They have issues with me too Vossner...lol
I admit complete and total defeat with hostas.
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I don't know about you but the idea of living in a place w/ much less humidity than Houston sounds way appealing to me! Pat, any homes for sale?
Esp. today--the humidity was so thick it was like August...absolutely "chewy".
Someone once had the nerve to ask me, but don't you think the humidity helps your skin? Uh, no, no I don't, in fact there is nothing attached to me that it helps!
Helps my hair--I like it curly. Please don't throw anything at me.
Deb
ok, yeah but it makes mine thick and frizzy, not exactly curly.
April, it's less humid in Central Texas, but it still gets HOT. Last winter, which was a mild one, we had two several day periods of lows in the teens. And we drive 35 miles to the closest HEB and WalMart. Mall? 65 to 100 miles, though I don't miss mall shopping like I did when I first moved here 34 years ago. Yes, there are some homes for sale, and I highly recommend our builder. I'd love to have you for my neighbor!
Lows in the teens....would do some real damage in my landscape. Ohhh my rangoon creeper! I'll take the frizzy, thick, curly hair...sort of keeps some people from getting too close. lol
Don't have to worry about people getting too close here because there aren't many people. lol Only during deer season do we have any traffic problem. And that's all those city folks trying to be country folks for a while. There are now two traffic lights in town because of the Quick Check.
Bird noise is about as bad as it gets -- the mockingbirds, bluejays, and barn swallows were the noisy ones today. The first nest of barn swallows flew today for the first time.
You guys are nuts! lol Debbie you have beautiful hair. I know what you mean about Humidity, I am from Miami Remember? and yes I do remember going home and the skin was moist and supple for a while, but now days the only thing make my skin moist is these hot flashes and I am wringing wet. I called my gyn and told him he better do something, I need estrogen!
LOL! You guys are just way too funny!
You remember those commercials..."This is your brain on drugs..."? Well this is my brain on Superthrive!
LOL, ok it's really the seed pod on my Datura Double Purple!
cool pic--I'm clueless as to what it is but I can imagine...
Superthrive? Is that something medicinal or the stuff for the plants? That was some good stuff, I need to get some more, but I got this messenger coming better wait.
Sylvia I love Messenger, but I use both...I mix and match- as for me, I take care of my plants better than myself.
This is the mom plant and the flower:
and another shot
April thats a beauty! is that a native?
No I don't think so. It is just pretty and so far easy to grow.
I feel as if someone whipped me with a big, hard stick of invasive bamboo--one more day with kids, then 1 with the adults (who, by the way, are much worse than the kids...most days). I didn't tell ya'll this but, they took my boyfriend and forcibly transferred him to another building for next year. The woman who currently runs the place likes me, hates him. Lots and lots of emotional baggage...I'll be soooo thankful when its Friday at this time.
So is he going to be working under this woman? so is this guy you showed the pic of? She might be after him. lol
Its rough being a single woman.
no--she sent him to another school. I don't think it's rough at all being single--I have the best of both worlds--I think they try a lot harder when they aren't married to you--lol
I just hope he's calmed down enough next week to cut that hurricane wood for the windows...he cut his leg with the chain saw last weekend--helping a friend trim trees--had to get 14 stitches in his leg--nearly gave me a heart attack--blood everywhere and he's laughing about it.
YOu know there are some men who should not be allowed to play w/ dangerous toys.
Only wish I was single. I didn't realize how good I had it when I was and now all these years later I see it so clearly.
You try telling him that....lol
I'm scared to ask him to do anything involving saws until at least he gets the stitches out...He really is very good with dangerous toys (he's a licensed gun dealer), he was just really hot and tired at the time. Or else that his excuse....
Ahhhh April stop it! you dont wish you were single! lol
A license gun dealer???? you be careful and behave!
Actually I was scared to ask him anything when I went out to the buses this afternoon. This is the look he gave me...I promptly returned into the building and cont. ripping files for him. I have not been off the computer in three solid days...you'd be surprised how much stuff one man can accumulate on his computer in 30 years. lol
But when I got home it was even worse...3 teenage girls (17+) and a boy watching "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and giggling. I think I'm gonna make it...only adults to deal with tomorrow...
I think I'll just take the laptop outside and talk to these rudbeckias as I try to finish up MY work tonight. They probably will make good company.
Debbie the Rudbeckias are gorgeous and "whats his name" is FINE!! I could understand your wanting to take care of him!! He look like one of those Ft Worth boys ... lol
I am really frisky here lately ... since I can walk and all .... not quite got the swing of the hip, but I am getting there. I need to hurry and do this because I got date this weekend with one fine Italian! lol
Actually he's an Indianopolis guy.
Hi Everyone!
I'm brand new. Hello!
