Tropicman, I read someone's comment that the pods on the Mexican bird of paradise audibly pop when they are ripe. Have you heard this? I've been collecting ours, so I don't have to pull all the seedlings later!
Can't wait for our CE to bloom - she just keeps growing and growing. Lovely pics.
It's beginning to look a lot like the tropics (part 3)
Well some say it is some say it ain't I've tried it bitter to green tasting,not gooood!!!!
Yes sad to see fall coming but then again,I enjoy being close to all my plants in the greenhouse,not the same when planted in the ground!!!
Kap,I hadn't heard that before,first time with this plant,so I'm new to what it will do!
Might try to propagate by planting these seeds.
I't s a cool 81* here,coolest it's been in months!
Low 80s here too!! We are loving it!!!
Chrissy, I had to drive in fog on the way to work the other day. It is very common here, especially where there are ponds, creeks and lakes nearby.
Here is a pic I took earlier this year of the fog. This one is taken on a gravel road in April.
Here is one I took on the same day on a nearby country highway.
Chrissy, we are 10 miles from the coast. Sometimes we get up and it's sunny, then the mist from the ocean side of the hill comes slipping over and we are socked in. Very weird. Wait awhile and it's gone again. The one thing I don't like about it is the powdery mildew on my Lady Banks rose.
Pepper, your pictures are great. The first one is worthy of a postcard. very nice.
TM, the things you can accomplish completely out of context with your climate....goodness, what would you do in the actual tropics. just magic.
Guess what pepper! turn the earth red and replace those trees with gums and that could be us!...guess what they gave me the camera today....all I am waiting for is my brother to come back and show me what to do....so soon you will see Spring down under...though I am sure my pics won't be as good as yours ...Though I will learn!
My area is near rivers and there are many dams ...including ours...yes the fog seems to rise up from them...it is beautiful.K I am sorry abou your banksia rose have you tried the milk thing you know 10 parts milk to 90 parts water?.You would know I guess that it comes from Australia...I have the double white one ...do you have the white or yellow...my double white smells like violets.
The most special people in the universe have found DG.
Lou,I'm with you that first one is a postcard perfect!!!!
Look at the power lines and how white they are...
Lou,I wonder if I could grow as well in the tropics as here,thats always been a idea in the back of my brain. I've always wanted to visit Fiji,ever since I was little, seen movies about the islands, and fell in love with it .
Glad I still have my dreams!!!
Oh TMan. Life is so short. There must be a way for you to follow that dream. Go to Travelocity.com or some such site. You might be surprised that it is easier to accomplish than you think. So obvious that you have the tenacity to accomplish things unheard off.
Make it happen. Form a goal. Go man Go. I can't wait to see the pictures from Fiji.
Don you sure have your work cut out for you! And everything in flower! Must be so hard to "put them away"for the winter! Yikes!
My last post had been sitting here for two hours - cuz I had to leave....so I got way behind! Pepper your pictures are great!...love that foggy mist. Hiya Christi! Been missing ya today, so glad you are now on....how ya doin?
Chrissy, I have the yellow and the white. The white should bloom next spring. The yellow one is growing with a native clematis and the white with one called Etoile Rose http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/78779/.
AAMOF, I was going to spray it this weekend - I don't get on ladders when I'm home alone. ;-)
How beautiful! And that is a very good plan about the ladders!
Tired tonight. Lots of work going on today. On one of my "tears" as Mike calls it. Cleaning things that haven't cleaned in a long time. Kind of like....ok can't make these other problems go away so I will clean the living H#@l out of what I can. A personal quirk.
Too hot to work outside or I would....that always gives one peace.
Pardon my language..... or as we would say here...pardon my French.......don't really know where that came from.
Oh Lou,if only I could,you see,back in the 60's I was flying Continental Airlines back from Florida,it was one of those 4 engines jobs,and we were hit by lighning,plane dropped like a hot cake a long ways before the pilot got it under control,I swore if we ever made it safely
back to earth,I'd never fly again!!!!
Also went deep sea fishing one time,got seasick so bad,here again,this boy keeps his feet on the ground!!!
Sad thing about all this my son is a pilot and owns his own plane and flys all the time.being a part owner in 44 KFC restaurants,he needs to be at a place quickly he flies!
Anyway I have never been up in his plane,this is his second plane he's owned,but he's been real good about me and my fear of flying,but soon as they get a bus heading that way,I'm on it!!!LOL
I have a confession to make TM ...never been on a plane sssshhhh
scared of hts and scared of throwing up...get seasick so I always imagine getting airsick .... I get that awful sick in the tummy feeling when I think of flying...I truly envy anyone who just jumps on a plane...my hubby has been stateside twice... my son too and Hawaii
on his honeymoon (loved it of course).Me I am a homebody...happy with my little corner of the World....love to watch and learn about other far flung places but in a way they seem more exotic and romantic from afar..... there in my mind they are perfect .....not like my humble but well loved jungle.....in other places there aren't weeds or triffids eating the house.....no nasties
or all of the mundane things we have to face in everyday life....in a way sometimes a dream is more perfect if you leave it alone.
Having said that if you want something badly you go for it... life is gone in a blink...so grab it and love while you can :)
Loving the pics! Beautiful clematis and the fog photo makes me homesick!
You know TMan, being in a large liner is quite different than being on a deep sea fishing boat! I would love to see you get to Fiji and see the plants there!
Jenny
Not to be a nag, TM, but I had a friend who had the same kind of experience in a small plane (wind shear?). Dropped thousands of feet in seconds. She was so nervy about flying she actually bolted off a plane (four of us were traveling together) as they were closing the door. She really had to dig herself out of that mess. They ban you for that kind of behavior. Anyway, she read books and familiarized herself with every noise a plane makes, etc. Desensitized herself. Then she got on a plane again. She still doesn't love it, but her family is in England, so it's either that or not see them ever. She said it really helped calm her down knowing what all is going on. Just think how wonderful Fiji would be. I spent a week on Bora-Bora and that was pretty darned good, I'll tell you!
