Oh, I like that clematis! Very pretty! It really does look good with the white columbines.
Karen
To Chase Away The Winter Blues...3
Nice! Time for bed for me! Nite!
Karen
good night karen
Congratulations on both new arrivals!
Congrats, Celeste, Tiffany and all! Big girl.
today I actually have to go out in this -35 cold to do hot dog lunch for the kids man I hope they appreciate it since I will freeze my but picking up the stuff lol
Congrats on the new babies ^_^
well I made it home by 4pm and it is now 8pm and I am still frozen fingers and toes just getting some feeling back hahahahah and I hear that it is for at least 2 more days
tomorrow I stay home unless the house burns down I am not stepping out hahahahha
This is hydrangea 'Endless Summer'. I took this pic late last summer. Next year will be year three for these. I have two of them. After their first winter here they were looking pretty dead and not showing any signs of life very late in the spring. One I pruned (big mistake) and had to wait until late summer for a couple blooms. The other I left alone even though the branches looked dead and lifeless. That one sprouted leaves shortly after and had many blooms all summer and was of course twice as large. This year neither will get trimmed no matter how dead they look. Lesson learned. :) I will be happy to see them starting to have little green sprouts again.
I have huge white one I only trimmed the dead stuff when it has started growing new leaves and take out the dry cans ealy spring the dry ones are like big straw easy to spot but mine must be many many years old it is about 10 wide so I reach in as far as I can from all sides to get out the dry tubes it got about 80 or more blooms this year with all the rain we got I am wondering are they shorter in full sun mine is in partial shade and it hits about 8 or more feet tall and this spring we have to move it since it is taking over the front door what front door lol by july we couldnt find it anymore hahahha
Beautiful hydrangea, Pat!
Karen
good night all
Thankyou Karen. They are blue to slightly purple throughout most of the summer here. Also have 'Blushing Bride' which is white to slightly tinged with blue. They all bloom on new wood as well as old so even if there is a late freeze they will bloom eventually. I think there are several now that have this ability.
Hi everyone! Finally got around to checking this thread. Celeste and Mona - congratulations on the new babies. Eleanor
the little guy got home to day and is not happy with the new environment screaming hahah oh well the new parents will have to deal its their turn hahahah
Well Mona just tell them they should appreciate that he has such a strong independent outspoken personality already. Ha!
This will be the third year for a lot of things in my garden. Another hydrangea that I am looking forward seeing grow larger is the paniculata hydrangea 'Pinky Winky'. It has already impressed me with its growth and flower power so I am really anxious to see it return bigger and better this year.
I planted so many perennials last year and I think two bloomed I am so wanting for thing to bloom this year it is making nuts oopps that right been there for a while lol or so hubby says hahahah both my sisters help last summer with spliting there perennial for me since I moved to this area a year ago this past fall and they have established gardens and close by it is great to have my sister close by it had been 23 years since we all lived in the same city it has been an adjustment
This is how we chase the winter blues away in New Brunswick! They say winter lobster are best and I can verify that statement.Joy
Since we can't eat lobster all the time these orchids keep the blues away.
You beastie !!!!
how wonderful to eat lobster when you want to.
It sure looks good.
OMG, I've never had lobster in the winter - does it taste different? I'm the only one in the family who likes lobster, even in the summer.
Well, I've heard the one about the months with an R but I think that was for red tide and they meant SeptembeR. I don't really know - when i was a kid I ate what my mother served and when I was the cook my husband (and consequently my kids) didn't like seafood.
We eat the lobster that is in season. .In summer the lobster season is in northern New Brunswick and PEI.At time of year it is off the south shore of Nova Scotia and Grande Manan closer to the open atlantic where the water is much colder.Joy
adedgardener my brother live in fredericton by the river and I was there in august it is beautifull area
I love lobster eat it every chance I get
So Sherrie, you're saying ONLY buy shellfish in months with an R in them? Not the other way around. OK, gotcha, not that I'll be buying any anytime soon.
In the summer people should know to now pick shell fish during june, july, ausgust even in september till the water cools down usually good about the 15 or 20th because it can make you sick as a kid we use to eat them all summer summer long my dad was a fishing and he would get it way out in colder water and that was fine
ohhhh YUM I LOVE lobster.
Not me! Not a seafood person. And lobsters look like big bugs to me. Also, you should not have to assault your food!
I'm pretty much a "food" person, I'll try anything once within reason of course. Haven't found much I really don't like...I do HATE anchovies on pizza though...it's just wrong!
Potential cannibal here!
see food - eat it here
Groooooooan
Oh, I want that Pinky Winky hydrangea. That is just gorgeous.
Sherrie, I have seen that show Deadliest Catch. That's a cool show.
I love anything with lobster and most other shellfish in it. Never did like oysters, though.
Karen
mmmmmmmmm Digby Scallops mmmmmmmm. mmmmmmm Alaska King Crab mmmmmmmm. O course Atlantic lobster is simply to die for. Bring it on baby o baby. I just luv those ocean creatures. I find the raw oyster thing a little ewwwwy though.
cooked or raw - see for eat it............
you guys all need to go to freds restaurant in new brunswick for 24 dollars canadian you get a plater that can fill two people I have never been able to finish one lol amazing stuff lol they put scallop, shrip, clams, fish, lobster, amazing