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Subject: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Tucker Date: 03 May 99 - 08:27 PM Ok, I'm not Martha Stewart but I find myself going back to old favorites in my garden year after year. Old English Roses (imagine that my Scottish and Irish friends) are some of my favorites but they are permanent. What I always find myself planting is petunias, Glads, alyssium, nicotiana, peppers (for decoration) and elephant ears. This year I finally have a beutiful selection of Columbine (Ironic, after the massacre eh?). Just curious what ya'll put out this year. This thread will probably sink like a rock but I'd like to know. Ditto, what special quirks do you do to your gardens? I went and bought some of the little concrete thingys the other day. Well, the concrete color sucks and painted figures are even worse. Since my garden is natural southern ohio sandstone I thought I would try to make the little elves look like natural S.O. rock. I found some old cherry stain that I use in woodworking, watered it down with paint thinner and brush the stuff on my figureines. Guess what? The little darlin's look like my sandstone! they sucked it up like a sponge so I'm guessin' it's permanent, Anyway this will probably be the shortest lived thread ever on this Mudcat trotline. LOL Mudcatters. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 03 May 99 - 08:33 PM Pink flamingos are my decor of choice. No, really! Just check out my morris team's web site listed on the May day/Beltane thread and you'll know why! Tucker, I'm drooling over your post. Up here in the northlands we don't dare put out much before the middle of May- even if it has been unseasonable warm this week, it could still do a deep freeze! But my daffs are up, my tulips in bud and some in bloom, and my peas are planted! Allison |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Guy Wolff Date: 03 May 99 - 09:28 PM I'Ve an awfull black thumb but my life is mostly in the garden and around plantsmen{Plants-peaple?}. I desighn and make flower-pots for the likes of Martha and historic gardens{the peaple at Smith & HAwken have kept me tap-dancing for years}.I love the portrate of Rubens Peale with Geranium painted by his brother in 1801 on bringing a geranium back from London for his fathers natural history collection in Philadelphia. The pot and plant ended up being given to then president T.Jefferson.A good flower-pots first job is to disapear when it is planted so all you see is the plant. Different plants have different intention so the pots you make for them most miror that. A languid plant gets a languid pot and so on..I think Martha S. will have a chat on plants and pots in the near future.I got to play banjo at the begining of the segment I did with her 2 or 3 years ago.We had alot of fun.Great pizza as well.....I love old apple trees....Apple blossoms.......Cheers Guy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Tucker Date: 03 May 99 - 09:50 PM Animaterra, although I am so darned glad winter is over I sorely hate it when the tulips and daffs go away, and I dearly love the crocus too. Alas even the Red buds are waning now and I haven't even been into the forest to hunt morels yet. I'd best hurry. Guy, I liked your piece too. I am purely a weed eater man having nursed many blisters as a kid doing the family "lawn". Some time ago I went to Adena, Thomas Worthington's house (first govenor of Ohio and friend and lodge mate of Geo.Washington)in Chillicothe Ohio. Very unique house. I had thought of the early 1800's as so primitive but not so! It taught me a lot about how folks lived then. I't so easy to think of people then living like cave people but nothing could be further from the truth. Anyway what struck me was the garden. It would do a modern soul well to have such a garden but I would hate the thoughts of weeding it. At least by their ways. Me and my weed eater would take days off what it took to do that one. Anyway, I get somewhat smug about our modern gardens but people have always had and loved them. