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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17062 is a reply to message #17059 ] |
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The first photo...
I know the fence is really itty, but at first glance, I keep thinking it's a regular sized fence and you've climbed onto the roof of a nearby skyscraper to take a picture of the garden. And with the fence looking so small and far away, it makes your garden look EXTRA GIANT.
The pots put things back into perspective. :)
(And I fully support picture posts.)
[Updated on: Thu, 11 June 2009 19:46]
Smooshes!
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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17075 is a reply to message #17059 ] |
Thu, 11 June 2009 20:25 |
 skating librarian
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As I keep digging to expand both the area for planting and the fence span I almost envy you your limited territory.
But not quite ... not as long as catalogs and magazines tempt me to try new things. A friend calls them "garden porn".
Those roses are so beautiful, it's frightening ... and the puppies are darling.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17079 is a reply to message #17059 ] |
Thu, 11 June 2009 22:44 |
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Baron Girod de l’Ain is beautiful! (I copied it's name so I wouldn't misspell it myself.) She has an elegance of shape and color that reminds me how much I love roses, especially the ones which don't reflect the shape I call "supermodel." Photos of flowers are always wonderful to look at.
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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17083 is a reply to message #17059 ] |
Thu, 11 June 2009 23:26 |
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Roses and puppies...what could be better on a night decorated with big-bad-storms?
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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17085 is a reply to message #17059 ] |
Thu, 11 June 2009 23:58 |
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I'm jealous of the beautiful roses. I generally don't do well with plants - they usually die on me. I'm crossing fingers about our snow peas and maybe a bell pepper seedling; hubby planted a pot with snow peas, but something got into the pot and basically killed most of the plant; I rescued some seeds and yanked everything out, pulled out some weird spore-filled pods, and planted the seeds. I've now got seedlings about 6 inches high, I've put a few stakes into the pot to encourage the plants to grow up, I planted a few bell pepper seeds into another area of the pot (it's fairly large), and one of them has apparently sprouted. If these plants grow, it'll be the FIRST TIME anything I've planted from seed has lived. Meanwhile, four blueberry bushes have actually survived into their third year and are indeed becoming true bushes! Yay! We've never managed to harvest anything but a few berries, because the birds kept getting them, but this year, I'm hopeful.
So far the only flowers that have succeeded in blooming are some mums, the Mexican petunia, and some lilies. We had four daffodils bloom just as temperatures soared and killed them the same day. Wonderful northern Florida weather. We now have temps in the 90s, so flowers basically bloom only to wilt almost immediately. Hubby kept cutting the lilies to bring them into the house so they could last more than one day. Oh, and one orchid sent out a spike that bloomed before our cat Domino could eat it (which he did last year). It's lasted almost 2 weeks now. So lovely ...
Nothing like the gorgeous roses blooming in Robin's garden!
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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17088 is a reply to message #17059 ] |
Fri, 12 June 2009 02:15 |
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Your garden is looking lovely. I always think a walled garden is terrifically appealing, and your walls must really hold the scent of your roses.
The shrub roses are blooming around here, although I no longer have any. The lilacs are fading and none of my daylilies are blooming yet, although some have scapes that look ready to go. The lovely rain has given my double impatiens a nice boost and the now-three-years-old hosta bed LOOKS LIKE a hosta bed and encourages me a lot--I'll take a picture when I finish digging the weeds out along its front retaining wall. The yellow daylily bed, however, is not encouraging at all. It looks just as full of blasted prairie grass as it did last year--that stuff is unspeakably hard to get rid of. Depressing, really, when I think of the bags full of root mats I dug out last year. Sigh. Guess what I will be doing yet again . . .
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17090 is a reply to message #17089 ] |
Fri, 12 June 2009 02:41 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Fri, 12 June 2009 02:18 |
B_twin_1, I recognize that look on Belle's face: "Okay, you wanted them, when are they going to be ALL YOURS?" 
What pretty puppers! How big is their dad, anyway--do they get their size from him?
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Haha yes, she is already backing off when it comes to feeding (the teeth may have something to do with that!)
They are normal size for working border collies - although the dad is a large, rangy style of dog. I always felt Belle didn't grow quite as big as she could of because she was part of an "early litter" (the result of an "oopsie".... :S ) It will be interesting to see how big they do get. I could say they are cute, gorgeous etc etc but I am biased. 
They respond to the whistle already....
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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Fri, 12 June 2009 14:16 |
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My daughter has a puppy that is about four, almost five months old now. Stella the wonder pup is half-champion black Lab and half-champion Border Collie. Dad jumped a decent sized fence to visit the girl next door. Stella and siblings were the result.
The girlchild has raised a fair share of puppies, done volunteer work in shelters and with rescue groups, etc. My daughter claims, and I believe it, that Stella is the smartest dog she's ever known. She can see the wheels turning in that dog's head and the intelligence shining in her eyes.
