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  • Lookforward
    Lookforward Member Posts: 392
    edited June 2016

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

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    Having a garden emergency. . .Something destroyed my hill full of roses. Dh thought it was a rogue landscaper or vandals b/c they look like they've been machete cut. More like Vandalous Vermints! I'm guessing Beavers. Probably last night. We have spray we use on the yard and other plants, but it apparently wore off and we never thought they'd come after the roses. Has anyone ever pruned large Knockout roses down to the base? We're going to have to prune the others to match and pray that they all grow back. These roses are years old and bloom all season.

    Devastated Scottie

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

    Oh no Scottie! I've cut a lot of my roses back to the base with no problem. They weren't Knockouts thou :/

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  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited June 2016

    Oh, Scottie! How awful!

    At least one of those cuts looks man-made... are you sure it was critters?

    I have three 10 year old rosebushes, and I whack them back down to the roots almost every winter. They come back fast, and just fine.

    I sure hope that's the case for your lovely bushes.

    p.s. Set up a critter-cam! A motion-sensitive camera to catch 'em in the act in case they decide to return!


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

    Great idea for the critter cam Blessings! I had 2 set up to watch the swan planters I had sitting at the end of our driveway. Some kids decided that they'd look better with one on the bank at the far side of the road and the other ended up in our lake. We never figured out who it was and I stopped putting my swans out until I can figure out a way to rig them up. I thought about putting cement in the bottoms of them. Someone would end up with their arm in a sling if they decided to grab it and toss it. My DH said they'd only come back with a ball bat.

    If you decide to get a critter cam get one with the invisible infrared eye. If they see the red light flashing they'll ruin your roses and take your camera.

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

    My herb garden is doing great! I'm hoping to dry some of them this year. It just seems to be one of those things I never get around to doing.

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

    My squirrel's corn garden, silly critters!


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

    Blessings and Lori. . .I called the HOA office and they called the critter guys. There appears to be the makings of a nest in the middle of the lake. These Vandalous Vermints have been wrecking havic around our lake shore for the past few months, Meanwhile DH sprayed everything with the no critter spray. It stinks for about 24hrs and then makes everything taste bitter. DH saw all 13 Geese in the next door neighbors yard today. Lol

    Scottie

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

    Oh no Scottie. I think your rose bushes will come back for sure. Just be patient.

    Hey ladies, thanks for the inspiration forlettuce in pots. Here is one of mine. Chives, lettuce, basil. They look very happy and I love how it looks.

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

    I'm enjoying the pics.

    Scottie, maybe at least 1 rouge human critter!

    Husband rototilled the vegetable garden and now to plant this week.

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  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited June 2016

    My plants are so sad and wilty!!! Sad

    100+ degrees all week, and we are on watering restrictions.

    I wish we had a direct pipeline from the wettest parts of the country!!!!

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

    Blessings,

    I'll get right on digging that pipeline - we have plenty of rain water to share in Lower Alabama.

    Looks like the critters are taking over our gardens everywhere. Either a discriminating 4- (or maybe 2-) legged mammal ate our Kentucky Colonel mint to the ground overnight - left all of the other plants alone. Someone must have been making mint juleps last night!

    Still loving your pictures and garden stories!

    Angela


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

    My hubby was worried about all my herb plants on our deck. It seems the critters that visit are not interested in them, thank goodness!

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  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited June 2016

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    Finally getting around to uploading gardening pictures, now that my corner of Michigan's moved on to roses and basil.

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    This was not intentional. But I'm keeping them.


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  • flaviarose
    flaviarose Member Posts: 442
    edited June 2016

    image peonies with iris and bishops weed, azaleas in background

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  • flaviarose
    flaviarose Member Posts: 442
    edited June 2016

    imageFt. McNair Chestnut - similar to a red buckeye

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  • flaviarose
    flaviarose Member Posts: 442
    edited June 2016

    imagetrying to keep the critters out of the vegetable garden

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

    Queenmomcat, Your early spring bulbs are gorgeous; great inspiration to think positively about spring 2017! My screen is really small; is that a yellow rose covered in blooms? Whatever it is, it is definitely a keeper!

