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Squirrels sometimes do good
Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:27 pm Over the years I have pulled up hundreds of pecan tree saplings that the squirrels planted in the wrong place, mostly right up next to the house. Pecans have really long tap roots, so by the time the little tree can be seen it is usually too late to transplant it successfully so they break off when I try to dig them up. I usually have to take out more pecan treelings than dandelions every spring and summer. We do have two really large ones on the north side of the house that we were able to leave in place. Course, now each fall the squirrels and I are in competition for pecan eating rights. This spring we have been finding Oak tree saplings. I love Oak trees. I have been nursing one along that came up in the middle of the cotton patch I had a few years ago, this year it is a little over two feet tall and growing. I also found two among the hollyhocks - one is too large to try moving so in about 10 years that garden area will have to change from sun to shade, the other one I was able to dig up and pot. I found one in the middle of my geranium pot out front that was easy to repot. And there were two under the crepe myrtle out back that we will try to move after we soak the ground really well. Mother Nature might do that part for us tonight by giving us some rain....fingers, toes, legs and eyes crossed in hopes of bringing on the rain. We are going to keep the saplings in pots, if they make it thru summer and fall, then we will transplant them to the front yard late next winter. This blog entry has been viewed 68 times
Locks of Love
Category: Random bulletins from my brain | Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:34 pm I finally did it. After letting my hair grow for roughly six years I decided it was time to get it cut off. It was hot, took too long to take care of and I was tired of it trying to strangle me in my sleep. The Locks of Love organization uses human hair to make wigs for kids who have lost theirs because of treatment for cancer. I found a local Fanstastic Sam's hair salon that is one of their sponsors and went this morning. My daughter had also let hers grow for about the same length of time so she went too. The minimum length they will take is 12" even tho their website still says 10". Amanda gave them almost 20" and I gave them 16". It really is a win-win deal, they got two more hanks of hair for the kids and we got free haircuts. This blog entry has been viewed 119 times
It's playing mind games, I know it is.
Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:36 pm The weather that is. For 4 days the temp was between 95-102...yesterday it was 102 at my house. Yesterday I went out to water a second time in the late afternoon and dark, sad, miserable thoughts started creeping thru my mind. If we have another spring, summer, fall and winter anything like the ones we just completed I don't know how many of the plants will come back next year. Worse is the fact that I don't know that I want to work myself silly doing gardening January thru March, just to have everything dry up and burn in the heat and drought April thru December. If it happens again this year, I may just plow it all under and let the weeds take over. We will loose the fig tree for certain, it is already weakened from the drought and then the freeze that hit after it started leafing out. I can not work in the summer heat, the temps do not drop below 80 at night and hover around 100 by 3 p.m. Today the heat abated a bit, only got into the low 80's and was wonderful gardening weather. We might get rain, possibly storms tonight and tomorrow. The rain will be wonderful but the storm part will include hail, possibly large hail. I see several hours of running around the back yard holding an umbrella over plants, maybe even gingerly covering the smaller ones with my body to protect them. At the very least I will enjoy the soaking. I haven't really been in a good mood lately just thinking about it. It all may not happen, but just remembering what last year was like and what it caused makes me really ticked off......just who do I have to sleep with to get rain around here :) This blog entry has been viewed 37 times
I promised No More Plants.....But......
Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:33 pm I am weak, I know that, I have acknowledged the weakness. So I figure if I am going to learn to accept myself for what and who I am, then giving in to temptation is not really a problem, it is just part of the acceptance process. When the weakness hits then go with it and do not browbeat myself for not resisting. So with that in mind I talked Randy into taking me to a really wonderful garden center about one and a half hour from us. They have plants that the franchise garden centers don't carry because they grow their own stock. I have these two triangle shaped plants that were in front of the house my daughter and her hubby bought a few years ago and didn't want them. I needed something that will grow in full shade and get large enough to block the view between the neighbors yard and mine. They aren't planted yet, I need to get more potting soil to finish filling up the planters. 
This is an Aromatic Sumac 
This one is an American Beautyberry Also had this spot in front of my gargoyle. Yes he has a name and it is Hector. The plant is a Coral Berry. 
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One of my Iris ladies and a surprise
Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:42 pm There are 5 of these in full bloom this morning and I lost count of the buds in various stages of opening. I think there will probably be almost 50 by the time they all open up. Certainly wish they would open all at once but staggered openings will give me a longer time to enjoy them. Gosh they smell good. 
The surprise....I knew I had several white/yellow (either Japanese or Dutch) Iris out there, they just finished blooming and silly me I hadn't learned to use the camera then and never got a picture of them. But this morning while thoroughly enjoying the fragrance of the new Iris ladies I saw this one peeking up at me from almost underneath the bigger girls. 
