David, I would like to have a turks cap also, if they come back every year. And they are good for the hummers!!!
Thanks, and see you at the round up.
Linda Kay
ET Fall RU 10-11-08 Trade List Pt. 2
Hello everyone...back from Ennis..LOL No bad weather here either, but at least I was with my Momma.. that is what counts! I packed the house FULL with plants and outside furniture.. so looks like I have my own :"clean up" to do!
Glad your back missed ya
I'm so glad everyone is okay. We have gotten a continual misty rain but no more wind than usual.
David, May I have a variegated Turk's Cap? Didn't know there was such a thing, so I'm excited. Pam
David I would like a Turk's Cap please if you have enough...Are they hardy for you? I looked them up on some website that said hardy to zone 7 so I guess so...
When I root things, I usually try to do a flat at a time so plenty of the Turk's cap. The only problem with the Var. one is they will revert back to the solid green for some reason. I have taken cuttings, even from roots but they seem to be putting out green. They will freeze down each winter but return from the roots. The pink does not seem to be as hardy as the red.
I can bring some annuals if folks are interested. Oct. is late but you might get a few weeks out of them. Angelonea (?), caladiums and things like that. I will try to get my list posted soon.
DD
Hey, David, you know, last year I found a pink (true pink, not lavender) angelonia at the nursery, and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find it again this year. So I overwintered cuttings in a sunny window. This year they are the biggest angelonias I have. Just thought I'd menton that so folks might get more than a few weeks out of them.
Some of the angelonias look pinkish and others more lavener. They came from the same batch of plants. They do seem to root easily but I never over winter since I have too many tropical for the GH now. I am thinking of enlargeing it before winter. I can bring a flat if anyone is interested.
D
i bought a pot of angelonias from Wally world last year. they were in a the same pot over winter and actually came back and were gorgeous all summer! i was really suprised. still going strong.
tracie
My black prince angelonia's are still alive from september - they bloomed 3x - a couple are still at it
I was thinking that I had bought 2 from Walmart, and was under the impression they were perenial.. glad you said yours came back Tracie! Mine are also the pink.. and haven't quit blooming all summer either
They are perennials in some zones. My cousin grows them as perennials in Houston.
Depends on the winter, of course. My angelonias didn't make it through last winter here in 8a. But all of my petunias and wax begonias did. First time that's ever happened.
yeah.. I even had impatients that never died all the way back last winter.. that shocked me!!..lol. I have heard that we should expect a hard winter this year.. I sure hope we don't !
what a hard winter? what does that mean?
SNOW?????
Oh that would be neat and I'll be out driven while everyone else stays home ...hehehehehe
Phyllis I'm sure you have discovered that our "hard" winters and nothing compared to what you are used to from Illinois, LOL! My girls never saw snow until they were teenagers!
hard winter = freeze before Christmas
very true Karen
thanks Pat that gives me more of an idea of what to expect
I am still picking up on what is meant by certain phrases when it comes to the weather and gardening here :-)
Phyllis, you don't want to be out on the roads driving in the snow in Texas. You may know how to drive in it, but most true texans DON'T know how to.... So you have to watch out for the other person driving!!!
We don't even have salt or sand trucks, much less a snow plow! If we get 1 inch of snow here, everyting closes down. Schools, business, the base!
P.S.
I will have a bunch of coleus with me at the round up, so if anyone wants some, just look me up, and take some. I don't know any of the names, but they are just growing out of my big tub, and I won't have any place to winter them!
Linda Kay
Mornin!!
I can't remember any "shut downs", cause IF it snows here ,it's more like a dusting and not true snow. BUT we get ice.. and that is the spooky thing to drive in! I won't drive in it either..lol.. growing up in Houston, I saw 2 "snows" in the 26 yrs before I moved to TN.
Ty Linda Kay... I know Patty and Patricia and I will be interested in the coleus.. BUT.. I am going to have to sweet talk Lyle to built a greenhouse.... Just the "mess" I brought in when we left for the "hurricane" was enough to make me realize I do NOT have room in here...hehehe
Linda Kay, I'll "need" a cutting of each coleus that I don't already have, of course. My little greenhouse was very crowded last winter, but I can squeeze in a few more small pots of coleus.
