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Post by beth on Jul 31, 2012 0:27:54 GMT -5
My roses are not as big or as beautiful as yours, mouse. Goes to show how much attention I pay. Have to wait until tomorrow for more. They are on the other camera and I'm tired. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz These are just double petunias scattered around in borders and beds. The storms have been hard on them.
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Post by beth on Jul 31, 2012 0:30:49 GMT -5
This is one near a little pond ... never gets special treatment but blooms and blooms and blooms.
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Post by beth on Jul 31, 2012 0:37:48 GMT -5
This is the Rose of Sharon ... hidden in a border until last summer. There have been - tops - 5 blooms open at one time. Bump
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Post by mouse on Aug 1, 2012 8:25:10 GMT -5
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Post by beth on Aug 1, 2012 11:03:50 GMT -5
Very pretty, mouse. I like your stepping stones and close cut lawn, too. My grass is never that short ... lawn-mower man sets his blade higher ... the better to have to come back sooner.
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Post by mouse on Aug 1, 2012 11:12:05 GMT -5
Very pretty, mouse. I like your stepping stones and close cut lawn, too. My grass is never that short ... lawn-mower man sets his blade higher ... the better to have to come back sooner. with all the water our grass grows at a rate of knots..two days and it needs cutting again
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Post by mouse on Aug 7, 2012 10:49:59 GMT -5
The 'world garden' grown on a barge from seeds discarded at Bristol docks 300 YEARS ago by trading ships from Africa and Asia A Brazilian artist has used 300-year-old seeds salvaged from submerged ballast originally carried on trading ships to bring a piece of history back to life in the form of a floating 'world garden'. The colourful space has been created in Bristol using seeds which have been at the bottom of the city's docks for more than three centuries. Maria Thereza Alves, 51, decided to excavate ancient ship ballast from the bottom of Bristol docks after finding out that the tonnes of waste could contain ancient, perfectly preserved seeds. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184912/World-garden-grown-onboard-barge-seeds-discarded-Bristol-docks-300-YEARS-ago.html#ixzz22sN1MFTb
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Post by Jessiealan on Aug 9, 2012 14:27:47 GMT -5
I have 2 of those rose of sharon plants, Beth. They are blooming this year better that they ever did. It must be the perfect weather for them.
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Post by mouse on Aug 24, 2012 2:44:17 GMT -5
A cut above the rest... it's the best lawn in Britain! To be fair, the owner does spend up to 10 HOURS a day tending to it Retired doctor Chisholm Ogg has spent the last 14 years lovingly tending his garden for up to ten hours a day. So it is no surprise that his immaculately manicured lawn is a cut above the rest – and has just been awarded the title of ‘Best in Britain’. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192791/A-cut-rest--best-lawn-Britain.html#ixzz24RnTKyK8
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Post by mouse on Aug 29, 2012 1:52:14 GMT -5
dug up the potatos yesterday..what a miserable crop... ..good job we are not relient on what has grown this year the french beans have also cropped poorly and we are comming to the end of them
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Post by beth on Aug 29, 2012 16:50:20 GMT -5
My only veggies this year were a few strawberry plants from last year that yielded enough for one big, yummy strawberry shortcake and 3 tomato plants that have done very well.
Better luck next year, mouse.
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Post by harryfisher on Aug 29, 2012 16:53:41 GMT -5
I have had hardly any Tomatoes this year, the plants are mostly still in flower, I heard on the tv news that most crops are 3 weeks late?
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Post by mouse on Aug 30, 2012 3:46:19 GMT -5
I have had hardly any Tomatoes this year, the plants are mostly still in flower, I heard on the tv news that most crops are 3 weeks late? that wouldnt suprise me at all...its been an appalling year for almost every thing...the clematisis have done really well...am having to cut back all the time as with all the water they are just growing and growing
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Post by Dex on Aug 30, 2012 19:22:31 GMT -5
We are still picking tomatoes from the first plantings and the second crop is ripening. Yellow ones and cherry tomatoes since the last week in July, and these new ones are plums for making spaghetti sauce and canning it.
We have a couple of beef steak plants, too.
It's been a hot and moderately wet summer.
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Post by mouse on Sept 22, 2012 6:13:06 GMT -5
the garden is nearly ready for winter...have cut back nearly every thing that has flowered...but am reluctent to cut the still flowering flowers which are giving every where colour..the yellow rudibekias..the red..pink and white tall stocks..the last roses[two deep red] a few antirhiams yellow and red.... i know i shall regret not cutting them but they give such a splash of colour.... never mind ehh theres always next year the grass has grown since it had its last cut and could do with being done again,,,but the ground is so wet i could cause a slutchy mess....so will desist# have filled up the bird feeders[first fillup sonce spring]so am waiting for the birds to become aware...and see what birds will be attracted..am hoping the nuthatch and the woodpeckers return as well as the usual bunch....ive seen female blackbird hanging around...but i think it a little early for the ground feeders....
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