OVERWHELMED?? Part Two :-)

Julie all I can tell you about them is you chew the leaves and it taste like rootbeer.

I remember that song also.

Hope I don't have any brug cuttings right now. When I cut mine back I can send you some.
I was listening to the radio this morning and they said our first freeze is predicted to be Nov. 19, so it will be right before the first freeze. The 24 I referred to was 24 different brugs so I wouldn'thave any of those this year. Remind me later.

Julie,
"Skunk" bulbs? I've ordered some Fritillaria bulbs from the Fall Co-Op. Are my flowers going to stink in the spring?

Nope! :-D But your hands will after you handle them. hehehe (Oh GEEZ do they stink! BUT the moles didn't go anywhere NEAR them since yesterday! HOOOORAY!!!)

~julie~

Hey, Julie, I thought about you when I took this picture:

Oh Terrie...that's gorgeous! What a pretty color, really fits in with the season. It sorta matches my baby Pear trees. Hmmmm...may I should have some to plant around them for company. :-)

You just reminded me I have some pics I want to post here too.

~julie~

Oh goodie -- more pictures! Did you take pictures of all your cuttings before sending them out? That must have been a job!

Surely you jest! :-D I did good just getting them PACKED!

Nope, I have pictures of my spare bedroom ("plant room") and the new lighted plant stand that Eric finally hung the lights on yesterday. Then, of course, I *could* start showing pictures of all the things that grew in my yard this year. (That's sort of a threat, you know...like "Come on over for dinner, we'll show you our vacation pictures." :-D ....so be careful what you ask for. (Right, Jim? ;-)))

~julie~

Come on, Julie! Show us your pictures!!

Yes, Julie.. Waiting for pics!!

Susan

Hi Everyone! Gone less than a day to --garden-- and I am SO behind on my threads! Talking about overwhelmed!

I am proud of myself! With my DDad's help I cleaned out my whole mess of a veggie garden - axed my castor's down and drug them off, pulled up my old mater plants, etc, planted cover crop, etc, etc. and mulched 3 or 4 beds! I am not feeling quite so overwhelmed now.. Also put a nice layer of straw all around my dog's houses and 'living room'. Now next Tues when I am off to garden I will be able to do fun gardening stuff!! YAAA!

OH, I also brought in my houseplants for the winter! And JULIE - brought in my fav basil!!!! :-)

Sheww! I am not going to be able to move tomorrow!

Nicole

I'm with you, Nicole! Not going to be able to move tomorrow! I finally finished planting my bulbs, and it was MIGHTY cold out there today. The wind was blowing *everything* all over the yard and that made the high 40's seem like a lot less.

Thanks for the reminder...I need to get my basil potted up. I did get my rosemary in under the lights...and it smells SO good!

I think it's time for a nice hot cup of chocolate for both of us AND your Ddad. He deserves something special for being such a nice guy and helping you with a big job!

~julie~

Two more truck loads of horse manure in my garden today! Thank goodness my husband helped me unload these ones!! It went so much better with help. Stopped by a trees farm going to the horse farm and bought two three gallon leland cypress & planted them too. They were $10 a piece and I don't know, but I thought that it was a good price. They are very bushy and healthy. I asked for other small trees and he had 1 gallon crytomeria for $4. I am seriously considering going back and planting them into 5 gallon pots and taking care of them until they get bigger and I can plant them in the ground. Seems like a good deal?

Got all the kiddie halloween decorations out yesterday and my home is pretty cute!

Susan McCoy

Susan...you GOTTA love a price like that! And I don't blame you one bit for buying them. If I knew what they were and I lived down there I'll bet I would have been there too! ;-)

Oh Thank Goodness...you finally got some help shoveling the s...manure! :-D Give that man a pat on the back!

Show us your decorations!

~julie~

Oh Julie, It bugs me so much that I don't know how to load pictures!! Ugh! I do have a digital camera and I will ask a friend to come over soon and help show me how to load these up. She has offered and I need to take her up on it once and for all since I really do want to share!

