your right BrugAddict, I am lucky, kell must like me :)
Suddenly Arborea really took off
LOL she must do! hehehe (((Hugs both of ya)))
Oh now you tell me that Doris and Susie. No wonder that pink plumeria just kicked the bucket and made me feel so sad and bad. Here I thought Bleu had come for a nightime visit and stepped on it!! It was destined to due to my good manners..............................
You KILLED the pink plumeria??? I think Bleu stepped on it before I mailed it.
LOL. I thought I'd slip my confession in and you found it so fast. LOL. I need to have a serious talk with Bleu!!
He is hurt this morning. He was following me on my walk around the garden. When I stopped to take a picture of the lemon for CC, he got bee stung on his back knee(is that what that middle joint in their hind leg is called?). He was soooooooooo pitiful, he acted like he couldn't walk, he wanted "mommy" to look at the boo-boo and fix it. Then he tried to keep me from leaving to go to work. He played dead in front of the door, stuck his legs up in the air and closed his eyes. I had to drag him out of the way.
Oh my gosh, poor baby Bleu! Please give him kisses for me.
Kell, being an expert gardener only means that you kill stuff less than other people do. I feel for you, Babe!
OMG, Susie!! Give him benadryl, 25 mg, per 10 lbs. Is Bleu a Lab?? My Blueray, Golden, baby sat a pair of chocolate Lab litter mates, Frank & Jesse, 9 weeks old. Everything was okay, until the boys thought Blueray was their momma.
Attached is Rici Tici, who faithfully guards my mailbox, so that my identity will not be stolen ...
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Sherry, Rici Tici is a complete and utter beauty.
You are so nice, thank you, Clare, I will whisper your compliment to Rici Tici, when Red Parker (our other watch cat) isn't ease-dropping...
My arborea is tall, about 7', has 3 trunks of varying height, and I'm still waiting for it to bloom. Maybe now that it's warmed up it'll take off too.
Linda in Victoria BC
Sherry, your kitty is so pretty. He/She looks like they are hard at work guarding that mailbox! Bleu is fine, he followed me around while I watered the gardens this evening. Now he's tired. He's a weimaraner.
Thanks, Susie!! Good for Bleu, I knew if you were posting about his bee bite that he probably was okay, but I had no idea he was a Weim!!!! I grew up with the neighbors' Weim, Norman, nice dog. Now, again, I have a Weim next door, Kelso, who is almost 15 and acts like a puppy, even tempered, and a sweet guy, but I always love the old guys, boys and girls. I've never known many Weims, but the ones I've known are great dogs, and it sounds like Bleu is in that super catagory!!
OMG the abultilon is georgous, ok now I will have the guts to plant one of my abultilons in the ground. The brug is pretty too, but I've never seen an abultilon that large.
Buns
Linda, is that a lilac behind your B. arborea? It is stunningly beautiful! I hope you get flowers on your tree soon:-)
Love the pictures guys, The pic of the cat is pretty cool. The lilac is gorgeous Linda, hope your Arborea blooms. I think Bleu is a phantom. Only read about the name, never see a picture. And those seed pods look like green tennis balls.
Jeanette, just lurkin' around.
Thanks Susie and Jeanette re Rici Tici. Since all my buds got knocked off by storm damage (except 1), it looks like I'll be sending doggie and kitty pics instead of brugs and maybe all summer. I just cannot believe that of all the brugs & seedlings that I have that the ones with buds are the ones that were damaged. Oh, well.
My goodness Sherry, it is only the first of May !!! If you figure like that I guess I and all the other short season people, might as well bag it in. Are you saying there is not enough time to get blooms this summer?????
Jeanette
Mine bloom and rest in 3 to 4 week cycles. They should bloom again soon. I hate it when my brugs are full of buds and just opened flowers and we get wind, it rips the buds right off the plants.
Jeanette, you sound like my ankle doc, who told me the same thing about my progress, lol!! At this time of the year, I'm glad I live in the climate I do. I'm an instant gratification girl and, I intended to have all bases covered in order to have an early blooming plant. I had several prospects and they were all in different locations, so if there was wind or storm and hail, that surely one of them would be saved. Just wasn't meant to be, wasn't in the cards but I've adjusted to being brug bloom-less - I went to the nursery and brought home a Betty Boop rose, just absolutely covered in buds, with red and yellow flowers, so I'm all smiles again!! Happy Mother's Day, Jeanette, and to everyone on the forum and DG!!!!
Cala, Sherry, I feel bad for you when you get your plants ripped apart by the weather. On the other hand, I live in a hollow made by mountains (literally, at my doorstep) and trees. So, I am sheltered from the wind. Do get some good rain showers once in a while. But being sheltered means that we don't get the good weather that the Brugs like. Like sunshine.
Oh well, guess we can't have everything.
Happy Mother's Day to you all too. Jeanette
I've lived in this area all my life and, until I've really gotten into gardening, I don't remember the wind being as bad and damaging as it's been the last few years. But, it must have been this way at the least as long as I've been buying spray net, because I never would have used the stuff if not for the wind. Jeanette, send us some pics of your area, or point me to them if there are some already - I've been to Boise and Sun Valley, and flew into Seattle for a brief stay, but I haven't traveled in WA...I hope you and the rest of the forum are having a beautiful day like ours, it's just beautiful...
I will see if I can get pictures that will show what I am talking about. Jeanette