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Post by ragdall on May 22, 2011 8:26:36 GMT
I brought home several kinds of primroses, also. It's pasta, beans, and peanut butter for us for a while. Maeve, Flowers and trees feed the soul. The colourful Stewartia leaves will be cheerful in the fall. Pasta, beans, and peanut butter should keep your bodies going for now. I hope that you won't be without other nourishment for long. Jennie, Did Bianca leave enough of the sweetpea plants intact that they will be able to make a comeback?
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Post by maeve on May 22, 2011 10:55:03 GMT
My garden plant motto:
"If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, And of thy meager store Two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul." -Sheikh Muslihuddin Saadi Shirazi
When we have a little cash, I'll add fruit and veggies to our diet again.
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Post by maeve on May 23, 2011 0:21:54 GMT
Our apple orchard is coming into bloom. Attachments:
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Post by sandrainsydney on May 23, 2011 8:17:01 GMT
wow!
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Post by maeve on May 23, 2011 9:34:13 GMT
That first apple is Redfield. This one is Dudley Winter. This is the first year the young trees are old enough for some to bloom. With the older wild apples, rhododendrons, forget-me-nots, violets and daffodils all blooming we can begin to see how lovely the orchard area will be some day. Attachments:
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Post by jennieg on May 24, 2011 9:52:43 GMT
Rags, she chomped a few leaves but the stems and roots are intact - we're waiting for the (very welcome!) rain to pass so they can be planted. Hopefully in spring I will have some sweet peas!
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Post by ragdall on May 24, 2011 16:40:07 GMT
Maeve, The apple blossoms are stunningly beautiful! What a wonderful sight your orchard must be. It looks as if you'll have some apples in a few months. Do the wild apple trees bear edible fruit?
Jennie, I'm glad that Bianca left enough for the plants to keep growing. You're waiting for rain to end so plants can grow through the winter. I'm waiting until there is less danger of frost so that my plants will be safe outdoors in our short summer.
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Post by maeve on May 24, 2011 19:44:09 GMT
Hi, rags. The wild apples have begun to bear some edible fruit after years of restorative pruning. Whether we have any good apples this year depends on whether the bees get some sunshine for visiting the flowers, and what destructive insects visit. I doubt we'll get any pears this year; too wet and cold for too long.
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Post by ragdall on May 27, 2011 10:57:52 GMT
Maeve, Lets hope for some good warm bee weather soon. I hope that the pears will surprise you.
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Post by ragdall on May 27, 2011 10:58:38 GMT
Mary? Did your garden dry out? Did anything survive?
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Post by maryinkentucky on May 30, 2011 14:31:31 GMT
It finally dried out enough last week to replant a few onions, plant beans, squash, corn, sunflowers, watermelon, cantelope, cucumbers, zinnias and tomatoes.
Then it flooded again last week, but the newly planted seeds are up now. Today is hot and dry, The ground is like a rock, but I've tried to keep it loosened. My flowers are the prettiest they've ever been. They are in a raised bed and have had constant rain.
At least we've missed the tornadoes. I got real worried last week and backed up all my pictures on my computer. I had a horrible thought about what would I try to save if I had 20 minutes notice. Naturally the pictures were my first thought.
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Post by sandrainsydney on May 31, 2011 2:50:49 GMT
advantage of a laptop - you can grab it when running! which I could do with my external backup thingy. my north-facing window noon, 31stMay, rainy overcast day - * pink & red geraniums, * begonia, bottom right, with tiny creamy-white flower *4 flowering zygoczcactus are in action at the moment Top left zygo is verigated pink, zygo on the same level at right is pink, apricot zygo has a white tray, zygo on the window sill under the curly tail of the macrame hanger is in bud I have 8 zygocactus. 3 flower in spring/summer, Oct-Dec, & the one with long leaves had tiny white flowers along the length of the leaves when I bought it last July. my oldest begonia is peeking from behind the curtain - I've had it since at least 1978 (& have a pic to prove it!) This year it started dying & now it only has 4 hanging leaves left, with only 2 looking like they are alive. Attachments:
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Post by sandrainsydney on May 31, 2011 2:55:36 GMT
here's the verigated pink one. Attachments:
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Post by jennieg on Jun 1, 2011 4:53:45 GMT
Oooo, pretty!
The other day I noticed a pink nerine flowering, I can't remember if it flowered last year or not. We're still making garden discoveries.
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Post by jennieg on Jun 1, 2011 4:58:02 GMT
Yesterday I planted the sweet pea seedlings, and the lemon balm - we had rain (yay!) earlier this week so it was a good time to pop them in. Fingers crossed that we will have sweet peas in spring! Most seedlings looked quite good, but the one that was particularly chomped by the cat looked a bit sad.....however, we'll see if it survives.
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