Susan

If you can E mail them to some one on here they will post for you Just say pretty please

Hee Hee.. your thinking I can even get them into my computer :0 Whoops... I'm just a little bit iliterate!! and can't spell neither!! :)

Susan McCoy

Susan...I'm sorry...I forgot. :-(

I'm sending email as soon as I'm finished here. Watch for it!

~julie~

Here's my day today
Repotted about ten different plants to go to the basement this winter.
A pomegrante tree was the most unusual. Well to me anyway but I guess if you have a yard full of them it wouldn't be unusual.LOL
Two plants that I got at a roundup that the person didn't know what they were but they looked nice so I took them.
A Russellia sarmentosa. ????? Got to find what this is.
A Cape Jasmine. The one I already have looked like it was trying to die on me earlier.
An Isabella Brug and another brug that I accidently weed eated down a couple of weeks ago and rooted that I don' know the name of.
Several more that I can't think of now. Oh yeah the Root Beer plant.

I also planted a Brown Turkey Fig Tree.
a white Rose of Sharon.
a peanut butter shrub
a hardy pink hibiscus
2 flair Hibiscus
2 camillas
a fo ti plant. It's a plant that has good medicine value if you eat the leaves. I planted it away from the house so if it doesn't do the medical thing at least I get the exercise. lol

My camera has a dead battery or I would have made pictures. I did look for the charger. I guess I hid it from myself again. Tomorrow will be a hectic day looking for it.

Hi everyone! New subscriber! Thought I'd say hello :) GA redclay, I'm trying very hard to control my natural instinct to "overwhelm" myself and do everything NOW. I'm "nesting" with 2 more weeks to go in my 3rd pregnancy. I've got a project list a mile long, but also a reality gear that I keep myself in....most of the time. There's a ton of digging I want to be doing right now, but I need to just look at all we did this year so far and be pleased :) Spring will come soon enough :)

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Hi Hugs and welcome aboard. Don't be doing a lot of digging. We'll just have to send you pictures and good thoughts from our gardens. Here's one of my favorites. Spider Wort.

OOOOOOH! I like! Back attcha, then Baby needs some sleep. Everyone take care!
This is Globe amaranth from seed this year :)

That is so nice. I've had it before but not that pretty.

Jim,

Your Spiderwort is gorgeous. I had one at the old house one of our DG friends sent me in a trade. I don't know how I missed bringing it here to the new house.

So many plants, so many van loads moving. Now THAT was overwhelming. Then I had to move the stuff from inside the house.

Molly
:^)))

This is a good thread, I have not been watching it but since I am Overwhelmed from my weekend gardening, I clicked on it.

Jim, I loved the shot of your banana. I have one but mine is a baby, only 4 feet.

Molly, if you need a start of old fashion spiderwort, I can send some this Spring. I have two large clumps.

Welcome to Dave's .. Hugahosta ..

Hi Hugs! Welcome aboard! Please let us know when that baby gets here so we be "overwhelmed" with YOU! :-)

Jim...Spiderwort grows wild here and it's beautiful. I just transplanted a big clump into one of my beds this summer. I'll have to post a couple of shots for you. (YEAH YEAH YEAH...I heard that! LOL)

Molly...I could probably get you some spidy wort too, if you'd like some. I might even be able to get it dug yet this fall. How many tons would you like? hehehe

Today, I'm washing windows, throw rugs, floors and anything else that gets in my way. :-D
...anyone want to join me in..."OH YUCK!!!" LOL (Hey, it's GOT to be done!)

Later,

~julie~

My house is jealous! My garden is clean though!

Nicole

LOL I doubt that seriously, Nicole...the part about your house being jealous, that is. My garden is 'clean' too. Nothing left IN it!

~julie~

:) I am counting down the rest of the day! I took tomorrow off to finish cleaning my garden!!

Julie, are you able to have winter flowers in your Zone? Like pansies, mums, etc.. Zone 4 looks brrrrr..... I bet it's already cold there isn't it? That's another addition for me to the overwhelming feeling - pull up and then put right back in!

