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OK Thats it!

Category: Spring | Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:24 pm

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I know what your thinking! I loved spring yesterday! But that was yesterday! Today I was pooped on TWICE! YES COUNT THEM....

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TWICE!

By birds while working in the garden! AND! I had a straw hat on too!

Now how does one get pooped on while wearing a large floppy hat, you ask? Cuz they waited until I took it off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im a natural redhead with very curly hair and it is having a fit right now! I washed it first thing this morning, then again after the first fly by and then again after the last sneak attack.

Needless to say, I havent gone back out today! Not even to check my mail. It can wait until tomorrow. Im not doing it and you cant make me!



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Live plants I have for trade.

Category: trade | Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:15 pm

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I have two mini Banana tree pups.

And I have cuttings from a pink Butterfly bush and purple butterfly bush.

I have 2 Illustris and Black Stem( I call them stars because they have a purple star in the center) elephant ear bulbs that are growing but will dig up and ship.



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Things I want to trade for

Category: trade | Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:14 pm

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Any smell goodies

Need a few small flowering trees and flowering bushes so will trade for cuttings.



Im not into pink unless its hot pink. I love any bold colors and flowers and plants that have multi colors on them. I can be just foliage and no flowers too.


I want to try new things come spring So Im pretty open to any trade.





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Seeds for trade

Category: trade | Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:09 pm

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9 blue butterfly peas (clitoria)

lots of a seed thats labled gladiola but are little "winged" seeds. New to this seed. So seed unknown.


-Egg Tree
-Gaillard/Indian Blanket
-Astor (mixed and purple)
-Money Tree
-Kiss me over the garden gate
-Datura
-Eyeball Plant
-Malva Zebrina
-Anise
-Plains Coreopsis
-Blue Nigella
-Honey Bee White Mexican mint
-Buddleja
-Lobelia Cardinals
-Sweet William
-Cleome
-Wild Rose
-poppy
-Violas (jonny jump ups)



Can package them so that they dont raddle and make noise so you ,across the "pond" ( I love that expression) ,can get some.




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SPRING IS IN THE AIR!!!!!

Category: Spring | Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:51 pm

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YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am sunburnt already! I have planted two flower gardens so far. And everything is is sprouting. My purple grass is green again, my banana pups have leaves, my elepant ear babies are showing their little heads. My rose are blooming. My fern tree is srouting new leaves.

Happy happy joy joy!!!!

I have little greenhouse set up that are just bursting with green babies. I have so many, I have gotten them all mixed up and dont know what is what!!! Im in for a suprise come blooming season!

I planted 50 tomato plants. I planted that many in case some dont spout or are weak. I can plant the stronger plants. Now watch, all of them are going to be strong! I have two types of cherry and a brandywine, a purple prince (which Ive never even heard of before) and a garden peach! I hope my neighbors like tomatos!!!!!!

I am planting gaint sunflowers, three types of onions, two types of cucumbers, two types of lettuce, four types of carrots (one just for the horses out back), I planted a Japanese crabapple tree. OH! And 5 types of beans.

Most of my veggies, I wont eat but Im growing them just because. I want to try my hand at them. Thank god my family loves veggies!

Im on a rose kick too. Everytime I pass roses on sale, I have to look and pick on out! I just bought a Blue Girl and boy does she smell good!

In my other blog I mentioned a hole I dug that filled with water when it rained. Well, I havent filled it in and its still full of water. It sits at the corner where the sun stops so Im thinking a fountian and a tiny pond there. It will seperate my shade garden from the sun garden. Well, thats what Im thinking at any rate. If it gets done is another story!

I planted persian buttercups, sweet peas, plumerias, pansties, caladuims and four banana pups around a tree the day before yesterday. I may have to dig up my banana trees later. But I just planted them there for some place to put them for now. I tend to dig up and move alot of my plants as they grow. I dont know why!

