How Does Your Garden Grow?
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This comes close enough ...... I am enjoying the spring in the flower, garden, trees and bushes sense ... (*Last year .... it got real warm in March and things bloomed early ..... then there were some cold and frost days that wiped out a lot of crops, flowers ... bushes and trees ..... or changed their cycle .... or caused them to just survive) .... this year the flowering and blooming are looking great and smelling great ..... even when the weather is going up and down and all around
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Another long weekend and, after another spell of dismal weather, the sun is visiting as well enticing me back outside. Since my last post I've bought a garden shredder from a local ebayer, used it to the point where it burst into flames, and then made another trip to the tip to remove the outstanding clippings - and the garden shredder The front bed is now replanted with bedding plants from a local garden centre - they were heavily reduced as the garden centre struggles to offer suitable plants for the unseasonable weather - late frosts still occasionally. This weekend I've refurbished the small deck in my back garden with new decking boards - the old decking "tiles" I used for it when I built it were inherited with the house and have rotted to the point of breaking. The garden bench I also inherited is looking shabby but sanding and restaining should bring that back to service. But to crown the newly revived deck I'm picking up a new bench - commonly given such names as "love seat" "Jack and Jill seat" "companion seat" I don't envision it being used for romantic assignments but it does have a convenient table between the two seats that should hold my food, drink and books well. The back garden has always served our pets better than us but now we no longer have them we can look to cutting more beds and bringing the area into greater personal use. But softly, softly, don't want to drive the neighbours into jealous competition Martin
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martinput:
The garden bench I also inherited is looking shabby but sanding and restaining should bring that back to service.
Well I'm truly amazed, this bench was seemingly on it's way out with a rough weathered surface hosting extensive lichen. Cue the electric sander (I avoid elbow grease wherever I can ) And it transpired the "weathering" was literally skin deep, the sander whisked that away leaving health robust fresh timber, crack and splinter-free. This bench has been outdoors thirteen years at least, inherited with the house - so even longer than that. It's never been given any wood treatment or teak oil in that time. I have remedied that now applying a couple of coats of outdoor varnish and look forward to good weather to have an evening basking in the sun (when the sun comes into that area of the garden). Lesson to learn, don't disregard weathered seemingly past-sell-by-date garden furniture - at least give it a whizz with a sander before considering replacement. Old garden furniture is usually better built than the equivalent replacement and may yet serve many years more. Martin
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martinput:
Lesson to learn, don't disregard weathered seemingly past-sell-by-date garden furniture - at least give it a whizz with a sander before considering replacement. Old garden furniture is usually better built than the equivalent replacement and may yet serve many years more. Martin
These thoughts could be applied to us all! LOL
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I got a balcony garden started. They seem to do well. I got some tomatoes beginning to sprout and a bell pepper plant beginning its growth. Not too bad.the other plants are doing pretty good. love doris
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I bought some red geraniums today & when I got them home, I looked at the tag & they are Ringo red.
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oobu24:
I bought some red geraniums today & when I got them home, I looked at the tag & they are Ringo red.
Does it say on the pot or label where they were grown at? I've heard of that geranium color name too!
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SurSteven:
oobu24:
I bought some red geraniums today & when I got them home, I looked at the tag & they are Ringo red.
Does it say on the pot or label where they were grown at? I've heard of that geranium color name too!
Kalamazoo flower group, galesburg, mich. You must know about these?
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oobu24:
SurSteven:
oobu24:
I bought some red geraniums today & when I got them home, I looked at the tag & they are Ringo red.
Does it say on the pot or label where they were grown at? I've heard of that geranium color name too!
Kalamazoo flower group, galesburg, mich. You must know about these?
You might say that!
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SurSteven:
oobu24:
SurSteven:
oobu24:
I bought some red geraniums today & when I got them home, I looked at the tag & they are Ringo red.
Does it say on the pot or label where they were grown at? I've heard of that geranium color name too!
Kalamazoo flower group, galesburg, mich. You must know about these?
You might say that!
would you like to say more?
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It looks like our kid's mystery seeds may be a watermelon plant! Mini Irises are blooming, roses are blooming early this year too. Planted purple canterbury bells in hanging baskets.
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oobu24:
SurSteven:
oobu24:
SurSteven:
oobu24:
I bought some red geraniums today & when I got them home, I looked at the tag & they are Ringo red.
Does it say on the pot or label where they were grown at? I've heard of that geranium color name too!
Kalamazoo flower group, galesburg, mich. You must know about these?
You might say that!
would you like to say more?
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SurSteven:
oobu24:
SurSteven:
oobu24:
SurSteven:
oobu24:
I bought some red geraniums today & when I got them home, I looked at the tag & they are Ringo red.
Does it say on the pot or label where they were grown at? I've heard of that geranium color name too!
Kalamazoo flower group, galesburg, mich. You must know about these?
You might say that!
would you like to say more?
OMG! You have a LOT OF FLOWERS! Just beautiful!
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That is about 5% of our garden!...
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SurSteven:
That is about 5% of our garden!...
what do you have planted in the other parts? BEAUTIFUL flowers!
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hey_kittay:
SurSteven:
That is about 5% of our garden!...
what do you have planted in the other parts? BEAUTIFUL flowers!
literally millions of various plants and flowers for all seasons and occasions and a picture my brother took at strawberry fields...
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Wow! Beautiful!!!!
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OMG! I want those mums! Are they blooming now? THAT may be what I should put in front of my new evergreens. Yesterday I bought & planted a few orange Asiatic lilies & this morning they are blooming! They must have appreciated the rain overnight.
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Am glad you all love the pictures! I love all the beautiful flora and color combinations! The mums pics are from september 2010 and the poinsettias from november 2007. Mums were developed by the Chinese centuries upon centuries ago...and poinsettias were popularized, associated with Christmas and first widely distributed in the U.S. in the 1900's. They come from South America and Mexico!
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oh! That's good. I didn't think mums would be blooming now...or they'd be bloomin idiots. : yeah...bad one.