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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2016

    Thanks, Lori, for the good wishes on our baby - and for the info on the Burpees catalog! I had no idea it was still available, so I went to the website and ordered one for next year (this year's is sold out). My face got red when I saw that they are located in Pennsylvania; so much for thinking it was a southern company!

    Give Bob a big pat on the head for me. My house cat and companion, Hobbes, is huge (18 pounds), but he runs in terror every time the little raccoon even chirps.

  • TwoHobbies
    TwoHobbies Member Posts: 2,118
    edited May 2016

    Angela, maybe you are thinking of Park Seed. They are in SC. I used to live in SC, and we went to visit. Its fun place to see the trial gardens.

    Cute little baby. Of course they are all cute until you see them eating your plants and vegetables. We accidentally left our garage door open one time and some critter - I suspect raccoon- dumped out an entire bag of dog food.

  • WenchLori
    WenchLori Member Posts: 1,558
    edited May 2016

    Yes, they like to get into stuff. I have the galvanized trash cans that I keep all critter food in, they can get the lids off with no problems! I put a cement block on it until it stops raining enough to fix it properly!

  • Lookforward
    Lookforward Member Posts: 392
    edited May 2016

    Thank you for the welcome. Cute baby raccoon , we do not have raccoons in our province. I did have a very chubby porcupine that used to saunter down the street eating everyone's flowers. It had no fear of humans you could walk right by it

  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited May 2016

    Hi folks- it has cooled down again and more rain this week (a good thing) and more pics for you too!

    Rock purlane with other misc. ground cover flowers. Purlane starting blooming again!

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    Blooming guara

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    Blooming scottish broom

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    Another potted plant, from out front this time

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    Ice plant in bloom

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited May 2016

    Jazzy, Love all but the Scotch broom. It's pretty, but lots of people are allergic. This became apparent after they planted it all along the freeway in Washington.

  • WenchLori
    WenchLori Member Posts: 1,558
    edited May 2016

    Beautiful Jazzy! I love them all. I bet they regretted planting it along the freeway. Did they get rid of it or everyone just have to put up with it?

  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited May 2016

    It's very difficult to dig out and nothing else works. Plus a lot of it is on slopes that are pretty steep. So they chip away at it, but it's far from gone.

  • Lookforward
    Lookforward Member Posts: 392
    edited May 2016

    Beautiful plants Jazzy a nice variety .

  • Scottiemom11
    Scottiemom11 Member Posts: 1,298
    edited May 2016

    More hydrangeas.

    Scottie

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  • WenchLori
    WenchLori Member Posts: 1,558
    edited May 2016

    Beautiful hydrangeas Scottie, I love them ;)

    I spent the day out in the garden weeding and getting the last of my garden fence up. Tomorrow I'll plant the rest of my tomato, pepper and vine plants. My corn and okra are poking up out of the ground. I hope I can keep the raccons away from my garden by giving them corn on the deck instead of on the cob! lol

    I also got the pool cover off, the pump hooked up and topping the water off. I'll get the pump running and the baraccuda working so the pool will be ready for when my kids and grandkids get here in July. All my grandchildren are water babies. With my surgery in 4 weeks I don't think I will get any swimming in while they are here but who knows?

  • Meow13
    Meow13 Member Posts: 4,859
    edited May 2016

    Love the hydrangea.

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    My first roses of the season.

  • WenchLori
    WenchLori Member Posts: 1,558
    edited May 2016

    Beautiful roses! My roses didn't make it thru the very mild winter for some reason so I'll need to replace them soon.

  • 50sgirl
    50sgirl Member Posts: 2,527
    edited May 2016

    All the pictures are wonderful. The flowers are gorgeous. I am envious of all of you who have flowers in bloom already. My garden is full of green leaves, lots of green leaves, and I can't wait until everything bursts into bloom. I do see buds on my salvia. The deer haven't discovered my hosta plants yet, so they look great. The strawberry plants are covered with flowers, and I hope to see strawberries soon. The squirrels and chipmunks usually eat half the crop, but I put up a good fight. My stonecrop were covered with tiny black bugs last week. I quickly called upon my good friend, Google, and learned that I should spray the plants with Neem, the only insecticide I have, btw. It seemed to do the trick. I have never had pests on the stone crop plants before. I have some vegetable plants ready for planting. I have been hardening them off and will be planting them in another week or so.

    Keep posting pictures. It gives me hope of things to come.

    Lynne

  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited May 2016

    Scottie- fabulous hydrangeas. We are behind you here.

    Meow- your roses look sooooo healthy! Just beautiful.

    Planted out some tomatoes, lettuces, broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Here in coastal OR we can grow these cool loving vegetables almost all year round.

    My roses are not looking great. I managed a bouquet today but new foliage is not looking good. The blooms are very fragrant though.

    Here is today's pick, with some verbena bonarienses and catmint

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited May 2016

    Beautiful arrangements jackiebird!

  • WenchLori
    WenchLori Member Posts: 1,558
    edited May 2016

    Beautiful Jackbirdie! I love fresh picked flowers 🌼🌸

  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited January 2018

    Lookforward, Hi and Welcome!!

    I received 13 flower and vegetable catalogs in the mail, but buying onion sets, plants and seeds locally.

    We enjoy after dark watching the cute skunk eating bird seed from the ground near our bedroom window.

    BBL to enjoy chitchat and pics!! ;o)

  • Scottiemom11
    Scottiemom11 Member Posts: 1,298
    edited May 2016

    Jackbirdie. . .Lovely flower arrangement. I need to cut some of my hydrangeas and make one. I'm not handy with arrangements. Much better designing stuff on the computer.

    We had deer problems last year. They ate my new hostas and stripped my blueberry bushes. Dh got a pest repellent spray from Home Depot. No more deer, no raccoons in the pond, no little rabbits, no geese on my grass and the beavers stayed away from my giants hydrangeas and crape myrtles this year. They bypassed our yard and went after everyone elses. We're on a lake where we can't fence the yard so only option.

    Scottie

  • Meow13
    Meow13 Member Posts: 4,859
    edited May 2016

    This is a rose bush I planted about 28 years ago. It is supposed to bloom once but does many times.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited January 2018
  • WenchLori
    WenchLori Member Posts: 1,558
    edited May 2016

    Beautiful roses! Love it!

  • JBeans
    JBeans Member Posts: 388
    edited May 2016

    oh wow Meow. Georgous.

  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited May 2016

    Outstanding Meow!

  • Lookforward
    Lookforward Member Posts: 392
    edited May 2016

    Meow beautiful roses, your rose bush looks like a small tree.


  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited May 2016
  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited May 2016

    Two interesting things I found at Lowe's last week, a tiny padhye asian lily and a bluebell flower.

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  • WenchLori
    WenchLori Member Posts: 1,558
    edited May 2016

    Wow Jazzygirl they are beautiful! I've never seen a bluebell flower before.

  • Lookforward
    Lookforward Member Posts: 392
    edited May 2016

    Jazzy lovely lily, I have grown bluebells before, but not as nice as yours. We had had four days of cold rainy weather, covered all my bedding plants.i find the cold winds kills my sweet potato vines.image

  • WenchLori
    WenchLori Member Posts: 1,558
    edited May 2016

    The Canadian goose family returned for a visit to our lake today. The pair have been laying at our lake for a few years. There are 7 goslings this year, they had 9 last year. They grow so fast!image

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