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So what all are people planting this spring?
I've been planting very little this spring because Granny Artemis & I
sprang for the cost of pallets of flagstones & stacking stones, to build a flagstone patio alongside a raised garden. The price of those stones ate up all the garden funds, though on April 2 we'll show up at the Rhododendron Species Foundation for some dwarf rhodies I want to get to plant in front of some big shrubs, if all I get is those it shouldn't bust the bank, though it will be painfully hard to bypass some of the odder shadeplants that'll be available & in past years I've not been able to control myself. I'm still in the midst of shifting dirt & laying flagstones, it's already looking great. There's plenty of new area for planting as a result, where a previously sloped area of lawn is now a raised flat area for perennials. I moved a ton of dirt from the slope bottom that's becoming the patio, to behind the stacking-stone wall, but can't afford to plant that area just now. I did transplant a few things to there so it isn't all empty, like a black-flowering hellebore that was almost invisible in its previous location dark flower in dark spot, & it is now in the new raised garden showing itself to spectacular effect. I planted some rugosa roses in a new streetside garden, but that new garden is also going to look pretty empty for the time being, & most that's in it now had been sitting around in containers for quite a while cuz there's no funds for new plants. Someone I last year helped re-landscape an old garden (which he believed to be too crowded with shrubs for his taste) hired me back this month to do some more labor, & I'm working for pretty cheap but get additional payment in hundreds of dollars worth of big old rhodies & other shrubs that I'm removing from his garden to mine. It is horrible labor to get those shrubs out of the ground & down a stone stairway that seems like a mile, but at least when I'm done busting my back the shrubs are MINE. This morning I was digging a big hole for the next shrub to be brought over, it'll go next to a biggish serviceberry also recently installed. One of the smaller rhodies I brought home from last year's landscaping for this guy, I've no idea what it is, it is very old but only four feet tall, a small-leaf evergreen & I didn't see it in flower last year because it bloomed so early. That one right now has buds beginning to burst, & it so far looks creamy white. What small-leaf evergreen rhody has creamy white flowers? I hope I can figure it out. I brought home a five-foot twinberry shrub I can't for the life of me figure out where it should go so it may end up a container plant for a while. I've a big lovely & presently empty pottery planter, because a Portuguese evergreen cherry that had been growing in it for a couple years got put in the new rugosa garden, so maybe the twinberry will go in that pot for a year or however long. Tons of bulbs are gussying up the place. As the crocus season winds down the kaufmannias burst upward in amazingly dense drifts of waterlily-like blooms, & every day another variety of miniature daffodil is opening up, plus a dozen kinds of muscaris, scillas, & bellevalia getting flowerier each day. Two species of fritillary are already blooming too. I thought I'd "lost" the snow-white Muscari pallens, but they popped up in a roadside location where I now realize they accidentally got lifted along with some old daffodils; they're too tiny for the roadside garden, so when they begin to die back some weeks from now I'll get them back into the main yard, probably along a ledge of the new patio-side raised garden. I think of the beginning of the year as having three parts: the crocus season, then the daffodil/muscari season, closing with the botanical tulips season -- with obvious overlaps. Today also I noticed that virtually every one of our corydalises have at least their first few blooms opened, including the Dutchman's Britches which is so damned cute with those white undies hanging there. It's also nearly time to lift a bunch of autumn crocuses like Crocus speciosus, to move them before their grass vanishes & I can't find them. I'm pondering digging up another autumn crocus, C. kotschyanus, & just giving them a good cleaning in order to EAT them, because they didn't bloom last year, but i may let them go one more year before deciding whether or not they become dinner. Early-blooming rhodies & azaleas are looking great. In full flower are Crater's Edge, Sesame, Milestone, & PJM Elite, some others showing color in their buds, & the star magnolia bursting into bloom too. I'm going to hit "post" then go back outside right now & noodle around the plants some more! -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
In article , kate
