Okay, so I HAD (shhhh) to stop at Home Depot and I was pretty
good-ish. However, I did see a pot of Bulbine being sold for 14
dollars and came home, dug my clump out and potted up four flats of 4"
pots. That prompted me to shlep out the gear and weed the front beds
which have not been properly weeded in two years.

Somehow, while weeding I noticed the return of the Sambuca mexicana,
aka Mexican elderberry. It's coming up throughout the bed. Three
years ago I pulled it out with a huge chain and truck! It's back.
"F."

As I was weeding, I found a whole bunch of echinacea growing like mad,
and tons upon tons of coreopsis, the common ordinary orange.

Not an interesting post, but now everyone knows why my knee is up and
both a heating pad and one of those freezer thingies are above and
under my knee.

V

Jangchub expounded:

Today I raked and fertilized my lawn. I've been digging Johnny
jump-ups and potting them up for our herb society sale May 12. I've
got my peas going, planted shallots and those little bulbing onions,
spread a nice layer of compost on my perennial borders, and picked up
tons of sticks and branches from the storms we've been having. It's
raining (again) today, and I've got two privates to teach, so it's an
indoor day today. Tomorrow we're going up to the Maine ranch to get
the bear fence set up for the bees.
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
e-mail address is not checked
******************************

On 4/27/07 6:54 AM, in article ,
"Ann" wrote:

Jangchub expounded:

Not as much as I wanted - I still trying to recover the laundry area from
the minor basement flooding and get all the laundry done (as much as laundry
is ever done).

BUT - my daughter did do some more cleanup for me and my son got to flex his
muscles removing all the storm downed branches.

Cheryl

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:33:20 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

On 4/27/07 6:54 AM, in article ,
"Ann" wrote:

Jangchub expounded:

Not as much as I wanted - I still trying to recover the laundry area from
the minor basement flooding and get all the laundry done (as much as laundry
is ever done).

BUT - my daughter did do some more cleanup for me and my son got to flex his
muscles removing all the storm downed branches.

Cheryl

Is this from the recent nor'easter or whatever they called it? The
big dump of snow, that's what I call it. Tomorrow I plan to try and
finish the front beds and plant some Tithonia aka Mexican sunflower.

On 4/27/07 5:37 PM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:33:20 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

On 4/27/07 6:54 AM, in article ,
"Ann" wrote:

Jangchub expounded:

Not as much as I wanted - I still trying to recover the laundry area from
the minor basement flooding and get all the laundry done (as much as laundry
is ever done).

BUT - my daughter did do some more cleanup for me and my son got to flex his
muscles removing all the storm downed branches.

Cheryl

Is this from the recent nor'easter or whatever they called it? The
big dump of snow, that's what I call it. Tomorrow I plan to try and
finish the front beds and plant some Tithonia aka Mexican sunflower.
Oh ya - the storm that knocked out trees, flooded many areas and there are
still people with out power in some spots. One town may not have phone for a
month since a relay station was taken out by trees. Verizon has given
everyone a temporary (and free) cell phone and brought in a temporary cell
tower until they can restore phone service.

Cheryl

"Jangchub" wrote in message
...
Okay, so I HAD (shhhh) to stop at Home Depot and I was pretty
good-ish. However, I did see a pot of Bulbine being sold for 14
dollars and came home, dug my clump out and potted up four flats of 4"
pots. That prompted me to shlep out the gear and weed the front beds
which have not been properly weeded in two years.

Somehow, while weeding I noticed the return of the Sambuca mexicana,
aka Mexican elderberry. It's coming up throughout the bed. Three
years ago I pulled it out with a huge chain and truck! It's back.
"F."

As I was weeding, I found a whole bunch of echinacea growing like mad,
and tons upon tons of coreopsis, the common ordinary orange.

Not an interesting post, but now everyone knows why my knee is up and
both a heating pad and one of those freezer thingies are above and
under my knee.


We received part of our Greenhouse kit. We unpacked it to make sure there
were no missing parts. That took awhile. We expect the rest to be delivered
on Monday.

I repotted a bunch of rooted geranium cuttings and did some light weeding in
the veggie patch.

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:11:29 -0500, "Manelli Family"
wrote:


"Jangchub" wrote in message
.. .
Okay, so I HAD (shhhh) to stop at Home Depot and I was pretty
good-ish. However, I did see a pot of Bulbine being sold for 14
dollars and came home, dug my clump out and potted up four flats of 4"
pots. That prompted me to shlep out the gear and weed the front beds
which have not been properly weeded in two years.

Somehow, while weeding I noticed the return of the Sambuca mexicana,
aka Mexican elderberry. It's coming up throughout the bed. Three
years ago I pulled it out with a huge chain and truck! It's back.
"F."

As I was weeding, I found a whole bunch of echinacea growing like mad,
and tons upon tons of coreopsis, the common ordinary orange.

Not an interesting post, but now everyone knows why my knee is up and
both a heating pad and one of those freezer thingies are above and
under my knee.


