Shes about to....#44

I have a sis in law who doesn't care about flowers.. I am in charge of her landscaping this year, and I know I will have to "watch over" everything I put in.... Happ.. I have to work saturdays now that they have laid off the extra help at my dealership in wichita.. I work at scholfield honda and they have been laying off people from every department.. I keep waiting for the moment when I get that page "Debra Carson to _____'s office please" I have four bosses, can't wait to see which one gives me the flying papers.... they all four love me to death.. it must be hard for them to lay people off..
my son lost his job monday.. aircraft.. i hate it.

Debra, I am so sorry you are having so many uncertain things in your life just now. I know how it is and it too shall pass, but, in the meantime it is very stressful to live day to day. I used to tell myself to live one day at a time. I used to make a list of the good things that happened and a list of the bad things. (this was when my son has hodgkins disease and every day was scary) . It makes you feel really good when the good list is longer than the bad list. That is how I got thru many of my bad times.Just a suggestion.

What is that beautiful flower in the picture. I would love to have one of those. Hugs and Prayers. JB

Debrba, sorry to hear so many are losing jobs, Seems like it is that way all over the place.
I agree, I need tio know what that flower is please?

LK

Glad you still have a job but very disappointed you won't be able to go.
I have lots of daylilies and lilies to take to the ru.
I have 2 brugs in bloom, sooo beautiful but I can't stay in the garden room in the evening because it is just overwhelming with the sweet scent! I wanted to get things out of the greenhouse but it is dropping down in the 40's again. Besides I spent the day weeding weeding and then went and bought 20 bags of mulch!

JB, nothing puts our lives back in order than to hear about problems with health and especially the health of our children.

2 days without rain, that is a record for us....LOL Weeds are easy to pull.....

Gotta go get stuff ready for work tomorrow!

Happ, I still ma go, just get out a little late is all/ that is my new desert rose.. she looks like a lady in charge of her flowers..

I finally got to play outside for a while today.. hubby pulled weeds, I planted seeds everywhere, and potted up some babies in waiting.. caught a shot of the little critter that Duke has been sniffing and yelping about ..Duke is my 14 yr old beagle

egads the little black ants are everywhere down here.. yikes! *sigh* I created a chocolate mg LOL out of my backyard clay...it made me feel good to mould a bloom from earth.. but I have about 3000 plus different kinds of seeds planted everywhere.. not to mention the prenniels that came back this year

You can have that little critter, but the flower is so pretty!
Did you use a morning glory to mold it, or are you just super talented and made it by hand?

You should do some in the clay, you have to bake in the oven, those would be nice!

Good night

LK

3000 plus seeds! OMG, your garden must be beautiful. Only seed I have planted is red cypress vine and some chocolate cherry size tomato plants. Have lots of seeds just didn't get them started......
Looks like temps lows are suppose to stay in the 50's. Going to start unloading the garden room.

Got home from home depot last night with mulch to find all kinds of friends at my house that stopped by....the gardens are a mes and the watergarden is green. The garden room I have been potting up things and potting soil, pots, and plants are everywhere! Course DH told them to go ahead and walk around.....oh well.

I am now looking for some nice old fashion bearded Iris. Any suggestions?
I love that Desert Rose Debra. Very nice and different. How do you propogate that?

Finally got DH out in the back yard for a while to move some of his "junk". Now I can get to the weeds easier. Want to put an iron twin headboard at one end of my raised bed as soon as DH gets the screening put up the way he wants to, so that means it may be a while. Also talked about putting up a drip system for me, but still waiting on that. Has all these great plans, but nothing happens. Still haven't repotted some of my brugs and I better get that done soon.

High unemployment here too, and stores closing down all over. Really is scary out there now. At least we have the beautiful flowers to help brighten our days.

Hello everyone, have been lurking for a while and have read funnies, seen beauties of different kinds, said prayers for the sick and unemployed, and really enjoyed your posts. I still have a few Brugs that I have to do something with. No where else to plant them in the ground.
Debra, it was your chocolate mg that got me out. I love it and wish I could do something like that. Will you do anything else to it? To me it is perfect just like it is.
Love to all Faye

