It's the plant a few posts up Phyllis where I was showing my baby Cereus.
It looks kinda like a coleus.
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Oh AuntB my heart just breaks for you. But you have to think of the short sweet time you had. I know this because I was a af wife back in the 70's and know all about missing someone. The thing I remember the most is that you build a friendship that most nonmilitary will never get to experience.
I got a chicken gizzard in a plant swap, what a strange name for a plant. It is getting tall and not bushing, do I need to pinch out the top?
What a beautiful caladium bulb border.....love it!
I am an mg but honestly I am not too much into natives. I have friends who have very beautiful gardens with natives, and I enjoy them but I am a much more uptight gardner...does that make any sense? Our meetings are funny I live in a rural community so we have farmers and we have people who wouldn't think of using a chemical....it can be pretty funny. We have a guy who does mostly really cool grasses, 2 really native gardeners, a real herb person, me...LOL, and some folks from the city with small yards. We have a really good mix. But have to admit this DG brug/hotties are probably the funnest, knowledgeable group I have met.
Love the caladium border on the last list, column or whatever you want to call this....LOL
Peg, I still don't understand the warning... for saying "hot"??? Guess I'll go look again at your post, but guess I'd better watch what I'm saying. Rub the sty with the end of a silver (real silver) spoon, I've gotten rid of them that way... surgery sounds pretty harsh. I bet you and Keith looked like a pair! lol kim, no chicken gizzards for me, now livers... mmmmmmm. I'm tired tonight, Drew helped get the allium bulbs dug today. We're taking his car for diagnostic check tomorrow.. at least we'll know if he needs a different one. I hope to get some brugs and other plants potted up tomorrow. Donna, you've had about enough rain by now, haven't ya? I'm off to bed girls, can't seem to stop nodding off, nitey nite. It's great to be chatting it up with ya'll.
Oh went back and saw the pics of the new shop, how nice. It has too be so exciting to think about working for yourself! I have worked really hard all my life making money for someone else. Never had the guts to try anything like you are doing.
lol posted on the old thread! Sheesh gotta read first. Here are the pics of the shop. Spent the day painting the windows with the help of my mother in law. Hubby put the tub together and groom table with the help of his Dad. Here are a couple pics, one of the store front...
View of main street Syracuse from the shop front. Main street is all cobblestone.
I too just went back and read your post peg... seen alot worse on here before, I sure hope those posts were also warned! lol!
Okay, I gave up on potting the brugs.... just stuck them in the planter that lines my freeway wall :(
now, if they would just grow 30' tall and hide that ugly wall.... oh well!
My concern is, the wall absorbs heat all day (cement block) sun goes behind the wall pretty early in the day, so the bed itself is shaded... I'm just hoping the heat radiating off the wall doesnt destroy these babies... they are the brugs I grew from seed that Beckygardener gave me.I guess I'll just have to watch them closely for a while.
Keep your fingers crossed for me!
I’m off to the zzzzzzzzzzzz’s too. I try and lurk in from work but I keep getting interrupted, phones ringing and people at my desk wanting things. Yeesh!
Yeah me too Joyce, workin for da man....lol. Not anymore! Phyllis, I grow Dats here every year and how big they are depends on which ones you are growing. The white ones single are sprawly and shorter about 2-3 feet here. The double purples are 5 foot here and straight up and I love those. Never grew the yellow. Start the seed in the spring and grow them in the ground they grow fast. The whites reseed themselves every year. You could grow them in pots to alot of people do.
Hey Joyce! Yes, it is a special relationship, I could feel the change in her and Drew could too. He wanted to have more time with her, she didn't have time to unwind and feel her personal self, know what I mean? They are young. It felt like she was kidnapped away from us. We left Columbia Sat around noon and by 11 p.m. she was back in the army in VA. We thought we'd have her for a couple days, so Drew just wasn't prepared, neither was I when they told me "NO WAY" and looked at me like I was a crazy mother! ... but enough army talk, don't want to get "off topic" ;) I think I have a tall gizzard plant, too... shall we pinch? Okay, I'm outta here.
Hmmm profanity for saying hot? I think that must be some kind of auto generated thingy built in to the program. I loved all the plant pics, I did read every ones post. Figures the one day I am away allllllll day there are like fifty posts to the thread. lol
Those wicked stickers we call goathead stickers. They are horrible.