I'm from upstate NY - Syracuse area - so I know all about snow, ice, and driving in them - and I don't hate those as much as shoveling and walking in boots that get soggy from melting snow - The last 2 yrs we were there we averaged 6" a day between Nov 10 and April 15 - I think the schools were closed just one day
Got ya down for the coleus patrob.
Linda Kay
I know LOL but I'll have to go into town just to sit someplace and watch it all
just to see the site of those on the road.
I know right at the beginning of spring break last year we had "snow" but it only lasted as long as it came down and was gone by noon...I"m so glad we moved here and didn't stay up North as they broke the snow fall record this last winter up there.
now since I have ya here reading this LOL someone tell me how to get a little snake out of my pond...I went to feed my 2 koi this morning and there was this lil head stickin up by the basket Sheila gave me ...I think it is a small snake as I noticed a lil flickering in and out of its head but it went back under water before I could get anything to get it out with
You have a gun??? LOL
Don't know much about getting snakes out of ponds? Do you have animal control there?
lol yeah we do have a gun not sure on animal control and not sure if we do if they would take care of it
We had a case here where a snake was spotted in a bird feeder by a neighbor (the home owner was away) and the police came and shot the Black snake out of the feeder, it took them 2 shot to hit the snake..............well the 1st shot went somewhere. A 5 year old little boy fishing with his grandpa and little brother was killed by that 1st shot. Please when shooting make sure there is no way a stray bullet can hurt anyone. These were Police that did this, they should have known better. This was in a rural residential area.
Oh no. How sad is that? I hope the parents took action against the police department?
Linda Kay
yes they did but small town politics. The officers at the scene were fired, but the commander that gave the order to shoot was not. It was a very nasty political thing. They now have a water park named after this little boy, actually if you want to google it this happened in Noble Oklahoma.
That is so sad - I'm sure they thought they were being careful - but stray bullets ricochete - not safe to fire anywhere near where someone could be - they should have known that -
Mibus - where you from up north?
I moved down here from Belvidere Illinois but grew up in Urbana Illinois..home of the fighting Illini
Have some good friends that live in Jay New York and Love Lake Placid area and Burlington Vermont LOL
AND you have a good friend that lives in Colmesneil,TX TOO..LOL
ROFLMAO yes dear that I do
We had the same thing happen when we lived in San Antonio. Some idiot shot a gun up into the air and it killed a woman a couple blocks away. WE live in the country, but there are still lots of houses around, and someone is always target practicing out here, same thing is gonna happen .
Phyllis has a good friend in Frankston too ☺
Ok I get it LOL to cover the bases so no one is left out...I consider everyone on DG special it is my home away from home ...so it's family :-)
HAHA, isn't it nice to be loved??
All this talk about Texans not knowing how to drive... LOL. Reminds me of a story.
Years ago I worked at a place where a lot of the management (which I wasn't) were from up north (Illinois to be specific). Day came that we had an ice storm. Nobody around here had 4-wheel drive back then, and all the exit/entrance ramps were unpassable. Schools and everything else closed. But where EYE worked, the word came out that we all had to be at work anyway. So, we all went in at the usual time. Were any of the management folks there? Nope. They all strolled in about 11:00. Then they all exclaimed how it was suicide to get out there with all those Dallas people who didn't know how to drive on ice. Um... hello? We Dallas natives were here at the proper time. How did it happen that we managed to do that, but you didn't?
:)
Course, I can't speak for those HOUSTON drivers. (LMAO)
LOL Pattie.. yeah I hate to go to Houston these days.. they are nuts the way they drive down there!!
Well you know how it is..lol they were "management" and they could get away with it!!
ROFLMAO well they must have been some real chickens then cause if you have to be to work and there is ice or snow you leave earlier to allow for extra time...I never said all northerners were smart LOL
I know I always hated the first snow of the winter as it was like people had to learn all over how to drive in it ..some drove soo slow and others went way to fast and both were a hazard for me as bus driver and I don't think I said anything about Texans not knowing how to drive just want to see the snow and people drive in it LOL
Oh then pray for me the 31st of October as we are going to a wedding down town at the Marriott on the galleria nov. 1st and come home sunday ...LOL