writes "Shez" wrote in message news In article , kate writes "Shez" wrote in message ... In article , gurdjieff 0f gormorrah iiiiii@iiiii.? writes In article , Feeling Froggie writes theoneflasehaddock wrote in message . com... "Phoenix" wrote in message .com... Nothing wrong with Insane, who wants to be normal... but most of us don't have the budget to build a moat around the house, Besides the neighbours might complain. I do live in a semi-detached house. I don't grow potato vines on the window sill, I have a greenhouse for potato vines in jars... Orchids, and the like. Ps most gardeners are insane, ) However you can check out the garden below That's really beautiful, Shez. Thanks for sharing. Froggie It is rather lovely, that I whole-heartedly admit. You have a green thumb, for sure, and an eye for spacing and color placement. and I bet you have a moat behind that fence. GG Thanks for the kind words. Their is a river not to far away, but I promise no moat, Not that I would mind, I could lean out of the window and go fishing If I had a moat. shez Thanks for looking....Its always a pleasure to share your garden with people who appreciate it. Shez, that is absolutely gorgeous! I wish I could be in one place long enough to have a garden. Get artsy with it. Plant the herbs I'm always looking for..... What's the grass in your garden? The clumps of wild looking grasses? Jack-in-the-Pulpit is something I haven't seen for Years! I'd like to know where you live, that things grow so beautifully. Thank you for the view into a part of your life that you obviously thoroughly enjoy. kate~ Grasses are a fairly new addition over the last couple of years, we use about a dozen different variety's, Some of the seed heads are quite spectacular and can be cut and dried for winter display, I can look some of the nicer ones up for you if you would like I know a lot of grasses hon. The one I was asking about was that little clump in the picture, the round one? I'd appreciate anything you can give tho, ty I am sure in time you will have your own garden, Gardners cant stay away from the earth for long, and somehow or other they always manage to find a little patch of earth they can call their own. *heh* Even if it's not my own, I dig! Even if it's just my feet in the soil *chuckle* Oceans and good, old, smelly dirt, love it! kate~ -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ I will look some up for you with pleasure, and try and find the little round clump in the morning, Its dark now. I had to laugh when you mentioned oceans and earth... that's very much me, I love water in any form, rivers waterfalls, and of course the sea. Oh and I live in England, and all the rain, is what makes the gardens grow... -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
In article , Shez
wrote: I think you people think to small, If I have a moat, I want a sea monster in it, a Kraken at least, I guess their are no Texans posting, they always think big.. I saw a garter snake swimming in ditchwater, & wished I could make it live near my tiny garden pond. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
In article , paghat
writes Hard landscaping is very expensive, fortunately most of our hard landscaping is done, and very little more needs doing.. I don't have the room for many Rhododendrons though I have a couple of miniatures, though that is really not true, Garden centres sell them as miniatures, because they are so slow growing that they take years to get to any size. I like shade plants myself, but I made an effort when we first planted a tree in the garden to find a tree that was very late leafing, it allowed under planting to get well started before the ground underneath was heavily shaded Its a Japanese, Tree of Heaven, and over thirty years old now. And still growing. Gardeners learn a lot of patience, because all the work you put in needs years to come to fruition, you have to be able to see your garden ten years ahead and know how big various shrubs and bushes are going to grow, or you end up with some very mature plants that take over half the garden. A mistake all gardeners make when they are just starting out. I see so many things I want to put in my garden buts it already crammed to the edges, and there is little room for more. My fingers get itchy though every time I pass a garden centre in spring, However I have my containers and hanging baskets so I do have a chance to plant anew every year. I will start planting them up soon, Spring is here. What more could a gardener ask for Shez I've been planting very little this spring because Granny Artemis & I sprang for the cost of pallets of flagstones & stacking stones, to build a flagstone patio alongside a raised garden. The price of those stones ate up all the garden funds, though on April 2 we'll show up at the Rhododendron Species Foundation for some dwarf rhodies I want to get to plant in front of some big shrubs, if all I get is those it shouldn't bust the bank, though it will be painfully hard to bypass some of the odder shadeplants that'll be available & in past years I've not been able to control myself. I'm still in the midst of shifting dirt & laying flagstones, it's already looking great. There's plenty of new area for planting as a result, where a previously sloped area of lawn is now a raised flat area for perennials. I moved a ton of dirt from the slope bottom that's becoming the patio, to behind the stacking-stone wall, but can't afford to plant that area just now. I did transplant a few things to there so it isn't all empty, like a black-flowering hellebore that was almost invisible in its previous location dark flower in dark spot, & it is now in the new raised garden showing itself to spectacular effect. I planted some rugosa roses in a new streetside garden, but that new garden is also going to look pretty empty for the time being, & most that's in it now had been sitting around in containers for quite a while cuz there's no funds for new plants. Someone I last year helped re-landscape an old garden (which he believed to be too