LOL Need better aim like you, I guess.
Lily Lovers.... Part 3
Or hand grenades?
Sound good. I'll just run down to Uncle Milt's Military Surplus Store. Whoops! He's had a run on hand grenades due to pesky door- to- door- salesmen plague. How about an Uzi?
Whatever works! LOL Right now I'm tempted to run some voltage through my rose bushes--hoping to wake up to fried deer for breakfast.
Heck, I could use the voltage to heat my beds tonight. Hard freeze---28 degrees coming. Looks like I'm going to miss out on some of my early TBs and Intermediates again in 2005. Hope the weatherman is wrong or my lilies are going to suffer another indignity.
I'm there with you Wanda. Upper 20's is what they are saying for tonight. We had a record low last night at 31°.
Wanda, they are talking 25 for a low here tonight. Maybe lower here as we live next to springs and bogs.
Yesterday was a repeat of the last week or two. Snow storm, rain, sleet and then sun with temps in upper 30's and low 40's.
Hard freeze every nite for the past 2 weeks. Flowers look it too.
Maxine
Crossing fingers one more night! Everything is OK so far......
Trying to blow some hot air your way!
Almost all my perennials have frost damage - we had 25 deg about 5 nights in a row. I think most are early enough the buds aren't showing yet. The dwarf iris on the south side of the house are blooming and look ok.
Claire, you must really be full of hot air because it only got down to 36 last night. Thank you! ;)
LOL It worked! Just let me know when I can help again. :-)
How bout tonight in Wisc. After 22 last night, everything looked mighty sick.
Maxine
I'll try real hard to blow your way tonight! Gotta work on my supply of hot air, though.
Moby is such "hot stuff" that she probably kept Lincoln all heated by herself! LOL
The freezes here took astilbes, Bleeding Hearts, hosta & my Orientals to the ground. :(
:-( sorry to all you who have suffered a late frost. that's a bummer. did you ever wonder the originis of some slang term like 'bummer'? thinks that make you go hmmmmm?
debi z and franklin
I found the frost damage kinda strange - most of the hostas show some damage, some astilbes and brunnera froze to the ground, both bleeding hearts are undamaged except for the flower buds, and most of the orientals are just fine - a couple out back have the tips of the leaves browned. The larger astilbes have no damage at all. The corydalis and Johnson Blue ger. lost about half their leaves.
I have some spirea against a concrete wall that got nipped but only on the front where they were unprotected. The backs of them against the wall are now about 2 inches longer than the front. I'll be out there tomorrow with the hedge trimmers reshaping them. Some of my hydrangeas also got nipped pretty good. Not sure if I'll see blooms on those that got it as they are the Nikko Blue and bloom on old wood.
I've looked at the frost damage--so many iris buds ruined that I could cry....2 35 foot trees with dead foliage on the bottom 20 foot....Trumpet & Orientals dead to the ground all over the place. Thank Goodness for tough ol' asiatics!
oh, that's awful, Wanda. I'm surprised you're Orientals got hit too. I just had a bit of damage on the ones in the garden and the ones out front weren't touched at all!
oh wanda i'm so sorry for you. that is so very very sad. :-**(
my dh and i were out the other night putting sheets, blankets and even material i had out over the lilies and seedlings. other stuff i said. .... "it will come back but my lilies won't. and after all i've lost to voles this winter, i'm desperately looking forward to the few that are left.
i'm crying with you girlfriend.
debi z & franklin :o**P (franklin tears too)
I'm so sorry you lost so much Wanda. Your lilies are aways so beautiful. At least they will come back next year. Hope the weather will be kinder to them next Spring.
Susan
Gosh, I'm so sorry to hear about the late freeze damage. :-(
The Orientals by the house are fine & the Asiatics are recovering from the bunnies. it's okay--the iris blooming are distracting me now....
I hope I have some more iris blooms this year.
Scooterbug,
Still nothing on your ebay purchase??? Have you been on ebay recently to see if they are still selling?
Boojum, your 'turkscap' with the cimifuga on the earlier thread, might be pardelinum. Do you have a closeup of it>
If not, try to remember to take a pix this season. Your Yellow orphan might be either CT. King or CT. Beauty. Can never remember wich one has spots and which one is spotless.
Inanda
Inanda, I left the "turkscaps"at my old house! Here is another shot.
inanda,
2 1/2 months after the fact ,
danandlandi sent me all Dried out HOLLOW moldy rooted bulbs , which I promptly deposited in the trash before something spread to my healthy plants.
CREEPS !
as Johnny Carson would have said "May the fleas of 1000 camels infest their armpits" ......... lol
Sorry I didn't get back to you but I forgot where we had discussed this.
Since then I have received some beautiful juicy green Daylily plants from fav sellers on eBay.
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My Asiatics are recovering nicely and a few Orientals recovering from the twin onslaught of frost & bunnies. There is still hope in Muddville.
So many weeds so few flowers
Alas , I think I must be a die hard gardener ?
I garden and they die hard ?
Scooterbug,
Am so sorry for you about this. Hope you put a comment on Garden Watchdog.
Inanda
I was not aware that one could rank Ebay sellers on Garden Watchdog ('-'?)
Lollipop i think ?
first day light yellow freckles real tall in partial shade
unnamed ones from Buggy
It's so nice to come here and get my lily fix! Mine are not blooming yet, but I'm thinking maybe by next week? Good thing because the Iris are starting to finish up. I hate not having anything to take photos of. It so nice, isn't it, that DG allows us a way to share all those photos with people who enjoy them too?
Keep 'em coming!
Susan
Tazzy, still dragging my feet thru my iris beds. Lilies are still short little bunny eaten plants...
Yes, they do look like Lollipop... here is mine...
"Samur Lily" ? (that is what the package said when I planted them last fall) lol... Y'all have got me where I am afraid to trust them to be true to name... help!
Yep, looks like Samur to me.
Inanda