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It is official
Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:35 pm My first blog entry explained how Fred - the garden got his name....now he will have a sign hanging on the corner of the house to make it official. I need to let the clear varnish dry before it can be hung up. 
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Faerie Garden Chair - Pictures
Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:53 pm Chair and garden are done. The chair colors are buttercream (pale yellow), orange and hunter green. The spindles on the back of the chair that you can not see are the hunter green ones. Our camera is not very clear....or it could be the picture taker herself, but I prefer to blame it on the camera. The garden includes, Wooly Lambs ear, white Oxalis, cascading Rosemary, creeping Thyme and in the center is as Lavender. I planted plugs of Irish Moss in three places hoping it will eventually cover the bare dirt and make a comfy place for the fey to have a tea party. 
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Good Golly Miss Molly
Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:17 am April 2nd and the temps are in the 90's, the hot air from Mexico has arrived early this year and formed it's cap over us. That means the temperature at ground level must reach the low 100's to break the cap before rain will have a chance to move across us. This thing doesn't usually start to hang around until June and after. Got the cucumber seedlings in the ground today too, had to get them in the ground before the full moon. I made the mistake of planting them last year in the wrong moon phase and they were a dismal failure even before the drought started. Anyway, I went to the garden center yesterday and found Patchouli plants that I was afraid I had missed the chance to get....got three in the ground this morning. Along with a Santolina Virens....Green Lavender Cotton....never had one before and it certainly smells nice. Also got a Red/gold Yarrow, two white oxalis and found two of the eyeball plants that pinkiered had mentioned in a forum post a couple of weeks ago. Really cool, I have one planted out back and will plant the other in a pot out front tomorrow. In early March I was given a semi-ratty old wooden chair to use to hold a faerie garden. Bought a cascading Rosemary, creeping Thyme, Lambs Ear, small Lavender and some Irish Moss. One of the white oxalis will go in there too. Still need to find Lady's Mantle and Sweet Woodruff, but I know of garden center a few miles from here that usually has those two. I painted the chair, buttercream (pale yellow), orange and hunter green. Just need to spray with sealer, let dry and get the plants in their planter.......and decide where to put it. Also found a couple of my hollyhock youngun's that are blooming already, my roses are in full bloom and all the perennials are climbing to the stars with all this warm weather we are having. The chocolate vine is even finally putting on some growth. I hope to get several pictures taken and posted on the forum this week. Plants, garden "art" and the plant markers I made from plastic CD holders. This blog entry has been viewed 65 times
Married a Looooooong time
Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:15 pm My husband and I will be celebrating our 26th wedding anniversary on May 22nd. There are times when May 22, 1980 seems like only yesterday.....then there are times when it seems like an eternity ago. But over the years we have given each other the same Valentines Day cards and Anniversary cards several times, finished each other sentences, and all those things that "old married people" do. This year we were able to use our income tax refund on eye exams and glasses,first time in about 4 years it hasn't been needed to pay for major car repairs or replace a major appliance instead. Of course, I do need a kitchen stove, but I am liking not having to do a lot of cooking so I refuse to take seriously the need to buy one yet. So yesterday we (including our youngest daughter) had the eye exams and spent a while wandering thru the hundreds of frames available. We got quite a few laughs at what some of them looked like when we put them on, some caused gasping and gagging too. We all finally found pairs that we liked and sat down to have the necessary measurements taken and orders filled out. Amanda and I were with one young man, Randy was with the other one. When we got to the counter to pay we realized that he and I had chosen the exact same frame in the same color. I had been looking thru the womens frames and he had been in the mens section but the one we both chose was a unisex frame. This blog entry has been viewed 49 times
Soap-soap-soap-soap-
Category: Random bulletins from my brain | Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:31 pm Tommy - soap,soap,soap,soap,soap,soap,soap,soap Dicky - What are you doing? Tommy - Singin' about 8 bars. Old,really old routine by the Smothers Brothers The soap is setting up, all except the Peppermint. The stems are still steeping for more scent and the peppermint will turn the soap a light green. That's the fun part of using plants in the soaps. I made some last year with the Chocolate mint,that came out a nice shade of green with a wonderful mint scent. I also use Rosemary cuttings for some that my oldest daughter just loves. I have an oblong shaped plastic container of Sandalwood, a mini-breadloaf pan of Patchouli, a round plastic bowl of Chocolate, a tall Pringles chip canister of Freesia and the Peppermint will go into another mini-loaf pan. I use a melt and pour goats milk soap base, really easy project and my family loves the way the soap feels and cleans. This blog entry has been viewed 45 times
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