    Flaviarose, Now THAT'S a border - people traveling along that road must stop and take pictures... I surely would. In my very first post, I mentioned how much I love peonies but couldn't grow them down here, so your picture made me smile. Is that white flower in your border Queen Anne's Lace, and is one of the azaleas (yellow one) a native plant? Your other two pictures would be great paintings - love your stylish scarecrow!


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  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited June 2016

    AngelaO: no, the second photograph (of mine) is a little clump of violas that popped up in the middle of my front lawn. (there's another clump of purple ones nearby. The friend who mows my lawn (long story) has been very carefully mowing and clipping around them. I do have one yellow rose, but that's a photobomb for another day.

    Flavia: i wish I could get irises that enthusiastic!

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  • flaviarose
    flaviarose Member Posts: 442
    edited June 2016

    HA ha ha ha ha. The white flower in the border is bishop's weed. I'll have to take more pictures of it. It can be a nice ground cover - I have tons and tons of it... it is just so invasive and hard to control. The azalea came from a nursery, probably not native to Massachusetts.

    My road is a dead end that ends at my house... so no passersby to enjoy the garden :-(

    I do mostly grow for my own enjoyment, but love to show it off to others.

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

    Hi ladies- been lurking and not posting due to being very busy with work. That being said, I take the chance to snap blooms in my garden all the time. The cacti have been doing their thing since late May. Here you go! Oleander thrown in for fun!

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  • Lookforward
    Lookforward Member Posts: 392
    edited June 2016

    Flaviarose your garden is beautiful and Jazzy

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    no cacti blooms here, but yours are very pretty. We transplanted our honeysuckle a few years ago and this is the first year that it is back in full bloom. Hopefully the hummingbirds will come back.

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  • flaviarose
    flaviarose Member Posts: 442
    edited June 2016

    Love the cactus and honeysuckle.

    imageAt the top of the picture there is a red honeysuckle. Not particularly fragrant, very vigorous. This year I added a white honeysuckle that is supposed to be very fragrant - it is still small.

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  • flaviarose
    flaviarose Member Posts: 442
    edited June 2016

    imageroses

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

    Flaviarose- that's it, I am moving in. Just gorgeous!

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

    Love to see all the photos. So many cacti blooms. What a treat for those f us up north.

    Looking forward I love honeysuckle. When I lived in SC the fragrance from the wild honeysuckle was just overwhelming. That is looking very vigorous.

    Flaviarose always beautiful. I think we'd all love to move in with you.

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

    Flaviarose,

    I'm right there with Jazzygirl and TwoHobbies; ready to move in with you - but I'll just sleep outside in your heavenly garden. I always have questions, and this time I'm intrigued by the two garden statuary pieces just peeking out from behind the honeysuckle. Are they both sheep, and (probably) antique pieces?? I love garden statuary and may one day get the nerve to take pictures of my yard to show. However, I need to get out there and have a pep talk with my plants. It might involve the threat of bulldozing...

    Jazzygirl,

    I've been sharing all of your pictures with my husband. They are incredible. I've never traveled much, but New Mexico is on our list of places to go!


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  • flaviarose
    flaviarose Member Posts: 442
    edited June 2016

    The sheep were a christmas gift from my mother-in-law last year. I've seen them in catalogues....

    http://www.plowhearth.com/grazing-sheep-lawn-statue.htm

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited May 2022

    Definitely an outdoorsy thread. ;o)

    Chilly last week and waited until this week to plant the 3 grape tomato plants in the vegetable garden.

    *johnny-jump-up* *tall iris*

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

    It is 100 degrees here and I am starting to loose some of the plants in my pots to the heat. The geraniums are blooming like mad, they love the summer heat. It is going to be 100 for the next 8 days and will wait to replant anything I loose once the summer monsoon rains come in July.


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