| The new jungle [message #12255] |
Sun, 01 March 2009 18:01  |
 b_twin_1
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The new jungle
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: The new jungle [message #12261 is a reply to message #12258 ] |
Sun, 01 March 2009 18:15  |
Ithilien
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*smacks b_twin_1 gently on the head*
The flowers are very pretty. Especially the ones on the fruit trees. Actually, those look like very small, well behaved fruit trees. Do they stay that way? (I'm in the midst of planning a very small garden.)
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| Re: The new jungle [message #12266 is a reply to message #12261 ] |
Sun, 01 March 2009 18:19 |
b_twin_1
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Drat. Imagine forgetting that Super-Mod-Powers were not mine alone!
*sigh*
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: The new jungle [message #12279 is a reply to message #12255 ] |
Sun, 01 March 2009 18:53 |
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Akai
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Actually, you might like Antarctica. It's beautiful. And quiet. Plenty of penguins for hellhounds to chase...although I hear there's a hefty fine for that.
As for the mini-roses, I think they're just temperamental. I have one that is sitting here with a bud that refuses to bloom. 2 weeks now... I think it's laughing at me.
[Updated on: Sun, 01 March 2009 22:33]
self respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
--H.L. Mencken
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| Re: The new jungle [message #12280 is a reply to message #12255 ] |
Sun, 01 March 2009 19:18 |
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Pretty jungle!
We're expected to get snow tonight, too. 4-6 inches. We had some this morning when I got up, but it didn't take long to melt. While I'm thrilled about the possibility of snow, my wifely worry is making an appearance; Jeff has to go to work very early in the morning.
If you moved to Antarctica, they might ask you to keep two blogs. On the other hand, it'd be too expensive for them to make you go on tour very often.
Smooshes!
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| Re: The new jungle [message #12283 is a reply to message #12255 ] |
Sun, 01 March 2009 20:07 |
skating librarian
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Found this last night ...
"I would also like to take this occasion to recommend Robin McKinley’s latest book, titled Chalice… It is an amazing story as well as a beautiful one. All of her books are certainly fine but this one is unusually so."
on Anne McCaffrey's web site ... maybe someone else has already passed it on, but your mention of reading books that publishers want blurbs for brought it to mind.
4-6 inches of snow ... frost ... and I'm trying not to think about 12-15 inches that they've predicted for the 24 hrs. beginning at midnight. The grocery store was amazing at 5:00 p.m. today.
After having the snowiest winter on record last year and more than enough so far this year, Antarctica sounds awful (beautiful or not). There is a limit to how much white one I can take. England, cold or not, sounds terrific.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: The new jungle [message #12288 is a reply to message #12255 ] |
Sun, 01 March 2009 20:56 |
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| Robin said |
I know it’s a terrible photo but I’m sitting in the sink to take it at all. Ah yes the sink.
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Okay, now you just need to teach either Chaos or Darkness to use the camera, so that we can have pictures of things like this....
*ducks*
*offers G&B*
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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| Re: The new jungle [message #12302 is a reply to message #12255 ] |
Mon, 02 March 2009 07:05 |
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i give my mom a different color mini rose a year and most of them have survived and we are talking at least the last 15 years.of course she has a few the same color as there is not an abundance of variety here.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: The new jungle [message #12308 is a reply to message #12255 ] |
Mon, 02 March 2009 14:19 |
smallsatori
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Oh Robin, I so identify from my former life in Maine...moving things off to the glassed in porch on sunny days, into the dining room at night when I got home from work, etc, etc...then off the porch to the gardens, back in at night as the weather moderated. My life was one of pots dribbling, totally unsuitable plants growing and then dying, seedlings everywhere.
(Thank god I'm no longer there; it's due to snow another couple feet today and tonight in Bridgton, and all I can remember, in horrifying detail, is the year I went out, on my birthday in April, on snowshoes, to clear off a couple raised beds because I couldn't go another moment without sight and smell of real dirt. That's just plain wrong, on so many levels.)
Now, in New Mexico...I've just planted multiple roses, climbers and antique pillars, and pansies. New Mexico is a great place to grow heirloom roses, it turns out....relatively mild winters, lots of sun. And a greenhouse, even unheated, is a thing to cherish....
judith
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| Re: The new jungle [message #12317 is a reply to message #12255 ] |
Mon, 02 March 2009 17:55 |
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I like your big square, grey, pot with the patterns on the sides, being inhabited by one of the roses. We've got the same one but in terracotta. I was impressed by the efforts the manufacturers were making (according to their blurb, anyway) to cut down on energy use in making the pots - plus, of course, they're nice pots... I've got a little fig tree in the one here, in its second year with us.
My 'Frances Rivis' clematis has gone, I'm pretty sure. I suspect I let the sweet peas compete a little too strongly up its patch of trellis last year, so it was feeling a little disgruntled even at the start of the winter. I really liked those blue and cream flowers. Now I'll have to get another one - but I feel guilty for losing the old one.
Oh well, it is March, thank goodness.
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: The new jungle [message #12318 is a reply to message #12294 ] |
Mon, 02 March 2009 19:59 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Mon, 02 March 2009 05:19 |
Peter has suggested I get Atlas to rig some kind of roller at the top of my walls, buy some very large rolls of bubble wrap and turn my entire garden at the cottage into a greenhouse. Ha ha bloody ha.
Could be done. I have seen houses in Florida that have the entire back yard screened over. The methodology is there.
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A whole garden as a winter greenhouse - Yesss! And on sunny days you could roll out the roof - Peter has such good ideas... We could start a bubblewrap fund - I'm due to buy two copies of Dragonhaven for young relatives of friends
How many bubbles would a book buy? *ducks*!
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: The new jungle [message #12323 is a reply to message #12255 ] |
Mon, 02 March 2009 21:55 |
kfoster2047
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It would be nice if weather would just make up its mind and proceed in a nice, linear fashion - cooler to warmer and NO back steps. We had snow today (very unusual for NC in March but very pretty) and I could live with that but then it's supposed to get down to 15 F tonight. Arrgh! What is going to happen to all of those nice little green shoots and tiny little leaves that have popped up over the past couple of weeks?
Oh, and someone had asked about camellias being frost-proof. They have been doing fine with night time temperatures as low as upper twenties. We will see how they do with 15. I am guessing soggy brown blogs tomorrow.
Karen
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| Re: The new jungle [message #12370 is a reply to message #12255 ] |
Tue, 03 March 2009 20:25 |
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maybe you'll start a new trend,winter bubble wrapped gardens.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: The new jungle [message #12375 is a reply to message #12255 ] |
Tue, 03 March 2009 21:08 |
skating librarian
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I understand your passion for bubble wrap. Mine is for double wall polycarbonate ... it's like semi-rigid, indestructible bubble wrap.
http://www.farmtek.com/farm/supplies/cat1;ft1_building_material;ft1_corrugated_sheets_panels.html
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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