About 12 yrs ago we saw one of those the next block over. We kept hearing this loud noise so we hopped in the car and drove to the next street and found a large rotating cloud right above a house. It never got any worse and never tore any buildings up, thankfully.
Ever seen fog this heavy before? This is on my way to work. Only a couple miles away from there. Taken in June.
Pepper, your pictures are so vivid I can almost smell the hay. Love the fog in the country early mornings. You must be a rural area not the city of KC.
Sorry my pictures are from friends mobile phones.....but you get the picture ...so yes it has been an amazing Winter for us and now the Spring fogs are here.....and so is the heat already.....the apricots are blossoming a bit too early ...sometimes they get knocked off by the hot winds coming in......but right now it is lovely
.....are you all enjoying your weather right now?
Wonderful pics Chrissy and Pepper! A little too hot for me right now - we're taking a drive up the coast today as a treat.
Ka, enjoy..........
Every post, every picture brings back a memory or a question....
Bora Bora - Adored French Polynesia, my favorite was Moorea, so gentle - warm and welcoming like a hug from a favored friend.
Fog - California fogs aren't nearly that pretty Pepper - they just sock you into grayness and play with your mind. In high school I once was driving home from LA to San Diego late at night and when we got home our parents were frantic...we had driven right by a 28 car pile up, and we didn't even know it!
Chrissy - your storm pictures are amazing! Was this recent? I would be running and hiding from that monster, I assure you!
Don, Kaperc was right! You need to desensitize yourself! I sympathize with your feelings, but how will you ever live your dream, or come visit us (all of us!) to help us with our tropical jungles? I have heard that hypnosis helps. We had a commercial jet crash with a small piper practically right over our house in San Diego when we were much younger, and my brother took years to finally get the nerve up to fly again. Just when he was going to go visit my folks, he (a trucker) had one last load from CA to Florida and on the way to deliver it he pulled off to watch the launch of Challenger in 1986...didn't actually get on a plane for another 14 years.
Christi - never knew you were a closet countryfile!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAPERC!!
Our storms are on the same scale as yours but they are pretty violent.......I don't know about you but I think in their own way that they are very beautiful.....even though scary! .....it is nice to see the diffent weather conditions from everywhere.......thanks everyone our storms and floods hit us a few weeks ago there were massive floodings ...blackouts and a few deaths....in one case a road just opened up and swallowed a family .....it was pretty bad ....but whether flood ....fire ...hurricanes.....droughts.....every country has it's bad times......after which we get up and get on with things. Happy Birthday K have a good one mate :).....it's a beautiful day here again ...no fog and *c over the normal temp already.....7.30 in the morning .....happy day everyone!!!!
I hope to retire in a couple years,and plan on seeing those tropical Islands before I go see the big jungle in the heavens,I think I will try the hypnotize theorpy.
I too love to watch the storm clouds come into view.
Sometimes I think where have they been,what damage have they done,how much rain has already fallen from these dark clouds,and then sometimes they just break up and nothing more happens,I get a clam feeling all over again!!!
It saddens me to watch the news and See not much going on in rebuilding of New Orleans,and wonder how could this be???
Were talking a city with the population around 2 million people,what if it would have been Houston,Corpus Christi,Miami,Key west,would this still be the result at these other coastal locations???
Yes, I am in a rural area of KC. Not in the city itself but outside in the metro area. The fringes of it. The city is creeping closer though. I wanna move to Montana where it is all open!! lol. Won't happen though unless my family and friends all go with me.
Funny you should mention that TM I was just looking at Oprah yesterday....She was giving some of the victims new homes...ooooh but the stories ....we watched from Australia when it happened and we donated ...but it was so frustrating and dreadfully upsetting to know people were trapped with no help...to watch people begging for help that never arrived...oh soul destroying stuff...I hope the situation has improved since then......it seems unbelievable that this could have happened. I have never seen anything like that in my Country thank goodness.....if you need help out here people come from every direction.Those people should have been airlifted out .......Hopefuly the Powers that Be will be better prepared for a National disaster ....in the future God forbid.
Ps I meant the storms are NOT as bad as yours.....sorry!
We should all have a special dream......and TM I hope yours comes true
Just because it is interesting I want to mention the 50 ft spiderweb in the Texas tree tops have you heard? it looks like fog it is so dense! I sure hope it isn't one spider How would you like to bump into him!
I saw the headline for that spider web but didn't read the story.
Yeah, New Orleans is unbelieveable. Good and bad. Every time I see a story-good or bad- I am just speechless.
I can't go there....I get too angry...and don't have time to make bread.
Here I go again with incendiary thoughts......more than meets the eye. Many evacuees in my community....still here. Shari, be angry at our govt. graft. Uh-oh...this will be deleted by admin. and I will be trouble....AGAIN.
Nah - we aren't going to report you! But I'd much rather see more of Don's garden in flower....soothing rather than angrifying (I think I just made up a word). If I put into words how the whole Katrina debacle makes me feel, my computer would melt, my friends eyes would blister, and I would be cast out of Dave's Garden of Eden, like the serpent. So I just can't go there.....
Uh Oh I think we wandered somewhere painful... lets skip back to paradise and ( pray for those who can't.)
have you seen the beautiful flowers over at the new garden too between this one and that one we are in paradise :)
In the middle of an Island ...in the middle of the ....ocean......
Where Chrissy? Sorry, didn't mean to sound ferocious.....
♫Don't worry, be happy♫