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Posted: Sep/02/2006 6:13 PM PST
I moved to NC from NM a couple years ago, and bought a house for the first time. I hadn't even mowed a lawn since I was a kid! So here I am in a land bursting with living things - and dead things quickly let you know it in this humidity - and I have no idea what's in my garden, a weed from a flower, and so on. I have a bunch of books, but they're not helping me as much as I'd like. My neighbors are great at giving me names that can't be found on the Internet - I guess local names that have no actual meaning outside my small town. I've seen some strange things. My neighbor has a Night Blooming Cerious - one seriously weird plant! [IMG]http://www.cameramentor.com/images/nbcerious/ small_imgp3535.jpg[/IMG] And I've been fortunate enough to be able to figure out that I have a couple of wild rose bushes in my front yard and three 150-foot-tall Pecan trees in the backyard (delicious). But otherwise, I'm all at sea. So if ya'll don't mind, I'll set a spell and see if I can learn anything. Thanks! Wiggy |
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Posted: Sep/02/2006 6:43 PM PST
Welcome to GG, Wiggy! lurk to your heart's content. hope you find everything you're looking for. jump in when you feel like it. 
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Posted: Sep/02/2006 6:46 PM PST
Wiggy, welcome to GG! I can guarantee you'll learn from these folks! I've learned a ton already, and they're giving me great advice on things to do with my yard I'll be working on starting in January to make sure it is a hardy as possible. |
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Posted: Sep/02/2006 7:07 PM PST
Hey hey Wiggy, :banana-wa Greetings from another newbie to the site, and a fellow resident of N.Carolina as well, X of "Raleighwood" and now living at the beach  Great photo of your neighbor's Epiphyllum oxypetalum (say that 5 times real fast *LOL*), yup, seriously weird, for sure! Which makes it just my cuppa tea,  I'm looking forward to mine flowering again in a few days 
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Posted: Sep/02/2006 7:20 PM PST
Welcome Wiggy, from one more newbie. I have only been on a couple of days and have learned all kinds of stuff already. Like some of those unpronouncable botanical names for things. This is why, I think, that locals make up names, easier to remember LOL. To me, gardening is a never ending learning experience and one can never know enough. I hope you find it to be that way, is part of the joy of it!:dancing t |
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Posted: Sep/02/2006 9:04 PM PST
Welcome from Kentucky |
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Posted: Sep/03/2006 2:39 AM PST
welcome GG wigwam. I am sure you find the answers to all your garden questions here and you will find a lot of friendly helpfull folks just waiting to answer your questions, swindyi |
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Posted: Sep/03/2006 3:59 AM PST
A very big welcome from Canada to all the new people on the board..I have been too busy to check in very often but it is raining outside so I am in the house and looking at all the house work that has been very much neglected. So again welcome to all new people. |
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Posted: Sep/03/2006 5:03 AM PST
ooo a fellow lurker!! im glad to have the company. welcome,,good pic,,nice plant!! and congrats on the pecan trees,what kind are they? |
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Posted: Sep/03/2006 5:55 AM PST
Quote: Originally posted by sedumgrow ooo a fellow lurker!! im glad to have the company. welcome,,good pic,,nice plant!! and congrats on the pecan trees,what kind are they?Um, I did not know there were different kinds. The kind you eat? No seriously, tell me how to find out and I'll let you know. Came with the house, and it was built in 1923. Bungalow. The house, I mean. |
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