Gardening, anyone?
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Wren, I had the same idea Murfy wrote above. Your cats obviously need something green. You could grow almost anything that has the shape of grass, like a grass mixture used for your backyard or wheat and other seeds. I used to sow these seeds in a bowl of soil and put it on the floor when it reached a few inxhes. The cats chewed at it for quite a long time. I used to do it in the winter, when no grass could be had outside due to snow. (We lost our cat last fall, so no grass sowing this winter)
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JaBoo, I think you just answered my problem with cat grass. Mine pull it out and dump it on the floor. I hadn't thought about growing it in a saucer and giving it to them when it's short. We have cat grass seeds. A nearby store also sells it already grown. One of the volunteers buys it for cats at the shelter.
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Murfy.
Love your photos. Especially your kitchen garden.
Husband and I are making some wood framed wall planters for growing herbs, Joanna Gaines style. Will post a picture when ready.
Gumdoctor
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We've had yet another snowstorm, with more on the way, where I live in PA. But earlier this week, I snapped this pic of our witch hazel bush in bloom. It's always the first spot of color in my yard. It's not a showy blossom, but seeing it lifts my spirits.
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My orchids are thriving now. The rain we had yesterday perked up all my flowers. I woke up this morning to blooming hibiscus and red ginger. Loved it.
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I am eating fresh broccoli sprouts daily. Two trays going, one just beginning, the other getting quite mature.
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MCBaker, I bought stuff to do broccoli sprouts but haven’t done it yet. I am going to get it going this weekend.
My indoor plants keep me going in winter too.
My last dog ate every leaf off my pothos one time. I called poison control- Well, we usually don’t advise on dogs... She was fine but I worried.
We still have snow on the ground and it’s snowing a little now. March is still winter here. Kiki at least the witch hazel is a sign that spring is not too far away.
Jo you will have to post some pics for us of your ginger and hibiscus. two of my favorites.
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twohobbies-i will post pucs of my flowers tomorrow. It's funny. I take pictures of my orchids all the time. But my hibiscus Bloom throughout the year and I have never taken a picture of them. I do enjoy them daily though.
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Indoor bird's nest fern is slowly but surely unfurling for spring. Hard to be patient but have been taking pics for a few weeks.
It definitely got the memo: SPRING IS COMING
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Picture goes with previous post...bird's nest fern unfurling for spring.
Gumdoctor
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Beautiful!!!! I was going to make a pitiful display of fernophilia today if you didn't post a picture of it.
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MCBaker,
Thank you for covering me!
For some unknown reason, the picture did not stay with the original post; still learning how to maneuver through this site. I have successfully posted pics before.
Oh well...moving one day closer to spring whether pics stay where we put them or not
Gumdoctor
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Bird's nest fern is really beautiful...at least to me...gives me brief moments of smiles and awe for the beauty of nature...
Gumdoctor
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Planted zinnias cosmos and sunflower seeds today. Lettuce, spinach, cilantro, and nasturtiums have sprouted. 6 new wine barrel planters arrived yesterday. I will be putting dahlias into three of them and string beans in the other three. It seems like there is a lot of hurrying up and waiting and then everything needs to get done at once. Yay! Almost garden time.
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Gardening was put on hold - we were in the middle of snowpocolypse in Oregon. Snowed in, no power, no heat for 7 days and so many downed trees. It will take us weeks to clean up the mess. I praise God that our pump was not hit in our pump house. We had to tear down the sides and drop the rest of the tree that went through the shed. The picture is one of the trees laying on the wires. It took the power guys 7 days to clear the road and get to it.
Day 2 of snow.. The snow was wet snow and so heavy it was snapping trees in half.
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Seven days of no power must have been just awful. Was it cold enough to store food outside rather than in the freezer? Do you have another source of heat? GS in Hood River will probably be in school forever this summer. I hope they get a holiday for July 4th. Lots of sympathy for the clean up.
