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I usually advertise on twitter but thought i would let ya'all know i sell greeting cards of flowers in my yard as well as insects, even some birds. Come and peek at the images............
i dont have much in seeds right now, but hope to soon. Gotta go out in the garden and harvest. I live in San Diego and its been over 90 degrees the last few days.......... I also have a book out and published and their are dozens and dozens of images of garden and what you find there. I entitled it "THE EARTH DECLARES" and the earth certainly declares beauty and the like, may us humans see it! it is a coffee table book and i do give free shipping when i ship to the united states. Any questions?? just ask talk to you later NICOLE
I put the greenbeans out the other day. They are doing well. I couldn't keep them in the house any longer, small greenhouse running out of room. Watered well and watched over daily. Making sure they survive the night time weather. Staying in the 50's so they should be ok. The snow peas are starting to bloom, put them out in March. Set up fence for climbing and they caught on to it in a day.
Took a few pictures of my flowers today. The Iris's are beautiful, only a year old. The Day Lilies are almost ready to bloom. Many buds on them this year. They are only 2 years old and doubled in size since I planted them. I am surrounded by Honeysuckle, the scent is in the air and it is wonderful... I can never remember the name of the plants at the front porch, but they are white w/ pink .. Check the pics in a few days after I download. They came in thick after one year. Want to get wild flowers in with the Iris's for next year, hopefully that will get control over the poison ivy I can't seem to get rid of... It is an old fence row for a farm field.. Still have a few of the old wooden fence posts in it. Want to get more of the post to put up a fence behind it, since it is against the road and it isn't quite finished. I need to add a few more flowers and remove a few more weeds... My small rose bush has double in size since last year and now I need to train it to go on the otherside of the mailbox since it is covering up the numbers on the post.. I might move the numbers instead of disturbing the rose bush, it has a bloom on it already... many buds. More than I expected so soon.
Also, the potatoes and onions are growing strong. Saturday is the best for me to tend to everything and pull weeds. Even though this holiday weekend there is alot to do for the picnic Monday...I make all the food and desserts..
My son will be 18 and graduating high school in the next few weeks, decided to make Monday a birthday and graduation party.. More cooking and this time a birthday cake on top of it all. My seven year old girl likes to help in the kitchen, so this will be a breeze..
good night for now,
veggie
All this rain has made the weeds go absolutely crazy. But at least the ground is so wet, they come out pretty easy. So today I've been weeding. I used to love weed flower beds with my mother. She passed away last June, but we would weed her extensive flower beds side by side. You could always tell where she weeded and where I weeded. She grew up on a farm and weeded methodically and neatly. Me, I pull mine out and throw them behind me and then rake them up afterwards. My mom would pull, shake the dirt off, then lay them down in neat little rows, all facing the same direction - so neat and tidy. It used to fascinate me. Her sister, my Aunt Dorothy, would weed the same way, and when we all three would be weeding together, I felt very inferior! LOL!
I also visited Lowes today and bought some perrenials and annuals - some for containers, some for my flower beds and another hibiscus, just because! I really do love hibiscus. I remember living in Puerto Rico and they grew wild everywhere there and bloomed all year long. We had them lining our driveway - I just loved them. I hope tomorrow is nice so I can get some of these things planted!
A special thanks to all of you for your ideas on keeping the kitties at bay when it comes to my porch plants..this time of year they are like Ted Nuggent and get "Cat scratch fever"..lol..got one of them transplanted today..not the cat :) a plant , lol ! I can't believe how much they are growing...I guess I better be scouring the garage sales and flea-markets for some bigger planters...I occasionaly buy a new one at the "flower factory" but I do love a bargin so its hard to buy new..besides, so much more fun to put something back into use ! I really want to make some of the old type of macrame pot holders because I have got a ton of supplies that I got at a garage sale..plus lots of fun little bead animals to thread on it...do any of you know where you can buy those plant hangers...remember the ones that are like a pole with arms on them to hang your plants from..I really want one..h'mm..guess a little research is due. Anyways..thanks again and happy evening and wonderful tomorrow to you !
