What I am Doing in My Garden Now #2

Glad you're having fun!! We went to Hoonah on my band trip in highschool.

My first bloom of the year in the dining room!! lol

Awesome. It must be pretty bright in there.

The window is faceing south so it gets light all day. Did you see the little buds? Oh and here is the bowling ball on a stick!!

Gordon, What flower is that? is it a vine? Its just gorgeous!

It looks like morning glory to me....

Yes MG from a swap. Couldn't believe its flowering already. Have a dozen going for the vine cave . I think I should rotate these around and get some of the smaller starts in the window. I need a GH in the worst way!!!!

Wow,.... what kind of morning glory? I hate them....but that one is beautifulllll I might like to 'hate' thatone! LOL!

Look what I got today.... one was $15 and the other was $6 !! Yippee!

My JM looks like a bent stick still.Those are very nice and you can't beat that price with a JM stick! lol As far as the kind, don't know yet, it was a plant swap seedling. I think from one of the DGers up here, though it was a public plant swap. But I will find out, and I have a spare! (hoint, hint!) ;-)

hoint? lol!

maybe it will set seeds? hint hint :o)

Gordon - Look at that bowling ball. It's so high - and your arbor behind it is very cool. I love them both!!

Oneanjl - You should talk to Byndeweed Beth from Oregon about morning glories. She has some awesome ones. The hybrids are much better behaved, as I understand it, than are the wild invasive ones.

Thanks Katie.... I may haveto check those out....just as soon as I get rid of the ones that keep sprouting here! LOL!

Hoint- latin for" trade me" ! Or just a lousy typeist, typer? I grow plants!!! lol
Thank you Katie, thought it would look cool, that was us brain storming, the birth of the biggest tootsie pop! Gonna take a whole lotta licks to get to the center of that one! Wasn't going to be that tall, but when they told me 1/2 conduit was $5 for 10' I had to do it. Pounded it in to about 7'6". I can't touch it , but that ain't saying much!!

Gordon, is the MG "Grandpa Ott?" Kinda looks like that to me and with my VAST garden knowledge, I would say it's a pretty sure thing! ; )
LOVE the bowling ball! I want one!

We have a winner!! You have just won a plant of your choice off my window sill!!!
Choose wisely outta!!!

Um...I'll take the dome, please? Or the stick. I really like the stick.

I like the big leaf in the windowsill. What's that?

A failed experiment. alocasia does not root in water.Here is a more recent pic, still your choice I am sure we will see each other at Heidis on the 27th

If I had my pick I would take the window, Can't grow nothing in mine. LOL

You're right, Mary. That's a nice window and a nice view. Sorry your alocasia experiment didn't work. But you'll be experimenting with other stuff, I'm sure, knowing you. :-)

I'll have to get a picture of my kitchen window. Got my replacements from Arbor Day and have a whole 'nother set of trees. This time I'm pretty sure I got my redbuds, but I'm not so sure I didn't get some more rhus aromatica. LOL And the redbuds are budding, so that's a thrill. I sure hope my seedlings (in my little zippered greenhouse outside) survived the cold. A nurseryman told me today that the threat now is damping off, rather than the cold, so I need to make sure to open them up tomorrow morning and let the warm breeze (that we're supposed to have) air them out. Fingers crossed that I haven't lost anything out there.

My plan is to be at Jacquie's on the 19th and to go to Dragon fly as well. So I'll see you there. But it's Outta who won the "guess the MG cultivar" game. I was just horning in. Anyway, my folks (88 and almost 90) are having a health crisis, which is going to result in moving them into an assisted living facility in Corvallis in the next two weeks, so most things are sort of up in the air until us kids decide who's going to do what and be where when.

That's Grandpa Ott, and you got it from me :) Mine isn't blooming yet, though! Thought of you today, Gordon, as Susybell and I visited Cistus nursery. Lots of cool succulents and other things. Then I got home to discover two of my koi missing and a report of a heron flying low. Grrrr. ONe of the ones I cannot find is my beautiful Twinkle, the white one with Ginrin scales. I'm really going to miss that fish if she is really gone, which I think she is. My black koi is missing as well. Not a happy day at all.

morning glory vines that people grow as annuals are not the least bit invasive. They are not the same as that dratted morning glory weed we get up here. Don't bother pulling it. If there is the least tiny bit of root, it comes back. You have to use the glove of death on it. I.E., round up.