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No source of heat except jumping in our memory foam bed. We got up when the sun came up and went to bed when the sun went down. The generator wasn't beefy enough to run our toyo stove heater. Our chest freezer was outside so it stayed cold - we just used a generator long enough to keep it cold. The generator wasn't beefy enough to run our toyo stove heater. Thank goodness we just bought a 1/4 of grass fed beef. It was in the bottom of the chest freezer. Inside refrigerator, we did lose some food until I got the idea to get some bins with snow in it and made our fridge into an old-style icebox.
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@Teka I used to live in Mio, Michigan. I went tubing and canoeing down the ausable river every summer. Beautiful river!
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Gma- been through no power for a week right around Halloween 2011 from a bad snow storm. We took all the food we had in our chest freezer and other stuff like the milk and put them in coolers with lots of ice. Luckily we have a gas stove so we could cook and make coffee in the mornings while we had no power. My house got down to 50 degrees that entire week. Had put throw blankets over the pets to keep them warm and put warm water in the fish tank and a comforter over it to keep the warmth in to keep my fish alive. We were in bed shortly after the sun went down just to keep warm and were up at our normal time using camping lanterns to have light until the sun came up.
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For anyone who grows roses: years ago we had a rose named Lagerfeld, after the late designer. It's an incredible lavender and smells terrific. I've seen little boys stop to smell it after getting a whiff on the sidewalk. I looked and it's still available. I'm going to replace ours (lost in a cold snap). We also have an Impressionist. It's a climber with big blossoms. The flowers go through about 5 color changes during their life, so there are different colors on the same bush. It varies from yellow to orange to rose and you can imagine it in a Monet painting.
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Wren,
Your roses sound magnificent. Hoping you can share some pictures with us sometime later this season...
Gumdoctor
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I'd love to see pictures of the roses. Our region has been devastated by rose rosette disease and virtually all roses in our entire part of the country are dying or dead and it is not recommended that they be planted again. So sad.
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That is really sad. How is the disease spread? I haven't heard of it here.
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Rose Rosette Disease (RRD) is a devastating disease of roses. It makes the rose unsightly because of abnormal growth of the rose plant tissue. Symptoms such as witches' brooms, excessive thorniness, enlarged canes, malformed leaves and flowers are associated with this disease. This disease has been reported since the early 1940s but only in 2011 did research demonstrate that it is caused by a virus, aptly named the Rose Rosette Virus (RRV). Diagnosis of RRD prior to 2011 was primarily done based on observed symptoms and the presence of the eriophyid mite that is believed to be the vector of RRV. In recent years, this disease problem appears to be a growing issue as more and more cultivated roses are used in landscapes. At this time, all roses are believed to be susceptible on some level to the disease. Recent funding from the Specialty Crops Research Initiative program is allowing research into this disease with the goal of developing roses that are resistant to RRD.
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Argh!!! Melissa, I assume you're from Texas. I'm in the Houston area. I brought hedge rose plants from Louisiana That came from plants at least a hundred years old. They came from old house place my grandmother was from. We dug them from beneath over growth . I've had them the last 40 years. I hope because of their wild nature that theywill have some resistance.
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JoE777, if my Granddad were still alive he would be so sad, because he had a huge rose garden.
Just a few years ago my mom and I were talking about what a stellar spring we were having and how the roses everywhere were just gorgeous.
Before the roses, he and Grandmother collected and raised orchids for many years and had a good-sized greenhouse in their yard. One year we got an extended spell of single-digit cold and even with the greenhouse they lost almost all of the orchids.
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your memories bring tears to my eyes when I think of the love and nurturing that folks like our grandparents gave the gardens in their lives. I'll be 70 in September and I keep telling my son and grandchildren that when they sell this house to trim them back and dig them up. Those plants seem to have a will to live even in a bucket of dirt
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I had been thinking about having a trellis built against the south side of my house and planting one of the big old-fashioned "blowsy" roses, but I'm not going to now.
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Flowering trees now blooming here in the high desert.......
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Ahhh! A definite sign of spring.
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