Critter, I don't recall swatting at a single, solitary skeeter in your garden while DH and I moused around in your garden - we enjoyed that visit with you so much (among all the others).
Maybe it was all those flames I snorted when I absent-mindedly chomped into the Supernova Pepper that you handed me that kept the skeeters away? LOLOLOL! To anyone reading this, take note of what Critter did to avoid getting singed by my breath: we all made a very hasty beeline to her refrigerator (with me watering any plants on the way with my tears) where thankfully she had some cold milk - Oh! wut a relief - the milk quite saved the day.
Critter had no idea I was going to take a chomp, but I was mentally glorying in a musing sort of way in the beauty of her garden all around us as the sun was setting and did not hear her explain that that pepper was !HOT!
Jill, I hope you don't mind my sharing this tale; you certainly were not responsible in any way for the way my mind travels. I just couldn't resist playing with the skeeter/snorting fire image that occurred to me.
Thank you for offering the Obedient Plant. There are so many plants I love and admire, but I don't have room for them all, so let me decline your generous offer. I have a garden where it's mostly perennials, but what with the way the sun/shade drags plants down the sloping hill, I have to be very tricky about managing *how* things flop - that many of them *will* flop, is a given. If the Obedient Plant had a better flop about it, I'd try it again, but it's been banished for better floppers - lol.
While I'm on the subject of floppers and shade, one thing that works for me is to cut back would-be floppers in late May or early June. The resulting plant is shorter, but stockier and more branched - and! the bloom is delayed so that all the flowering is not over by the middle of July. I like the effect of something always coming along and about to bloom right up to frost. This is why Darwin's Lobelia siphilitica has replaced the Physostegia (Obedient Plant) - it's also great that furry critters seem to leave this lobelia alone, too.
Cottage Garden Seed Swap & Chat #15
Thanks, Karen. I'm kinda excited. It's been a long time since I held a baby. I hope all my instincts are still there. lol I'm also getting nervous, my DD has never been in any kind of pain before, and I can't hardly stand the thought of her in any kind of pain. I'll probably be having labor pains long before she will. I'm already feeling sick. lol
~Lucy
Lucy, I'm no expert on child birth, but am very much hoping that all goes well for your daughter and grandbaby. Sounds like this is going to be one much-loved child :)
Blue, that's fine... I'm just hoping somebody will take some of it off my hands, as I hate the idea of just pulling and composting it. Maybe I'll try offering the obedient plant on the marketplace or elsewhere next year... I was out of town a lot this spring/summer, and it got too tall to ship easily. I did get rid of a couple of potted ones on Saturday.
Lucy, how exciting! I doubt you've forgotten how to hold a baby, LOL. I'm sure grandbabies are doubly precious, because you'll have all your daughter's joy as well as your own.
Jill -- i must have missed the post on the Obedient Plant ... are you offering seeds, or a plant??
and what zone are they hardy too? [ i have yet to fully research them as i just found out what they are.]
Terese
I'll show (Ya'll) a lil picture when he gets here. Suppose to be here around the 12th of Oct, if all goes well. I think his name will be Brady. That's not in stone yet, tho.
~Lucy
Ladies -- this thread is HUGE.... moving to #16
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/905956/
I've got way too many plants in my "clump" of Obedient plant (Physostegia)... it's spread to more than 6 feet in all directions! I tried collecting seeds last year but found that some little bug got to most of them... haven't checked yet this year (they're still blooming but may have started forming some seeds also), but I suspect it may be the same thing with the bugs. Hopefully I'll be able to do more plant swaps next spring, and I'll sure have plenty of these to go around!
PF entry for Obedient Plant: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/23/