acquired plants will disappear...
The annuals--to be planted in the beds, will have to wait a few more days....gotta weed first--
dig up a huge # of self-seeded Rose Campions. and a lot of weed-oxalis....
Also--do something with all the Daff foliage laying all over......hate this phase of spring...6 weeks!!!
There are a couple clumps that did not bloom too well--too crowded---need to dig those up sometime too.
But--now there are growing Lilies and other plants in the way.....bummer!
NO end to anything.....Lovely--isn't it?
such is the "love" of gardening....G.
For some reason it was incredibly EASY to pull out large and small clumps of lily turf!! Maybe it was a once in a lifetime blue light special.
I just read a few articles that says not to tie up or braid the daff foliage cause that limits the surface area where the foliage needs to soak up the sun
Best thing to do is plant them among daylilies so the dl foliage hides the dying daff foliage
Jen--YEAH! I know--I know--!!
But as you can see, my beds are only about 2 1/2' wide--and that is where everything has to co-exist.
I have no sprawling areas--no free form beds--just straight, structured beds around the house
and everything else. 40+ years ago--that ois what I knew beds looked like....
Now--I would do things a bit differently....
SO--I do knot the leaves--and, sometimes, tie them loosely--or even cut them back by about
a quarter. I do what I have to do--so the annuals can get planted....
Here's my only all sunny bed. see what I mean? They are ALL like that....
prayers for all those in OK, my cousin lives in Moore, the tornado hit 1 block over from their house...they were kept safe
Jen, very glad your cousin's family was ok.
A sad situation for so many :o(. My thoughts are with them.
Jen: Your cousin must be in shock -- I'm so sorry for what your cousin's family must be going through, and thankful that for them, at least, it was no worse.
can you just imagine coming out of the cellar and taking a walk to assess the damage and walking 1 block over and seeing all that???
No, it's overwhelming!!
this is awesome
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50147264n
FlowAjen asked: "can you just imagine coming out of the cellar and taking a walk to assess the damage and walking 1 block over and seeing all that???"
No, I can't. Years ago I lived in the top two stories of a townhouse in Adams Morgan in Washington DC, and a mini-tornado came through (I'm not sure the government ever technically identified it as such, but it clearly was, though very small -- as I recall, the authorities were leaning towards calling it a wind tunnel). At that time we had a regular cat visitor whom we had named Cat. Cat would walk on the roof line gutters between the houses to see who would let him in. And many people did, because he has a certain insouciant charm and savoir-faire. But I digress.
Anyway, I was on the top floor, maybe studying, when this horrible noise began. I have heard tornadoes described as sounding like freight train, and that description was accurate in my case. Cat ran under a sofa, and I remember diving under the bed to pull Cat out, with Cat refusing to budge and digging in with his nails. I prevailed on Cat and we ran downstairs to the bedroom. The whole weather event was over in moments. Many many trees were knocked down, and the rear windows of every single car on the block had been blown out. I think we lost a window or two on the house. That was it -- pretty minor stuff, all things considered. But to this day I still remember how scared I was, and that awful sound.
Especially in light of how terrifying that very small event was to me, I can't begin to imagine, literally, what it must have been like to live through the Oklahoma tornadoes -- or to die in them. I think I read that yesterday's tornado touched the ground for 45 minutes. 200 mph winds. Staggeringly horrible.
That video made me cry buckets.
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and a mile and a half wide!!!!
I was on the phone with my friend back in 1989 when a tornado was going thru the town we lived in, she said, too, it sounded like a train, gotta go she said and then the phone went dead, needless to say I was freaking out until I heard back from her. That one ripped a steeple off a church and threw it into a farmers field and it ripped all the signs off a little strip mall, THAT was crazy cause we had never experienced one in NJ before