Gardening, anyone?
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Happy Thanksgiving week my gardening friends (for those here in the US). A couple indoor blooms from my Xmas (but apparently early) cactus and my blooming jade plant.
Wishing everyone a delicious holiday. Be safe if you are traveling!
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My xmas cactus is flowering too! Nice Jade plant - wow I didn't know Jades flowered!
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Lovely lovely lovely!
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Happy Thanksgiving Folks from our house to yours!
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Gma- that is hilarious 😂
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DH's Thanksgiving cactus. Spoiler alert, he has a grow light in the basement.
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Beautiful pictures!
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Hi folks- back from Texas and just LOVED the Dallas Arboretum. It was a high light of my time there! Here are some pics:
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Teka- I loved those pink things too but cannot remember what they are called. Maybe one of the fellow gardeners here will know?
I have a Xmas amaryllis box from last year and starting to water it again and hope it will bloom. My Xmas cactus has gone crazy with blooms.
I eyed a pointsettia today at the grocery store but did not buy one yet.....
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Love the photos from the Dallas Arboretum. I have to write that down for a "go see" list. :-) I am especially loving the peanut pumpkin and have to look and see if I can buy seeds.
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The peanut pumpkin looks like it's from another planet. A little creepy.
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Ladies the pictures are awesome. I have been out of pocket working too many hours, photographing the annual 2-day BC walk and editing all those pics, etc. No gardening but we did have 10-12 inches of snow on my birthday three weeks ago. That has never happened this early in all my years in HotLanta. I have missed most of the fall but did get my annual trip to the Swamp to photograph birds and such over Thanksgiving. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Holidays to all.
Scottie
Great Heron Okefenokee Swamp
Sunset on the Swamp
And Pandas. . .because who doesn't love Pandas.
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Really pretty, Teka. Sorry it's so cold back east.
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Oh my people, that is just TOO cold. I have asthma and when the air is that cold, I can't breathe. We had deep freeze here about 7 years ago one Feb and it went to -8 F here in the desert.
It abnormally warm here right now, and no moisture for close to 3 months now. I am keeping up with watering the trees and gardens at least once a week. I lost a couple trees in 2011 after years of drought and think that deep freeze just took a few weakened things out. Some of the trees look like they are trying to bud out too (way too soon). The fruit trees will bloom by end of February but they are months early.
We are hoping our moisture is just coming late this year. Ski season is a bust here in the west for the most part.
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Made homemade suet for the birds they are loving it.
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Teka, that’s funny! Bitter cold here too. Temp has just risen to 1 degree. Pretty birds,G.
I have been wanting a Christmas cactus and finally saw one and bought it. If makes me happy to see it in my window.
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We have woodpeckers too ;-) The blue jay will make a noise like a hawk and make all the other birds flee.
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GMA- I love the bird pics, especially that beautiful wood pecker. The colors on his head and that eye!
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Happy New Year to all 🎉
I love birds in the garden too ..we have 3 feeders hanging in trees ..birds and flowers are a gorgeous combination !!
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Lovely birds ladies. Thanks for sharing,
Scottie
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I was at a yoga retreat this weekend in the mountains here and the retreat center had this hyacynth blub in the vase and thought it was so cool. Going to try this at home!
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That's pretty even though not in bloom yet, Jazzy. They smell so darn good. I love hyacinth.
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Teka- how lovely. I have one that is about to unfold and waiting to see the color (think it is gong to be a pink variety). I love the amaryllis.
One of my favorite tricks after any holiday is to check the local grocery store for left over flowers at discount. I was at one of my stores yesterday and they had these fabulous bins of bunched flowers for $1.99 each. I got two of them and this is the beautiful post V-day bouquet that was the result. Pretty amazing for just under four bucks, eh?
I see our fruit trees budded out and they start blooming here soon (late Feb to March). Spring is on the horizon, but we can see snow here through April, sometimes in to May too.
Have a great President's day weekend to those here in the US!
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We have daffodils in bloom and a hard freeze predicted. Should I cut them and bring them inside? Or will they thaw and be OK?
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Wren44: are the daffodils in the ground? Mine have, while in full and enthusiastic bloom, survived being buried in snow. Spring comes late to my corner of Michigan.
About the most exciting gardening thing for me so far is ordering my wildflower mixes.
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Wrenn, can you cover the daffodils with a sheet to protect them from the frost?
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Wren- the daffs come up here often with our snow but it is not heavy snow. I think I saw you had some light snow falling up in WA today? I think they will be okay, but if you have a way to cover, not a bad idea?
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Is anybody else starting to think about a vegetable garden? I didn't plant one last year because I knew I'd be in the middle of chemo and probably wouldn't be up to maintaining it by myself, and I REALLY missed my garden. I can't wait for some home-grown veggies!
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