crowded with shrubs for his taste) hired me back this month to do some more labor, & I'm working for pretty cheap but get additional payment in hundreds of dollars worth of big old rhodies & other shrubs that I'm removing from his garden to mine. It is horrible labor to get those shrubs out of the ground & down a stone stairway that seems like a mile, but at least when I'm done busting my back the shrubs are MINE. This morning I was digging a big hole for the next shrub to be brought over, it'll go next to a biggish serviceberry also recently installed. One of the smaller rhodies I brought home from last year's landscaping for this guy, I've no idea what it is, it is very old but only four feet tall, a small-leaf evergreen & I didn't see it in flower last year because it bloomed so early. That one right now has buds beginning to burst, & it so far looks creamy white. What small-leaf evergreen rhody has creamy white flowers? I hope I can figure it out. I brought home a five-foot twinberry shrub I can't for the life of me figure out where it should go so it may end up a container plant for a while. I've a big lovely & presently empty pottery planter, because a Portuguese evergreen cherry that had been growing in it for a couple years got put in the new rugosa garden, so maybe the twinberry will go in that pot for a year or however long. Tons of bulbs are gussying up the place. As the crocus season winds down the kaufmannias burst upward in amazingly dense drifts of waterlily-like blooms, & every day another variety of miniature daffodil is opening up, plus a dozen kinds of muscaris, scillas, & bellevalia getting flowerier each day. Two species of fritillary are already blooming too. I thought I'd "lost" the snow-white Muscari pallens, but they popped up in a roadside location where I now realize they accidentally got lifted along with some old daffodils; they're too tiny for the roadside garden, so when they begin to die back some weeks from now I'll get them back into the main yard, probably along a ledge of the new patio-side raised garden. I think of the beginning of the year as having three parts: the crocus season, then the daffodil/muscari season, closing with the botanical tulips season -- with obvious overlaps. Today also I noticed that virtually every one of our corydalises have at least their first few blooms opened, including the Dutchman's Britches which is so damned cute with those white undies hanging there. It's also nearly time to lift a bunch of autumn crocuses like Crocus speciosus, to move them before their grass vanishes & I can't find them. I'm pondering digging up another autumn crocus, C. kotschyanus, & just giving them a good cleaning in order to EAT them, because they didn't bloom last year, but i may let them go one more year before deciding whether or not they become dinner. Early-blooming rhodies & azaleas are looking great. In full flower are Crater's Edge, Sesame, Milestone, & PJM Elite, some others showing color in their buds, & the star magnolia bursting into bloom too. I'm going to hit "post" then go back outside right now & noodle around the plants some more! -paghat the ratgirl -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
In article , NightMist
writes On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:12:57 -0600, "gurdjieff 0f gormorrah" iiiiii@iiiii wrote: NightMist wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:19:26 -0600, "gurdjieff 0f gormorrah" iiiiii@iiiii wrote: wbarwell wrote in message m... Feeling Froggie wrote: "gurdjieff 0f gormorrah" iiiiii@iiiii wrote in message piranha.. Just be sure to raise your draw-bridge immediately after leaving your garden. I think we need your expertise. I've always wanted a moat. Froggie You need some squirrel hunting cats. fact: cats hate water. a moat will also deter cats as well as the bushy tailed rodents Ah! but if you put in a dry moat (which is much more maintenance friendly) you could fill it with cats. but what fun is cats in the moat without crocks? This is America man! Alligators are what we have here. Of course our alligators are really fresh water crocs, but that is OK, because the african croc is really an alligator and....Oh **** it. Alligators, get it right. In America we have alligators. hell, I know I am gonna hear about that line... Shhh was just a joke, I swear it was but a joke. Just this once I'll let you live unscathed. correct me if I am wrong but a dry moat is kinda equal to a ditch. Well, yeah, sort of. But a wet moat is kinda equal to a ditch too. My own aesthetic tastes would dictate that it be filled with komodo dragons. Difficult to import, but self cleaning and a deterent to unwelcome guests. If you didn't get enough unwelcome guests, it would run you broke in goats though. why would said guest have to be "unwelcome" Now then, you don't want the really welcome guests to get eaten in the moat do you? All those nubile young women with their pneumatic thighs? At least you don't want them to be eaten on the way _in_ to the house. NightMist I think you people think to small, If I have a moat, I want a sea monster in it, a Kraken at least, I guess their are no Texans posting, they always think big.. -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
I've been planting very little this spring because Granny Artemis & I
