You kids in Red Oak are sure putting this old man to shame, with all of your blooming tropical plants! SOOOOO sad i have none. Only a $ 326 gas bill. Please let it be SPRING TIME SOON !!!!!!!!!! Jerry
Tropical Garden #2
Isn't that funny...guess what I got in the mail today...10.00 coupon from Lowes...!
Okay folks...for those of you who asked...and you know who you are...
These were posted today.
:-) Thank you.
ashleykelly, I do not have much experience with kerosene heaters. I only have a small Heatemate bought at home depot. It has a half gallon tank that runs for approx. 10hrs. Fuel costs around $4 to $6 per gal. I only use it when it gets down to the mid 20s . hope that helps some.
Texasbigleaves, you know that is not true. Everything you have in your greenhouse is 10 times the size of mine. Why don't you show us your Philo. collection or your tapioca tree.
Here is one of your babies.
Yeah..show us the philo collection...!
I saw Caldwell Nuseries (Katie's) private collection a couple weeks ago...was pretty cool! She has some I've never dreamed of. I know philo collecting is not too far away for me.
Rj THANK YOU. Will you d-mail me as to postage cost?
I don't charge when I offer to send things...but thanks anyway!
will have to repay with seeds - or a cutting if I ever get something you all dont already have - that is going to be hard in this group!
I always say just surprise me. One lady said she didn't have anything I'd probably want, and sent me some purple shamrock...and I love it..it's now displayed in my most favorites area of the garden.
Placenciarita, What is that EE on bottom left in your pic. on Jan.3 at 8:35 pm???????? Jerry
are you referring to this...?
Jerry, just right click on the little post number located under the name and date located on the far left- select copy short cut...then come down here and right click again and click paste
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4358384
This message was edited Jan 16, 2008 10:35 PM
rjuddharrison, I did'nt know about that you could that. Thanks, the trick now is to not forget it.Old himers you know now what was saying??? Placeniarita is allways saying why can'nt you remember all the names of my plants. What????? Jerry
Good Morning Jerry. The plant is a Brian Williams hybrid.
Yeah..that's a recent add trick I think in the past 8 months or so...it does come in handy when your in another thread..and you want to reference a particular post, but not the entire thread.
Come on Spring!!!
Rj ,The seeds came today, thanks again. I bet when Jerry tastes these, it will change his mind about papayas.
Good! that was pretty quick.
I agree..not being a Papaya lover myself...I really did love these..they have a delicious peachy taste to them..
I just bought some more papayas at the store..actually right after I mailed those to you...I put them in my chicken soup..weird huh...but taste pretty good...so I'm going to save the seeds on those and see what comes up.
They got here today too - I love the way you packed and sent them, I have never seen seeds sent like that but it is the perfect way!
Good..glad it worked... first time I tried that out..been saving all my curiously strong mint cans for that purpose..they really make good seed storage too. I have them all on end and labled in a flat tuperware..so when I want to find the few nicely catalouged seeds I do have....I just take out the tray and read the little lables ..
love the turtle nursery.
placenciarita what is that yellow fruit?
the begonias are just starting to flower.
and the b. carribean king
same here - I have one of those my son just outgrew this year... thoughts going wild now...
It's 28* and here is a sign of spring.
LAST NITES WINTER MOON. Come on summer sunshine. Jerry
candela, I hope that you will have a good day off to putter in your beautiful yard. I wish that I could, but it is too cold.
The fruit is a straberry guava. I am hoping to get enough fruit next year to make some guava jelly.
I started a collection of begonias last year. I don't know very much about them, but will learn. I haven't seen one yet that I didn't like.
How is your sancheza doing?
texasbigleaves, I would rather be experiencing a indian summer.
Just checkin' in! It's been a while for me to visit DG... too busy at work and home... It was 3 degrees when I started my car this morning. Here's where my tropical garden was and will be...the pic was earlier this month, the ice has melted, but there are 2 more snows on top of that... and never dry enough to clean up the debries... here's my new must have list:
Zone 8 or higher
1. Job w/bennies
2. Modest home (prefer country) w/nice yard for planting....
It's noon and up to 10 degrees now... I hope everyone has endured the cold temps down south.. RJ or someone lost their plants INSIDE the greenhouse (I'm trying to catch up) THAT is just awful, so so sorry. All my tropicals are in the basement with additional lights I put up last fall... I've declared war on mealy bug, we're on round #2 and I'm NOT surrendering. Be safe & stay warm! -B
AuntB, GLAD your still alive and kicking! Do'nt know how you Yankees cope with all that ice ,snow. It's bad enough here with only a little ice, snow every few years apart. Jerry Ps, COME ON SPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep, COME ON. I am suffering some kind of winter blahs, but my catalogs, plants and spring planning & DG is keeping me from going over the edge... We could have 3 more months of winter, so I should adjust my attitude, perhaps. The less younger I get the more I hate bitter cold KS winters......... if I could just win the lottery and relocate, I'd promise to never complain again. Least I'll have more sun in the backyard this year..
AuntB, They are right GREAT MINDS DO THINK ALIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just think of the possibilitys SUN and AROIDS as tall as SKYSCRAPERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jerry
Maybe a BIG barn w/ hay loft. lol You guys down south can grow em tall as skyscrapers. It's just the silver lining to the gray storm clouds, so to speak. That's the most positive outcome I could think of. I've decided 5B is NOT tropical enough to dig very many roids or ears in and out of the ground spring and fall, as I'm too "challenged" (old, arthritis) to dig with a shovel much. My ground is clay and rock so I'm sticking with pots and a raised bed or 2. Tropical Hibiscus and Brugmansia will highlight my tropical area, with ears, aroids & ferns thrown in here and there along with blooming annuals.
this is to OLD MAN WINTER from all of us!!
Hahaha!! My thoughts exactly :*)
lol - love it.
lol, might want to lift up one of those fingers, too! ;) It's a heatwave here! 21 degrees
B----------------------R----------------R----------------R------------------------- I need to put on another pair of cotton sack draws. Oh no, i can't i have to save them for the BIG EAR FEST.
Placeenciarita, How about Tropical Garden #3
It was Truetropical77 that had damage to plants in the green house.
Thanks Texasgal, that is so sad.
Hopefully some of them will come back from the roots. It may take awhile, but after we had four freezes that lasted at least four hours ea. alot of my stuff looked really bad, but then in the Spring, and some even summer, started growing back....not all....but some! So there is some hope!