First GLAD.....Failure???

Somehow, I dont think THIS is normal. Is it doomed to failure. The tips of the blooms are turning brown. Have watered every day. Any ideas??

First thing that comes to mind is thrips, but it's just a gut feeling. I don't know much about glads. Do you have a photo of the leaves?

PIXYDISH,
I think the leaves look pretty normal, but let me go look. JUST for YOU I am doing this, ;) Here ya go!

It's been a while since I grew glads but do the outer green tips get sort of papery and brown just before the flower emerges? I honestly don't remember but perhaps just waiting will provide the answer.

They dont' look diseased. If you had thrips, you'd see a total disaster as I had two years ago. grrrrr lost every glad but about three.

Herpst is right: the tips get a bit wispy and papery then open up to the colored bloom. Hurray! I keep mine watered about the same as dahlias and they do okay.

Yes, if you had thrips, your leaves would definitely not look like that!! Maybe just wait and see!

Ok, waiting...............

How about now? Are you still waiting? Is it there yet? Now? How about now? MOM! She put her hand on MY side of the car! I'm hungry. Are we there now? I know that grandma will have dinner for us when we get there but I'm hungry NOW! I DON'T WANT that apple. Dad, can we stop? I need to pee. Are we there YET?

Now?

Now?

ROFLOL!

Herpst, don't cross this line...... I mean it!! Okay, then, don't cross THIS one! Stop it! I really mean it now!

Okay, for everyone's amusement while we are waiting for the gladiola to bloom:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GKXFqGUGdTk&search=mother%27s%20day

Pixydish,

LOVE the video!
Don't make me stop this car! I will you know. I'll stop this car right now and THEN you'll be sorry!

Is it blooming yet? Now?

HERPST,
Not QUITE, but it IS peeking through, :)

It's looking good!
Herpst! Stop that jumping on the furniture! I mean it.... don't you make me get my big hind end off this chair and come over there! When it blooms skidivur will let you know! Have a little patience! Geez! Didn't you learn manners?

Pixydish, He started it! I was just sitting here minding my own business! You've always liked skidivur best! It's always Skidivur, Skidivur, Skidivur with you! I mean criminy! Can't I EVER do anything right? I'll just hold my breath till I die & THEN you'll be happy! (stomping to room, slamming door & turning obnoxious music on really loud)

HERPST,
Mom always DID like YOU BEST!!!

That's 'cause she has good taste! Neener, neener, neener!

This message was edited Jul 30, 2006 11:49 PM

HERPST,
I guess you are not old enough to remember who said that line??

Skidivur,
Forgot about the Smothers Brothers reference until you played the AGE card, thank you very much. My siblings and I jokingly say this to each other all of the time & that's where my mind went. YES! I'm old enough to remember and apparently quite old enough to have forgotten. The mind's the first thing to go, they say.

This message was edited Jul 30, 2006 11:54 PM

And if we're so old shouldn't we be in bed by now?

HERPST,
Naaahhhh, I was tired, now I am re-tired, I got all of the time in the world

You lucky dog!

Um, I think I remember the Smother's Brothers,.... but I was very, very young. Extremely young.. and innocent. And did I mention that I am too young to remember them accurately?

PIXYDISH,
Ummm, yes, you have mentioned it SEVERAL TIMES, thank you very much, :P :) lol

Oh Pixydish - Like we can even remember young and/or innocent. You crack me up!

It bloomed!!!!

It really really BLOOMED!!

Herpst, who, exactly , is WE???


Hey, it's beautiful skidivur! Definitely worth putting up with you two while we waited!!

PIXYDISH,
I suspect "we" is me, and just WHAT are you trying to IMPLY with that "putting up with" crack??? Hmmmmmmm!!!! LOLROF and Thank you, BTW.

Well, really, Skidivur, you just can't take some people out in public together! LOL!!!

Your glad is gorgeous! I for one have enjoyed the wait. Pixydish, just because skidivur and I are naughty and fight with each other doesn't mean that we won't be the best of friends when and if we grow up:) You can take us places, really! How about Dairy Queen? I want an ice cream cone. But I DON'T want the kind of ice cream you just brought home from the store. I want the soft kind that they have at Dairy Queen. NOW! PLEASE? We'll be really good in the car. I promise! O.K. if we're not good this time, you never have to take us anywhere again. Pretty please with sugar on top? You NEVER take us anywhere! You don't care what we like. Fine then. You just wait until YOU want me to go somewhere. You'll see. You'll be sorry. Fine, just fine. Have it your way.

You may NOT have a dip cone! Remember what happened last time...

HERPST;
What these youngsters forget is that one day THEY will be OLD ALSO, then wait and see if we take her ANYWHERE!!! with us, like to the bingo game, to the "early bird special", or florida.