sprang for the cost of pallets of flagstones & stacking stones, to build a flagstone patio alongside a raised garden. The price of those stones ate up all the garden funds, though on April 2 we'll show up at the Rhododendron Species Foundation for some dwarf rhodies I want to get to plant in front of some big shrubs, if all I get is those it shouldn't bust the bank, though it will be painfully hard to bypass some of the odder shadeplants that'll be available & in past years I've not been able to control myself. I'm still in the midst of shifting dirt & laying flagstones, it's already looking great. There's plenty of new area for planting as a result, where a previously sloped area of lawn is now a raised flat area for perennials. I moved a ton of dirt from the slope bottom that's becoming the patio, to behind the stacking-stone wall, but can't afford to plant that area just now. I did transplant a few things to there so it isn't all empty, like a black-flowering hellebore that was almost invisible in its previous location dark flower in dark spot, & it is now in the new raised garden showing itself to spectacular effect. I planted some rugosa roses in a new streetside garden, but that new garden is also going to look pretty empty for the time being, & most that's in it now had been sitting around in containers for quite a while cuz there's no funds for new plants. Someone I last year helped re-landscape an old garden (which he believed to be too crowded with shrubs for his taste) hired me back this month to do some more labor, & I'm working for pretty cheap but get additional payment in hundreds of dollars worth of big old rhodies & other shrubs that I'm removing from his garden to mine. It is horrible labor to get those shrubs out of the ground & down a stone stairway that seems like a mile, but at least when I'm done busting my back the shrubs are MINE. This morning I was digging a big hole for the next shrub to be brought over, it'll go next to a biggish serviceberry also recently installed. One of the smaller rhodies I brought home from last year's landscaping for this guy, I've no idea what it is, it is very old but only four feet tall, a small-leaf evergreen & I didn't see it in flower last year because it bloomed so early. That one right now has buds beginning to burst, & it so far looks creamy white. What small-leaf evergreen rhody has creamy white flowers? I hope I can figure it out. I brought home a five-foot twinberry shrub I can't for the life of me figure out where it should go so it may end up a container plant for a while. I've a big lovely & presently empty pottery planter, because a Portuguese evergreen cherry that had been growing in it for a couple years got put in the new rugosa garden, so maybe the twinberry will go in that pot for a year or however long. Tons of bulbs are gussying up the place. As the crocus season winds down the kaufmannias burst upward in amazingly dense drifts of waterlily-like blooms, & every day another variety of miniature daffodil is opening up, plus a dozen kinds of muscaris, scillas, & bellevalia getting flowerier each day. Two species of fritillary are already blooming too. I thought I'd "lost" the snow-white Muscari pallens, but they popped up in a roadside location where I now realize they accidentally got lifted along with some old daffodils; they're too tiny for the roadside garden, so when they begin to die back some weeks from now I'll get them back into the main yard, probably along a ledge of the new patio-side raised garden. I think of the beginning of the year as having three parts: the crocus season, then the daffodil/muscari season, closing with the botanical tulips season -- with obvious overlaps. Today also I noticed that virtually every one of our corydalises have at least their first few blooms opened, including the Dutchman's Britches which is so damned cute with those white undies hanging there. It's also nearly time to lift a bunch of autumn crocuses like Crocus speciosus, to move them before their grass vanishes & I can't find them. I'm pondering digging up another autumn crocus, C. kotschyanus, & just giving them a good cleaning in order to EAT them, because they didn't bloom last year, but i may let them go one more year before deciding whether or not they become dinner. Early-blooming rhodies & azaleas are looking great. In full flower are Crater's Edge, Sesame, Milestone, & PJM Elite, some others showing color in their buds, & the star magnolia bursting into bloom too. I'm going to hit "post" then go back outside right now & noodle around the plants some more! -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
In article , kate
writes "Shez" wrote in message news In article , kate writes "Shez" wrote in message ... In article , gurdjieff 0f gormorrah iiiiii@iiiii.? writes In article , Feeling Froggie writes theoneflasehaddock wrote in message . com... "Phoenix" wrote in message .com... Nothing wrong with Insane, who wants to be normal... but most of us don't have the budget to build a moat around the house, Besides the neighbours might complain. I do live in a semi-detached house. I don't grow potato vines on the window sill, I have a greenhouse for potato vines in jars... Orchids, and the like. Ps most gardeners are insane, ) However you can check out the garden below That's really beautiful, Shez. Thanks for sharing. Froggie It is rather lovely, that I whole-heartedly admit. You have a green thumb, for sure, and an eye for spacing and color placement. and I bet you have a moat behind that fence. GG Thanks for the kind words. Their is