Gardening, anyone?
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Still have some nice color in the gardens here in mid October. The pink mum came out while I was away last week!
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and unbelievably, I'm still harvesting veg! Here's from yesterday:
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Jackiebird- yum! I am going to go to the farmers market tomorrow and get some of the last of the seasonal produce here.
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Jazzy.. Your photos from when you were away are beautiful.. Simply gorgeous.. Picture card perfect.. as are the flowers in your garden at home.!
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OMG, so beautiful Flavia.
I went to the farmers market today and still lots of good veggies there. I notice there are still a lot of flowers in bloom. We have a few more weeks until a frost comes.
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Flavia- that table is the epitome of BOUNTY!
Beautiful!!!!
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Happy Thanksgiving! Not many leaves left today as we have a wind warning. Gusting to 100 klms.
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Ladies, I just now found this thread. I was an active flower gardener for many years. When diagnosed with bc, I stopped completely for three whole years. My husband would use the weed eater to chop out all the weeds growing in the flower beds. I simply had no desire to get out there. Last year, my interest blossomed (!) again. Dh and I pulled out numerous shrubs and trees dead from the brutal winter, I trimmed everything up and despite my aching body, pulled all the weeds throughout the spring and summer.
This year my passion for it grew (!). I reworked several flower beds and scoured garden centers for marked down perennials. Even tho the yard is not big, It keeps me busy. I am quite sad to see the colder weather arriving as I so enjoyed the flowers this year.
We also visited a lovely botanical garden in Youngtown, Ohio, an hour from me, as well as an extremely delightful urban garden in Zanesville, Ohio about two hours away. They were both very inspiring and fed my soul. Can't wait to check out more gardens like that next year, and hopefully take a few home garden tours.
I've been browsing this thread and looking at all the delicious flower photos. Most of my flowers are done blooming this year except for a few knockout roses and some lingering blackeyedSusans, but heres a photo of the coneflower I finally got to bloom late this summer...we have a small pond, you can see a water lily behind the tree.
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Divine- Wekcome! Divine coneflowers as well. I knew I liked you for a reason
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Welcome Divine! Those cone flowers are pretty! I too was not doing much for awhile with my gardens, but got back into it this year.
It will be sad to see the flowers go away soon, but remember we will have next spring to start all over again!
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My fading garden. . .I look forward to this board next spring. We are on a lake and we clear cut the lakefront this year to get more sun in our backyard. Dh and spend most of our spring weekends adding to our gardens and we have a lot to do next year now that we have more planting room. I admit to having way too many knockout roses, but they are sooo easy to take care of and I still have limited ROM so I do try to get the most flowers for my buck and plants that DH won't have to spend hours trimming.
Divine. . .love the butterfly and cone flowers. I need to plant more perennials.
Scottie
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Scottie, I love knockout roses, too. They have such a long bloom time. This year, I found them on sale so I added a few more into the yard. Here's a photo taken in June:
I've been to Atlanta twice (2013, 2014) and found it to be a beautiful city. I believe visiting it was instrumental in reviving my gardening interest. Strolling thru some neighborhoods in the Old Fourth Ward and Inman Park, and touring the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library gardens...more things which fed my soul. I describe it as American spirit, Atlanta Grace
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Lovely roses ladies! I am good with many things, but not roses. My neighbor across the street does fabulously with them so I just admire his. Fading gardens still beautiful!
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Welcome , Divine. You must visit Charleston in the spring. Omg walking through that historic city and peering into the gardens behind the wrought iron gates with everything in bloom... Totally the same soul-filling experience. I also let my flower beds and veggie garden go to weeds being down two summers out of four. I finally got the front and side yards in good order but I may never get to the back. Love digging in the dirt but not enough hours in the day!
Beautiful roses. I had a lot of tea roses and bush type from the previous owner but between the thorns and Japanese beetles invasions every year I started to hate them. I dug all of them up😁
I think I want to go live with Flavia. There's would be such goodness to eat!
Very windy here too in Chicago. Yellow locust leaves pelted my window at work all afternoon. It sounded like raiin but it was sunny.
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Our Katsura tree turns a beautiful gold in the fall. About a week later every single leaf falls. It is lovely while it lasts.
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Had a good walkabout the Botanical Gardens today before dd's soccer game. Will have to go back to see more of this exhibit -- Scarecrows in the Garden
Scottie
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scottiesmom, those are so cute. I'm gradually adjusting to the cooler temps here, a freeze warning is in effect overnight. I put some mulch on a few of the perennials I planted this year to help them thru the winter. The weather channel is predicting a dry, above normal winter for our area. The past two have been brutal, so I wouldn't mind an easier one....and hopefully quick one!