Hi all, just got in from the soggy back yard.. that mg out of clay was hand formed in about five minutes by my hands.. I used to be an artist.. back in the day.. anyways, good to see you all.. I have no clue about the desert rose, but what I have read up on it, it gives seeds, and they form the cauldex, cuttings just give roots and flowers .... I have three pods, will share the seeds as they go, she is my idea of a plant goddess holding up the earth..LOL.. no.. I am not drunk.. *sigh* they let another gal go today.. I am off work tommorrow, was going to go in, but since they insist on me working saturdays, I am taking the day off no matter how much rain there is, I have put together about 26 baskets so far full of baby plants and seeds.. getting ready for the Farm andArt market in june my daughter and Tropicman and I are going to have a booth.. I have run out of markers, so now I am cutting up plastic lid tops and marking them with water proof paint pens.. I bought about 35 baskets at a dav for 15 dollars.. all really nice, I have the roll of clear floral paper to line with and have been making muddy messes everywhere tonight.. poor Joe.. Faye, I have some of my brugs in hanging baskets, they seem to like it there.. here is alex.. he was such a tiny thing when I got him..

pink beauty from a stubble..

here is the south fence.. I dug for an hour today to extend the trench away from the house.. tired of the water down here.. this is the south east corner of the south side fence, I always plant vines to cover up the view of the neighbors back yard.. it is full of junk..

going west continued south fence garden

I love woodland violets.. so does my dh.. anyways still going west on the south side.. where I dug tonight..sweet autumn is in there along with john clayton lonicera, and the bridal wreath shrubs of theirs..that puff of flowers is anchusa.. pretty blue forgetmenots..

still going west, and still have to dig.. ugh..you can see the virgina blue bells like it there along the fence.. this is where I get the clay out and put in my soil mix of coffee grounds, sand and top soil and compost from old leaves the winter past..

still going west on the south fence, this is where the plumbago usually is, but I have it in pots now, the baptisia is up strong.. lots of asters, monardas, violets, zinnia babies, coreopsis, amaranthus, ceosia, and milkweed here..

still going west on the south fence down the to the corner of the west fence garden I put in.. that is where my roses and monardas and cones and daiseys, , salvias, liatris, celosia and carnations are up I have worked three years on that grass. by hand even, we had the whole area dug up to the fence for a sewer line about 6 years ago.. . so I put in the back corner first, still a project for sure.. ( it is a big yard) last year I had mgs and cardinal vines and sweet peas and chinese bean hiyacynth growing all along the length of that fence on the shrubs and up into the trees even..

now to the other side of the yard LOL see that fence? that ugly wooden fence?? the new kids to the north put that up, now I can't see the cute old shed behind it.. they took out the old railing and lantern on the other side of our fence too.. bah! the dog run is now a tomatoe and pepper patch.. he hasn't been in there for about three years now, except when we are mowing.. then he cowers in his igloo.. poor old Duke... the squirrels stayed out of the pear tree last year with the new feeder up there, I don't dare miss a meal for them..

and Joe, my darling DH, diggin weeds in the mud.. ( his patch of potatoes and beans)

Nice yard Debra! Mine is so very small compared to yours, but if mine was bigger I think DH would have more junk in it. Sun is out so time I get out there and check out the plants. I don't see any plants poking their heads out yet in my sink, patience is not one of my things. I started some jelly bean (grape) tomato seeds and I think they are ready for a bigger home. Going to put them in garden today and hope I don't lose them.

Wow, that's a lot of fence Debra. Gives much needed space for planting. I hyave many Brugs is big flower pots...They have been planted at least three times already going to bigger pots. Sure hope to see blooms after all this potting soil, bug spray and flower pot expense.
Wishing you all a great day.
Where is AuntB.?

Mornin Pegi and Faye, I think Bonnie is busy doing things.. Pegi, I would let the tomatoes get about four inches tall before re-planting if they aren't already.. mine from winter sown are about 5 inches tall now and just now putting into big pots.. I am sure there are tomatoe seeds in the mix I sent out to everyone so be aware...LOL most of those seeds will take some time to germinate, so be patient.. mine are just now up outside ( seeds I threw down).. rainng here again ugh!

Guess I won't be planting tomatoes today, will have to grow some more. Checked my sink earlier and I see a few green heads starting to poke through the soil. Wish you could direct some of your rain our way. I just threw some seeds into the sink, covered with a little soil and watered. I do hope I get some pretty blooms. I'm going to try growing gourds again, my fun thing to do. I put some seeds in a peat cup and I notice some are starting to sprout. Didn't have any luck last year, lots of vines but nothing else. My weeds grow so well in very dry soil. LOL

When Bonnie makes her appearance here I hope she fills us in on all she has been doing.

