Jangchub wrote:
I was perfectly minding my own business when I was doing some shopping
at the China supporting crap hole and I saw this woman with a cart
loaded with Asian lily bulbs. Originally 8 dollars, now SEVENTY FIVE
CENTS! I ran out there to the garden center, the knee all of a sudden
didn't hurt as much, and I saw this throng of grabbers and got in
there and bought about ten bags of things, Asian lilies, liatris,
Louisiana iris, etc. Okay, actually much more than ten bags, but in
case my husband is lurking we'll say ten...

Anyway, now that I have them where am I ever going to plant them? I
have a garden which encompasses a half acre and I have totally run out
of room; but when I get home tomorrow from my MRI I plan to get the
giant umbrella out which has a place on my garden cart (put there by
using tie wraps and some PVC pipe), put Mika Bird (our Hahn's Macaw)
into her outside cage, hang her on her traveling shepherd's hook, and
take out whatever is left of a teeny piece of St. Augustine which is
in the sun and plant my tubers and bulbs.

Every year I swear I am not going to put anything new in.
Every year I put new things in. I surrender.

I am a plantaholic and my life has become unmanageable.
I believe I can and will be restored to sanity.
I have turned my will over to however my knee feels on the day I want
to garden.
I will take a moral inventory of all the money I've spent and didn't
tell Mark.
I will share it with someone other than Mark.

I'm not ready for the rest, but I've done all 12 many times, at
different levels of sobriety, and have stayed sober for 24 years~

Carry on.

said with excruciating love of gardening and fellow garden addicts,
Victoria
o oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh LOUISIANA IRIS
RHIZOMES??????????????????????????????????????? ooooooooooooo, spare
rhizzies V????????????????????
maddie

Ann wrote:
Jangchub expounded:

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:04:52 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

On 4/26/07 5:57 PM, in article ,
"Ann" wrote:

Cheryl Isaak expounded:

And what gardener here wouldn't do the same. The only reason I wouldn't is
the ground is frozen!
Still? You must be way up there in Cow Hampshire G

Nah - cold, but not frozen.

BUT - a few years back, one of the big box stores had those boxes of plants
out in November for cheap money and if hadn't just snowed, I'd have loaded
up. There were lots of lilies in the assortment and I've lost all of mine to
those damned red beetles.
C
What red beetles? The Japanese types? Shoot. I never grow Asian
lillies. Even if they are eaten I only spent (put price here so I
don't incriminate myself) and they are aleady in the ground, greening
up and have growth from just last Saturday.

No, Vic, we have these wonderful fingernail polish red lily beetles
some idiot brought into Wellesley, Mass back in 1994 and have spread
exponentially since. I lost a wonderful species lily collection to
them (I don't use chemicals, and was working fulltime during the
invasion, I didn't have the time to keep up with the little feces
covered larvae). So far I still have them, they'll also eat hosta
(not to the point of death, thankfully) and fritillarias.
HOLY SHIT...........they eat Fritillaira's???????????????
wow....................keep 'em up there, wouldja please??
maddie who adores her lilies...................(I have three of the
"Park" tribute lilies, Yellowstone, Shenandoah and Shiloh) not to
mention my beloved Dragon lilies from Mary Emma that must have bulbs now
the size of a grapefruit....................................

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:09:44 -0400, madgardener
wrote:


o oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh LOUISIANA IRIS
RHIZOMES??????????????????????????????????????? ooooooooooooo, spare
rhizzies V????????????????????
maddie

Sorry Mad, I already planted them. I promise next year, how bout
that? You know all my stuff, anything else I can send?

v

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:13:32 -0400, madgardener
wrote:

HOLY SHIT...........they eat Fritillaira's???????????????
wow....................keep 'em up there, wouldja please??
maddie who adores her lilies...................(I have three of the
"Park" tribute lilies, Yellowstone, Shenandoah and Shiloh) not to
mention my beloved Dragon lilies from Mary Emma that must have bulbs now
the size of a grapefruit....................................

Have you seen the variety of lillies called 'Strawberry Candy?' I
have 'Chicago Pink,' but I MUST have those 'Strawberry Candy.' I may
have to move to a bigger property! I hope I can take care of all this
when I'm wheeling around on my Scooter!

On 4/28/07 4:23 PM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:13:32 -0400, madgardener
wrote:

HOLY SHIT...........they eat Fritillaira's???????????????
wow....................keep 'em up there, wouldja please??
maddie who adores her lilies...................(I have three of the
"Park" tribute lilies, Yellowstone, Shenandoah and Shiloh) not to
mention my beloved Dragon lilies from Mary Emma that must have bulbs now
the size of a grapefruit....................................

Have you seen the variety of lillies called 'Strawberry Candy?' I
have 'Chicago Pink,' but I MUST have those 'Strawberry Candy.' I may
have to move to a bigger property! I hope I can take care of all this
when I'm wheeling around on my Scooter!


As in daylily? It could be arranged

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:53:11 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

Have you seen the variety of lillies called 'Strawberry Candy?' I
have 'Chicago Pink,' but I MUST have those 'Strawberry Candy.' I may
have to move to a bigger property! I hope I can take care of all this
when I'm wheeling around on my Scooter!

As in daylily? It could be arranged

Yes, as in daylily. Are you teasing me with some in exchange for
something I have?

I have been very drawn to pink lately.

On 4/28/07 11:50 PM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:53:11 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

Have you seen the variety of lillies called 'Strawberry Candy?' I
have 'Chicago Pink,' but I MUST have those 'Strawberry Candy.' I may
have to move to a bigger property! I hope I can take care of all this
when I'm wheeling around on my Scooter!

As in daylily? It could be arranged

Yes, as in daylily. Are you teasing me with some in exchange for
something I have?

I have been very drawn to pink lately.
Email me off list and we'll talk... I should have plenty to share

C

I have an itty bitty city lot. I put fruit trees in stock tanks, figs in movable
containers, built layer after layer of raised beds. but until somebody dies or tries
to mug the other plants in their beds and have to be ripped out I HAVE NO MORE ROOM.


So I spend my time sitting outside in the morning with my coffee, in the afternoon
with my dogs and fish and mocha frappe, in the evening with DH, dinner and a drink,
on weekends with neighbors and a marguerita or martini party. I only need a pair of
scissors most times to head back or clean up my neat little beds.

OK, so actually I am busy planning on rebuilding my itty bitty greenhouse and I have
the landscaping to do over at our rental unit across the alley. the kids renting
there are crazy to garden of the edible variety and I never put that into my plans.
sheesh. Ingrid

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
And what gardener here wouldn't do the same. The only reason I wouldn't is
the ground is frozen!


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