a river not to far away, but I promise no moat, Not that I would mind, I could lean out of the window and go fishing If I had a moat. shez Thanks for looking....Its always a pleasure to share your garden with people who appreciate it. Shez, that is absolutely gorgeous! I wish I could be in one place long enough to have a garden. Get artsy with it. Plant the herbs I'm always looking for..... What's the grass in your garden? The clumps of wild looking grasses? Jack-in-the-Pulpit is something I haven't seen for Years! I'd like to know where you live, that things grow so beautifully. Thank you for the view into a part of your life that you obviously thoroughly enjoy. kate~ Grasses are a fairly new addition over the last couple of years, we use about a dozen different variety's, Some of the seed heads are quite spectacular and can be cut and dried for winter display, I can look some of the nicer ones up for you if you would like I know a lot of grasses hon. The one I was asking about was that little clump in the picture, the round one? I'd appreciate anything you can give tho, ty I am sure in time you will have your own garden, Gardners cant stay away from the earth for long, and somehow or other they always manage to find a little patch of earth they can call their own. *heh* Even if it's not my own, I dig! Even if it's just my feet in the soil *chuckle* Oceans and good, old, smelly dirt, love it! kate~ -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ I will look some up for you with pleasure, and try and find the little round clump in the morning, Its dark now. I had to laugh when you mentioned oceans and earth... that's very much me, I love water in any form, rivers waterfalls, and of course the sea. Oh and I live in England, and all the rain, is what makes the gardens grow... -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
In article , Shez
wrote: I think you people think to small, If I have a moat, I want a sea monster in it, a Kraken at least, I guess their are no Texans posting, they always think big.. I saw a garter snake swimming in ditchwater, & wished I could make it live near my tiny garden pond. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
In article , NightMist
writes On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:12:57 -0600, "gurdjieff 0f gormorrah" iiiiii@iiiii wrote: NightMist wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:19:26 -0600, "gurdjieff 0f gormorrah" iiiiii@iiiii wrote: wbarwell wrote in message m... Feeling Froggie wrote: "gurdjieff 0f gormorrah" iiiiii@iiiii wrote in message piranha.. Just be sure to raise your draw-bridge immediately after leaving your garden. I think we need your expertise. I've always wanted a moat. Froggie You need some squirrel hunting cats. fact: cats hate water. a moat will also deter cats as well as the bushy tailed rodents Ah! but if you put in a dry moat (which is much more maintenance friendly) you could fill it with cats. but what fun is cats in the moat without crocks? This is America man! Alligators are what we have here. Of course our alligators are really fresh water crocs, but that is OK, because the african croc is really an alligator and....Oh **** it. Alligators, get it right. In America we have alligators. hell, I know I am gonna hear about that line... Shhh was just a joke, I swear it was but a joke. Just this once I'll let you live unscathed. correct me if I am wrong but a dry moat is kinda equal to a ditch. Well, yeah, sort of. But a wet moat is kinda equal to a ditch too. My own aesthetic tastes would dictate that it be filled with komodo dragons. Difficult to import, but self cleaning and a deterent to unwelcome guests. If you didn't get enough unwelcome guests, it would run you broke in goats though. why would said guest have to be "unwelcome" Now then, you don't want the really welcome guests to get eaten in the moat do you? All those nubile young women with their pneumatic thighs? At least you don't want them to be eaten on the way _in_ to the house. NightMist I think you people think to small, If I have a moat, I want a sea monster in it, a Kraken at least, I guess their are no Texans posting, they always think big.. -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
In article , NightMist
writes On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:12:57 -0600, "gurdjieff 0f gormorrah" iiiiii@iiiii wrote: NightMist wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:19:26 -0600, "gurdjieff 0f gormorrah" iiiiii@iiiii wrote: wbarwell wrote in message m... Feeling Froggie wrote: "gurdjieff 0f gormorrah" iiiiii@iiiii wrote in message piranha.. Just be sure to raise your draw-bridge immediately after leaving your garden. I think we need your expertise. I've always wanted a moat. Froggie You need some squirrel hunting cats. fact: cats hate water. a moat will also deter cats as well as the bushy tailed rodents Ah! but if you put in a dry moat (which is much more maintenance friendly) you could fill it with cats. but what fun is cats in the moat without crocks? This is America man! Alligators are what we have here. Of course our alligators are really fresh water crocs, but that is OK, because the african croc is really an alligator and....Oh **** it. Alligators, get it right. In America we have alligators. hell, I know I am gonna hear about that line... Shhh was just a joke, I swear it was but a joke. Just this once I'll let you live unscathed. correct me if I am