Wow looking good Louise!!! Got my fingers and toes crossed Anjl : ) Sounds like you ladies need to pinch your gizzards lol!!
Nighty nite sleepy heads..... last pic of the night...think I can squeeze one more plant in???? ha ha ha.
oh Kim I just loveeeeeeeeeee that! Beautiful! I am going to be up a while. Passed a yard today that had apricots with a free sign in a huge box. So I had my hubby pull over and get them. It weighs like 20 pounds. Gonna go make jam and butter and freeze some for tarts. I brake for fruit and plants!
Mmmmm!sounds yummy. I 'm up baking cookies...banana pudding..peach cobbler brownies and need make a frosting pic of a house but the colors just won't come out right sheeesh!!
Donna. I am feeling better. Dr told me to take it easy. He set me up with a cardiologist for next month.
Phyllis, I would love to have some purple! Mine are pretty, but that purple is beautiful!
More chatty Cathies tonight.. but I love it...LOL
Sooo.. are we NOT to say HOT anymore.... we are doomed on this thread!!.. No I think I "might" see where they are coming from.. and YES I have seen worse, and hope they got a dmail too!! They just don't know Peg.. or they wouldn't have thought a thing about it...
Ya know... sometimes IF I have pockets when I go to Lowes.. I come out of there with lil plants.. I don't know HOW they got there...LOL Sounds like we are Hottie Sis's in more ways than one??!!
Why are ya'll talking about all these goodies.. I wasn't hungry until ya'll are making me get up and get something to munch on... well I have to blame it on someone.. Does sound good though!!
Louise.. your shop is going to be the talk of the town!! Just LUV it!!I am soo happy for you!!
Kim .. you have the prettiest flowers... and they are sooo green!!.. do you fertilize alot??
Phyllis.. I started dats and I had a heating pad turned on low and top lights. I heard about the heating pad on one of the threads... anyway.. I started with soaking the seeds overnight with a lil peroxide in the water.. then I waited for 2 MONTHS!!!! They finally came up, but only about 1/2. Some say theirs come up real fast, so I imagine it depends on the age of the seed... BUT... get this... I gave every one away!! can't believe I did that..LOL.. but I got 2 at the last RU.. so maybe I will see blooms before frost
Joyce.. I like lots of the natives.. they are hardy, and grow with lil care.. I bet you have a ball with your MG friends... I would love to sit and talk with a MG for awhile and pick their brain...LOL
My baby
She's the nekid one in the square bucket!
Hey Becky! I only show the pretty pics ; } i got me some nekid babies too lol! I feed the brugs a lot and I spray the whole garden with "the recipe" and fish emulsion and seaweed alternately every other day.
lol Becky @ lowes um cutting giveaway! :oD
I thought I was bad! i only take the lil plastic um markers out of the pots...so I can ID the plants I already have at home! lol!
its not my fault the ones I bought didnt have the marker with all that handy 'how to care for' info on them! lolol!
LMBO!!!
Kim... OK.. I think now I am understanding.... I better go ahead and buy kenboys stuff for thr recipe.. It must really work... fish emulsion I know does, but I am out.. along with Bloom Booster... your plants are gorgeous!! I think I told you before.. but that is the look I want... BAD!! Do you use a regular sprayer.. or the hose end kind like Miracle Gro has?
Audrey.. glad you are feeling better.. I asked on the mixed seed thread too..lol... what is that nekid child?? HUH???? is that a froffie.. in there saying welcome?? OHH now he's cute!!
yeah.. that purple .. I "think" is what I gave away..LOL Ain't it gorgeous too??
justa cheep ole hose end sprayer : 0) I got the idea from ZZ to put the fish oil in the sprayer when she said she had so many buds!!!
Audrey listen to the doc!!
TY Kim.. I'll buy one of those tomorrow too... I have been putting off going to town.. but I have to go see my Momma... I am missing her.. and she still doesn't feel well. They found she still has that infection.. so that is why her back has STILL been hurting... why can't they ever DO anything right the 1st time at these blankety NH!!!.. ANYWAY..LOL didn't mean to go into all that..
