Gardening, anyone?
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Spring is coming. These are from my front yard.
The plum tree sprouted in our back yard. DH moved it to the front.
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Luv all the spring pics. Teka sorry about the snow. No fun in April but pretty. We got none this year. Lori our weather is back and forth now. What's the old saying. . .April showers bring spring flowers. . .
Got out a little bit today, finally. Couple of cell pics -pink dogwood and formosa azeleas - now back to resting. Ughhh! The weather is gorgeous here today. Surgery bites!
Scottie
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Teka ..You snow does look Christmas picture card perfect !!
Wren ..Your home and garden are very pretty !!
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Scottie ..Your azeleas are a delight !
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Wren, eautiful, just beautiful!
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Magical~ I've always wanted to take one of the master gardening courses. Enjoy!!
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Here's my gardentoday.
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Scottie, praying you feel better soon. Beautiful garden and home!
Gypsy and Magical, I wish I could take a masters gardening course. My method of lopping off branches is not in the "Garden Master's Handbook"!
Teka, yay! Melt Snow Melt!!
Here's a picture of Mama and Papa Goose, they raise their goslings on our pond every year,Papa has his neck bent. Usually when they come and stay Spring has really sprung. Keeping my fingers crossed!
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Lori: Your own pond and geese. Love!
Beautiful warm and sunny day in Vermont. The snow is meeeellllllting.
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Dh got the magnolia and two rhododendrons planted today. We still have two large hollies and several roses, lilacs and hostas to go, hopefully Tuesday as thunderstorms tomorrow. Pixs of my Pride of Mobile azeleas and my white/pink wild native azeleas that have not bloomed for at least three years. Happy to see some blooms finally.
Scottie
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Scottie- how beautiful! Love the blooms!
We had a nice round of rain yesterday (april showers bring may flowers) and I finished pruning the remaining grasses and shrubs this morning. The air is cool again, and no hard freezes but also doing some covering at night. More rain on Tuesday!
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Lori. . .cute that you have a goose family each year. We used to have one that nested on the edge of our neighbor's yard. Haven't seen them this year. Also we now have too many adult geese that flock here each year. Last year we counted a record 20+ in our yard all at once. I tired to yell them away and two of the males hissed at me. Dh then the hose and they made a beeline back to the lake. Dh bought some spray for the yard which tastes and smells bad to them so they now stay out of the yard.
The below pix (not a good one) shows the area we're working on this year. I plan to add lots more azelaes and hostas around the magnolia. We used ot have a player in this area.
I could use some suggestions on how to camoutage the concrete sewer connection. We can't plant anything within 10 feet of either side so the last couple of years I've put large potted ferns in front of it. Wondering if there is some kind of movable screen we could get.
Scottie
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Scottie- have you seen these rock covers that you can use to cover pipes, covers, etc.? They sell them in many home improvement stores, this is a site that also has them.
I have one of those in my yard too but it is is in the front between the house and a large rosemary bush, so not that visible unless you walk to the front door. I have thought about getting one of these though.
http://www.improvementscatalog.com/landscape-rocks...
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I saw a yard (perhaps on here?) that had rocks in the front with plants interspersed. The largest rock covered some sort of pipe; the others were real. It was very attractive.
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Jazzy. . .the giant one would probably fit over it. It's pricey but Dh might consider it because it's an eyesore. I wonder if our local home improvement stores sell something like this so we could get it on sale.
Found this resin screen on the same site your listed. It's only $90 so Dh and I will look this weekend at Home Depot and Lowes. If not there then may order it. This would work and we could plant climbing flowers in front of it, I think. Resin Privacy Screen
We can't place any actual large landscape rocks around it. Anything we use has to be immediately removable. Sadly we lost a good sized maple tree to the sewer authority about 3 years ago. We knew that our landscaper had planted it in the easement but we had no problem for years. They they came through and cleared all the trees in the county easements.
Scottie
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Scottie- I am fairly sure I have seen them before at Home Depot and/or Lowes. Check out their web site or maybe their gardening center and you might get one for a better price. Walmarts have gardening centers too and could be another good source for a less expensive fake rock!
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Good morning everyone!
KB870, I love watching chickens eat, they are such amusing feathered friends.
Scottie, beautiful blooms! Wild azalea? I've never seen one before. Our neighbors lake has a bazillion geese on their side. Our two will take their babies over there to be socially "trained". Last year they had 9 babies, it's always amazing to see them for the first time and count how many they have. They all return in early winter for a reunion. Our pond is way to small to support Mama, Papa and 9 kids with mates! I'm sorry you lost your maple tree, I hate to watch my DH cut any of ours down. He's been clearing a small patch so the sun can reach the earth and I can spread some wild flower seeds in the area. He tells me trees? Or flowers? Hhmmm
Jazzy, we got a lot of rain here last night and expecting more today. I'm hoping it holds off or lets up for our fish delivery today. We restock our pond twice a year Spring and Fall. This time we're getting some golden shad, silver shad, fathead minnow, rosy minnow, hybrid striped bass, 2 baby carp, hybrid bluegill and sunfish. Most of our orders are feeder fish to keep our big fish getting bigger. We had 9 paddlefish added 2 years ago, I'd love to see how big they are now. They get up to 5' and 50 lbs but they are bottom feeders and the only way to catch one is to net it, oh well. I'll keep wishing I see one lo
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Flowers from my beautiful DD, SIL and 3 GrandAngels! My treatment graduation gift. Love them to pieces!
