She's about to... 69! Spring has sprung!

She has a really nice green thumb! Beautiful plants!

some of her plants are really old.. this grapefruit tree is over 25 years old, her hubby planted it from a seed way before he died, Joe and I re-potted it for her before we left.. me and Joe at the falls, it was very windy and cold.. my white marigolds are huge this year, Greta's coleus from her sister is now in three pots, she got one about 5 years ago, she calls it monkey paws.. last pic is my crazy jungle out back.. sheese!

Hubby's grandma had a green thumb like that. She would go down alleys in Detroit and take a pinch of this and that, what ever hung over a fence was fair game. put it in her pocket. When she got home she planted and it all grew.
I bought us each a flowering maple once. in a few weeks hers had more than doubled. I said Grandma I don't what I do wrong, she said Ach Hon, you nicht water, it nicht grow. I said but grandma I water all the time, she said Ach Hon you water too much. LOL one of my favorite memories of her.

What fun! Looks like a great trip Debra. Have to love plant people. :)

thanks both for sharing memories. My gramps was the gardener in our family. He grew tomatoes indoors from seed starting In January or February (PA). There's a weed that reminds me of their backyard. I think it's Polygonatum pensylanica. "Lady's Thumb.' When their grass got a little high it would sprout its lovely pink flowers and we workstation the seed pods and throw them at each other. Hee he..... I finally identified it a couple of years ago when I got some giant variation of the genus as a volunteer in my weed garden. I let it grow and it reseeded. It's awesome.

Good times. ;)

Love all the pictures but it looks like you have that green thumb too. Your jungle is beautiful.

Yeah Debra I know how creative you are about plant pots and when I thought of this idea I IMMEDIATELY thought of you... ;) I think I am going to hang some in my garden room just to do starts in. Will let you know if it works or not. Anyone else tries it let me know. Oh Debra what beautiful pics. It is so nice to have blooms that have memories. Your brugs are BEAUTIFUL....oh my gosh. Course I think your whole yard is pretty. Looks like you and Joe had a nice trip. I think the falls are cold even when it is warm outside, it is a truely amazing place.

Well I had a revelation last night walking to the garden room. I planted a climbing rose bush 'New Dawn' to go over my arch and it is beautiful. I love it but why in the world I didn't plant it on the south side of the arch is beyond me.....we have strong summer winds from the south so the branches want to go to the north from the wind....now if I would of thought about it and planted the bush on the south the wind would of blown the branches to the trellis not away from the trellis..... ;( Live and learn. Hope this helps someone else. PS the new dawn rose is everything I had hoped it would be I LOVE it, big burst of blooms in the spring and then spurts of blooms all summer. Give it something big to grown on. I just wrapped a cane from the north side down to the south side! Should of taken a pic. I think this is the second year all of which has been drought years and I do not water it and it has grown nicely.

Sounds like a beautiful rose bush.

Debra: I think of you all year long. Here's a picture of a fleabane I grew from seeds you shared a couple of years ago for Max's Memory Garden.

Loveyou.
xox
A.

Amanda those are beautiful.

So excited I was starting to bring in my tropical plants and low and behold my butterfly ginger is blooming and OMG the smell is sooooooo amazing! I was shocked.....it has bloomed before but usually in the solar room during the winter and pretty randomly.

Mine are about through blooming . Don't know what I like most , the ginger or gardenia . Both sweet and heavy .

I love gardenias also, except that I have managed to kill hundreds of them I am sure, so because the the butterfly ginger lives for me, it has to be my favorite.... ;) I have only one bloom, the plant is huge. I thought I read somewhere it will only bloom on new stem...? I am so unknowledgeable about them I really need to read up.

I also have a peach ginger and a varigated ginger. Now neither of these have bloomed.

well gosh, I am glad you love that fea bane, I have it everywhere as space fillers here. I have some sweet light blue that looks like fleabane and some lavender ones, saving seeds of course. Joyce we have got to meet up some time in the next few months. I have never had a ginger bloom, but the ones I have given away have bloomed go figger LOL Tonight all the whites are blooming and smelling the night up ith sweetness.. of course the night fairies are out pollinating them. I truly love all of you and hope you all stay right here with me. Tommorrow my plumeria will have another bloom.. here is a tore up one ( from the hummer) last week when we got home, and a few more pics of some bloming things. I am collecting and potting up stuff now after work, trying to root cuttings of my coleus. If anyone here wants any of the coleus cuttings, let me know.. I also have a pop bottle ( the glass kind) with oleander ( red) and chi chi rooted so much I have to send the bottle and all,,, any takers? I have two starts of swan plant milk weed going, rooted already, but they are not hardy. lovely plant with hairy balls full of seeds. mine did well all winter down in the basement garden.. beauty berry is huge this year, I have seed pods of this swamp milk weed, and here is some late eupatorium ( have several plants of this to give away)
I have never tried gardenia, but sure do well with jasmine sambuc.. it blooms all winter and summer, I have starts of it going now..

Try Maid of Orleans jasmine . Smell it all over the yard .

Well Debra I will raise my hand to volunteer to relieve you of some if those things. I have all kinds o weird white asters and fleabane starting to bloom right now. What's amazing is that they are all different! :)

I prolly don't need more as I have gone over board with the white(!!!) And decided at some point this year that there was not enough pink. :)

I managed somehow to kill a boltonia 'Jim Crockett' last year and was sorry to see it go. Beautiful blue/purple blooms.

I have scads of chocolate eupatorium with their pretty white blooms (Also a boneset) because I found out after digging up several plants that I had grown from seed that this is a plant that reproduces heavily from roots when TH plant is moved.

I am collecting milkweed seed as I give away free plants and seeds to everyone who volunteers to take some. Shipped plants as far away as new Hampshire this summer.

I have some of the swan plant too that volunteered from the year before, but there are milkweed beetles that eat the plants Down To their nubs! I even have them growing in crevases on the brick chimney. :)

My beauty berries set seed this year from tiny plants last year obtained in trade. They are so pretty! :)

My isn't N.E.aster has not yet started to bloom. Actually I think I decided it was the smooth aster (Symphotrichium laevis) as it is more blue than purple. Those silly master gardeners. What do they know about plants?! ( I went thru the program too but have been banned, I think, for misbehaving).

Alright ladies. Still have chores to do. I wonder if it's time for a fall thread. I get confused reading that spring has sprung. :D

New room everyone!!!


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