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Grooch
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03-15-2001

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 8:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Stopped at a yard sale today and got a brand new, never been used, wooden, garden arbor for $50 that they paid $300 for. Guess I know what I will be doing tomorrow.

Lancecrossfire
Moderator

07-13-2000

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 8:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Great pictures Yankee! You've done a great job with your deck!

Grooch, it's great to see you again!! It sounds like you will be very busy tomorrow.

Grooch
Member

03-15-2001

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 8:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Also, we just got fish for the fish pond.

Does anyone know how to keep a pug out of the pond when he thinks it is his own personal swimming pool?

My mother calls him the "Warg" and he has certainly been living up to the name, lately.

Grooch
Member

03-15-2001

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 8:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lance,

Lancecrossfire
Moderator

07-13-2000

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 8:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Grooch, if the dog thinks it's his own personal pool, I think about the only things that would work is 1) to drain it, 2) electric fence, or 3) sharks.

Might as well get a little slide or diving board for him.

Grooch
Member

03-15-2001

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 9:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ack! I was afraid of that.

He's already killed 2 goldfish.

Good thing my mother thinks he's cute.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 6:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
(S-T-R-E-T-C-H!!! GAL having a Scarlett O'Hara after Rhett carries her up the staircase moment) Reader: Colossus says get Scott's Weed & Feed for lawn, it will get rid of dandelion's and just about everything else except grass. Spray it on before it rains and after you mow once or twice a month. For stuff growing between the cracks in the driveway, Colossus says gas, lacquer-thinner, and old paint work. LOLOL - don't use that stuff!! Use "Roundup" - it kills plants indiscriminately - pour it on the plant and the roots. He says gasoline's cheaper, just don't smoke around it. Criminy.

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 6:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee, your balcony is beautiful. You do a really good job on it and the planters are just beautiful. What size is the balcony in the above photos?

Wink
Member

10-06-2000

Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 7:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee what a beautiful oasis in the middle of a busy city. You definitely have a green thumb. Your flowers look lovely.

Lkunkel did you get any response yet about your peach tree?

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 10:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Gal and Colossus... I went to Ace and asked for the pesticide department... dd was appalled, ds found the traps and showed dd how the boxes works... she just about screamed the roof down when she found a pic that says you can capture rabbits in those traps...

Bought the roundup... squirted it on those sticker bush thing... now I got some weed and feed that after I used the entire bottle on every dandeloin I poured about a capful, I read the direction... mix with water... I wonder if dh will notice??? I wonder if my shasta daisys will survive... I wonder why anyone would let me loose in a garden...

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 4:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Cassie, Lance and Wink. I have better pictures of the planters up-close, but when I reduce them to a file size small enough to post, they just look like green and white blobs...

Cassie, I'm not exactly sure, but I'd guess it's around 16 feet by 8-10 feet -- give or take a little. I have a deck in the front of my house that's just as big, and a balcony off my master bedroom that's maybe 6 feet by 8 feet.

Here is one more picture to give you an idea of what the planters look like as they hang over the railing. (They're off to the right in this picture).

plantersagain

Here's what I've got in the planters:

5 on the big deck:

* In 2 long ones: dwarf boxwood, ivy, white geraniums, white snapdragons, white trailing petunias and pink mix sweet williams.

* In the 3 shorter ones: white geranium, ivy, white trailing million bells, black sweet potato vine, dwarf purple heliotrope, and giant snowflake bacopa.

On my upstairs deck, my 3 boxes have white geranium, ivy, white/purple trailing double petunias, purple verbena, black sweet potato vine, and giant snowflake bacopa.

Once the plants start to grow a bit more and trail a bit more, it should be very nice. I chose these plants based on a number of factors, including the strong afternoon sun, sometimes windy conditions (chose sturdier taller plants i.e., geranium), color/texture mixture, and length of bloom.

Additionally, I've got lots of lavender (4 plants), a beautiful climbing hydrangea, the orange flowers I posted before, sweet peas, a mix of herbs, including coriander/cilantro, basil, 4 kinds of mint, and dill. And of course my succulents/hens & chicks/rock garden, japonica plant and red japanese maple.

(Edited to add: man, the quality of that photo is bad. Sorry about that... Shrinking a 1M photo down to 60K will do that... :-))

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 5:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ah to be in California... CLIMBING HYDRANGEA!!! I am jealous!! HEre zone 5, I was going to ask about the climbing stuff.. one year I had a flowering jasmine star plant, I still remember that scent 6 - 7 years later...

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 6:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Reader234, even better, I'm in Canada. In Vancouver.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 6:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
eeesh... thanks for the clarification... send me that hydrangea!! AND your green thumb!!

