high winds of spring mean two things -
1) The tulips will be blooming soon
2) I'll have a ton of trash. Whereas my lot is almost devoid of grass and full of bushes, plants, rocks and trees, the rest of street subscribe to the suburban wannabe-park-golfcourse-expensive-groundcover-GRASS. So the trash rolls through till it gets to me.
(stupid strofoam peanuts are going to make me go medieval on somebody)
Couldn't take it anymore! Not a pretty picture.
oh good Blaine! I have some tulips that have the buds on them - and it's been quite windy the past few days! :-)
Yeah - the winds are just practicing here. I quit adding any more tulips a couple of years ago when I finally realized that whenever they were in their peak bloom week -----> whooosh! Big, strong, constant winds out the of west/swest. Stupid wind!!!
I despise those strofoam peanuts too - OTOH there's nothing like them, when they are needed, sort a love/hate thingy with me, ya know??!!
Dat dog,
Just got in from work.....Thanks for the reply and info.
Hap
kind of like
'guns don't kill people - people kill people'
vis-a-vis
'peanuts don't make a mess - neighbors make a mess!!'
So true, but I swear those peanuts multiply when I'm not looking, and they can move on their own. I find them in the strangest places.
Ada you should know not to follow my lead. Everyone knows I'm a big dork. LOL.... Hope your wind goes away. Gloria keep the wind over your way too. ;0)
kind of on topic " Not pretty any more"
Here's a twist on those s_peanuts
Today I got an order of brugs in. They had some type of peanuts that seemed to have melted and was stickey gooey. I'm not sure if it was the ones that got wet from leakage around the wrap around the rootballs or chemical reaction in contact with the tape or plastic bags. I had a scary idea though. What if gardener was trying the oft repeated advice of filling the bottom half or third of a big container with peanuts to reduce the weight and used these? I can imagine them oozing out the drain holes and coagulating into a nice plug for a water garden! That or in my case, when these first rain storms blew in, all the stuff still trapped in my bushes turned into a mess like melted marshmallow.
Blaine, some of these peanuts, they claim you can add to your compost pile. I've never done it but one package I received the sellar added a note saying they could be added to my compost pile. They weren't the ones that feel like styofoam.
The kind that melt are made of cornstarch. Edible if you like, but not very tasty. I've read that they can be tossed into the yard and when it rains, they will disappear. I wish they would make them all out of that stuff.
I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad you posted those pictures.... Now I don't feel so bad..... Mine look pretty much like that, and I had some danged aphids sucking on the leaves for the past couple of weeks. I sprayed with Safer soap and that did NOTHING!! So, I took them outside and sprayed them down with pure rubbing alcohol.... followed by a nice bath in well water...... It did not even wilt a leaf on any of them and I see not a single aphid anywhere....
I was very embarrased to let anyone see these Brugs of mine... but now I don't mind so much.... This is what they look like this morning in the light rain we are having here in Mid Tennessee....
Blessings,
Carolyn
I think many of us have Brugs that look like that right now. Only one of my large ones has alot of leaves, but the big ones at the top are kinda droopy. The other large one I have almost didn't make it and is just now starting to show life again. I'd had an ongoing war with aphids myself, all winter long in my sunroom where I had them. Talk about a BATTLE. I think I finally got them. I worked on them daily with "spray" - directly on them when I saw them - mid day was best, and with a systemic insecticide that lasts for a year. FINALLY under control.