wrong but a dry moat is kinda equal to a ditch. Well, yeah, sort of. But a wet moat is kinda equal to a ditch too. My own aesthetic tastes would dictate that it be filled with komodo dragons. Difficult to import, but self cleaning and a deterent to unwelcome guests. If you didn't get enough unwelcome guests, it would run you broke in goats though. why would said guest have to be "unwelcome" Now then, you don't want the really welcome guests to get eaten in the moat do you? All those nubile young women with their pneumatic thighs? At least you don't want them to be eaten on the way _in_ to the house. NightMist I think you people think to small, If I have a moat, I want a sea monster in it, a Kraken at least, I guess their are no Texans posting, they always think big.. -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
I've been planting very little this spring because Granny Artemis & I
sprang for the cost of pallets of flagstones & stacking stones, to build a flagstone patio alongside a raised garden. The price of those stones ate up all the garden funds, though on April 2 we'll show up at the Rhododendron Species Foundation for some dwarf rhodies I want to get to plant in front of some big shrubs, if all I get is those it shouldn't bust the bank, though it will be painfully hard to bypass some of the odder shadeplants that'll be available & in past years I've not been able to control myself. I'm still in the midst of shifting dirt & laying flagstones, it's already looking great. There's plenty of new area for planting as a result, where a previously sloped area of lawn is now a raised flat area for perennials. I moved a ton of dirt from the slope bottom that's becoming the patio, to behind the stacking-stone wall, but can't afford to plant that area just now. I did transplant a few things to there so it isn't all empty, like a black-flowering hellebore that was almost invisible in its previous location dark flower in dark spot, & it is now in the new raised garden showing itself to spectacular effect. I planted some rugosa roses in a new streetside garden, but that new garden is also going to look pretty empty for the time being, & most that's in it now had been sitting around in containers for quite a while cuz there's no funds for new plants. Someone I last year helped re-landscape an old garden (which he believed to be too crowded with shrubs for his taste) hired me back this month to do some more labor, & I'm working for pretty cheap but get additional payment in hundreds of dollars worth of big old rhodies & other shrubs that I'm removing from his garden to mine. It is horrible labor to get those shrubs out of the ground & down a stone stairway that seems like a mile, but at least when I'm done busting my back the shrubs are MINE. This morning I was digging a big hole for the next shrub to be brought over, it'll go next to a biggish serviceberry also recently installed. One of the smaller rhodies I brought home from last year's landscaping for this guy, I've no idea what it is, it is very old but only four feet tall, a small-leaf evergreen & I didn't see it in flower last year because it bloomed so early. That one right now has buds beginning to burst, & it so far looks creamy white. What small-leaf evergreen rhody has creamy white flowers? I hope I can figure it out. I brought home a five-foot twinberry shrub I can't for the life of me figure out where it should go so it may end up a container plant for a while. I've a big lovely & presently empty pottery planter, because a Portuguese evergreen cherry that had been growing in it for a couple years got put in the new rugosa garden, so maybe the twinberry will go in that pot for a year or however long. Tons of bulbs are gussying up the place. As the crocus season winds down the kaufmannias burst upward in amazingly dense drifts of waterlily-like blooms, & every day another variety of miniature daffodil is opening up, plus a dozen kinds of muscaris, scillas, & bellevalia getting flowerier each day. Two species of fritillary are already blooming too. I thought I'd "lost" the snow-white Muscari pallens, but they popped up in a roadside location where I now realize they accidentally got lifted along with some old daffodils; they're too tiny for the roadside garden, so when they begin to die back some weeks from now I'll get them back into the main yard, probably along a ledge of the new patio-side raised garden. I think of the beginning of the year as having three parts: the crocus season, then the daffodil/muscari season, closing with the botanical tulips season -- with obvious overlaps. Today also I noticed that virtually every one of our corydalises have at least their first few blooms opened, including the Dutchman's Britches which is so damned cute with those white undies hanging there. It's also nearly time to lift a bunch of autumn crocuses like Crocus speciosus, to move them before their grass vanishes & I can't find them. I'm pondering digging up another autumn crocus, C. kotschyanus, & just giving them a good cleaning in order to EAT them, because they didn't bloom last year, but i may let them go one more year before deciding whether or not they become dinner. Early-blooming rhodies & azaleas are looking great. In full flower are Crater's Edge, Sesame, Milestone, & PJM Elite, some others showing color in their buds, & the star magnolia bursting into bloom too. I'm going to hit "post" then go back outside right now & noodle around the plants some more! -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