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Susan A-R Date: 03 May 99 - 10:12 PM Tucker, until I went to college in ohio, I didn't really know why poeple considered spring to be an entire season. Here in Vermont, it's usually about two weeks at the end of may when things finally get green, blossom and then go full bore into summer. As for me, I stuff anything that will fit into my little plot. I have two apricot trees (which are blooming and I'm hoping they won't get nailed for their early arrival) daffs, lots of tulips, lots of seedham (have to have something in the fall, you know) coneflowers, delphs, bee balm for the hummers, foxgloves, peonies (they came with the place) yellow loostrive, coral bells, mallow, columbine (I like the blue stuff a LOT) Bleeding heart, early yellow primroses, siberian irises, phlox, lupine, anemonies (DON't do it, they spread like mad) and I've also started impatiens, pansys, coreopsis, black eyed susans, and a few other guys. I'll grow Matts Wild cherry tomatoes, some ornamental peppers, basil and a few other veggies, but since I now order produce by bulk, the veggies take a back seat to the flowers. I still mow a tad of lawn, but am gradually trying to shrink it when my husband isn't looking. Susan |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Jerry Friedman Date: 03 May 99 - 10:53 PM I seem to be obsessed with my flowers these days. Here in New Mexico we don't grow a lot of the flowers people have been mentioning (some of which I miss), but I do have long-spurred yellow columbines from the Arizona mountains. The bulbs are over except for the odd tulip and wood hyacinth, and the late-spring peak of blue flax, penstemons, bearded iris (did you know it's a desert classic?), and those columbines is getting started. And the Salvia greggii that bloomed until the middle of last December is blooming again! And my jimsonweeds have come back! (Actually, they might be better called sacred datura, Datura wrightii syn. meteloides.) No white flower you guys can grow can top the daturas' flowers--too bad they open in the evening and wither in mid-morning, so you mostly see them in the dark. But I could go on and on... |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Alice Date: 03 May 99 - 11:20 PM Columbines come up everywhere in my yard and flower beds. I have too many flowers to list, but here is a page about my last major yard project. The pond plants have grown even larger over the winter, in a large tub in my office/studio. I'll have to wait until June before it's safe to put them out... might freeze. Alice's pond |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Tucker Date: 03 May 99 - 11:43 PM I am amazed. First of all Columbine is I think my favorite flower (besides roses). I didn't know it had such a long range! Nor about the Iris's Jerry! I guess we are blessed with a real and long spring here Susan, but we share a love for similar plants. I like the windflowers too but I haven't had any problem with them getting out of control. I did with pinks some years back and this is the first year I am trying them again. I think the Scots call them "Bloody Bills", I may be wrong on that one but I don't hardly think so. Anyway, I am again surprised that my threads even got an answer. I thank you all, Alice too. I know I didn't mention your name but I saw your answer and I appreciate it. If I talk too much Joe is going to get a restraining order on me. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: katlaughing Date: 03 May 99 - 11:57 PM Alice: WOW! That's realy nice and what wonderful photos, etc. Thanks! We rent, so I've not gotten into too much, except making a small patch up by the house and at the end of the driveway. When mom moved to CO almost 4 yrs ago, I transplanted some wild, mountain geraniums, blue flax and wild mountain mint, along with snow in summer. I added some verbena and tansy. The tansy got huge and tried ot take over, so I gave the whole plant to a friend and now this year I see a small section as left behind and is coming in nicely. In the back I've a huge stalk of last years hollyhocks and some pinks that should be showing up pretty soon. grwoing season ehre is not that long either. I've always had huge pots of catnip which i harvest - keeps 'em happy all winter. It didn't come back up int eh ground last year, so I guess I'll have to start again with the potted stuff. I just hope no narcs ever come looking through my freezer! This year, we've noticed a little cottontail seems to like the mint and grass, so has been hanging about our front yard and the neighbour's. I always tell the "rabbie" Hi. I have some of those quick garden rollout things which you water and voila all kinds of wildflwoers are 'sposed to come up. I wasn't up to putting them in last year. This yr. I intend to. Maybe they'll camoflauge the dandelions I refuse to poison even though my nighbours glare at me. I harvested their roots one year and made a tincture for a friend who needed a liver transplant. he is fine now, no need for a new liver nad off of SSI, not entirely due to the dandy-lion, but we all feel sure it helped. This year, also, I hope to find a transplantable ladyslipper orchid on the mountain. They are so beautiful. Hey, TuckMan, thanks, this is fun. Oh, and I want to do some Cosmos this year. They were one of mom's favourites. But, really it's way too early to be thinking about this here. kat |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Tucker Date: 