Well, I guess I need to start drawing up "ark" plans. We folks here in Ohio have certainly seen our fair share..and I see that next week its another wet one ! On the plus side, my garage sale went well and when I was all done I gave all that was left away to one person :) I am so anxious to start my landscape project if it would ever dry up, but I guess God has His own plans, so who am I to question. Maybe this is my que to clean the house :) I had some topsoil brought in and I noticed a pair of little foot prints going across it..funny because its like mud right now..oh did I mention they were little kid foot prints...otherwise meaning that some lucky parent got to scrub shoes when they got home..guess they could not resist ! Oh..while I am thinking about it, do any of you have any hints for keeping cats out of porch plants ? You see my youngest tends to feed every animal that comes into the yard and now we have 4 cats. Three of them are bobtails, all orange, all identically marked. Strange,huh ? The other is gray with an ear missing. One of the orange ones is going to have kittens any day...so that means MORE cats. I'm not sure if someone is droping them off here of if the word is out in cat world...anyways, I want to put my houseplants out on the porch as soon as I am sure its warm enough...BUT...last year cats kept getting into them..any suggestions ?...well , enough for now..have a blessed evening and wonderful tomorrow !
Just moving into a new-to-us house in W. Mass, and dug out 4 old rose bushes (no loss - not a rose-scent admirer) and am looking for input on any newer, even more aromatic variety of Honeysuckle. The old standby "Halls" (white with yellow throat) is my long time favorite for by a kitchen door or near a bedroom window, but am looking for advice of anything even stronger for those warm summer nights when windows are open! I also used to plant evening-scented stock, white alyssum and of course, nicotinia.
Suggestions? Not adverse to drawing butterflies, honeybees, hummingbirds, etc., at the same time~~ Joe
I am so excited that we are going to have one more nice day. I along with my plants are rejoicing in the sun and warmth. It is pure amazement how quickly plants grow with a little of sun.
I guess a little cooler weather and moisture is welcome...only because this weekend I was able to plant some seeds...peas, kolorabi, and squash. They join the parsnips, lettuce, broccoli, garlic, and shallots planted last November. I still need to get in carrots, potatoes and cauliflower. Then when it gets warmer, hot peppers and tomatoes.
After growing up with a garden as a child, it is nice to be able to plant a garden and have my own fresh veggies. I also got the herb garden cleaned out, the rosemary didn't like all the snow that sat on them this winter and they needed some pruning, but I think they should be fine.
Oh the joy of spring...it makes all other worries seem more manageable.
There is always hope in the flowers. So I am trying to grow them in my small yard. Any kind. Randomly. The yard undergoes clearing. Weeds are uprooted and replaced with leafy and flowering ornamentals though a few wilds are “imported” from the nearby wilderness, and “adopted” because I got attracted to their natural beauty. The yard is leveled and made to texture perfectly for its re-invention. Seeds and cuttings are simply covered carefully with ground and some are in bags. There is no landscape design in mind, just the thought of growing flowers. And they are perseveringly watered each day. (It’s hallelujah if it rains!)
My daily watering, tending, waiting, hoping, looking forward to the grand blossoming are indicative of the patience and perseverance that I have easily assimilated into this new passion. It proved to be therapeutic to my usual famished point of view. My yard spelled o-p-t-i-m-i-s-m around it and I found myself to be an avid student paying attention to the insights in the way nature is teaching me. Me, being a novice gardener.
Meanwhile, the weeds, naturally pertinacious as they are, keep on coming back at the first trickle of a shower, be it from my water hose or rain. (A weed defined: an unwanted plant, especially a wild plant, growing where it is not wanted.) The weeds’ insistence made me ponder on this thought: When does a weed become a weed? Only when it becomes unwanted. And they became so because I have come to cultivate the ground. Originally, the ground was their natural habitat, nature put them there. I am invading their territory in the first place. It is me, not nature, that made them unwanted. Thus, amazingly they have nature’s blessing of perpetual survival. I am only capable of controlling their growth.
I like my yard to be an allegory of my life at the moment. It makes me think that as one invents his life here in this world, unavoidably he has to come into some facets of reality. Life without problems is very un-real. Exactly. Problems are part of living-just like the weeds in my garden. Living is invading a problematic life. The subject is always solving problems. But that does not mean you are supposed to be unhappy because it is so. Control the weeds, invent a garden.
Right now I see a promise here and there. A bud. A sprout. Although appearing like having just recovered from a long drought, but the yard’s re-invention is slowly emerging. My personal life is going through the same I guess. And that is how I am getting by in these trying times.
Hi everyone. I'm new to this site. Just figuring it out. I'm crazy about cactus (especially ones with big flowers, or fruit) but I collect every type I can find. I also love weird, twisty, wicked, or rare ones.
I live in a hot , sandy , Central California town called Stevinson, where the heat, and winds, make it hard to grow tender leaf stuff. I have hundreds and hundreds of cactus, succulents, orchid cactus, easter and christmas cactus, agaves, haworthias, kalenchoes, aloes, and the like. Interested in trading with other collectors/fanciers. I hope to start a cactus and rare plant nursery, and botanical gardens on this 14 acres. Always interested in meeting and chatting with others Dawn.