I've been planting very little this spring because Granny Artemis & I
sprang for the cost of pallets of flagstones & stacking stones, to build a flagstone patio alongside a raised garden. The price of those stones ate up all the garden funds, though on April 2 we'll show up at the Rhododendron Species Foundation for some dwarf rhodies I want to get to plant in front of some big shrubs, if all I get is those it shouldn't bust the bank, though it will be painfully hard to bypass some of the odder shadeplants that'll be available & in past years I've not been able to control myself. I'm still in the midst of shifting dirt & laying flagstones, it's already looking great. There's plenty of new area for planting as a result, where a previously sloped area of lawn is now a raised flat area for perennials. I moved a ton of dirt from the slope bottom that's becoming the patio, to behind the stacking-stone wall, but can't afford to plant that area just now. I did transplant a few things to there so it isn't all empty, like a black-flowering hellebore that was almost invisible in its previous location dark flower in dark spot, & it is now in the new raised garden showing itself to spectacular effect. I planted some rugosa roses in a new streetside garden, but that new garden is also going to look pretty empty for the time being, & most that's in it now had been sitting around in containers for quite a while cuz there's no funds for new plants. Someone I last year helped re-landscape an old garden (which he believed to be too crowded with shrubs for his taste) hired me back this month to do some more labor, & I'm working for pretty cheap but get additional payment in hundreds of dollars worth of big old rhodies & other shrubs that I'm removing from his garden to mine. It is horrible labor to get those shrubs out of the ground & down a stone stairway that seems like a mile, but at least when I'm done busting my back the shrubs are MINE. This morning I was digging a big hole for the next shrub to be brought over, it'll go next to a biggish serviceberry also recently installed. One of the smaller rhodies I brought home from last year's landscaping for this guy, I've no idea what it is, it is very old but only four feet tall, a small-leaf evergreen & I didn't see it in flower last year because it bloomed so early. That one right now has buds beginning to burst, & it so far looks creamy white. What small-leaf evergreen rhody has creamy white flowers? I hope I can figure it out. I brought home a five-foot twinberry shrub I can't for the life of me figure out where it should go so it may end up a container plant for a while. I've a big lovely & presently empty pottery planter, because a Portuguese evergreen cherry that had been growing in it for a couple years got put in the new rugosa garden, so maybe the twinberry will go in that pot for a year or however long. Tons of bulbs are gussying up the place. As the crocus season winds down the kaufmannias burst upward in amazingly dense drifts of waterlily-like blooms, & every day another variety of miniature daffodil is opening up, plus a dozen kinds of muscaris, scillas, & bellevalia getting flowerier each day. Two species of fritillary are already blooming too. I thought I'd "lost" the snow-white Muscari pallens, but they popped up in a roadside location where I now realize they accidentally got lifted along with some old daffodils; they're too tiny for the roadside garden, so when they begin to die back some weeks from now I'll get them back into the main yard, probably along a ledge of the new patio-side raised garden. I think of the beginning of the year as having three parts: the crocus season, then the daffodil/muscari season, closing with the botanical tulips season -- with obvious overlaps. Today also I noticed that virtually every one of our corydalises have at least their first few blooms opened, including the Dutchman's Britches which is so damned cute with those white undies hanging there. It's also nearly time to lift a bunch of autumn crocuses like Crocus speciosus, to move them before their grass vanishes & I can't find them. I'm pondering digging up another autumn crocus, C. kotschyanus, & just giving them a good cleaning in order to EAT them, because they didn't bloom last year, but i may let them go one more year before deciding whether or not they become dinner. Early-blooming rhodies & azaleas are looking great. In full flower are Crater's Edge, Sesame, Milestone, & PJM Elite, some others showing color in their buds, & the star magnolia bursting into bloom too. I'm going to hit "post" then go back outside right now & noodle around the plants some more! -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
In article , kate