Im planting four o clocks this weekend, scarlet sage, my lavender and some other plant I have (unknown cuz I got them mixed up with another seed)

My palm is pissed off at me because I put him in the ground and it froze! I just hope he doesnt die. Ive gotten one baby off the tree last year and gave it too my mom. Its so cute! Its about 4 foot high and is so bushy! I told her it will get bigger but she wants it to stay that size! LOL shes so funny.

But on the down side to all the joy, I have discovered lots of little fire ants in my flower pots! I tipped over a pot to pull out the rose bush inside. I use my arm to lay the plant on so it doesnt end up on its head. Well, my arm was covered in little red biting ants! I looked like I had a nasty rash! They have killed two of my plants so far that are in pots. Thats why Im in such a hurry to get everyone out of their pots and into the ground. That and Im tired of being bitten!

Im planting my cannas today! YAY! I had 6 tubers but gave three away to a friend. But Ill end up with more.

Im going to buy two more fern trees to plant with my one. I think once they grow tall, it will be a great place to sit in the shade! We are building a deck too for a place to sit. I am planning on planting all my roses in one area and once they grow tall, having a place to sit there too.

I was going to cross breed my roses this year but I think Im going to hold off on that. I want to see if my Chysler Imperial looks good next to my blue girl. If they do, next year, Ill cross those two. Or I have a snow white unknown and a yellow unknown hybrid teas. Im buying more roses so who knows my plans may change!

I love this country setting! Its soooooo quiet. At night you can see every star in the sky. And one of the mares in the field behind us is going to have a baby so their will be another colt to watch play! They lost a horse last week. The stud. He was pretty too, a dark dusty brown with white spots on his hind end. A stray dog got into the field with the horses and was chasing the baby. The father started chasing the dog away and ran head first into a reenforced steel fence. Split his head open and snapped his neck. Poor thing. All of us here that watch the horses miss him. He was a thing of beauty to watch.
His owner has been trying to kill the dog since. And I thought I had issues with that dog! He keeps lifting his leg on my ferns!!!!!! But thats nothing compared to killing a horse.

We had a opossum that was eatting the cats food outside. Big and ugly.Bigger then my tom. Scared the hell out of me the other night! He had me blocked inside! He was on my top step outside and would not move!!!! I tried to use the screen door to push him off the steps and he attacked the door!!!! I screamed , he hissed and I slammed the door shut!!!! My hubby was laughing the whole time! He was no help.
I used the back door after that.But I found him (possum not hubby)dead yesterday. Looks like someone hit him with their car.Hubby buried him in the back yard. HE said that anything that can scare me that way deserves a place of honor.... Not funny.......


Everytime I go outside, I think of that song from the sound of music. "The hills are alive with the sound of music" Its so true. All the birds singing, horses playing, new green sprouts everrywhere. And it smells so fresh, clean.... and new. Its just wonderful. Spring is in the air!

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Finally done moving............

Category: New Gardener | Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:45 pm

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And half my plants are dying, gone or MIA. I hate it! I worked so hard on them. And to make matters worse, the ground here is nothing but clay. When it rains theres standing water everywhere. So very few of my plants can go in the ground!!!!!!!!!!

I just found out yesterday that this use to be a crawfish pond!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They filled it in! And not very well! Its fine until it rains. So we didnt know until the day we moved in. It was raining pretty hard as we pulled in to the yard. We stepped out of the trucks into ankle deep water! Im so mad I could spit!

Im going to have to build raised flower beds. I just hope my plants, esp my roses can with stand being in containers for the season.

We have a small pond in the front yard. Well, I had the bright idea to dig about a foot down into the ground up against our house (its a good 30 feet away from the pond.) so I could replace the clay with soil so that maybe it will drain better. It was hot out so I dug the hole (a foot deep and about 5 foot across) and went back inside to cool off for about an hour. I come out and the dang hole is filled with water!!!!! The pond was draining into the hole! So now I have a hold full of water up against my house. We are having fill dirt brought in to fill it.

I have a bunch of seeds that have spouted and not where to plant them now. Im so upset I actually started crying when I saw the hole filled with water. It just hit home the amount of work that is going to have to go into having a garden here.


All this standing water and its not even rainy season yet.

