Bought a Japanese Maple seedling on Ebay tonight. The seller is a woman from Shawnigan Lake, BC, so little plant won't have far to travel, and payment was in CDN funds which is kinda nice too. I have been looking for one for a while but I didn't want to try and grow it from seed. (Sorry Todd) , so, I'm quite happy about it.. Hopefully this mild weather will continue until I receive it. It is supposed to. Crossed fingers.
Japanese Maple
Good Luck Donna, the poor thing won't know what hit it after going through this weather then going to you, it might be shell shocked and cry for home! LOL
Actually Linda, weather has turned almost Spring-like here. Snow is melting like crazy and temperatures are very mild. Good weather for traveling through Canada Post. :D
Hi Donna, glad the weather has turned a corner there!
My grandmother lives near Shawnigan Lake and I have been there many times; it's a beautiful area. I'm sure your new maple will settle in nicely. Do you have a spot picked out for it already?
Shannon
good for you on the pea quiz, shannon. you are obviously a well read and scientifically inclined gardener. one for echoes corner.
Thanks, Lynn! Sheer survival instinct has prompted me to do a bunch of botanical research lately - I'm taking evening courses at Algonquin College in Ottawa, for the Horticulture Technician pgm. They're very interesting but a bit of a shock as I hadn't studied any sciences since high school. I think we learned around 600 new words in Botany I last fall. Flash card city.
This semester it's Botany II - looking at cells under microsopes, and Soils & Fertilizers, for which we've been told that the answer to almost any question is "Organic Matter". :-) Sounds good to me.
The program is no substitute for extensive hands-on gardening experience, but it's a good head start, esp on the theory side. Later on the program shifts to almost exclusively hand-on training. That taxonomy is a real bear - someone's always changing family & genus names, and shuffling plants around. Rrrr......tolerance of ambiguity is not my strong suit :-)
Edited for clarification, in my own head at least...lol
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Boy, we'll have a real expert here to advise us when you are finished your program.
Well, an exam-writing expert anyway! lol I'm a wee bit short on practical experience, as you already know. "Brug? What's a brug?"
Shannon, I'm sure you will get an inundation of e-mails regarding brugs. Short for brugmansia-a wonderful plant that we all love. Check out the brugmansia and friends forum. There are tons of pictures and info. That will give you a better idea. I think most people try and over winter them, which we can do pretty well here. Check out the photos under the RU photo link. Linda's phot shows here with her "Whiskers" brugmansia flowering on her deck. I will also attach a picture from one of mine last year. The flowers are heavenly.
Glenda
Glenda, that photo's gorgeous. Thanks! A few short weeks ago I thought a brug was something that crawled around your garden ;-) Now I've won some brug seeds and seen lots of nice photos....I fear it's a slippery slope into brug obsession...! :-)
Welcome to the world of brug obsession!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which pink is that Brug, Glenda?
Donna, I have no idea what that brug is. It is an unknown. Given to me by some friends a couple of years ago, and they didn't know what it was either.
It's the only one I have right now, but I have several. And I have many little log cuttings growing that all look like they are going to root well.
Want one? I can make sure to leave it with Linda for you if I am not around when the RU is on.
Glenda
You are so kind, Glenda, but I'd feel like a Bruggie Piggy if I were to take another one from you. I have a few going already; one bigger one that is 4 feet or so and it's an Isabella which is pink. I also have a Knightii(white) cutting that is doing well, and a CG cutting that is going great guns and is a about a foot high now. The rest are seedlings (4) which are tiny yet and quite leggy (Apple Blossom which as supposedly pale pink). I don't have a grow light, so we are waiting for some Spring-time sun to get them going. I also have 5 red X Sanguinea seeds that haven't quite germinated yet, but they are only 9 days old. They are the ones I got from Jeanne and Sandy for posting a Christmas Pet photo in our CDN contest. I was just wondering whether that was an Isabella or a Frosty or what. But it was very kind of you to offer. :Donna