04 May 99 - 12:14 AM Hey Kat, thanks for dropping in. I almost always put out Cosmos, I love the name for one thing. Makes me think of one of my favorite TV shows of all time (Carl Sagan). Oh yeah and dandelions.....they are magikal. The Indians have a wonderful story about a feud between the animals,plants and people. Good Lord I am rambling again. My lot is 40' X 160'. Not a lot to do anything with, on the other hand I have a six room house that I live alone in. Except for 2 dogs, 3 cats and 7 goldfish named Ralph. Chicken and feathers, too much of one, not enough of the other |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Lonesome EJ Date: 04 May 99 - 12:38 AM Good thread, Tuck! I have a two acre lot at 8000 ft elevation here in Colorado, and I am fighting off the urge to make a big YARD out of it. We've got about a 50 ft strip around the house that I have alotted as garden, the rest I want to leave natural- standing dead aspens, fallen logs, weeds and all. About this time we start to get the Pasque Flower, the first bloomer of the year. They are small furry shoots with purple blooms, and one day there are none, the next there are thousands all over the forest floor. I have planted a couple trees near the house- Russian Hawthorne because I like the twisted branches and brightness of the small leaves, and Nanking Cherry because of the firecracker explosion of pink blossoms in mid-may. I like, frankly, hearty perennial flowers like bleeding heart, columbine, black-eyed susan. In our harsh climate you figure out what will come back every spring, and that's what you like.I used to try to grow tomatoes up here. I'd prune, and fertilize, and cultivate, and nurse along the plants til I got some modest fruit about October the first. At that point the freeze would set and we'd be eating fried green tomatoes for a week. Finally had to give it up (sniff). Lawn decor- benches scattered around. I would like to put in a small pond for koi this year. We'll see. LEJ LEJ |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: DonMeixner Date: 04 May 99 - 12:52 AM We live in an Erie Canal era home built on thecanal in 1854. We try to plant the yard with flowers and shrubs that would have been around then. Rose of Sharon, Soldier Rose and Hibiscus where among the first decorative plants used routinelly(sp) in this area. As were English roses and Ivy. We are surrounded by Lemon Lillies, Tiger Lillies, Irises and Narcissus. Since much of my yard and a part of my house was leveled by a wind shear in September we are able to rethink our yard a bit. (Good bye thirty foot Magnolia) This year we'll plant choryopsis and Caster Oil Plants Don |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Llanfair Date: 04 May 99 - 04:03 AM I was all ready to go to work when Isaw this thread. I suppose I'm going to be late now. it's 8-30 am ish. My house is built into the hillside, so the top of the garden overlooks our roof, and everyone else's in the town. I have a greenhouse up there, which is full of fuchsias, geraniums, and vegetable seedlings waiting to go out in June, when all danger of frost is past. There are two grapevines in there as well. I am creating a potager in the garden, little bits of this and that in each raised bed. Because it,s such a long haul up the garden, Ikeep a few chickens and a couple of geese up there so i can compost their poo and eat the eggs. It;s about as self sufficient and ecologically sound as I can get whilst I still work full time. Having said that, I'd better get there soon. or I won't have a job!! Hwyl, Bron. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Tucker Date: 04 May 99 - 06:48 AM Don's climate seems more like mine and since I live at the terminus of the Erie Canal (some of the locks are still there on the outside of town) I reckon we have pretty close weather. I had Rose of Sharon when I moved here 25 years ago. I shaped it like a tree. The only problem I had was it was all the time making seedlings in areas I wanted something else to grow. What I didn't image when I started this is all the different climes. EJ is up there in the mountains at 8000 feet. I don't know what grows at that height besides maybe edelweiss. Since Koi are a variation of carp I would reckon they'd do well there too. They do well here in my computer room. I bought a plastic concrete hod, a small pump and went into the forest fetching rocks to put in it and to surround it. Then I put house plants around it. Looks good and I love the sound of the flowing water. One drawback. Makes me want to use the bathroom a lot. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Alice Date: 04 May 99 - 09:23 AM kat-- check out the ladyslippers on this page. I got them last Mother's day. (You have to scroll down when you get there.)
