Gardening, anyone?
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It's very difficult to dig out and nothing else works. Plus a lot of it is on slopes that are pretty steep. So they chip away at it, but it's far from gone.
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Beautiful plants Jazzy a nice variety .
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More hydrangeas.
Scottie
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Beautiful hydrangeas Scottie, I love them
I spent the day out in the garden weeding and getting the last of my garden fence up. Tomorrow I'll plant the rest of my tomato, pepper and vine plants. My corn and okra are poking up out of the ground. I hope I can keep the raccons away from my garden by giving them corn on the deck instead of on the cob! lol
I also got the pool cover off, the pump hooked up and topping the water off. I'll get the pump running and the baraccuda working so the pool will be ready for when my kids and grandkids get here in July. All my grandchildren are water babies. With my surgery in 4 weeks I don't think I will get any swimming in while they are here but who knows?
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Love the hydrangea.
My first roses of the season.
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Beautiful roses! My roses didn't make it thru the very mild winter for some reason so I'll need to replace them soon.
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All the pictures are wonderful. The flowers are gorgeous. I am envious of all of you who have flowers in bloom already. My garden is full of green leaves, lots of green leaves, and I can't wait until everything bursts into bloom. I do see buds on my salvia. The deer haven't discovered my hosta plants yet, so they look great. The strawberry plants are covered with flowers, and I hope to see strawberries soon. The squirrels and chipmunks usually eat half the crop, but I put up a good fight. My stonecrop were covered with tiny black bugs last week. I quickly called upon my good friend, Google, and learned that I should spray the plants with Neem, the only insecticide I have, btw. It seemed to do the trick. I have never had pests on the stone crop plants before. I have some vegetable plants ready for planting. I have been hardening them off and will be planting them in another week or so.
Keep posting pictures. It gives me hope of things to come.
Lynne
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Scottie- fabulous hydrangeas. We are behind you here.
Meow- your roses look sooooo healthy! Just beautiful.
Planted out some tomatoes, lettuces, broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Here in coastal OR we can grow these cool loving vegetables almost all year round.
My roses are not looking great. I managed a bouquet today but new foliage is not looking good. The blooms are very fragrant though.
Here is today's pick, with some verbena bonarienses and catmint
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Beautiful arrangements jackiebird!
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Beautiful Jackbirdie! I love fresh picked flowers 🌼🌸
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Jackbirdie. . .Lovely flower arrangement. I need to cut some of my hydrangeas and make one. I'm not handy with arrangements. Much better designing stuff on the computer.
We had deer problems last year. They ate my new hostas and stripped my blueberry bushes. Dh got a pest repellent spray from Home Depot. No more deer, no raccoons in the pond, no little rabbits, no geese on my grass and the beavers stayed away from my giants hydrangeas and crape myrtles this year. They bypassed our yard and went after everyone elses. We're on a lake where we can't fence the yard so only option.
Scottie
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This is a rose bush I planted about 28 years ago. It is supposed to bloom once but does many times.
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Beautiful roses! Love it!
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oh wow Meow. Georgous.
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Outstanding Meow!
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Meow beautiful roses, your rose bush looks like a small tree.
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Two interesting things I found at Lowe's last week, a tiny padhye asian lily and a bluebell flower.
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Wow Jazzygirl they are beautiful! I've never seen a bluebell flower before.
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Jazzy lovely lily, I have grown bluebells before, but not as nice as yours. We had had four days of cold rainy weather, covered all my bedding plants.i find the cold winds kills my sweet potato vines.
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The Canadian goose family returned for a visit to our lake today. The pair have been laying at our lake for a few years. There are 7 goslings this year, they had 9 last year. They grow so fast!
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Well ladies, I am highly annoyed by something in my backyard biting the tops off my flowers! I noticed a couple of the pentunia's had been nipped last week, but today came home to find the lovely lily posted above down on it's side and all the flowers gone! Ugh! I don't know if I will get any more blooms on that one, but going to plant it out front. I don't have animals so I can't blame them!
Wench, that family of geese are so cute! I love how vigilant the parents are with protecting their offspring.
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Oh, Gardening Gals.... I have been in Computer Purgatory for the past two weeks.