We received part of our Greenhouse kit. We unpacked it to make sure there
were no missing parts. That took awhile. We expect the rest to be delivered
on Monday.

I repotted a bunch of rooted geranium cuttings and did some light weeding in
the veggie patch.

I weeded AGAIN/STILL -- this time in the veggie patch.

Also continued tearing/cutting down entrenched post-bloom Wisteria
which had congregated under and over the roof of my back porch. As I
am very small, I used a ladder, and as I have injuries on my dominant
hand, I struggled with loppers and pruners. You should see the mess
that got hauled away! Including two birds' nests. Still much to be
removed, especially what has overgrown the main house roof.
Nobody warned me about Wisteria...sob...! But the blooms were
magnificent this year.

Also finally planted corn among the cucumbers.

Also removed approx 100 tons of pine needles from the midst
of two "guardian" shrubs on my front walk. Now wondering
if I did the right thing. Will take and post a picture under Subject
"Shrubs and pine needles" on alt.binaries.pictures.gardens
showing how shrub appearance has changed for the worse.

Also watered veg patch as well as one flower bed in front and one in
back. This is So. Calif coastal, which had very little precipitation
during our "rainy season", purportedly Nov-March. Global warming in
full, menacing swing.

Persephone

(even goddesses can get achy muscles after exertion)

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:20:20 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:


Got up at 6am . made tea and wandered round the garden in dressing
gown with mug of tea. Another clear sunny day. The rubbish-tip
rhododendron had just opened it's first flower. I found this 4ft high
plant 2 years ago on the rubbish tip at my volunteer job, waiting to
be burned, and brought it home, not sure it would survive; there wasn't
much root and after planting I had to weigh them down with boulders to
make sure it didn't blow away. This is its first flowering, the flowers
are large, flared, white, deliciously and strongly scented of lemony
honey. It must have been a left over or reject from a reclaimed
woodland area called the "secret scented garden". which we cleared and
planted with scented rhodos some years back.

This afternoon when I got home I put on my new sunhat and finished
weeding the big triangle bed while John spread out the cow manure mulch
on it; then I covered the cow manure layer with a thick layer (5") of
grassclippings. While weeding found two self- seedlings of the
cotoneaster boundary hedge, and planted them into its gaps. Dumped weeds
in compost heap. One neighbour had left a sack of grass clippimgs and
another brought a sack of shredded paper; more food for compost heap.

Golden hop (humulus lupus aurea) is rampaging up the black trellis which
screens the oil tank; I wove in some escaped tendrils and layered a few
into pots for the open-gardens plant sale at midsummer. Planted out
half a dozen golden rush plants (forgot name) in front of some very
black phormiums Sat on the cliff-view seat with tea (again) husband cat
and dog, enjoying the sun; the sea was blue with small white caps.


Janet (Isle of Arran, Scotland).

Damn, that .sig makes me yearn! I LOVED Arran when I drove (and
ferried) around Scotland, mainly the Highlands, a few years ago!
Stayed with local hosts through a hospitality network. They couldn't
have been more cordial.

Driving on wrong side of the road in a non-automatic car with the
wheel on the wrong side, maneuvering through those infamous
roundabouts WAS a bit of a challenge, but I returned intact, with such
fabulous memories of the trip!

Persephone

Cheryl Isaak expounded:

On 4/27/07 5:37 PM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:33:20 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

On 4/27/07 6:54 AM, in article ,
"Ann" wrote:

Jangchub expounded:

Not as much as I wanted - I still trying to recover the laundry area from
the minor basement flooding and get all the laundry done (as much as laundry
is ever done).

BUT - my daughter did do some more cleanup for me and my son got to flex his
muscles removing all the storm downed branches.

Cheryl

Is this from the recent nor'easter or whatever they called it? The
big dump of snow, that's what I call it. Tomorrow I plan to try and
finish the front beds and plant some Tithonia aka Mexican sunflower.
Oh ya - the storm that knocked out trees, flooded many areas and there are
still people with out power in some spots. One town may not have phone for a
month since a relay station was taken out by trees. Verizon has given
everyone a temporary (and free) cell phone and brought in a temporary cell
tower until they can restore phone service.

Our Maine home is in Lebanon, roads and bridges are gone, some poor
woman from NH and her granddaughter were washed away by raging
floodwaters and killed, I guess they got 7" of rain up there within
hours! We haven't been up to the house yet, we're going up this
afternoon if we can get down the road (one of the bridges that are
gone is on our road).
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
e-mail address is not checked
******************************

On 4/28/07 6:08 AM, in article ,
"Ann" wrote:

Cheryl Isaak expounded:

On 4/27/07 5:37 PM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:33:20 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

On 4/27/07 6:54 AM, in article ,
"Ann" wrote:

Jangchub expounded:

Not as much as I wanted - I still trying to recover the laundry area from
the minor basement flooding and get all the laundry done (as much as
laundry
is ever done).