Julie you want to make a trip to Ga. ??
Warmer weather and brugs blooming and house work backed up to the end of the house. LOL
I've got to send a box to Molly with the hosta I have for her so why don't ya'll let me send thre SW. Yeah it gets out of hand here if you don't watch it.

Teresa, and Julie, Thanks so much for the offers. I really appreciate it.

Jim and thank you, I believe I'd like to take you up on the spiderwort offer. I have a long large empty flower bed waiting for something to grow in it.

Thank you thank you thank you.

Molly
:^))

Molly I went to the P.O. today to get priority boxes and they were out, can you believe that. I wanted to mail your box tomorrow. Hopefully they'll have some tomorrow. I'll email you and see if any thing else you want me to send. Goody, goody I'll get a sond dedicated to me at the next roundup.

NIcole...the mums, asters, and johnny jump ups are still blooming (or *were* when I last looked) but they're beginning to look at me like I'm crazy for expecting the STAY outside in the cold. LOL Yep, put 'em in...take 'em out...store 'em...put 'em back out...it *could be a little overwhelming for most people...at least those who are still working. My DH and I were "retired" early the end of February, so the only "work" I have to do is the garden. And after 40 years of not being able to get out there, it's like a grand vacation!

(And YES! It's cold here already)

Jim, I'd take you up on that invitation to visit Georgia but I'd have to find the Star Trek transport to do it. (I can't be on the road for more than 30 minutes without checking out a restroom. LOL You know, I gotta see what color they paint them all! :-D)

Molly, if you're serious about those Spiderworts I can go out tomorrow and see if they've frozen their little behinds off yet and dig some for you. Otherwise, come spring you'll have a bunch of them. I'd like get hold of some white ones and some pink ones...hint hint hint if anyone has some, I'm open to a ....a....uh...how about POSTAGE? Not much in my garden to trade.

(Jim, I haven't forgotten ALL those pictures...hubby just has me busy with windex and I'm not supposed to be on the computer. ;-) )

~julie~

brrrrr......

LOL Julie

Eric's sleeping in his chair right now...I must have tired him out with house cleaning today. hehehehe
And I'm playing on the computer!!! :-D

~julie~

Hey Julie -- get those pictures posted while he's sleeping!!

You guys sound like you worked your bottoms off this weekend. I just got back from a two night trip to a friends place where I actually planted two Virburums, a coreopsis, and Black eyed Susan that I picked up on Clearance.

I actually got quite a bit done Friday and Saturday before I left too. I planted Pansies in a small bed on Friday evening - blue and yellow ones. My legs hurt the next morning, but I did get a few things divided up for a plant swap that is in 2 weeks. Lot's of EE babies potted, along with an experiment of chopping up runners that have root nubs and burying them in a large seed tray of moist dirt. They would have been mush in about a month so I thought I would try. No greenhouse here so I will bring them in and put them in front of my east facing dining room window.

I also divided a daylily and some oregano and dug up some ruellia seedlings. I still have a bit of dividing to do, but not too much. My porch has tons of little pots that my husband will probably be happy to see gone soon. :)

Terrie...I just tried looking at my photos...and every time I go in those folders (all 6000 shots!) All I want to do is PLAY with them. (I love taking pictures...and turning them into simulated watercolor or oil paintings on the computer.) I'm afraid if I start I won't be able to quit! :-D

I *have* to get focused! LOL

Sweezel! What are trying to do, STAY "overwhelmed"? Good grief, girl...! :-)

~julie~

OK...you asked for it!
;-)

This is what I mean...I always have to play with the pictures! This is a barn I used to pass every day on my way to work. It looks rather nice printed on textured paper.
(Hey! Maybe I *do* have something to trade after all! :-))

~julie~
P.S. I'm coming back with some that look like real photos. :-)

Here's my "cutting shelves" This is where I have all the goodies (cuttings) I've gotten from my DG friends and where I keep my own cuttings and a few plants.

~julie~