hi critter, that is swallowtail larva on parsley (not sure what BST means?). you can use that photo. I wish I had a better camera (sigh)...some day...that along with a green house!
...also I said we have 4 or 5 parsley plants but I fogot that I cluster plant the parsley. I always keep the seedlings in a small clump of maybe 10 plants per clump....which means we have 4 or 5 'clumps or clusters' of parsley rather than individual plants. I realized that when I looked at the seedlings growning now from Suzy. I would never just plant one parsley plant alone, like I wouldn't with chives. Groupings work well :)
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OPs ... sorry, didnt read the WORD/Excel thing til now.
if you have your spreadsheet open , COPY what you want to add to the .DOC.
with your DOC open, click the il clip board looking icon [circled in red] then it will PASTE.
i think i'm using Office 2003
wind -- i believe BST = Black Swallowtail
blueglancer just read your post......awwwwwww.....sorry your wagon tipped over!!!!!! that is so frustrating, I like to keep certain colors together too. At least they were salvageable :) unlike my nonsprouting seed tray that flopped over thanks to our cat snoops! I really wanted to try and germinate the bat plant seeds I had in there too.
Thanks, wind! I guess I've never seen parsley bloom -- it's very pretty! BST is black swallowtail to the folks on the butterfly forum... I've been trying to learn their lingo... "cat" = caterpillar took me a while, LOL.
Ladies... this thread it getting too heavy to load without a long pause... gimme a min or two to get a new one started.
here's #10 http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/831562/
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oh black swallowtail, I think it was :) we get alot of those and Eastern tiger swallowtails ~ thanks tcs
Star-you should have a button at the top of the word document in your toolbar that is for adding a spreadsheet-if you hover your mouse over it it says "insert Microsoft Excel Spredsheet" It looks likle a little tiny spreadsheet and has an X over it. Then you just copy the content of the one you have saved and paste it into the sheet on your Word Doc.-hope that helps...or go to "INSERT" and select worksheet form the dropdown menu if you can't find the little icon on the toolbar
I', reading everything, but have stepped into high geat on getting stuff cleaned up around here and filling pots and all.
Lucy, that is such a bummer on the Zinnias!!! Grrr, it would make me so mad.
I scored at Lowe's last night. I found 2 open bags of Miracle Grow Potting mix, and was able to buy them for 1/2 off! (That hardly ever happens to me) The trend in containers seems to be glazed pottery, which I love, but they are too heavy to put away at the end of the season. I am looking for resin or nice-looking plastic Terre cotta colored containers with a classic silhouette. I would take Terre Cotta if the price were right, but those are just as heavy as the glazed!
I have container mix to make today consisting of the mix from old potting soil here and there, old potting mix at the bottom of pots I didn't get cleaned up last fall, including roots, new ProMix BX (the one that is hard for me to use with seedlings), Miracle Grow Potting mix with the sticks, and some cedar bark finely ground mulch (as Tapla was talking about in the container forum).
I'll look at it after I mix, and decide if I need to add perlite to all. To the mix, I add some bone meal, rock phosphate dust and a mix of other junk including Osmocote time release and more moisture rystals....basically whatever I think it needs to be a live or partly live soillessmix that will sustain life.
All this to say I am planting out some things today. LOL!
Lea, what about a container of only the geraniums with nothing else added? Would that be too boring?
Suzy
Guess what I just found out! That the greenhouse people put all their petunias into hanging baskets now and let them grow to fill them in (well, I guess that should have been obvious . . .)
Anyway, now I know what to do with the lavender petunias :-)
Hey everyone! Whoever wants to do the Excel In Word thing - follow Fairy's directions - that's what I would have recommended. Trotted the babies back out this morning, and a lot of them are staying out tonight - either in the big greenhouse or the small one on the back deck. I'm just a little nervous about that forecast this weekend that talks about the low 30's again.....
Finished both Mom's and Nora's taxes, so now all I gotta do is finish my business books (thank heavens for a small year) and then do my taxes - I'm hoping I'll be able to get that all done by the 14th. Tomorrow will be Pruning :) and more weeding, and then I gotta order some manure and mulch to be delivered so I can start remodeling that front yard. Oh, and starting more seeds....