Pixydish, I got MOST of the chocolate off of the car seat. It hardly shows. AND if you had gotten the brown car interior like skidivur and I thought you should, there would have been no problem but NO...you had to get powder blue just because it's the color of your favorite delphinium. WHATEVER!

Skidivur, and we won't even bring her a boquet of flowers from our gardens when she breaks a hip trying to move a large potted brugmansia inside for the winter! Nor will we take her on our Sunday afternoon rides (you know, the leisurely ones where we go 35 mph in the far left lane of the freeway)

You kids just settle down now...... who started it?

I love that glad! Vibrant colors- whoo hoo.

SKIDIVUR points finger of blame for starting at HERPST. But DONT SEPARATE us.

35 in the far left lane???? ROFLOL!! Now that I see the punishment you have in store for me, I am disinclined to allow the two of you to play together in the same room. Besides, I use my dolly on wheels to move my potted brugs. I learned a long time ago not to lift those kinds of things. Skidivur, don't bother to point at Herbst. I am entirely familiar with instigating younger siblings who then point the finger of blame. Not that Herbst is innocent, mind you. In fact, I don't know why I allow you two to hook me into these power struggles. You do it all the time! Now that I think of it, both of you go to your rooms and there won't be any coming out until your father comes home! I have a sick headache. And you KNOW how your father feels about my sick headaches!! He will not be amused!

Poochella, don't even go there with them! Each blames the other in a vicious cycle of sibling abuse. One of them will surely lose an eye one of these days due to all the finger pointing!

Skidivur, nice save on the "I think by the "we" he meant me" thing. I owe you, dude. I think that Pixydish bought it. She didn't suspect a thing. Oh, wait, can she hear us? Now I'm really going to get it when dad gets home.

Poochella, Skidivur started it. He always starts it and then blames it on me. If you'll look at the top of this page, you'll see who started it saying that he's GLAD that I'm a FAILURE or something like that.

Pixydish, Oh, right! Blame us for your sick headache. Who is the adult here? Hmmm? Who is in control? Go ahead, tell Dad see if I care. He'll just ground us and wreck our whole lives but if that's what you really want, go right ahead be my guest. Then when we can't hold down jobs because we lack social skills from being cooped up in this stupid house forever, we'll sponge off of you - maybe even move back home when we're 30. Yup, sounds great, go on, tell Dad. I dare you!

You are so smart to use a dolly. I have a hand truck in the garage but I usually get impatient around the end of October when all of this stuff has to come in and I'm busy with a million other things & just end up lugging the things around. They have to come up the stairs from the outside and down the stairs into the basement or up two flights of stairs to a spare bedroom. Between my growing collection of aeoneums, seneccios, echeverias & other somewhat tender succulents, the brugmansias, and other tender gems in the garden, there's a lot of lugging to do in the fall when I'm pretty much ready to do something besides gardening (like there is anything else)

Your guilt trips mean nothing to me! I will not play that game with you little mister!

Oh Lordy! Are you into succulents, too??? I just put in a succulent bed this summer to store my ridiculous number of succulents that overwinter in my greenhouse. I've got to cut back, or there will be no room for seed starting and brug over-wintering.

I've decided I need more African Queen.

HERPST;
Remember, when you point a finger, you have THREE fingers pointing back at YOURSELF!! And I am GOOD enough, I am SMART enough, and gosh darn it, people LIKE me!!!

Well, if you aren't going to let me manipulate you, I'm going to go to Bamford and Bamford and get more of these cool pots to put on top of my columns! If you really cared about me, you'd buy them for me - Skidivr said!

Of course you need more African Queens! And some Copper Kings and Casa Blancas, and that cool white one with the gold streak! I bought a lot of lilies from B&D at the Tacoma Flower show this year - they had been refrigerated & had no growth while the ones in my garden were already a foot or so tall. I feel so lucky because even though the heat made the lilies bloom time shorter, I still have the new ones that are just showing buds now. On the Victory Garden a few weeks ago, Michael was keeping his lily bulbs in the refrigerator drawer and planting a pot a week to insure continuous bloom for an ornamental container. I'm plugging my pots into one of my beds that is overrun with dracunculus vulgaris which has wonderful foliage and a cool but stinky flower. These tend to totally disappear after setting seed and leave huge gaps in the bed - In go the potted lilies.

Cutting back is for wimps. (This from a man who has about 30 pots sitting in his work area and no more space to plant them) I console myself with the fact that the plants are watered everyday and will be happy spending the winter in their pots. By next spring, the parking strips, which were sod & are now covered with cardboard & tagro, will be ready to give all of these treasures a home.

I love succulents! They tolerate my horrible neglect during the winter - I don't do a very good job with houseplants as they seem to want water more than once a year.

This message was edited Aug 2, 2006 7:04 PM