How are all your gardens doing??

[SKendall]

How are all your gardens doing??

Judie, your garden sounds heavenly. Have taken out a lot of brush to allow more sun so have planted a jasmine and honeysuckle. Have planted a blue hosta and white lily of the valley garden.

Shade garden has green and yellow hostas with corals bells and 14 rhodies. Columbines are in bloom right now along with other rhodies, but roses already showing black spot. Trying to find a good spot for hydrangeas and about 15 dalias. Alpine strawberries taking over the world but the birds getting the best of the berries.

[southernbelle47]

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Too funny Lucky!
I have a old variety red hibiscus that seriously looks like pot!
My son brought me my first plant from his then -soon to be grandmother-in-law. He stopped and threw it away before getting on the interstate because he thought that was what it was! LOL She personally brought me another!
It's as beautiful deep red and has seeds that I gathered and started more plants with this spring....I KNOWWWWWWW....seeds....humm..
I've only seen pot in pictures but I think it probably grows "wild" in my area! We go check our back 40 for squatters every now and then!

I'm having my cereal this morning with 1/2 cup of MY first ever Premier Blueberries. Its so dry here that that may be the only 1/2 I will have! (

I have to go rotate some water hoses. I'll be back!
:h :l :h :l

[Niblet]

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Well, I had to replant my peas this year.. They rotted in the ground. Guess I watered them too much or maybe the store sold me last years seed... My hubby burned all the dead dry grass all up and down my 3 rows of raspberries and has killed 85 % of all my canes !! URGG!! Well, he though he was doing something good by getting rid of the grass.. All the new grass is a nice thick bright green thanks to all the potash added to the soil from burned grass.... Oh well, the 15 % of canes are doing just awesome and there are new baby canes popping up where the dead ones are... Next year I'm gonna lock up all his matches though ! Corn, beans, carrots and lettuce aren't up yet, but the onions and potatoes look great... Hubby bought a tiger lily that is getting more beautiful blooms all the time... I love that idea about the baby diaper Belle( think it was you) Oh yeah and we have 2 tomatoe plants and a cucumber plant all doing well. Isn't it nice to see everything grow? Happy gardening all ! ~Niblet~

[southernbelle47]

How are all your gardens doing??

A "garden" story

Fight For It Over Memorial Day I visited my daughter in her new home and helped her a little with her first gardening efforts. She had a hanging basket that was shriveling daily despite her best attempts at pampering it in every way imaginable. So, we visited a gardening center and bought some replacement flowers I felt would do well on her porch.
I yanked the pitiful, nearly dead guy out the basket and threw it aside. "If you don't want to live, I know someone who will" I said as I repotted the basket. Silly to be talking to a plant on its last legs.

We moved on and planted more summer annuals near the garage. On a whim, I turned to our basket discard, limply lying on the sidewalk and said: "Would you like one more chance?"
I threw it into a leftover hole none too gently but did at least give it a drink of water. We stood back and I solemnly proclaimed: "It's up to you now. Live or die. If you want to live, you better start fighting for it." And -- no more coddling.

I asked my daughter this morning what has happened since I left. Well, amazingly, this little guy has perked up and appears to have decided to live and "bloom where he is planted" as the old saying goes.
I'm glad because I like survivors -- whether plants or people. I've known some folks planted in some pretty difficult ground with little to no pampering and yet they somehow chose life.

What about you? No matter where you are planted, have you decided to survive? Don't look for coddling - if you want to live, fight for it!

Love you all.
Nancy:l

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[Guest]

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I miss my garden...

I have a terrace here filled with ivy's, lots of herbs and potted flowering shrubs. I love seeing them hang down over the wrought iron...it looks like the movie 'Under the Tuscan Sun'. I miss having my tomatoe plants though...

[sammys]

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I think pot is growing in a big old planter in a deserted part of my yard. I am not kidding thats what it looks like to me. I did not plant it!! I have all these old planters and stuff left from the older lady that lived here before us and we have not gotten to. Did not have to water again last nite rain!!! Southern I wish I could ship you some rain.

Sammys

[zincityzen]

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We have LOTS of landscaping gravel in our front yard with hardy desert plants! DH is the gardener in our home. Our greyhound looooves to dig holes in the backyard grass, so it's a little mottled. The beauty spots however are a prolific dwarf peach tree and some grapevines that are slowly producing fruit, and we have a small pomegranate tree that is starting to think about producing fruit, but we may wait til next year.