I did plant my elephant ears and violas in the ground. They arent minding the water so much. But there are these huge crawfish holes appearing IN! the plants! They dig down and push the clay up so it looks like little chimmenys (?) coming up out of the ground. Well, they really like it when I dig in the yard because the next day there will be crawfish "houses" in that spot. I have never seen one before (except boiled) and I thought maybe if I can catch them, I can transplant them into the huge fields around us. I did catch one but he got me with his huge pinchers............. I wont be trying that again.

I have even gone as far as to think about offering in the paper for anyone who wants them and can catch them, they can have them for free. But I was told by the post man that even if I did that, there are twice as many waiting to take there place AND that the ppl would have to dig down to get them! So instead of one pond, Id have 30 small ones.....Figures. But one good side of that.... I wouldnt have to drain the pond to fill it in! HA!

Three weeks in and I am hating life. Hopefully it will get better.

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Dang ebay!

Category: New Gardener | Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:50 am

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As new gardener, Ive am still looking for that certain look most gardeners look for. Some like lots of flowers with no trees or bushes. Some like mostly green. Some like butterflies and birds in thiers.

Well, Im still looking. I know I want a nice full garden with lots of green and bold colors. Reds, blues, purples, oranges, yellows, ,etc. You get the picture.

Im off to a green start! LOL I have a dwarf banana tree thats shooting off pups like crazy.

Because its so warm this week in FL but a hard freeze coming at the end of the week, I ate my Wheeties and got to digging! We had gotten tons of rain this past week so there wasnt dirt on the roots of the banana tree, it was MUD! I got the tree dug out and toppled over but could not get the thing out of the hole! LOL

After getting 90% of the mud off, I was able to pull her out. Right now, she out there drying out. Tomorrow she is off the neighbors yard.

Ok back to the beginning topic....(I tend to rabble)

I have two palms, tons of different types of elephant ears, a beautiful fern tree, ivy, Bird of Paradise, heather , aloe and two roses. Now I have more than that but thats the major stuff.

I have mints that I couldnt kill off if my life depended on it! I forgot about them about a month ago. I thought I had killed them. But nnnnnooooooooo. There they were today! And now, I cant tell them apart! I had three different mints..... I think they have morfed into one!

OK Im rabbling again!

I love ebay! And since its gotten cold, Ive had more time on my hands. So, ebay stocks have gone up thanks to me! LOL

Ive shopped for alot of stuff on there but for some reason, never looked in the gardening section. When I found it, my hubby threated to take my bank card away! LOL We dont use credit cards.

By anywho, last week I bought
Purple Passion Fruit Vine Seeds
Royal Poinciana seed
Bromeliad Queens Tears

Im have some serious buys remorse over the Royal Poinciana. Have you ever seen one!? They get HUGE! Yes , beautiful and HUGE! They put full grow oak trees to shame! What was I thinking!? I wasnt, I dont think!

But today, I did it again. But I was looking just at the pretty pictures (yes Im easily distracted by shiny objects) this time. I came across some beauties!
EXOTIC HAWAIIAN GINGER! Five plants.....
SCARLET RED
BLUSHING PINK
HYACINTH BLUE
REGAL WHITE
GOLDEN YELLOW

Now I dont think this is the ginger you cook with.....god I hope not! LOL Hopefully they are just pretties.

I also got
PINK Plumeria Seeds (which arent just pink but some are white with pink)
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Thai-Malai Plumeria Seeds (they are a hot pink)

Im doing what I did lost year! Last year my whole garden was pretty much blue and green.... this year its leaning towards PINK! AND I DONT EVEN LIKE PINK! LOL

I have found Im a lazy gardener. Stick it in the ground, feed it, water it and cross your fingers!

So, this year should be very interesting....... thanks to ebay.

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Learning as I go.

Category: New Gardener | Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:14 pm

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The spring of 2005 was my first year gardening and I fell in love with it. I have the "gardener" gene from my mother. She is a wonderful gardener. All she has to do is look at them and they grow.