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Vixen Date: 04 May 99 - 09:38 AM Great thread, 'Cats! I'm glad it didn't sink! Alice--I love your ponds. I collect waterfalls, myself, cause I don't have to dust 'em, and they're too big to bring inside--but I never thought of taking pictures of them! Tucker--as others have pointed out, renting makes serious gardening somewhat pointless. But I have a small patch of vegetables every year, and I out a few annuals in pots and window boxes and such. I'm saving for a place of my own that I will turn into a "rank wilderness of fern and flower." A lawn, in my opinion, should be large enough for a cookout with croquet, no larger! V |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Margo Date: 04 May 99 - 09:52 AM No time to garden with my two kids. But one flower I love is the primrose (at least I think that's what they are). They bloom happily in frost, and when the weather finally turns warm, they whither away. They are all different bright colors and I see them here in Washington a lot. I also love deep purple lobelia planted alongside bright orange marigolds. Such a stark contrast, but beautiful. Alice, I've never seen your website. It's wonderful! I want to have a homepage just as well organized and interesting. Good health to you. Margarita |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Tucker Date: 05 May 99 - 04:35 AM Alice, I eavesdropped to see your ladyslippers. I had heard of them but didn't recall ever seeing them. Very pretty. Thank you Vixen, I never thought this many would write about their lawns, but what diversity eh? Margarita, it seems you are taking to the computer quite well (if the same margarita in the earlier thread). Cool. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: katlaughing Date: 05 May 99 - 04:45 AM Alice: your ladyslippers are gorgeous! Thanks for the link.Is that your butterfly artwork, too? Simply beautiful! Thought of some annuals which I love, marigolds and esp. Jolly Joker pansies; they are purple and orange together. I had them on the front porch in Mystic one year when the FedEx guy came by, said those ar our company colours, the co. would probably like to give out seed packets of them as a promotion. So I gave him all of the info. Thye usually are jumbo sized and the contrast of deep purple and orange is really beautiful. I alway get compliments. Also love moss roses. Alice, how do I link photos into the internet. Is there an easy way? Thanks, katlaughing (great thread TuckMudder!) |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Tucker Date: 05 May 99 - 05:16 AM thx Kat |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Alice Date: 05 May 99 - 11:23 AM Kat, I can receive Mudcat personal messages, but for some reason I can't send them, except as a reply to one I have received. The new message page freezes, so I can't choose a name to send to. Email to me --> acflynn@mcn.net |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 05 May 99 - 12:45 PM All right, I admit it, I don't just do flamingos! I planted honeysuckle on my scraggle border this weekend; I'm starting my veggies and also planting bleeding heart, black-eyed Susan, columbine, and nasturtiums this month. We live next to conservation land where we have protected ladyslippers, jack-in-th-pulpit, and trillium, all signs of the season as they arrive! I go a little crazy this time of year! Allison |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Penny Date: 05 May 99 - 12:55 PM One of the things I try to do is to grow herbs for cooking. Parsley, but the snails get it. Mint, from the strains my grandad grew, but the snails get it. Chives, but the snails get them (even five foot off the ground in my porch). The sage is being trimmed into a neat bush shape by the snails. They don't like lavender, they don't like thyme (but it's going), but the marjoram isn't coming up as it should, so I dare say they/ve got that, too. Lemon balm is taking over. I'm going out there on the next wet night, and it'll be brine at point blank range. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: DonMeixner Date: 05 May 99 - 01:49 PM Renters do have gardening issues no doubt. One of the neat things my job allows me to do is design fun things for people with disabilities. One of which was "The Collapsable Plant-A-Matic" wheelchasir accessible garden for patio or deck. Basically its a shallow planter with bins thatare removable and the stands are desk hight for wheelchair users. No good reason they can't be used by renters for the same purpose. I'll send photo copies to any one who wants. Contact me by private E-Mail at Old Eerie@aol.com Don |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Ross Date: 05 May 99 - 02:23 PM Tulips are the favorite at my house, but so short lived. No one has mentioned the tip that seems so prevelent, beautiful spot in the country, surrounded by rusted car body planters filled with blackberry vines. Hard to beat & easy to grow. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 05 May 99 - 03:04 PM Yes, Penny! Herbs, too! I have great success with lavender, but I always kill any rosemary I buy. Kitchen herbs are great- I have a special plot for them. They have just started showing so I forgot to mention them! |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Jerry Friedman Date: 05 May 99 - 03:09 PM Tucker, out here there are more wildflowers at 8000 feet than at (say) 5000 ft. Every time I'm up in the mountains in August and I see all those flowers that I can't grow (purple geranium, Rocky Mountain iris, scarlet gilia, etc.) I wished I lived up there. But when my salvia shrubs last into December and the crocuses start in January, I'm glad I live down here at 5600 feet. And now I've got Corsican pansy seedlings, which are supposed to bloom in every month of the year. We'll see. Yes, I rent. I could lose everything I've planted. My method for dealing with this problem is denial. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Robin McG Date: 05 May 99 - 08:03 PM Alice, I took snuck a peek a your ladysslippers,they're beautiful. We have some by the cabin in northern Michigan but they are endangered here so we can only take pictures. how lucky you are! It's morel time here Tucker, been looking but its really dry..had the same problem last year hope it doesn't affect the blueberries too. Jack-in-the=pulpit is also an old favorite. I could go on and on. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: McMusic Date: 05 May 99 - 09:37 PM Pink flamingoes and white-washed tractor tires. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Mudjack Date: 05 May 99 - 09:48 PM My favorites are the many varieties of wildflowers that come up each spring. They are as welcome as spring itself.Unlike the roses and and tulips and lilacs that my Mrs. fusses over, these little guys come up each year and go away without a whole lot of time spent on pampering them. They are beautiful and best of all like nature intended them to be, they come without a fancy price tag. Some folks around here call them weeds, but I prefer the hi-brid name, "wildflowers". .....Mudjack |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: alison Date: 05 May 99 - 10:22 PM Hi, Used to love snowdrops and bluebells at home. Hard to find over here..... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Tucker Date: 05 May 99 - 10:42 PM Jerry, As the wee ones say it"way kewl". I couldn't image it had I not crossed over the Rockies in a Greyhound bus when I was 15. I'll never forget the sight of seeing something white in background in summer. Eastern Appalachian lad that I was, I had no fathom as to what the white peaks on the horizon was on old Rte 66. As every moslem is requried to go to Mecca once in their life, every american should be required to travel America by land, coast to coast. Ok, guys and dolls, I know I am ignoring the northern climes. I may do that for mudfest. I am just commenting to Jerry. As I said, I am at 700 ft above sea level and considered a "hillbilly", I'd say Jerry rates a mountaineer status. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Tucker Date: 05 May 99 - 10:56 PM Dear Robin and Mudjack, GeeZ, I am missing the greatest time to be in the woods here! Crapola, I gotta work more than I want to. I am retired, don't have to work, but damn, I do the emergency notification devices so many elderly and infirm rely on and they are such a trip to talk to that I can't give it up. Robin sometimes you can't help but trip over the Morells here, sometimes you can't find any, but the hunt is always fun. Mudjack, I always enjoy a hunt for pink flamigos, the plastic sort. They are invaribly the plastic sort here in the north.(I know, I caught the error too}. I was amazed in florida when I actually seen a real PINK flamingo, without wire legs. Thanks for the input all. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: katlaughing Date: 06 May 99 - 08:41 AM well...my authentic, fifties pink flamingoes were found at a "tag sale" (50 cents a piece)in someone's yard on Point Judith, Rhode Island and they are way too kewl to go outdoors in the weather here, so.....they are perched in the pots of some of my larger houseplants and everybody love the useof them in my eclectic decor. I love the wildflowers, too. The prairie is just gorgeous when they all come out and tehir time is so brief. indian Paintbrush lasts all summer, but others are so fleeting. One of my favourites in marisposa lillies; Mom used to dip them in wax when she was a little girl to rpeserve them. I mentioned renting, but I didn't mean it keeps me from doing any gardening. Mom passed on her green thumb and I couldn't live wihtout a patch of something to tend. DonMeixner, I do use pots and planters, which I can take with me, but what a good idea you have! I once delivered meals on wheels in CT. There was an old man who couldn't bend much anymore. He's set up a big table in his yard and had allof his veggies and flowers in boxes on it. I thought how sensible; juts stand there and easily weed, prune, etc. Your planter sounds wonderful. This is really a nice thread. kat |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Robin McG Date: 06 May 99 - 08:03 PM Tucker, you're right the hunt for the ilusive morel is always fun. Watching the woods come alive after its winter sleep makes one truly appreciate life. I hope to one day find the place I can trip over a morel. Your work sounds rewarding but take some time to smell the woods while it's still spring. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Tucker Date: 06 May 99 - 09:27 PM Thanks Robin, I am making it a point to go camping this weekend and searching for Morels. It'll also be a time to take Oldblue and Miss Daisy out and I hope introduce my son-in-law to camping. He's in his thirties and never slept in a tent!!! Poor laddie! My daughter gets a hoot out of him, but he's her beau, and I like him too. I am almost afraid to turn him on to the great outdoors, especially to show him and my daughter a very private, sedate, swimming hole out in the forest. 'fraid I'll end up with another grandchild...Seriously, hehe right, I need to get out there, even if all I find are inkcaps |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Date: 07 May 99 - 12:59 PM the lilies of the valley are coming up on the north side of the house ------
White Coral Bells
