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Debstr's posts about: blueberries
Mar 29, 2008 | 5:41 PM PST
Tags: blueberries , dried flowers , autumn joy sedum , ferns
Spring break seemed to rule this month - it seems every school in the world has spring break on a different week! So my days were turned upside down to say the least ... I have to admit "my schedule" was disturbed lol Thank goodness I only have 2 teens to juggle. I did receive my Blueberries yesterday ...
I was wondering how in the world they were going to ship them and they did do a great job - all intact and neat. I already have 2 other types of blueberry plants that I recently purchased so once I plant them out and they get themselves all established, I should have a Blueberry Patch to sing about!
Check this out ..... Dried flowers from my own yard - how easy. I did read a few articles about just looking around in your own yard or area for what nature brings and I sure found just that - can't wait to get down south and scope it out!
This is Autumn Joy Sedum and then some ferns to follow (remember my new interest ... dried flowers)
And this............dried grass, how obvious - something I have looked at for years but never realized what a fantastic dried planting it is!
and... of course, there is always one that baffles me. This last one seems to fly into the yard every year from a neighboring yard - not sure who, but it appears! Seems like a great dried flower - no clue what it is though!
Mar 3, 2008 | 5:47 PM PST
Tags: blueberries , lavender
Looks like the blogs are buzzin' - hard to keep up after being gone for a bit! Can you imagine how crazy we will be in the summer when we are out gardening for real (well, some of you lucky folks are already gardening in the warmer states) BUT not me, so I will share my latest cool learning experiences......first of all I had TWO blooms the day I left! The blueberry plants were flowering and I had my first ever lavender buds! Let me show ya ...
kinda fuzzy but you see the flowers - thing is, I read that I should cut off these blueberry flowers since this is the first year and that will help the root system develop stronger - so I may do that tomorrow, unless someone has other advice?? Now my FIRST ever lavender buds which will go down in history for me at least LOL
Ok ... so on our trip this time we transplanted several pine trees that were over in never never land and I figured I would bring them over to grow nice and strong and be close to where I want to plant the blueberries.... acid soil - which by the way, I did a soil test while I was down there and am kinda stumped, but back to the pine trees ..
Here's one of the guys we transplanted and GET THIS... the next day "someone" had him totally dug up! SO this tells me once again that I can NOT garden down here until we are there fulltime BUT...we were there LOL hm..go figure We planted him back in the hole and told him to be strong. One last picture I need to share -
I added the words but this is in Illinois at the crossroads of Rt 57 & 70 that we pass every time we go to our other place - this cross is HUGE, actually 198 feet and it does catch your eye. It's our last hour of a 5 hour trip and wakes ya up LOL It's a cool thing - 50,000 vehicles pass this way Daily and ya can't miss it. Debbie :-)