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Wenchie- how lovely! Enjoy those!
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Lori congrats on your graduation and very pretty flowers!
Our lake is stocked with medium sized fish. The HOA had our end dredged last fall due to too much silt coming from the two streams over nearly 20 years. One of the streams runs through our property. We have a heavy-duty inflated boat with battery motor so we can boat around and fish. Looking forward to that this summer. I think we also have a pair of ducks nesting on our end. Looking for babies soon.
We also had to clear some of our trees two years ago. We were in danger of losing our grass to the shade. I like the yard much better now anyway, but we'll now have to keep the remaining trees trimmed.
Tons of rain and bad storms yesterday and again tomorrow. April showers bring May flowers.
Scottie
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Congrats, Lori!
Still jealous about your lake, Scottie! It sounds so peaceful.
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Lori ..I love your ponds. !!! We have duck ponds adjoining our place , but they are not OURS ..Di you have a seat by the ponds to sit and enjoy it all ? Love your flowers from your family !
Scottie ..Oh Wow ..Your lake sounds wonderful !
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Good evening everyone. We have a storm moving in at the moment. I love storms! We just got a tornado warning for our area. We get them all the time so nothing to worry about 🤞
Lucy, we have 4 benches set out around the pond with logs to put poles in. We also have a 2 seater paddle boat I hope to be able to use this year. I had my DBMX last summer and it just sat in the water. We'll be putting our fishing boat out into the water in a few weeks, we hope.
Scottie, your lake sounds wonderful!
I had some tubs set out around the yard to catch some of this rain in but my DH brought them all in. I have an appointment tomorrow for a port flush, I'm going to do some shopping for my straw bale garden while I'm in town. I had planned to go get bales this morning but my truck bed is full of wood and I didn't have the energy to empty it out. Lo
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Hi friends- stopped at my favorite nursery today for a few more things for the pots. Scored on some really nice geraniums and other plants I will share pics of soon, but this was the thing that really impressed me. Just an incredible bloom like I have never seen!
I have a lot of cactus in my garden and thought this could be great for a spot out front where I need to replace something, but the nursery confirmed it is "low desert" meaning it won't winter well here in the higher desert climate where we get more of a real winter. So it would need to be in a pot and already have one sort of like this in a pot that comes in for the winter. So I decided to be content just taking a photo.
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Jazzy, what a lovely cactus. I haven't seen one like it. Can you post it's name please?
Found this at Sam's Club today. My indoor plants do not do well, except for my silk ones. Lol. So bought this one to replace my success which have all bit the dust. I used to have Christmas cactus and have never seen this one - Spring Cactus. Fingers crossed that it will survive.
Scottie
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Scottie- unfortunately I don't know the name of it but will try to research it. I have a cactus very similar to this one but it has never had flowers. We are going to have a chat about that.
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Hi everyone! The weather here has been beautiful and from what I can see of the forecast for the next 3 weeks it will remain beautiful!
Beautiful pictures of the cactus! I'm tempted to try my hand with orchids but I'm terrified at the same time! Ouy!
We got my garden plot all cleaned up and mowed yesterday. My DH and I went and picked up my straw bales and we'll be setting them out where I want them today. Once that is done I'll start on the 2 week fertilization process today as well. I'll have to get all the posts in the ground to help stabilize the bales but that's what I've got my DH for. I'm excited to get started! I'm taking pictures of start to finish and will post them soon.
A bit off topic but my DH told me we'd go on a real vacation once my treatments were over. And their over! He asked me if I'd figured out where I wanted to go yet? He says the world is at my feet! Any and all suggestions appreciated! I'd love to be able to visit my BC Sisters at some far out of the way places. Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Hoping everyone has a great Sunday!
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Good morning friends- I finished putting some of my flowers I got yesterday in pots and in the ground. The weather seems stable with warmer days and lows in the 40's, which keeps us safe from frost. I did some mulching of the gardens out front too, more work to do there. A pic of some of the pots included below.
But here is an amazing story during my potting time this morning. I was out in the backyard working on these pots when I heard a flapping sound then some chirping and thought some birds were in the yard trying to mate. I looked up and was stunned to see what I think was a kestral falcon that had come down and nailed a small bird on the ground. This was literally feet away from me and was stunned by the sight, and the kestral was surprised when I looked up too (guess I was not moving much?) Anyways, he grabbed his prey and took off. Now I will say this is not the first time I have seen the area birds of prey do this around the hood, but will say it was the first time one did it right in front of me! Wowza!
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Lori- what time of the year are you thinking of traveling? Soon here in the spring, this summer, in the fall? Depending on the time of year, I can make some suggestions to you as I have traveled a lot around the US for work. My thought is you might enjoy a good road trip for one starting idea......
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E- you should join the gardening thread. Anyone else who likes to garden too!
https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/7/topics/...
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W00tw00t!!!
Thanks, Jazzygirl, for the thread tip! DH and I are planning raised beds for this spring/summer; we purchased our little house at the end of August and didn't have a chance to do much of anything in the yard last year. We've just started a bunch of vegetable seeds indoors, and we're gonna do herbs in boxes - can't wait!!!
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