| Sweet peas [message #14445] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 17:57  |
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Sweet peas
Smooshes!
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| Re: Sweet peas [message #14449 is a reply to message #14445 ] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 18:06  |
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I agree you should have a hedgehog. Then we could have hedgehog updates, too.
They're so cute.
Smooshes!
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| Re: Sweet peas [message #14464 is a reply to message #14445 ] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 18:30 |
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Dancing Queen and Heathcliff
Now I have a picture in my head of Abba dancing at the window with the wild moors behind them - and I'd just got used to Kate Bush 
...and erm, Robin - is that link right about the size of a smokebush? 5 metres by 5 metres? How big is the cottage garden?
[Updated on: Tue, 07 April 2009 18:32]
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Sweet peas [message #14465 is a reply to message #14449 ] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 18:31 |
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I read the blog Shirl's Gardenwatch, and she has the best hedgehog updates. I love her bird watching posts, nest box footage, and video of nighttime hedgehog visits (and tips on how to attract them). I wish North America had hedgehogs. So yes, I second the hedgehog wishes! If only.
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| Re: Sweet peas [message #14470 is a reply to message #14468 ] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 18:44 |
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| Robin wrote on Tue, 07 April 2009 18:37 |
Ooooh! Bloggable hedgehog! That hadn't even OCCURRED to me! Okay, contacting the Hedgehog Preservation Society now . . . I know I've blogged that I keep thinking about trying to adopt one of their rescuees that won't make it in the wild again, but I keep thinking they'll laugh themselves silly and say 'no'. But what have I got to lose but my pride? :)
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Pride is overrated, anyway. Along with dignity and stuff.
Just think of all the hedgehog photos you could share. And the hellhounds sniffing them. (Carefully, under supervision, of course!) And hedgies with sluggies hanging from their little mouffies-- Eep. Excuse me while I put my cute animal squee back where it belongs. (I'm eyeing fresh ferret pictures at the moment, too, and they're not helping. TUMMIES!)
I think you should call! Tell them it's for the blog. ;)
Smooshes!
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| Re: Sweet peas [message #14472 is a reply to message #14445 ] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 19:26 |
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Just what I need, another blog to follow! But thanks for the Shirl's Gardenwatch link; it looks interesting.
How ODD to plan for sweet pea flowers after the roses. I tried sweet peas a few times, since my mother remarked wistfully about the scent. Not notably successful here. They absolutely don't like temperatures in the 80s and above, which, despite the frost this morning, will be more common than not from here on out. So if you don't get them started at New Year's, and transplanted out, protected from the horriblest weather, so that they are full-grown and blooming by now, they just wither down to little helpless strawy brown wisps.
Animal, vegetable, mineral?
Abigail
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| Re: Sweet peas [message #14473 is a reply to message #14445 ] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 19:26 |
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Hmm, sweet peas and clematis. That's an interesting combination. I think I might have to try that this year.}:P
Without Chaos, there can be no Order.
Semper Fi, Once a Marine, Always a Marine.
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| Re: Sweet peas [message #14478 is a reply to message #14472 ] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 20:14 |
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Yes, be careful with that link! The gardening blog world is seriously addicting. I dursn't tell you just how many awesome Texas garden blogs there are out there.
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| Re: Sweet peas [message #14479 is a reply to message #14445 ] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 20:33 |
 skating librarian
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Wouldn't it be lovely if some one could develop a sweet pea/garden pea cross so that we could have beautiful color, intoxicating scent, and organic veggies all from one plant?
The grey and threatening to drizzle weather is good for something ... I'm rearranging small stone walls to provide my older friends with access ramps from my parking area through the upper garden to the house. It will take them past the garden pond. I'm planning a few nicely spaced flat places for chairs or benches.
I have also found several uses for the beaten up oak flooring I ripped out last fall ... after I remove a few thousand flooring nails. Life is good.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Sweet peas [message #14482 is a reply to message #14479 ] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 21:37 |
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| skating librarian wrote on Tue, 07 April 2009 20:33 |
Wouldn't it be lovely if some one could develop a sweet pea/garden pea cross so that we could have beautiful color, intoxicating scent, and organic veggies all from one plant?
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THAT would be utterly awesome. Get going, you! }:P
Without Chaos, there can be no Order.
Semper Fi, Once a Marine, Always a Marine.
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| Re: Sweet peas [message #14486 is a reply to message #14481 ] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 22:10 |
kfoster2047
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Registered: January 2009
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So cute - and so tiny! But aren't they, well, prickly?
Karen
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| Re: Sweet peas [message #14535 is a reply to message #14531 ] |
Wed, 08 April 2009 19:20 |
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| Robin wrote on Wed, 08 April 2009 19:13 |
Yes, I will DEFINITELY tell them that I need a hedgehog for my BLOG. I'm not so sure of the hoglet pics of hog festooned in half eaten slugs either. I'll have to feed it Neem like the hellhounds get to repel fleas. . . . [imagines powdering slugs with Neem . . . ]
But I could have a cute little HEDGEHOG HOUSE too!
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You could paint it pink. The Hedgehog House, that is. And have a little welcome mat. Pink also, of course.
Smooshes!
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