Colorado Moonstone decided rto bloom after a little rain
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List of my 100 plants that re-bloomed this year
Comments (21)I think I'm like Debra, several of my dependable rebloomers didn't rebloom. Here is my list: Annabelles Blush Bill Norris Blue Eyed Butterfly Buttermilk Moon Caribbean Eye Spy Clown Parade sent up a scape, but the blooms dried up during that hot spell we had. One bloom opened but looked terrible, so I guess CP doesn't count really Choral Fantasy Delia O'bryan Brown-rebloomed almost as well as it did the 1st time, & not a rebloomer Destined to see-not a rebloomer Evening Enchantment Final Destination Fooled Me Gift from Heaven Hello Heartstrings Hillbilly Heart Jamaican Me Crazy Jamaican Music Janice Brown-not a rebloomer Jersey Spider John Kirkland Lake Norman Spider-not a rebloomer Matt-not a rebloomer Moonlit Masquerade Mystical Rainbow Pandora's Treasure Raspberry Pixie had several rebloom scapes, Not a rebloomer Romanian Rendevous Rose Electra Stella's Ruffled Fingers Storm of the Century Storm over Toledo Strawberry Candy Touched by Grace Wild Horses Wineberry Candy-not a rebloomer Woman at the Well Wyatt Earp I have rebloom scapes on 3 more right now. Siloam Virginia Henson has 4 scapes from 5 fans, & it isn't a rebloomer. Jim Brown & Westbourne Homestead. This is actually pretty good rebloom for me. I have a few that have rebloomed every year for me though, nothing from them yet. With all the rain we've been getting though, who knows, that may change....See Moreit's raining, it's pouring ....
Comments (56)I missed your ammonia paragraph, Skybird, oops, shows I should read more carefully. Last week, my DD managed to kick a soccer ball into a bush with resident wasp nest and was stung when she retrieved the ball, ran into the greenhouse and slapped a paper towel with ammonia on it, and that was that. And for those who have fungus gnats in their houseplants/seedling starting stuff, that BT israelensis takes care of them very nicely. I order a 20 oz batch, and it lasts several years. When I start my seedlings, I sprinkle a couple of grains of the stuff in each cell, and no more fungus gnats. Here is a link that might be useful: link...See MoreSouthern oklahoma more rain?
Comments (18)That's so true about the video. It is easy to enjoy it knowing that it wasn't from anywhere around here. I heard the screams from a long ways off (probably down along the river) for 2 or 3 years before I heard one up close, and it truly is the most horrifying sound I've ever heard in my life. Let's hope she had to scream a lot and never found a male in your neighborhood (or mine). And, if a tornado wouldn't scare one off, then what would? Tim and I decided to drive down and check out a couple of our favorite river roads yesterday to see how much water they'd been under. Some of what we saw, in terms of mud residue left on trees and such quite a distance from the river, was horrifying. I just cannot imagine water got that close to homes (most of which, thankfully, were not that far away distance-wise but were up on a higher ridge). We didn't get to drive around as much as we wanted because the roads were one or more of the following: closed off (and we do not drive around barricades), still under water, washed out in low spots or covered with so much mud and debris that they look washed out, or still under water, still under water, still underwater. It is scary to see that much water still on roadways that far from the river even after it officially has dropped below flood stage. While our Flood Warning for the Red River bridge is gone, much floodwater remains in the flood plains areas. Now that it is so hot outside, my gardening ambitions have been whittled down to harvesting, eating the harvest, and processing the harvest to put up a significant part of it for future meals. Tim mowed like a maniac yesterday, cutting down everything his wife would allow. Ha ha! I didn't want for him to cut down the front meadow that sits between the roadway and the house. I regularly put out a little henscratch and cracked corn there for the doves and other birds, and our young wild turkeys are coming to that spot to eat. I wanted him to leave that area tall so they'd have good cover.....and also because it is filled with wildflowers from a seed mix I sowed back in the winter. With so many mostly drought years recently and poor wildflower showings in those years, I'm loving having a rainy year with tons of wildflowers. While he mowed out there in the heat, I was inside running tomatoes through the tomato strainer to prep them for salsa-making. As I did it, I bagged up the finished tomato product in gallon zip-lock bags, with enough in each bag for one batch of Annie's Salsa. Then I fed all the tomato waste to the compost pile. I have enough tomatoes prepped for nine batches of salsa, so that's how I'll be spending the rest of today. After the cold front comes through and we have some cooler temperatures this weekend, I'll try to catch up on weeding the garden and harvesting other stuff. I might run outside in a couple of minutes and harvest the peaches that are ripe. We're getting about a dozen a day and mostly have been eating them, but they are starting to pile up so I can see that some peach processing is in my future. Probably I'll slice and freeze the freestone peaches and will boil down the cling type peaches and make jelly from them. I'd rather be out in the garden if the heat and humidity weren't so bad, but since they are so unpleasant, I guess it is just as well that I have a lot of tomatoes to process. Well, I think they are tomatoes. They are beautiful and big and look like tomatoes. They are the shape of tomatoes. They grew on tomato plants. But, are they tomatoes? Their flavor is so watered-down that 95% of them aren't worth eating fresh (the only really tasty ones are the ones I harvested in early June in between the big May rainfall and the big June rainfall), and their texture also is sort of mealy thanks to the ridiculous amount of rain that has fallen here in such a short period of time. I really devoted time to draining off as much of the excess water as I could while processing them for salsa yesterday. I think that the salsa will be fine, but I'll taste the first batch carefully before I make the next 8. It would be such a waste to make all that salsa and have it taste bland, but I don't think that will happen. There are things I could do to fix the flavor if the salsa doesn't taste right due to the watery nature of this year's tomatoes. After doing the amount of processing required to end up with 72 cups of chopped and drained tomatoes for salsa-making, my kitchen had red splotches everywhere....it looked like a slaughterhouse in there. My family and our pets are pretty well-trained to stay out of the kitchen while I'm canning and doing canning prep, so I was able to get all the mess cleaned up before they came in there and started asking questions about what I was killing in there. : ) I've got enough tomatoes piled up on the shelves but not quite ripe to make another 3 or 4 batches of salsa, so I suspect that I'll be spending a portion of every day for the rest of the week making salsa. Today, I'll probably spend most of the day and late into the evening doing just that....See MoreMy wonderful Fall blooms
Comments (59)Trish, Lol, Dolly Parton does seem to bloom two bodacious blooms at a time. Judith, I would love to see pics of your cottage, raised beds and landscaping...it all sounds wonderful. I was very happy with the way my beds turn out, they are much easier to care for, plus I don’t have to deal with amending my heavy clay. I put cardboard on top of the grass, then filled mine with purchased soil from a dump truck. This was one of the stone beds in the spring when back when the roses coordinated their blooms That Rebel Child salvia sounds great...bright blue is something I always look for since it’s a color that roses don’t produce so it mixes well with every rose. It’s been a while since I’ve grow farinaceas , but they do very well here. Another blue companion I really like is Thumbergia Battescombi Last time I went to Chamblee’s they were closed on a Saturday (their website does state they are open Saturdays now). But I got a few very nice plants from Certified. You’ll have to tell us what you get (Or even better, post pics)! Barbara Look forward to your pics!...See MoreBrad KY 6b
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