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| January Windowsill [message #10527] |
Sun, 25 January 2009 18:09  |
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January Windowsill
Smooshes!
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| Re: January Windowsill [message #10531 is a reply to message #10527 ] |
Sun, 25 January 2009 18:26  |
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Well...yay no frost?
We're supposed to have snow flurries here tonight, (hm, well earlier they said so, but they seem to have changed their minds), but it's sticking around freezing. This is much better than the nights it dropped to 3F. That was ridiculous.
The windowsill looks fabulous. Very warm and green. Mm.
Smooshes!
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| Re: January Windowsill [message #10556 is a reply to message #10527 ] |
Sun, 25 January 2009 23:36 |
 kfoster2047
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And rhodos. Isn’t that pink-edged white ruffly one darling?
I love rhododendrons. I fell for a ridiculously expensive one last year in frothy palest pink but it never made it through the summer (and they are supposed to do well in our area.) The naked bush is still there and I keep hoping that it will pop back to life this spring. Things do that a lot around here. They sulk and go dormant and (assuming they live at all) look miserable for a couple of years and then all of a sudden they are ten feet tall and ambushing you when you walk up the driveway.
But we went to Lowes for a switchplate today and I came home with another one simply covered in buds that should become frothy deep pink flowers. (I also came home with a gardenia, a blueberry bush, an orchid, and a husband who wasn't quite sure what happened. My English gardening gene only seems to come out in the Spring and he forgets what it's like.)
Karen
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| Re: January Windowsill [message #10560 is a reply to message #10527 ] |
Mon, 26 January 2009 03:56 |
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AJLR
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that’s the kitchen table at which I sit reading the six or twenty months’ accumulation of magazines
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In my experience, one can put six months' accumulation of magazines in a neat stack somewhere and when you come back to them a day later they have become very friendly in the meantime and there's now 18 months' worth there!
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I just hope it survives to be repotted and grow on: you never know with florist’s as it were occasional plants, like occasional tables, as opposed to nursery ones, which are assumed (sometimes incorrectly) to have a will to live
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Yes! I've got a gardenia like that. I was given it by a friend, two years ago, at Christmas. As is normal for many of these things, what looked like one plant was in fact four rooted-and-about-to-flower cuttings. I've always found gardenias tricky anyway, with all the ericaceous and rainwater (!) requirements, but I've managed to get one of the cuttings now to grow into a plant (although not yet a well-shaped one) and we're struggling grimly on in partnership, the two of us.
I like the colour you've got on the wall, under the windowsill! 
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: January Windowsill [message #10580 is a reply to message #10560 ] |
Mon, 26 January 2009 18:33 |
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Robin
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| AJLR wrote on Mon, 26 January 2009 03:56 |
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that’s the kitchen table at which I sit reading the six or twenty months’ accumulation of magazines
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In my experience, one can put six months' accumulation of magazines in a neat stack somewhere and when you come back to them a day later they have become very friendly in the meantime and there's now 18 months' worth there!
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I just hope it survives to be repotted and grow on: you never know with florist’s as it were occasional plants, like occasional tables, as opposed to nursery ones, which are assumed (sometimes incorrectly) to have a will to live
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Yes! I've got a gardenia like that. I was given it by a friend, two years ago, at Christmas. As is normal for many of these things, what looked like one plant was in fact four rooted-and-about-to-flower cuttings. I've always found gardenias tricky anyway, with all the ericaceous and rainwater (!) requirements, but I've managed to get one of the cuttings now to grow into a plant (although not yet a well-shaped one) and we're struggling grimly on in partnership, the two of us.
I like the colour you've got on the wall, under the windowsill! :)
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Yes, magazines reproduce at a SHOCKING rate. They do it upstairs on the BED too (wicked things)!!
I am SO IMPRESSED at someone who's kept a gardenia going. They FRIGHTEN me. I'm afraid to walk past them at the florist's for fear they'll die just from being BREATHED on by me and the florist will make me pay . . .
Ah, my lovely deep green? Yes, I got bored with beige and ecru and the entire cottage, barring the bathroom, is in dark colours: dark green, cranberry red, and salmon-orange. Haven't decided what I'm going to do with Third House.
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| Re: January Windowsill [message #10582 is a reply to message #10576 ] |
Mon, 26 January 2009 18:46 |
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| Robin wrote on Mon, 26 January 2009 18:26 |
Houseplants? Don't you do houseplants? I know, I know, One More Thing. But the only way you're going to have a hibiscus in this climate (or Blackbear's) is as a houseplant.
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I do have some African Violets. One major drawback is lack of window sills. They don't make them any more.... *sigh*
Just not sure how a 7' hibiscus would go in the house..... (do they have miniatures??)
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: January Windowsill [message #10591 is a reply to message #10578 ] |
Mon, 26 January 2009 21:23 |
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Call me an optimist. We planted two last year that died. Of course, we also planted them using "top soil" that turned out to be completely sterile. On the other hand, we have another one that has been lving (if not thriving) for several years and I hope that this will be the year it decides to stop sulking and enjoy itself.
Karen
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| Re: January Windowsill [message #10606 is a reply to message #10603 ] |
Tue, 27 January 2009 06:59 |
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| AJLR wrote on Tue, 27 January 2009 05:39 |
| b_twin_1 wrote on Tue, 27 January 2009 10:04 |
::tries to send excess sunlight to the Northern Hemisphere::
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Thank you, much appreciated. Your sending obviously got this far at least because it's brilliant sunshine here at the moment, even though very chilly. I may go and stand in it at lunchtime (if it's still there), see if I can develop in-built solar panels very quickly.