Now I am up and running (after one massive repair effort, an expensive All-In-One that decided to become defective the minute I set it up. and a tower/monitor combo that is probably more than I need), so am hoping to post more pics.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the pictures of all y'all's gardens...
I see snail trails every morning, and I promised a friend I wouldn't use snail bait, so I used diatomaceous earth. Ha. Didn't do a thing.
Hey, has anyone ever grown a bamboo plant on purpose?
Instead of tearing up last year's big landscaping project (thanks to the neighbor who cut down all the 100 foot redwoods that provided shade), I am thinking of just filling in blank spots with bamboo plants in galvanized tubs. I can get them to grow 15-20 feet tall, and I don't need a dense screen, just filler. The galvanized metal keeps the runners from getting loose, and we'll fill the bottom with pea gravel, then drill drain holes around the edge, so we can see if anything tries to escape.
This way, I can put pots in between all the new Nandina shrubs we planted last year. They will hide the lower part of the bamboo, and the tops will bush out and look leafy and foresty. (I hope...)
Am I being too optimistic?
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Blessings, Good idea. They sell non-running bamboo. That would be easier to contain.
Jazzy, Have you made any crows mad lately? We planted onion starts one year and the crows pulled them up. We replanted. They pulled them up again. This went on until we gave up.
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Wren bamboo would look lovely in a garden, too bad about the Redwoods.
Teka the Japanese maple is a beautiful tree. I am not able to grow it here, but I do have an Amur maple and the leaves turn red in the fall. I had two but a not so nice neighbour destroyed one.
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While transplanting a few plants this afternoon I noticed the corn the squirrels have hidden in my flower pots is growing better than the corn I planted in my garden. Go figure lol
I love bamboo too! I've never grown it myself but a few apartment complexes have it. The yard guys just mow over the new shoots and that keeps it in line. I do the same with my blackberry bushes. I've noticed some of my baby peaches have fallen off the tree with the last hard rain. I hope some grow to be a good eating size. I still have no flowers to take pictures of yet but I've got stems with buds so they are almost here. lol
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Teka - nothing "stunted" about that beautiful red Japanese maple...
Wren - the "non-running" bamboo is called "clumping", but unfortunately, that variety is not as hardy as the runners in our zone 8 temps. (Supposed to be 100 on Wednesday!) But the galvanized tubs are supposed to be great at containing them.
Lookforward - Yeah, I'm almost over losing the redwoods. It is what it is. Except that he replaced them with three large olive trees... very Mediterranean. As long as they are the non-fruit producing kind, we'll be good, but if not, we're in for a mess, and horrific pollen. This was a nice house and yard to begin with, and the new owner has gutted not only the entire inside of the house, but also the entire front and back yards. He will end up having spent close to a $900,000 or more when all is finished. We wonder why he didn't just spend the money on a house in a million dollar neighborhood, where everything was more to his liking?
Lori - so funny that the squirrels plant corn! I keep saying I wish we had squirrels (we're in kind of a new development) but I know they can be naughty critters. You are so lucky to have blackberries and peaches!
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Just love this pic of raindrops on a spiderweb...
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Blessings. . .I luv Bamboo. Our zoo actually buys bamboo from local homes with extra to feed our Pandas. We had a ton in a rental home when I was a kid and we made bamboo forts. I've been thinking about adding some but it's just one of my gazillion ideas for the backyard for when I win the lottery. (When I do win, dh and I will probably buy a fancy truck and camper and travel the states, leaving the house and backyard to the kids to deal with LOL).
Jazzy, I had deer, rabbits, whole geese families and raccoons and possibly beavers munching on my yard last year. We got a spray that leaves a sent they all hate. No critters this year.
Teka, I am also trying to work a couple of Japanese Maples into my yard. The next door neighbor has a beautiful one.
Dreaming of a English Garden. . .
Scottie
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I've been on vacation so I'm enjoying catching up and everyone's updates and lovely pictures. Love all the hydrangeas, roses and other flowers I'm seeing. Very cool picture of the waterdrops on the web, Blessings. I came home to some new blooms, so maybe I'll run out and catch you up on some photos while I'm out mowing the 6 inch grass! In the meantime, I wanted to share some tropical photos I took on vaca.
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