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yardgranny6's posts about: Heat loving flowers
Jul 30, 2008 | 5:40 PM PST
Tags: LoadHandler , garden beauties , Heat loving flowers , LoadHandler
First off there are some flowers in my gardens that just LOVE this SC hot, hot heat even though they have not gotten much rain.
Row 1 Blue Plumbago, Red Cardinal Flower, Flamenco "Samba" Cuphea Row 2 Varigated Lirope in Bloom, Flamenco "Cha Cha" Cuphea and Bat Face Cuphea Row 3 Pink Rudbeckia, Pink Zyphyr/Rain Lily, and my ever faithful 'New Jersey' Spider Lily
Then there is this fantastic new toy that UPS will be bringing to my house one day next week. Mulching has been a tough job on my body this year, for reasons we won't discuss. So in a visit with my friends the Gardening Rogers couple, he says come look at my new toy. And that was all it took. I works much like an old fashioned blind that rolls up and down. It just straps onto the tailgate of your truck, has a handle that your turn and it pulls whatever you have on the truck bed right off. They used 9 loads of compost in their gardens this year. She got in and drove the truck very slowly and he turned the handle. As the truck moved along the mulch just came right out in a nice layer and then he took his tiller and tilled it under. Of couse my friend uses his Golf Cart to tamp down the soil just enough so it is good for sowing his seed.
I figure I have saved DH at least $40,000 with this contraption. I originally wanted a pick up with a dump bed.Here is the website:
There is a video but it works better if you save it on your computer. Go check it out, worth every penny spent.
We actually got some rain last evening but it did nothing as far as the heat goes. Seems the whole US in sweltering right now. I am going to set up the sprinkler again tonight to hit another area of the gardens. Just hate to lose plants that have been doted on and of course cost money to put into the gardens.
The Angel Trumpets are just about ready to burst with blooms. Hope to get some photos of them in the next week or so. The new AG 'Snowbank' will need to be put into a pot this weekend along with the newest member of the Cuphea family (salvadorensis) a big name for a small plant.
All in all things a doing fine in the hot and humid South Carolina Linda B Gardens
More To Come Later