Debra, you have a really pretty garden. Love the gardens in the spring, everything coming up.
I have 3 acres where the house sits. It would be nice to have a fence as a divider of some kind or something. I would love growing things on it. I have started trying a few big grasses to try and stop some of the wind that blows around. There is just farm land around me so there isn't any wind blocks.

This year there are no new projects for me....(I shouldn't put that in writing) just finishing and cleaning up the ones left from last year.....and the year before....and.....LOL

Happ, you need some nice shrubs for wind block.. like lilac, rose of sharon etc etc.. I have some seeds and cuttings for you when we meet up.. I still plan on going to RU if you don't mind going late..

Hey Debra, you sent me a bunch of seeds, and I just dumped them in this bed, can you tell me what some of these are please? One with the big leaves, looks like it is going to be a vine or climber of some kind?
LK

JB, I have a purple and a yellow iris I dug up from an old deserted farm house about 15 or 20 years ago. They are bound to be old. I am sure the farm house had been empty long before that..... I would be willing to share if you want some. They don't have huge heads like the hybrids but when we had a cold snap one year they are the only ones that bloomed. The house had been empty for years.

Debra, went by your exit today....saw Derby sign. We stopped in Wichita for meetings and now we are in Tulsa. Meetings in the am and then on to OKCity, meetings Friday and then fly out Friday at 2:45.

What time do you want to go to the ru? I would be interested in going late.

Wish I was out planting like the rest of you. Hate being in a motel room when the weather is nice. Went for a long walk. I don't have a car so I went exploring, no plants around....LOL

Hey tatters I scattered a lot of seeds sent by Debra in my sink and I see some little greenies coming up. Well, I can only identify one plant and that is a morning glory. They can become invasive here and I had so many from a couple seeds dropped by the birds. They were destroying my baby tear so I pull them out. Have to make sure I plant them in an area all by themselves. You got an earlier start than I did. I'm going to be so surprised to find out what I have. Still have more seeds so will get another spot ready for them.

LindaKay, so far I see.. chinese bean hiyacynth, scarlett o hara mg, heavenly blue mg, marigold, zinnia.. and a celosia.... oh! a cardinal vine!

let them get a little bigger, try to transplant the chinese bean to a spot that everyone can see it climb.. the other vines I would give them a trellis and pick the pods off as they form if you don't want any rogues..I had 6 kinds of marigolds and about 17 kinds of zinnias.. i also see a dahalia there so be careful when you transplant if you are going to..

Oh my. There is a chain link fence about a foot behind the plants, so I will keep an eye on them and train them to it!
Thanks for the info!

LK

Where is everyone? Out gardening I bet. My biggest brug has some buds on it again, it is the double pink one. My NOID never did Y yet so I'm being patient on that. Smaller ones I rooted are doing OK, but I think they need bigger homes. Waiting and waiting and waiting for the promised sun screening over the garden to be put up permanently. I guess I will have to get out and help DH paint the boards he plans on putting up. Giving them a primer coat of paint then he wants to paint them brown, I'm opting for a lighter color so see who wins out.

I spent yesterday mixing and dispensing 140 gallons of miracle grow fertilizer to everything in my garden.. one big 20 gallon tub mixing and one 1/2 gallon pouring at a time yesterday.. in other words.. yes.. out in the garden.

... and everyone else?

I had to work Saturday ( thank goodness) and sunday was raining.. but DH bbq'd me a huge tbone... then we went over to Paulines' I had to work today as well, then came home and clipped the edges of the flower bed with the scizzors by hand since DH mowed ( before the rain tonight) ..

Sounds like everyone is very busy in the garden! Wow, 140 gallons of miracle grow! You go girl!!!

Hope you all had a wonderful Mothers Day?

LK

My mother and I take turns each year buying one of those BIG boxes at Sams Club of miracle grow that has about 12 or 14 packages inside and we share it.. it was her turn this year! That way we never run out and never think.. maybe I shouldn't use it this time. At this moment I know everything has been fertilized for now.

I like Miracle Grow the only thing I wouldn't use it on is iris. I had a problem with iris getting musshy and I took one of them to the iris farm near me and he asked if I used miracle grow, told him not on the iris, and he said that is the only thing he had seen that would cause the iris to get soft. Later I thought about it and I didn't use Miracle grow on the iris but I did use it on the whiskey barrell they they surrounded. As soon as I stopped using it on the barrel the iris got better.

Worked until 10 tonight and now I can't get unwired. Need to be up by 4:30, guess I had better go to bed.

Goodnight everyone