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you should try here,it was -34 this morning and went up to a balmy -18 in the afternoon.
[Updated on: Tue, 27 January 2009 06:59]
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: January Windowsill [message #10608 is a reply to message #10606 ] |
Tue, 27 January 2009 07:23 |
kfoster2047
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We were in Quebec City over New Year's - we loved it but it was CCCCOOOOOLLLLLDDDDD!
Karen
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| Re: January Windowsill [message #10609 is a reply to message #10527 ] |
Tue, 27 January 2009 07:32 |
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Quebec city is about 4 hours from where i live.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: January Windowsill [message #10610 is a reply to message #10580 ] |
Tue, 27 January 2009 07:55 |
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| Robin wrote on Mon, 26 January 2009 23:33 |
Ah, my lovely deep green? Yes, I got bored with beige and ecru and the entire cottage, barring the bathroom, is in dark colours: dark green, cranberry red, and salmon-orange. Haven't decided what I'm going to do with Third House.
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Which way does Third House face? South at the back, or...? Our yellow-walled sitting-room faces south, so it gets lovely and sunshiney (if there is such a word) in there with even the slightest hint of the stuff. Very comforting, in winter.
Is the garden soil at Third House reasonable, or claggy Hampshire clay?
Apropos of the gardenia, she and I have grown close over the past year. I breathe on her and say 'good morning' every day and she waggles her leaves in return. We're not giving up on each other!
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| Re: January Windowsill [message #10617 is a reply to message #10615 ] |
Tue, 27 January 2009 13:39 |
kfoster2047
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Gardenias for me take a few years to settle in before they really thrive.
Glad I am not the only one! To be fair, the one I have which is not thriving has had a hard life. I planted it at the old house where it was too shady and too dry and then transplanted it to the new house and chunked it in in a hurry in a very sunny bed. Poor thing! But it's still alive and it's starting to look more perky. I am trying Frost Proof ( http://www.brighterblooms.com/product/frost-proof-gardenia.h tml) this time.
Karen
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| Re: January Windowsill [message #10647 is a reply to message #10576 ] |
Wed, 28 January 2009 00:28 |
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Diane in MN
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| Robin wrote on Mon, 26 January 2009 17:26 |
Houseplants? Don't you do houseplants? I know, I know, One More Thing. But the only way you're going to have a hibiscus in this climate (or Blackbear's) is as a houseplant.
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They are sold as standards and patio plants here in the summer. I bought one once and brought it in at the end of summer, tried to grow it as a houseplant, but it had some weird sporadic leaf-dropping affliction, possibly because of or possibly in addition to whitefly, and eventually I got fed up and disposed of it. They are annuals here, and I don't mess around with annuals except for my pots of impatiens.
"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: January Windowsill [message #10648 is a reply to message #10580 ] |
Wed, 28 January 2009 00:47 |
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Diane in MN
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| Robin wrote on Mon, 26 January 2009 17:33 |
Ah, my lovely deep green? Yes, I got bored with beige and ecru and the entire cottage, barring the bathroom, is in dark colours: dark green, cranberry red, and salmon-orange. Haven't decided what I'm going to do with Third House.
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That is a lovely deep green; I have what looks like the same color in my guest room and bath, so I can applaud your taste with complete honesty. I love real color on walls and have pale neutrals only in the hallways. I don't much like wallpaper, and want color to wake up my rooms.
"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: January Windowsill [message #10650 is a reply to message #10527 ] |
Wed, 28 January 2009 00:56 |
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Diane in MN
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The mystery, however, is that while she should be an apple-blossom geranium, which is to say intensely double and somewhat resembling little pink roses††, for life on a windowsill in winter, she’s gone single.
Well, apple blossoms are single, aren't they? She's living up to her name!
"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: January Windowsill [message #10653 is a reply to message #10651 ] |
Wed, 28 January 2009 01:18 |
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| katinseattle wrote on Wed, 28 January 2009 00:00 |
| AJLR wrote on Tue, 27 January 2009 00:58 |
I like yellow on the walls, too. Our sitting-room walls are a sort of golden/egg-yolk colour.
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Yes! Yellow walls! Most of my inside walls are a sort of cream with a hint of butterscotch. Even Seattle's grey winter light looks warm when it bounces off that. The north facing kitchen with its small window is the brightest, purest, sunshine yellow I could find. My daughter blinked a bit when she saw that, then warned me to watch out for planes landing on the roof at night. I'm not a happy cook; I need all the invigoration I can get in the kitchen.
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When we moved to the Seattle area in the mid-80s, we looked at LOTS of houses with yellow walls, countertops, etc. The house we bought was painted yellow throughout. I suspected it had something to do with compensating for grey winters. We did some moderate remodeling before we moved in to that house, and repainted it with a lot of deep blues. And I liked the green and grey winters very much; you folks have had a rough time with storms this year, but I still think western Washington has a great climate.
"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: January Windowsill [message #10662 is a reply to message #10527 ] |
Wed, 28 January 2009 06:57 |
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i am not a good gardener,most plants do not survive me but i have found iris who have some really nice colors do well for me.i even have a black iris.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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I'm waiting for everything else to grow up and change the micro-climate.
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