ETADD looking over my shoulder "wow, that's beautiful" I go back and showed your other posts, and said "wouldnt it be wonderful to have that?" dd replies"yeah, but that's on a taller story.. but we have a patio, cant we have beautiful flowers????

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 6:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You sure do know your plants, Yankee. One thing about Vancouver that's good for gardening is all the rain. I'm in Florida and in the summer it's very hard to keep the flowers alive, especially if drought conditions put severe restrictions on our weekly waterings. Please keep posting photos Yankee--I love seeing what you do with those balconies! Reader, I have an archway leading into my backyard and one one side growing up and over the white archway, I have confederate jasmine and on the other side I have the star plant. The scent of the confederate jasmine is very, very strong. The star jasmine is much more subtle--I like it :-)

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Monday, May 03, 2004 - 9:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Man reading all these nice plant stories and ideas are making me so anxious for my stuff to start growing. Everything is just popping it's head out of the ground now, with the exception of the tulips which are in full bloom, but I only have about a dozen of them scattered throughout my yard.

Grooch as far as keeping the pug out my neighbor used mouse traps, after a few snaps her dogs left the pond alone. However her dogs are bigger than pugs so I don't know if it would hurt them too much. I personally would never do that to my dog but it did work for the neighbor.

I was busy over the weekend building a raised flower bed and a raised vegtable garden, almost got it complete, now comes the fun part of adding the compost and dirt and tilling it all together.

If I can get up high enough I want to take some pictures of the beds before I plant anything, and than some more pictures after they start to bloom.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Monday, May 03, 2004 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wink: Nope, not a word. Tomorrow I'll contact the Master Gardener program and see if I can get a house call.

Nightcrawler
Member

02-12-2002

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I need some help with are dogs

what can we get to keep are dogs from diging in the flower gardens????

I tryed the stuff you can buy at the pet/garden places that say this will keep your pet away.

are dogs whatched as I put it down went over smelled it and layed on top of it in the flower garden

we don't tie/pin are dogs up we live in the country they kinda look after the place when we are not there.(they keep the rabits,coons,deer,out of the garden)
I tryed the BAD DOG smack on the nose.
I tryed shooting them with the water gun when I found them in the flower garden
I put some of the kids toys were there was durt and they layed on top of the flowers that were up
(this made Bookie kinda mad)

what can I put down or buy to keep them out of are flower garden?
I'm going to put this in the dog place too.
NC


Theowl
Member

09-28-2000

Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 7:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
NC, I posted a responce to you in the dog area. Good Luck!!

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Friday, May 07, 2004 - 6:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
NC I am having the same issues as you with my neighbors dog. Everytime they let it out to play he thinks my garden is the best playground.

With my dogs I used several different techniques, first I walked them on a leash around the area they were not allowed to go in, telling them no and pointing to the garden area. ( they really don't like being on a leash unless they are going for a walk so they knew something was up) I did this until they realized it was a no no. My dog caught onto it really quick, within several days.

My roommates dog isn't so bright, I did the same thing with him, but he would forget about it as soon as he started to play. If I caught him in there he got scolled, reshowed where not to go, got locked in the fenced in area of the yard for awhile, than brought back out and walked around the area again.

So far this year he has been pretty good, only had to yell at him a few times.

My lilac bushes are just starting to bloom, or show signs of blooming, can't wait for the smell of them in full bloom.

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Friday, May 07, 2004 - 7:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, Jagger...and I popped in to see how they are coming along too, cos I'm still waiting for a piccy. :-)

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Saturday, May 08, 2004 - 6:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
When is the best time to put ferilizer down? The bag says that you should sprinkle the lawn then put it down... does that mean you have to wait, 24, 48, 72...etc hours before rain ideally? You want it wet to stick, then dry to 'root'? Then wet again to nurture? What happens if it rains when it wasnt supposed to? Do you have to re fertilize...

Oh, and after you bomb those weeds with RID (whatever you spray directly into them) and they turn brown and wilt, do you have to dig them out?

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, May 08, 2004 - 9:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Reader, as I have a concrete slab I don't know much about lawns, but I'm sure someone here does.

I took this photo of this small clematis today on my walk with my dog -- the vine is very small but the flowers are HUGE! I put the ball in the photo to show you the scale. It's a street hockey ball (same size as a full tennis ball).

clematis

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Saturday, May 08, 2004 - 11:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Saturday, May 08, 2004 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have itty, bitty, teeny, tiny baby bell peppers.

Isn't he cute???

babypepper

By the way, this is growing in the Topsy-Tuvey. So far I really like this hanging container.