~October 4th, 2008~
I have uploaded new summer garden pictures. They are in the Summer Garden Pictures 2008 photo album. As shown, I had some success with certain seeds and will definitely use them next year. My next post will be a list of successful seeds I used (once I have the chance to get my seed packets out). Having a 22 month old on the verge of turning two has been quite the challenge for keeping up with stuff other than necessities. I will try to keep updating somewhat regularly. Well, I hope at least regularly. So, check out my new photo album!! Enjoy!
~M~
I just moved into this new home which has a wonderful garden in the backyard with loads of container plants, long grasses and a cool lawn. There are also a few neem trees which look cool. The bedroom windows look outside the garden and it is one great sight every time I wake up in the morning. It really livens me up! Of-late I have been thinking of having an indoor garden too and was looking for suggestions from my friends on which plants can be kept indoors. I love shrubs and I had my eyes on a few garden shrubs that I would have loved to grown indoors. But alas many of these shrubs need direct sunlight to grow. Here is what I have in mind right now:
1.) Bizzie Lizzies - I love these flowers and many say they are easy to grow indoors. Will just need to keep pinching out the tips.
2.) Cyclamen - Next on my list are Cyclamen flowers. These flowers are available in a lot of colors and are sure to look great alongside the lizzies.
3.) Dracaenia plants: Dracaenia is third on my list. They will add the much needed green to the interiors.
Do you guys have any other suggestions? I would love to hear about other flowering and non-flowering plants that you think might look great indoors.
I sprinkled some wildflower seeds on the ground on the side of the house under a couple of birch trees that were there when we moved in. The seeds are a few years old, but I'm hoping that some of them will still come up. I think that a bunch of wildflowers will look really pretty under the trees. We have a window right next to our dining table facing the side yard.
With my father-in-law's help we installed a drip system in the garden. I had to move a few plants to make sure they were in a place to get water. I hope they'll be okay.
Still need to take some pictures of the front yard and the garden soon.
I live in Oklahoma and planted Dusty Miller last year in Container Gardens on my front porch. Everything in the containers died due to winter except surprisingly the Dusty Miller lived and is now flowering. My question is should I continue to let them flower or should I cut the flowers off like I do on my cloesis?? Have never had it live thru the winter or flowered before.
Thank You Beaconcall
Hi, my name is Mary, aka Flower-Power. I'm not sure what zone I'm in, however, I do know I'm in the "planting zone". As of now, I've just started getting flowers for hanging baskets, and in the process of transplanting some other overgrown plants like daylilies. I've got a hosta thats buried in daylilies!
Anyway... I guess I garden for the pleasure, and I enjoy photographing what I've planted. I like to "mouse-draw" photos of birds, flowers, and whatever else comes to mind... I then turn these pics into greeting cards. Its a lot of fun.
My occupation is... I'm a teacher/director. My husband is retired Air Force. He's been to a lot more places, than I, together we have been to North Carolina, Japan, Arkansas. This August, we will celebrate 24 years of marriage.
I'm looking forward to getting to know more of you... :O)
Yay, spring is almost here!!! I just started 3 Envy Zinnias, 2 Red Sun Sunflowers, 3 English Daisies, and 3 Purple Morning Glorys!!! All in little cups by the window. My dad is gonna help me plant my Venus FlyTrap, hopefully tonight!!! Im so excited!!!! But I'll be really sad if they don't grow. Can you blame me!?!? hehe, till later!!!
bri
I have grown flowers all my life, most if which where tropical. Now I find myself in Neveda with no clue on what does well. Any help would be a blessing! I am willing to work in a garden in exchange for information.
I live in the suncity area and am willing to travel to learn and photopgraph , As a photographer I find My best subjets are often in my own gardends.
thanks in advance
Trizia Koelzer
someone is going to have to save me from myself...hehehhe I got a Park Seed Fall Catalog today...I want at least one of nearly everything, EXCEPT irises and daffodils (I dug up soo many of them cleaning out my flower beds here)..Right on the top of my list is a bicolored butterfly bush...ohhh my goodness it is so gorgeous..sooo sooo pretty..ohh and they had some gorgeous looking blueberry bushes in there too..I love blueberry bushes...and I want 3 more to add to my two I have I really like blueberries YUMMO...
Today I examined where I planted the marigolds and coleus and chives that were packaged for 1982 I saw little sprouts coming up where the marigolds were planted, nothing yet where the coleus is planted and there is something coming up in one of the chive pots but I dont think it is a chive...going to have to do some research of what they look like as babies..LOL
~C~
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