BUT - my daughter did do some more cleanup for me and my son got to flex
his
muscles removing all the storm downed branches.

Cheryl

Is this from the recent nor'easter or whatever they called it? The
big dump of snow, that's what I call it. Tomorrow I plan to try and
finish the front beds and plant some Tithonia aka Mexican sunflower.
Oh ya - the storm that knocked out trees, flooded many areas and there are
still people with out power in some spots. One town may not have phone for a
month since a relay station was taken out by trees. Verizon has given
everyone a temporary (and free) cell phone and brought in a temporary cell
tower until they can restore phone service.

Our Maine home is in Lebanon, roads and bridges are gone, some poor
woman from NH and her granddaughter were washed away by raging
floodwaters and killed, I guess they got 7" of rain up there within
hours! We haven't been up to the house yet, we're going up this
afternoon if we can get down the road (one of the bridges that are
gone is on our road).

I heard about that death.

Wave as you drive by!

C

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:20:20 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:


Got up at 6am . made tea and wandered round the garden in dressing
gown with mug of tea. Another clear sunny day. The rubbish-tip
rhododendron had just opened it's first flower. I found this 4ft high
plant 2 years ago on the rubbish tip at my volunteer job, waiting to
be burned, and brought it home, not sure it would survive; there wasn't
much root and after planting I had to weigh them down with boulders to
make sure it didn't blow away. This is its first flowering, the flowers
are large, flared, white, deliciously and strongly scented of lemony
honey. It must have been a left over or reject from a reclaimed
woodland area called the "secret scented garden". which we cleared and
planted with scented rhodos some years back.

This afternoon when I got home I put on my new sunhat and finished
weeding the big triangle bed while John spread out the cow manure mulch
on it; then I covered the cow manure layer with a thick layer (5") of
grassclippings. While weeding found two self- seedlings of the
cotoneaster boundary hedge, and planted them into its gaps. Dumped weeds
in compost heap. One neighbour had left a sack of grass clippimgs and
another brought a sack of shredded paper; more food for compost heap.

Golden hop (humulus lupus aurea) is rampaging up the black trellis which
screens the oil tank; I wove in some escaped tendrils and layered a few
into pots for the open-gardens plant sale at midsummer. Planted out
half a dozen golden rush plants (forgot name) in front of some very
black phormiums Sat on the cliff-view seat with tea (again) husband cat
and dog, enjoying the sun; the sea was blue with small white caps.


Janet (Isle of Arran, Scotland).



Sounds like just another day in paradise.
v

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:08:50 -0400, Ann wrote:


Our Maine home is in Lebanon, roads and bridges are gone, some poor
woman from NH and her granddaughter were washed away by raging
floodwaters and killed, I guess they got 7" of rain up there within
hours! We haven't been up to the house yet, we're going up this
afternoon if we can get down the road (one of the bridges that are
gone is on our road).

I am terribly sorry to hear this. We didn't get such detailed
information down here in Texas. The worst thing that happened down
here were three days of freezing rain during which the entire city
closed down. Dell Inc, where Mark works, was closed for three days!
It liked that.

Most of our weather deaths are caused by flash flooding and people
driving over low water crossings. The other nightmare on the dry
line, down the mid-section of the nation are tornadoes. We rarely get
them this far south, but we do get straight line winds up to 80 MPH.

I hope they get things up and running again.

On 4/29/07 6:26 PM, in article ,
"Ann" wrote:

Janet Baraclough expounded:


The message
from Ann contains these words:

We haven't been up to the house yet, we're going up this
afternoon if we can get down the road (one of the bridges that are
gone is on our road).

Hope all is well at your place when you get there.

Thanx, Janet.

Well, just got home and thankfully nothing is horribly wrong at the
house. A few large pine boughs down, a bit of seepage in the cellar,
nothing major. The road was passable, but had been totally undercut
and washed away, they've already got a temporary fix there (it's kind
of a major road for major roads around there!) and in another spot
half the road was gone, but semi-repaired.
Lucky you!

It turned out the woman and child who were killed were *walking
through* (!!) the Little River trying to cross where a bridge had been
washed away - what was she thinking! A man went in and tried to save
them, all three were rescued by boat, sadly the grandmother and
granddaughter were drowned ( I can't imagine why anyone would try
to drive through flood waters, never mind try to ford it on foot!

An EMT buddy of mine said there was some thing "off" about the whole
incident. No matter what, it is sad.

We got the fenceposts in for the electric bear fence for our beeyard,
between raindrops. It's still raining! Oh well.....
DS is still trying to separate that grass.

C

Cheryl Isaak expounded:

DS is still trying to separate that grass.

???
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
e-mail address is not checked
******************************

On 4/30/07 9:35 AM, in article ,
"Ann" wrote:

Cheryl Isaak expounded:

DS is still trying to separate that grass.

???
I assigned my broke but strapping teenager the dividing of my Miscanthtus.
It should have been divided at least 2 years ago....

He's still at it - 20 minutes here, 20 minutes there.....

C