Training this smart, hyper-active dog is easier then my daughter thought it would be, and more of a challenge. She says that Stella keeps out thinking her.
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
John Keats
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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17106 is a reply to message #17094 ] |
Sat, 13 June 2009 00:17 |
librarykat
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| shalea wrote on Fri, 12 June 2009 08:44 |
| EMoon wrote on Thu, 11 June 2009 23:26 |
Roses and puppies...what could be better on a night decorated with big-bad-storms?
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Not much is better even on a sunny Friday morning.
| Diane in MN on Fri, 12 June 2009 02:05 |
I'm kind of surprised that blueberries are happy so far south.
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They're certainly happy here. Which reminds me that I need to go out at lunch and pick up some more of the extremely tasty locally-grown buy-one-get-ones from the grocery store.
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There are some varieties that do very well in northern Florida. One family about 10 miles north of us, who let us pick (for free!) a couple of summers ago, has what amounts to an orchard of blueberry trees - forget bushes, these are honest-to-God trees! 7-8 feet tall, filled with luscious, large, absolutely delicious blueberries. And they didn't use any pesticides or any kind of chemicals to make their blueberry trees grow. We picked a LOT, and then the family wouldn't take any money! At least I had given them a jar of my homemade jam as a thank you.
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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17107 is a reply to message #17106 ] |
Sat, 13 June 2009 02:44 |
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| librarykat wrote on Sat, 13 June 2009 06:17 |
There are some varieties that do very well in northern Florida. One family about 10 miles north of us, who let us pick (for free!) a couple of summers ago, has what amounts to an orchard of blueberry trees - forget bushes, these are honest-to-God trees! 7-8 feet tall, filled with luscious, large, absolutely delicious blueberries. And they didn't use any pesticides or any kind of chemicals to make their blueberry trees grow. We picked a LOT, and then the family wouldn't take any money! At least I had given them a jar of my homemade jam as a thank you.
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I just bought two American blueberry bushes. I hope they do as well in France as in the States! They already have berries on them in the pots, but I don't expect that they will do anything much this year or the next.
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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17127 is a reply to message #17115 ] |
Sat, 13 June 2009 16:53 |
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| Robin wrote on Sat, 13 June 2009 12:47 |
You don't *need* to work on revenge. I am the self-revenge model. Sigh.
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o.O
But that is not nearly so satisfying. *g*
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17161 is a reply to message #17114 ] |
Sun, 14 June 2009 02:52 |
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| Robin wrote on Sat, 13 June 2009 11:44 |
YOU NO LONGER HAVE ANY ROSES?!?? There are rugosas that should survive both your winters AND your Danes!
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Well, I don't plant anything but grass in the back, where the dogs are . . .
The shrub roses were in a front border that had sun when they were planted but doesn't any more. When I reclaimed it from weed hell four years ago, I dug them out (::ducks under desk::) because they weren't flowering any more and weren't growing much, either. I TRIED to extract them so I could move them, but they'd been in the ground for nine years and would not come out with roots intact. I have two more borders to get under good control, and when that's done, I'm thinking of putting in a new bed in the only place that still gets plenty of sun and trying again with roses.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17162 is a reply to message #17106 ] |
Sun, 14 June 2009 03:01 |
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| librarykat wrote on Fri, 12 June 2009 23:17 |
One family about 10 miles north of us, who let us pick (for free!) a couple of summers ago, has what amounts to an orchard of blueberry trees - forget bushes, these are honest-to-God trees! 7-8 feet tall, filled with luscious, large, absolutely delicious blueberries.
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I grew up in Massachusetts picking low-bush blueberries, the kind that grow out in fields with a lot of sun. My father liked to pick high-bush blueberries, which grew in boggy or swampy areas to which he didn't bring us kids. I don't know how big high-bush blueberries get, but it sounds like they're the type your neighbors have.
I don't ever recall seeing blueberry bushes when we lived in Atlanta, but of course it was hard to spot much besides kudzu!
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: (Almost) Midsummer Garden [message #17168 is a reply to message #17087 ] |
Sun, 14 June 2009 12:14 |
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The genus Vaccinium has around 450 species, at least 16 of which are called blueberries, plus a number of huckleberries, lingonberries, cranberries, and bilberries. They have various heights, sun requirements, tolerance for shade, and soil acidity preference. I always thought of them as a northern fruit, but in the last 10-20 years the Texas Dept. of Agriculture has been really pushing rabbit-eye blueberries, and there are many farms in east Texas.
The blueberries I remember with great fondness were tall open shrubs growing as understory in the forest near the Hudson, near West Point, NY. I was assisting my botany professor in a project that involved hiking all around measuring the growth of young striped maple saplings. But there were several field days there in the early summer where we browsed through the berries for a substantial proportion of our supposed work day.
Abigail
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