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Wonderful Visit
Jun 3, 2008 | 2:26 PM PST
Tags: visit , new plants , HOT

with a new friend. Fairygarden and I spent the day talking of all things flowers. She got to finger the Seed Box and chose a few seeds to try in her beds. Then we went Plum picking. Brought back enough to give all of us a 'tummy ache'.  My neighbor makes jelly and I am going to see if she will show me her method.

Then we went 'lookin' at one of our favorite garden centers. Plant lovers cannot go 'looking'! We both bought three new plants. FG actually saw the purple Cuphea that is cousin to the Batface plant. It was too fantastic to pass up, so home she came to join the sisters 3 (the red cuphea). They were happy to see their cousin.  So now I have Ms BatFace and her sisters in the Flamenco Series, 'Samba' , 'Totally Tempted 'and now the purple 'Cha Cha'.  They will enjoy dancing away in the flower beds. We discovered they will come back up next year and I will be sure they get a good coat of mulch to keep them warm.

Last year I discovered the Big Sky Series of Echinacea. Some of you received seeds from my pale yellow 'Harvest Moon' and today I found a red called 'Twlight' and a yellow called 'Sunrise'.  I really love my garden center, if you want it they will grow it. My Harvest Moon was moved this spring and was not doing well. I dug it to put in a pot and discovered the poor thing was trying its best to just barely live on the old dead and dying wood. After cleaning up the root system I did place it in a pot and dug a hole to put the pot in, then piled the soil up around it. Sure hope I don't lose this one. There were three new babies trying to make it on their own. Kinda reminded me of those poor little kitties we had to trap. I sure hope those little ones are doing OK.

It is soooooooooo HOT here this week. Had to water, water, water last night and early this morning. But it is June after all and that is part of living in the south. You learn to get up early whether that is your nature or not. (Not for me)   I will have to set my alarm clock so that I can get outside before 8am if I am to do any gardening. Lots of you love the early part of the day but my internal clock has never liked getting out of bed until the head is fully functional. Hubby has learned to live with it. Took a few years before he understood my differing morning habit. A grouchy wife awakened too soon in the am is a grouchy person all day long. He on the other hand has the internal clock of a Ben Franklin, early to bed and early to rise. In our house that does not necessarily make a man healthy, wealthy or wise. Maybe that is why Ben had several wives??

Going to go out and poke around a bit, see what needs water and what else is coming up. Things are looking good at the yardgrannies house.

More To Come Later

 

 

 

 

Sad Sad Day
Aug 1, 2007 | 4:41 PM PST
Tags: photos , courtyard , HOT , watering

(singing) "where have all the photos gone, took a long time posting" (my version)

Sure hope they find the bulk of mine, takes time to download those pictures. NUTS!

Had busy morning today. Went across the street to the intermediate school and helped work on a walled in courtyard. Has not been used in a number of years. Great place. Several teachers have taken it on as a project and will utilize the place this year. One of the teachers received a grant for $6000. What a coo! She has some really good ideas. Today we mixed sand and compost together and spread it out, the plants were to come today as well. Won't be able to help plant as my hubby has a doc appt. tomorrow morning.

Then a friend came to begin moving a piece of fence. It stands between my air/heat unit and my neighbors unit. She cannot get a mower behind her unit and there is no room to maneuver my mower. We both had units replaced a few years ago and you should have seen what those poor men had to go through. And they were both there at the same for a couple of days. They even knew each other as all these air/heat guys do. Now it will be necessary to move a few plants, dig up some roots and fill holes. More work for this ole gardener. It won't get done until it cools a whole lot, like in sept/oct.  Did you know the old tale about transplanting and moving plants only in the months that have an "R" in the spelling? Think about it.  

It Is So HOT!! and no rain, I am on my way outside to turn on the water. It is feast or famine with the weather isn't it. Oh Well, it is August now. Can't expect great weather 12 months out of the year. SC has great weather most of the time.

Wish I could take the air conditioner outside with me. Going Now  More to Come Later. LB