OH.... and I usually try to remember to wear something that has BIIIIGGGGG pockets.. when I go to Lowes...LOL
When your mom sees you she will feel a little better : ) Then you light a fire under them @#%%^ at the NH!!!
a snip here and there encourages vigor in a plant ; }...Lowes should thank us!
I'm signing off.... nite all zzzzzzzzzzzz......
Wed my sis and I went shopping and when I came home and changed into jammies, I had seeds in my pockets! lol
lol, that happens to me when I go visit the historic farm/gardens near my home :oD
come home with some nice cuttings too lol!
LOL! My nekid babt was a gift and it was shipped like that! She didn't wilt one bit, and I think she has several "Y"s. Maybe I'll get blooms! She's "Puppy Love".
My DSD and Her DH went to an estate sale and came home with Astilbe Plants....
Said they were growing behind the bushes and no one would miss them.....
So now I have a Pink Astilbe...LOL
lol. I got my purple perilla when my hubby and I went to an estate sale. She had this perilla growing all around her stone cottage style house and it was jaw dropping lovely. I had never seen perilla (nor known of it's reseeding ability) and asked if I could take some cuttings since I knew it was in the mint family because of it's square stems. I now have lots of perilla all from those original two cuttings, and have given away alot of plants every spring as well. Right now I collected some tropical seeds from Lowes. Duranta with a lovely white edged purple flower.
Morning!!! Aren't we a buch of collectors ; }
Good morning Hotties, it is Friday so everyone have a great day!
Louise, congrats on your shop, it really looks great and wish you the best. So, can you book Copo for later on today??? He needs his nails trimmed, lol!
Good morning everyone. Supposed to be a decent day here and I'm off work so am planning on getting a few things done outside.
AuntB, did I miss something about alliums? You don't have to dig them up in this area do you?? Hope not as I am planning on ordering some this fall.
Mornin Hotties....
Yeah.. looks like we know "how" to get seeds.. cuttings etc...LOL
Phyllis... I really laughed at how you aquired the astible..LOL
Clemie... my 2 need their nails clipped real bad too.. sometimes we try to do it.. but my Pom has my # and throws a lil fit..like I am killing her..lol.. yep wish Louise lived closer.. I know I would get special treatment!!
Louise.. are all square stems of the mint family?? You are soo smart!!
Kim.. off in a lil bit to get my goodies and see Momma.. and I'll be sure to have BBIIIGGGGGGGGGGG pockets..LOL
cat... just don't get too hot.. we don't need another heat stroke!!
TTYL!!
My goodness, it must be Friday night out for everyone... out in the garden that is. As I soon as I got off work I headed out and now need a shower real bad. Whew, it's muggy.
I received the most delightful package from one of the hosta people in New York today. Bless her heart, she sent me one hosta she had raised from seed, I know that one was coming, but she added another hosta and 15 different packages of seeds off of her own plants. Columbine, digitalis, bleeding heart, penstomen, rudebeckia, celosia (the big cockscomb type) and others I still have to look up. I'm really having fun planning on where to put all of this.
I also went to Lowe's, just for potting soil, mind you, and sigh, came out with two new planters and a "Purple Lady Iresine." Now I get home and I cannot find this anywhere, so I'm not sure what I bought, but it was half price. :))
Any one have any ideas on what this is? Peg
Whoo hoo! Hostas and seeds how nice : ) I have been collecting seed from a 4 o'clock plant that I guess a bird planted ; } They smell sooo good a pretty crimson color. Dunno what your pretty plant is Peg.... Muggy here too. How is your Mom Becky?
I want some of that pretty lily!
Meg, hosta lover, well you can get some of my nice stuff in the spring or fall. I have the huge ones, so beautiful.
We are getting hit hard by storms tonight,and so we were last night too. My poor pooch is hiding, who knows where, I am hoping for good weather tomorrow so I can go to sunny place, where all of my blooms are including brugs and the cereus, She better not bloom tonight, grrrrrrrrrrrr.
Anyway, wishing everyone a Happy happy hour Friday Night!
Love to all,
Clemen
Remind me to dig it in the fall!! Oh poor Copo : ( Clemen you must get a nanny cam for the blooms when you are away!!!