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Oh, how I wish (check out the Flying Pig Campfire Songbook) click |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Alice Date: 07 May 99 - 01:18 PM hmmmm strange. I just noticed that my name is no longer showing up automatically in 'from'. How did that happen? alice |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Alice Date: 07 May 99 - 01:30 PM White Coral Bells lyrics were posted by me. alice |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: hotspur Date: 07 May 99 - 02:06 PM What a great thread! I grow mostly herbs, veggies, and edible flowers. I have two herb plots and plowed up the front lawn last summer to make a third, a sit-down, formal herb garden. OOH, i'm so excited! There's not much in it right now, only golden sage, English lavender, Jacob's ladder, marigolds, and borage. That will change. i'm planning to make a thyme walk, and mound German chamomile around the little fountain in the center. I'm also going to put in Echinacea (purple coneflower), evening primrose, Heal-all (prunella), horehound, breadbox poppies, maybe? The possibilities! P.s. Penny, have you tried Diatomaceous earth to get rid of your snails? you should be able to find it in a co-op or farm supply store. Or, you can try surrounding the plants with cardboard or hair clippings(makes the snails dry out.) |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Tony Burns Date: 07 May 99 - 02:07 PM Where do you guys find time for gardens with all the music and Mudcatting going on? I am impressed. With all this knowledge I'm hoping someone can answer the questions below. 1) I was in a the woods last weekend and noticed that red and white trilliums did not seem to grow together. My somewhat brief observation makes me think that white trilliums need/like more light than the red ones. Would any of you hortilogical Mudders care to comment on my observations? 2) I know some songs that mention the plant broom. I have unsuccessfully searched the web for a picture. Does anyone know where to find a picture of broom? btw - my favourite yard decor is friends making music. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Llanfair Date: 07 May 99 - 02:25 PM I haven't got the cleverness to show you a picture of it, but it's a shrub that grows wild on our Welsh hills. The flowers are yellow, and look like small sweet-pea flowere. The cultivated ones have different coloured flowers. and they smell wonderful, enough to knock your socks off. They are in flower now in Britain. Hwyl. Bron. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Tucker Date: 07 May 99 - 03:27 PM Hotspur, you didn't mention your location. Silly me, when I started this thread I didn't take into account the fact we are global here, so while it's spring here in Appalachia I guess it's fall in Oz |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Robin McG Date: 07 May 99 - 03:35 PM Tony, I think the trilliums you noticed were probably different species. Tucker, let us know how your camping trip went always amusing to go with a novice. There's nothing like a grandchld either! Good luck with the morels. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Robin McG Date: 07 May 99 - 03:47 PM Tony, I sure wish I knew how to use those blue cliky things. I went into askjeeves who directed me to Infoseek who had a picture of the broom plant and discription. I hope you can understand my directions I'll have to learn how to use those blue clicky things one day! |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Robin McG Date: 07 May 99 - 03:47 PM Tony, I sure wish I knew how to use those blue cliky things. I went into askjeeves who directed me to Infoseek who had a picture of the broom plant and discription. I hope you can understand my directions I'll have to learn how to use those blue clicky things one day! |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Penny Date: 07 May 99 - 03:55 PM Hotspur, thanks, I'll try that. My mother's method is just a bit not my taste: large jar (Horlicks for preference) of brine. Insert snails by hand. Our garden had dozens of them. I don't like pellets, though I'm using them at the moment, and can't get soot. I've tried lobbing them into the middle of the lawn for the thrushes. They never took to the beer. |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Mudjack Date: 07 May 99 - 04:01 PM Tucker, I'm not the "Pink Flamingos", but did do my share of bus riding as a youngster. About age eight(circa 1950's) recall a bus ride down the Grapevine grade that drops into Bakersfied and caught a dynamic view of bright California poppies as far as the eye could see. Calif's state flower at its best showing us another side to The Golden State.Today you would be lucky to see the valley floor through the smog. Thank's for reminding me of those kind of unforgettable visions in memory. Mudjack |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 07 May 99 - 04:03 PM Hey, Alice, do you know (same tune): Three shiny leaves upon a slender stalk Lovely poison ivy decks my garden walk! Oh, don't you wish that you could stop and touch? But you know you mustn't 'cause you'll itch too much! Allison |
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Subject: RE: Favorite Flowers and yard decor From: Alice Date: 07 May 99 - 04:47 PM Allison, funny!
Also, I noticed that I spelled "slender" without the "s" in White Coral Bells... oh, well, I was barely awake this morning when I checked in.
It is interesting to do an Alta Vista search on White Coral Bells. I did before posting this morning, and even found a 4th grade curriculum using the song to analyze Hayden.
Regarding the plant called broom, here are some photos from an Australian website blue clicky thing for broom
For those with a Mac, I find it handy to use an apple "sticky" (one of those little notes that look like a 3M post it note on your computer screen) to keep the basic html code to create 'the blue clicky' links. It is fast and easy that way to copy and paste the code from the sticky note into a message, then copy and paste the URL and give it a name. alice |
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