Melissa -

I'm so sorry about Twinkle. I hope that she found a good hiding spot. I did see that someone was successfully using a glass globe to float on the pond to scare away Herons successfully. I think it was in an old Garden Gate magazine. Let me know if you haven't tried it and want to. Let us know if you find her tomorrowl

Oh, no! Not Twinkle! I hope she's just hiding. Sorry to have your weekend end on such a low note... :(

So sorry Pixs, hope you fine her.

Pixy, thanks for the MG info...the ones I'm having a hard time with are ones I actually planted :o) I tried and tried for several years to grow MG's but kept failing. Last year, I planted more seeds and the durn things nearly ate my gym! (9'x16' shed) they grew nearly over the entire building. Then, My DH got ill and I didnt get out there to whack down the dead vines and they set seeds everywhere.... Every week, I go pluck new seedlings outta my vine bed, just to keep them from chocking out my jasmine and lavender vines...and every week, more seedlings pop up and the whole bed is green again. I figure if I keep plucking, and dont let any more set seed, eventually they will be gone?! *crossing fingers* So if there is a MG that doesnt as easily set seed, I may want to plant some of those...but not whatever it was I planted last year :OD I got my fill of MG's last year :oD

I banned RoundUP from our house! DH sprays, doesnt care if its windy, or my newly planted coleus are right there....just sprays! so no more roundup around here :o) Now he's learning to pull the weeds before they set seed! LOL

I'm trying a few this year, I'm hoping that it's our cooler summers that will keep them in control. I think the Japanese kind are much less obnoxious, too.

While all of you are asleep (except Mark and Lauri of course) I'll slip in a few photos. These were left by the previous owners - each year they catch me by surprise. Interestingly, they are illustrated in the Tradescants garden catalogue (which I believe is 16th cent.)

And another. This is our climbing hydrangea - again, inherited from the previous previous owners. (Was it Sheri who is thinking of growing one?)

OHHHH Laurie I love those shaggy daffs they are wonderful and so sunny!
Thanks,
Carla

Laurie I love the narcissus! I am going to print a copy of your pic and show it to my climbing hydrangeas for motivation!

Oh, nice Narcissus, and wow, that Hydrangea is beautiful-and so is the garden. Sunshine, even!

Laurie ~ I LOVE the frilly little daffs...they are so adorable! And yes, I do want to plant a climbing hydrangea somewhere in the QAW. Your's gives me hope. What a beautiful picture that is. Thanks.

I just love it when things are just coming up - this is my Jeffersonia Diphylla - they are so amazing at every stage.

And another - don't you just love the depth of colour in the new growth of Paeonies - they are so spare, and almost masculine at this stage, and then go into all that ballgown glory later - fabulous!

And another - let me know if this gets too boring - it is an awful lot of dirt surrounding the barest amount of growth. This is my beloved Trillium Chloropetalum - I can only dream of the 'huge drifts that are truely stunning' that Wm Cullina writes about in 'Growing and Propagating Wildflowers' - dream dream.

And just one more - this is the very new growth of Persicaria Opulifolia Red Dragon. I love this plant - it just is so gorgeous with the stand of crocosmia and with light behind it - wowser. Be warned, it needs room - but if you have a spot to fill, go for it.

My Peony looks like that minus the gorgeous surround/support, did you build that too Laurie, I love it!

PS...Not boring at all, wonderful entertainment during midday munching....Thanks

Oh, thank you Cocoa - whats for lunch?

We go through and give all the Paeonies hazel supports, along with several of the other perennials - just stops them from drooping - they are incredibly fast to make, literally takes minutes, and we have an infinate supply of hazel from down in the woodlands. Once the plants fill out, the supports just disappear into the growth.

Well that was a nice way to spend the first evening back in london - glad you enjoyed them, hope the new hydrangea's are inspired to go for growth, and now off to bed - early call tomorrow. TTFN

This message was edited Mar 31, 2008 8:20 PM

Just gorgeous! You should have a class on how to build them...
For lunch...Chicken, bread, coleslaw and a vitamin drink plus my supplements, fills me up pretty quick with all the supplements...lol I nwill have black walnut ice cream in a couple of hours as a afternoon snack....mmmm can't wait to be hungry again.

Excellent, I'll probably miss lunch, but I'll be there for tea, and ice cream.