writes "Shez" wrote in message news In article , kate writes "Shez" wrote in message ... In article , gurdjieff 0f gormorrah iiiiii@iiiii.? writes In article , Feeling Froggie writes theoneflasehaddock wrote in message . com... "Phoenix" wrote in message .com... Nothing wrong with Insane, who wants to be normal... but most of us don't have the budget to build a moat around the house, Besides the neighbours might complain. I do live in a semi-detached house. I don't grow potato vines on the window sill, I have a greenhouse for potato vines in jars... Orchids, and the like. Ps most gardeners are insane, ) However you can check out the garden below That's really beautiful, Shez. Thanks for sharing. Froggie It is rather lovely, that I whole-heartedly admit. You have a green thumb, for sure, and an eye for spacing and color placement. and I bet you have a moat behind that fence. GG Thanks for the kind words. Their is a river not to far away, but I promise no moat, Not that I would mind, I could lean out of the window and go fishing If I had a moat. shez Thanks for looking....Its always a pleasure to share your garden with people who appreciate it. Shez, that is absolutely gorgeous! I wish I could be in one place long enough to have a garden. Get artsy with it. Plant the herbs I'm always looking for..... What's the grass in your garden? The clumps of wild looking grasses? Jack-in-the-Pulpit is something I haven't seen for Years! I'd like to know where you live, that things grow so beautifully. Thank you for the view into a part of your life that you obviously thoroughly enjoy. kate~ Grasses are a fairly new addition over the last couple of years, we use about a dozen different variety's, Some of the seed heads are quite spectacular and can be cut and dried for winter display, I can look some of the nicer ones up for you if you would like I know a lot of grasses hon. The one I was asking about was that little clump in the picture, the round one? I'd appreciate anything you can give tho, ty I am sure in time you will have your own garden, Gardners cant stay away from the earth for long, and somehow or other they always manage to find a little patch of earth they can call their own. *heh* Even if it's not my own, I dig! Even if it's just my feet in the soil *chuckle* Oceans and good, old, smelly dirt, love it! kate~ -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ I will look some up for you with pleasure, and try and find the little round clump in the morning, Its dark now. I had to laugh when you mentioned oceans and earth... that's very much me, I love water in any form, rivers waterfalls, and of course the sea. Oh and I live in England, and all the rain, is what makes the gardens grow... -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
In article , kate
writes "Shez" wrote in message news In article , kate writes "Shez" wrote in message ... In article , gurdjieff 0f gormorrah iiiiii@iiiii.? writes In article , Feeling Froggie writes theoneflasehaddock wrote in message . com... "Phoenix" wrote in message .com... Nothing wrong with Insane, who wants to be normal... but most of us don't have the budget to build a moat around the house, Besides the neighbours might complain. I do live in a semi-detached house. I don't grow potato vines on the window sill, I have a greenhouse for potato vines in jars... Orchids, and the like. Ps most gardeners are insane, ) However you can check out the garden below That's really beautiful, Shez. Thanks for sharing. Froggie It is rather lovely, that I whole-heartedly admit. You have a green thumb, for sure, and an eye for spacing and color placement. and I bet you have a moat behind that fence. GG Thanks for the kind words. Their is a river not to far away, but I promise no moat, Not that I would mind, I could lean out of the window and go fishing If I had a moat. shez Thanks for looking....Its always a pleasure to share your garden with people who appreciate it. Shez, that is absolutely gorgeous! I wish I could be in one place long enough to have a garden. Get artsy with it. Plant the herbs I'm always looking for..... What's the grass in your garden? The clumps of wild looking grasses? Jack-in-the-Pulpit is something I haven't seen for Years! I'd like to know where you live, that things grow so beautifully. Thank you for the view into a part of your life that you obviously thoroughly enjoy. kate~ Grasses are a fairly new addition over the last couple of years, we use about a dozen different variety's, Some of the seed heads are quite spectacular and can be cut and dried for winter display, I can look some of the nicer ones up for you if you would like I know a lot of grasses hon. The one I was asking about was that little clump in the picture, the round one? I'd appreciate anything you can give tho, ty I am sure in time you will have your own garden, Gardners cant stay away from the earth for long, and somehow or other they always manage to find a little patch of earth they can call their own. *heh* Even if it's not my own, I dig! Even if it's just my feet in the soil *chuckle* Oceans and good, old, smelly dirt, love it! kate~ -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ I will look some up for you with pleasure, and try and find the little round clump in the morning, Its dark now. I had to laugh when you mentioned oceans and earth... that's very much me, I love water in any form, rivers waterfalls, and of course the sea. Oh and I live in England, and all the rain, is what makes the gardens grow... -- Shez Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/ |
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So what all are people planting this spring?
In article , Shez
wrote: I think you people think to small, If I have a moat, I want a sea monster in it, a Kraken at least, I guess their are no Texans posting, they always think big.. I saw a garter snake swimming in ditchwater, & wished I could make it live near my tiny garden pond. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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