The daff's are finally beginning to open up - I'll see what pics I can get tomorrow.
I now have at least four different colors of petunias, and the Lady in Red is actually blooming! Pics of those tomorrow too :)
This is a picture of the Black & Blue that made it through the winter of '06'/'07'. It is south facing, on the other side of this is a bump out which is my entry so it's basically protected from east and north exposures. I just happened upon this picture and I wanted to share. I can't wait to get my hummer feeder back up.
Wow!!!!!
Here are the petunias that are out in the bigger greenhouse (OK, big fat 6x8, but it's MINE, buwahahaha).
LOL - I was so excited about the pic I forgot to say Good Morning! Anyway - Good Morning! Hope y'all are doing well. Here's another pic of some petunias.
And for spring - a shot of some daffs that finally decided to open up :)
Cool! Those petunias are BIG! I' jealous!
We've moved to thread 10. Today's my day with mom, and I don't have time to send a link! Just look for the piggie!
Suzy
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/831562/#new
Here it is Robin. Nice petunias!
I knew we were on the next thread, but my pic was kinda out of the blue, so I didn't want to take up space on the other thread! :)
Thanks for sharing Dryad, I love your dafs! and I think we have to make you our Queen of the Petunias! :) (since we already have a queen of the piggies) ;)
I hope my petunias are going to grow up to be as nice as yours :) I think mine are a month & a half behind yours right? I just started them less than 2 weeks ago.
I saved seeds from red petunias I got at HD, something I knew nothing about. I thought, "hey, these might not be ready or viable or whatever, but I'm gonna try it." I have lots of babies to show for it. Do you think they will be red too?
I am also trying Pentunia integrifoilia just because I like to try species plants to see if they have more nectar for the HB's & BF's. I got these from http://www.dianeseeds.com/petunia-integrifolia.html they look pretty, but probably much smaller flowers than most.
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Ooh, Meridith, that's a sweet little flower! I'll bet the BFs will love them... and I hope you'll be able to save seeds! Great germination!
Meredith,
When the B&B comes back in the spring, where (on the plant) does it come back FROM? I'm looking for signs of life on mine. That is one jumbo B&B! I have my hummingbird feeders out, but no sign, even though the map says they are this far north.
Dryad and Meredith: Nice petutties!
Suzy
Thanks Critter!
Suzy my B&B just started growing leaves at the base. At first I was like " it's probably a weed because there is no way that is actually coming back" but I'm glad I let it go to be sure because it was the B&B :D The leaves are very big and dark green when it starts growing, they kind of reminded me of primrose. Mine is not growing now, but it came up later than most things so don't give up just yet. The only things that are brave enough to start popping up here, are sedum and phlox (only a tiny bit). -back to the b&B- I had 3 planted along the foundation, in the pic you can see some may night salvia I planted in there place. So the only one that came back was the most protected. Also I have very sandy soil here so that porobably played a factor, because I've heard the worst thing for salvias is wet feet in winter.
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OMG! I am so glad I asked you! When I started pulling away the mulch, there was a leaf just as you described and I assumed it was a self-sown foxglove. I left it there, but I didn't really want a foxglove there..wrong color and too much sun. I bet there is a matching leaf on the other side; I'll go and try to unover the other one right now! :))) Doin' the preliminary happy dance (the prelude to the "Happy Dance!!!")
This is way down at the base, at soil level, right? I should have fondled it a bit and then smelled it. :) Those sages all have a peculiar odor to me.
Thank youuuuuu!
Yeah! I'm so glad your B&B salvias are coming up! So maybe there is hope for mine but I can't plant mine agains the house not enough sun but I can by the road but then again if it rains and floods like it did last year they are liable to wash away!
Robin I love your petunias, you have some really pretty ones there, mine are getting ready to bloom out in the little gh :)
Meredith are you gng to try the clump transplanting on all of those, that sure is a lot LOL
Just went out to check my B & B. Nothing there but a few brown sticks/stems from last year. Should it be showing up by now in our zone? I thought I had it mulched nicely with pine needles and planted it on a little mound to facilitate drainage--but maybe it froze out...