I have a vegetable garden in my back yard (live in Sugar Land) with more veggies than I can manage and I'm working really hard on my front yard. Done a lot of rearranging and adding new, interesting plants. I'm focusing on perennials and trees (for privacy). I just planted a Vitex (chaste tree), more esperanzas, passion flower, more bougainvella (I want to train into tree...explain in a bit), couple of blue plumbagos, mountain laurel and a moon flower. My spring beds are full of freesias and sweet allysum. I also have the typical landscaping plants, i.e. ligustrums (I trained them into bonsai), pines, crepe myrtles (that I'm not going to butcher any longer......the look so pretty when the tops are allowed to get full), sage, lirope, lantana, some ferns and quite the succulent collection on my front porch. I also grow most of my herbs in pots on the front porch.
My house backs up to a beautful horse pasture with an old pecan orchard in it. My husband built me a "horse drive up window" in the backyard fence. I call and they come. We try to keep hay in the shed and lots of carrots on hand. My vegetables grow right next to the window. The kids love it and there's nothing better than a cup of coffee in the mornin and petting horses. My dog and 3 cats think the pasture belongs to them. What lucky devils!
The downside is I have an ugly old brown fence that spans the entire north side of my house, including the front yard and over to accross the street (I'm at a dead end). Needless to say, I'm trying to hide the fence (and the dreadful dead end sign) in front with the bougainvella, esperanzas, hibiscus and vines. I have an old Lady Banks rose on one end of the fence. But I have lots more area to cover. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Oh, and I would also like to grow vines around the horse window but I have to make sure that 1) they are not poisonous (in case the horses try to eat) and 2) they don't taste good (again, in case the horses try to eat). The area gets pretty dry right there and is hard for me to keep watered. Suppose if I had a good reason to keep it watered, like a gorgeous vine, I might try a little harder.
Take care to all. Hope the introduction wasn't too long.
Kristi
Quote:
"My spring beds are full of freesias and sweet allysum".
If you have this blooming, and it's alive, right now in Sugarland; you have my utmost respect.
Welcome to DG!
Debbie
No, no, no.....I wish. My spring beds are full of them but my current summer beds are not. I'm missing the color splash and am not liking the brown, dead foliage that still is not ready to come up. The little bulbs haven't quite gotten detached.
Thanks for the welcome.
Kristi
Welcome to the group Kristi! My you got a lot going on, I can understand your excitement. there is loads of information here and someone will eventually grasp what you are trying do. I wish I had all that space. Where is Sugarland anyway?
Sylvia
Welcome aboard Kristi,
There are quite a bunch of us in this part of the Houston area.
I'm not much into flowers, prefer growing something to eat. LOL
But, most of what I have followed on the many, many threads in DG, most do both. Debbie has a fantastic set of "garden rooms" as she likes to call them.
I'm sure she will have some good suggestions for fence covers.
Hope to see y'all at the fall Roundup. Or sooner - can we do a Houston RU?
Hi Sylvia and Bubba,
Sugar Land is just a little southwest of Houston.
Thanks for the welcome's! What is the fall roundup?
Kristi
Hi Kristi, something you might consider for your fence is confederate jasmin. We have it on a huge trellis on the east side of the house. It gets afternoon shade of course, but not much morning sun either because of the trees across the street. I only remember to water this in July and August. It's incredibly hardy, and blooms it's heart out in the spring, and smells divine when in bloom. I was concerned that it might work it's way into the attic when it got to the top of the trellis, but it didn't. It reached the top of the trellis 2 years ago and started drooping towards the ground, so we just trim it after it blooms. Another amazing thing about this plant, maybe the most amazing thing, is that it hasn't come up anywhere else in the yard. I was worried that we might have planted a thug, but so far so good.
There's always rangoon creepers.
;)
Debbie
Good call silverflutter,
Had that around my gaslight and trees at another Houston house - easy to control. There is a home in Quail Valley that has the entire front yard in confederate jasmin - no mowing.
The only problem I ever had was keeping the burmuda grass at bay - new seeds sprouted every spring.
By the way, the plants you gave us are all doing well - Linda and I thank you.
Kristi,
Roundups are get-togethers for DG members. They have them all over the country -see other threads for sites and dates. Dave is in the preliminary planning for a fall TX Roundup, and a bunch of us would not have a problem returning to College Station. We are relatively new members, too, so Spring was our first. Met some wonderful people, ahd a good time, and took home a bunch of plants and seeds. Totally hooked, now.
Hey April--it's an omen...I come home for good (well at leadt till aug 10) and my crinadonna IS going to bloom...right next to the hyssop; in the most neglected, shady part of the garden...
I love this plant ALMOST as much as my rangoon creeper....
;)
Debbie
And the view from Robin's bedroom is pretty good these days too....I think I survived.
Debbie
She, and even the nutgrass, is a real beuaty, huh?
There's no place like home, there's no place like home...got me through a very rough morning. They even had the nerve to give a 25 yr pin to Michael this morning at breakfast..thank God he wasn't in the room. I left the room, I was NOT going to give them the pleasure of an emotional response.