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Scottie- what cute photos! I love anything fall decorations and especially fond of scarecrow things. What a fun afternoon you had!
Divine-I too have heard the winter will be different for the north and south. CA through the southwest and further on will be colder and wetter than usual with El Ninjo and up north and on east, warmer and drier. I know the winters back east have been really bad the past few years. You guys need a break, and we need the moisture here for our water supply. They are forecasting a lot of snow here in the mountains this winter. Maybe I will get to go snowshoeing for a change!
I need to spray my house plants that will be coming inside soon with bug spray before I start integrating the dining area. I have four really beautiful large red geraniums I want to bring indoors for the winter as they do okay and then go back out in the spring, but not sure I will have the space for everything. Must work on this tomorrow. Where is that greenhouse when you need it?
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On the subject of bringing plants in for the winter. . .I have two giant ferns in pots in the bakyard. Do I cut them down before I bring them in so they will grow back next spring? Any fern experts on board?
Scottie
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I find ferns are hardy for me in pots out of doors. So I don't bring mine in. They die down on their own and send up new shoots in the spring. When I see the new growth coming, I then clean up the old. I think the prior year's dead/dying growth may protect the fern. Might be unsightly, though, depending on where you have them placed.
I would call or stop in at a local garden center with a clipping of a frond for identification and ask what to do in your area. not sure how much frost you have in Atlanta. Good luck!
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We got our first freeze Friday night. I drug in my pots on the front porch and did the same last night since there's no other lows in the thirties for the 10 day forecast and they still look good after I took out the poor performers. Zinnias, vinca, geraniums and wave petunias are still looking great. Other petunias got too leggy and the celosia were a disaster. I forgot about my herb pots on the back porch. If I'd thought of it, I would have hauled those in but they are dead now.
I love the scarecrows! How creative. I'm partial to the lady in the purple dress.
Yes I love El Nino years in Chicago. I always love a milder winter! We've had a lovely fall.
I'm not familiar with the ferns, but I read once that youc an store your geraniums bare-rooted and replant then in the winter. So you might want to look that up, Jazzy if you can't find a spot for them.
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I have ferns that are perennials, planted in the ground and come back each year. But I don't think the ones sold in hanging baskets at garden centers are winter hardy and I would bring them in. One year I gave a hanging basket fern to my mother in law at the end of the season and she kept it inside for a number of years. You might want to experiment with them. I don't think I'd cut it back tho, if you're bringing it inside.
We had killing frost last night. I also brought three pots of annuals in the house overnight. I will try to keep them going until Halloween.
I did the geranium dry root thing a couple years but it took forever in the summer for them to come back to life and rebloom. But if you have the patience you might want to try it.
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I heard it was cold back east today. Snowed in upstate NY and parts of CT. Winter is a comin'!
Sprayed my jade plants and other succulents that will be coming in soon this afternoon. I noticed my jade plants are starting to bloom. Usually they do that around December. Will take a pic when the flowers are out! Tiny little white flowers that are so pretty! The weather says night time going into the 30s later this week so plants need to start integrating into the house these next few days.
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I think you can take cuttings of geraniums and grow them in a window over the winter. Plant outside when warm enough. I agree about asking a garden center about the fern. We have one hanging in the shower by the window. It's the kind florists put in bouquets. I think we brought it from Texas. Our native ferns are sword ferns and they overwinter just fine. They die back and come back in the spring.
My SIL got married in Dec. in southern California. Their apartment building had a jade hedge along the sidewalk and it was blooming. I had no idea they ever bloomed.
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A number of years ago, HGTV had a show called "Gardener's Diary". Does anyone remember it or did anyone watch it? Each episode, a woman named Erica Glasener would stroll through a home flower garden with the resident who owned the home. It was very laid back and for a while it was on in the morning as my son was getting ready for school. He always said it was a snooze fest but I absolutely love it, and it was a really nice, relaxing way to start each morning. Erica would point out various flowers and foilage and trees, and all the different varieties of English, cottage, woodland and rustic gardens were delightful to see. They don't have any garden shows on HGTV these days, and I miss that. Its usually just some landscaping thrown around the perimeter of the homes they fix up.
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I do remember that show! It influenced me greatly, as I got interested in gardening fairly late in life, and she made things seem less imposing, as there was so much to learn and catch up on! Thanks for the nice memory! I would watch the series again if it was downloadable somewhere
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Saw this on FB today and thought I should share.....
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nice Jazzy! Yes the bees need help!
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Hm, well I never knew that about bees. This year, I haven't pruned anything back anything for a couple months to see if it helps the plants and shrubs overwinter a little better. For example, a butterfly bush grew back from the roots last year because all the growth from previous years had died off. I left it growing wild and wooly this year to see if that helps.
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