Since I was little , Ive tried out my green thumb. I remember when I was about 5 , I stole some green pepper seeds and planted them in a little hidden corner of our back yard. I watered them everyday and weeded the little area. Well, because noone knew what I was doing, there was noone to tell me the diff between my little sprouts and weeds. I weeded out my seeds! LOL. I was heartbroken when I saw what I had done.

Over the years, Ive killed many a rosebush. I gave up on growing about 6 yrs ago.

This year I wanted to grow a herb garden. My hubby was so understanding. We spent hundreds on soil, plants and supplies. We even built a three step planter. Its about 6 foot long and each "step" is three foot wide. The first and smallest step is one about a foot tall. It was for my herbs. The second "step" is about two foot deep and the top one is 5 tall.

Next to it, I have my shade garden. Since I love tropicals, I planted tons of elephant ears (only one didnt rot). Im part of an online comm called freecycle - freecycle.org . I recieved several free plants from there and alot of elephant ears.

My flower garden was shaped like an "L" in my yard. I have a banana tree that was suppose to be a mini..... its not! But its putting out babies like crazy. I got it as a tiny tike early spring and its now over 7 foot tall and has put out 6 babies. Sadly Im going to lose the mother tree because its so big, I cant move it with me to La. My neighbor said he would take it. My landlord said he would cut it down if I left it. I dont have much of a choice.

I learned that you dont put Bird of Paradise in the ground if you dont want it to take over! LOL Its now moving into my nieghbors yard. I dont know how it will grow back but because of several nights of freezing weather, the whole thing turned brown so I cut it to the ground and covered it with mulch , its own leaves and plastic to keep the roots warm. I have to buy a large pot to tranfer it too so I can take it with me to La.

I have two Majesty Palms or so the tag said. I looked them up online and they are suppose to get huge but the tag said that they wont..... we will see! One of the palms had two babies on its truck. I seperated them from the mother plant. One died and the other I planted at my moms. Its so cute! Not even two foot tall and so bushy! Its doing better than mine!

I have a philodendron and its not so good. I cant seen to get it to grow! Its in a spot that gets full sun but is protected from the harsh FL afternoon sun. Now it has little white spots on the larger leaves.
I have to get a large pot so I can dig it out of the ground and take it with me.

So far winter has being terrible in my garden because I dont know what to do. When we got our first freeze watch, we covered the banana trees, and the palms with plastic. When I uncovered them the other day, they all had what looked like rot on them. The fronds from the palm had orange on the tips with white and black spots. I cut them all off. Now my palms look pitiful! LOL Oh well. Because of weather in its 70s they are growing back.

This spring I have to firgure out how to keep the catapillers off my garden. While I know most what them in theirs I dont want them in mine. My garden is for looks only. Those little boogers went through my garden like an all you can eat buffet! Herbs and all.

This spring Im going to try an all container garden being as we are renters not home owners. I just mixed my first container of plants. I have a fern tree and I added an asapargus fern from the ground into the pot next to it and a small cutting from my false heather. I put some false heather in with one of my palms. Those little boogers can grow!

I killed my lipstick plant.... I need to clean it out so I can use that pot. But I keep thinking I can get it to grow back....but the thing looks so bad! But on the good side! My ivy is trying to grow into the pot! LOL

I tried something this past summer. I threw abunch of bird seed down in the garden and it grew! Then in the fall, we had all kinds of birds feeding off them! My cats didnt know what to do themselves. HAHAH! It was so funny to watch. They were chased, attacked and now are just plain scared of any bird outside! It was great. Those birds gave them hell! We had a bunch of cardials hatching in our back yard this past spring and they are the ones that mostly terrorized the cats. They had done it from an early age when my cats were just kittens. When the door was open to the house and the cats went outside and the birds show up, they will come running back inside all crotched down! HA!

I need to transplant my sage.... its the only herb that survived the catapillers. <sigh> But on the good side, my mints came back.

I am chilling two rose seeds. I thought I would try my hand at them. Next fall Im going to try to grow cuttings from the two bushes I have.

OK, I am done for now!

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