Other salvias in the garden are coming on strong and may take over the garden this year. And I have a zillion under lights in the basement. I like them but I don't love them though.... (-:
Worked all day on cleaning out pots for replanting some of these seedlings and cleaning up parts of the garden. Also took a few pics of the daffs in bloom. Very ordinary ones this year, but they are coming back with gusto. Very joyful (but gaudy) and I may have to thin out later in the season...
Meredith and dryad--you will have lots of pretty petunias this summer. The ones I put out for the Hummingbird flybys (I think they were scarlet 'waves' are really blooming nicely, but no HBs as far as I know. Did get a nest in our Bluebird box but I think it's a chicadee's. Now what to do?!
Illoquin--thanks for your potting mix for containers recipe. Sounds like the same one I use! And I'll go back and look at Tapla's again. I think he was big on sand in the containers wasn't he?
By the way, I went to my Garden Club meeting yesterday and we had a Daffodil judge there. Everyone was supposed to bring a perfect Daff specimen from their garden. Oh, boy, was she ever tough!! Of course, we didint' really know what we were doing but it was fun. We also had to bring an 'all green arrangement' (of flowers). Very interesting. I'm not a flower arranger at all (can't stand the fiddly stuff) but some were so imaginative--adding asperagus, and brocoli and other neat stuff to their bouquets. I would have given them all blue ribbons but the judge was less generous. She did give us a very good lesson in flower arranging. Now we will all be ready to enter something in the Cincy Flower Show. NOT.
I got a blue bird box last year and a warbler pair too it over lol
That 'tunia bud in the second pic opened up today and my, is it ever dark! I will post the pic on the next thread though...especially since I haven't taken one yet :)
I haven't had any open yet any day now, I can't wait to see your picture! I wanna see how dark it is :)
Suzy, that's awesome! :D Sounds like your Salvia to me!
I think I will do those petunias tomorrow, today I am working at least 12 hours. I already have 1.5 in now, so 10.5 more to go. :( I'd much rather be transplanting a bazillion petunias!
I hear ya meredith-I am at work tto-2 hrs. for me, but I get off @ noon today-YEAH!! I need a nap...was up late on the phone w/ NYVOICES!!
Should those trailing petunias be pinched at all? that's my newest conundrum...pinching. I know coleus ... and basil. but I've grown so few flowers from seed. Has Suzy already covered this? I'm really losing track of things.
I had trouble with HOSP's taking over my bluebird box last year. I didn't let them nest, but it kept any native birds from nesting either. It was the first year I had the box up. I have a bluebird pair trying to build a nest the last few days. They've had some trouble with a male HOSP but so far the male bluebird has driven him away. I really hope they stay. They're so pretty.
oh, I forgot I was on the wrong thread. never mind the pinching ?. I'll move it to #10
Grampa,
Pinching is not obligatory but is done to create strong, upright and bushy plants. This may not be what you want from a trailing plant, though! So it's all up to you to decide!
EGADS! I just pinched the trailing geraniums. . . . sigh . . . . ^(^
ROFLOL
sorry about my fit of giggles. I have such a hard time deciding whether or not to pinch any kind of flower! Basil -- no question.
Oh man, I came back to see Robin's purple petunia, Oh Robin, where is your picture? LOL
Critter I take it you haven't done a article on pinching you better get started on that LOL I need it! I hate pinching plants I don't have a problem with basil either one of the very few that I do pinch :) It scares the heck outta me, like the violets there wasn't anywhere that I could see to pinch them.
I did an article on pinching herbs! (my very first DG article, in fact) I'd better do a little more research before I write about pinching flower seedlings... I'm pretty comfortable pinching anything when I can see new little pairs of leaves forming where the lower leaves meet the stem -- I know if I pinch above that point, the stem will branch out.
I "screwed my courage to the sticking point" and pinched my asarina, polka dot plants, a few heliotrope, and a whole flat of torenia seedlings. I decided to keep my paws off the wave petunias (they look like they're starting to branch out just fine) and the geraniums.
One that you should NEVER pinch is monkshood (aconitum) because it won't flower that year if you do! Just found out the hard way......
Hey! This is too long for me to load. Let's all move to thread 10, shall we?
And I'll start a pinching conversation there....
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/831562/