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Wink
Member

10-06-2000

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Fruit, Spy and Juju. Working in the garden is the best stress reliever ever.

Juju it's a Jackmanni clematis.



Fruitbat
Member

08-07-2000

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 11:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Working in the garden causes me stress.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 11:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ack! Something is wrong with my dwarf Bonanza peach tree. It had a lot of blooms and I removed all but two of the baby fruit so that the growth would primarily concentrate on the limbs since it is its first year.

My concern is that the tree now looks really droopy. One of the fruit is still growing, but the other is shriveling to nothing. We've been giving it a gallon of water (treated with Miracle Grow) every other day, but it isn't perking up, and is beginning to lose its leaves. I'm not sure if we're overwatering it, underwatering it, or if it needs something entirely different. Also in the container with it are strawberry plants and some baby marigolds. The lights are not on at night; I just didn't want to remove them and disturb the leaves.

Help me save my tree!

sad tree

Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 11:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, Wink. You have the most beautiful gardens. I can't wait to see what they look like this year!

Wink
Member

10-06-2000

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 3:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Tess. Those are just a couple out at the front that I happened to have digital shots of.

Lkunkel your best bet would be to hit some gardening sites with message boards where people discuss problems with their plants. I googled it and got lots of sites that sell the plant but there wasn't much info on the care. It sure is a beautiful specimen.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 7:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have such a brown thumb... yet my heart yearns for a garden...

This is the time of year for it... I am successful at container gardening, but everything else is a mess! I had some ever green type bushes that looked great for 4 years, but died this winter, I had some Iris' that I transplanted from a friend, for 2 years, no problems, this fall a 21/2 foot weed grew out the middle - that I cant pull out...

I tried planting tomatoes, nothing, I have a clemintas that was thriving, till last year... my neighbors plants seem to survive... and I have a fenced yard, no pets...

The one thing that is still thriving, and I do nothing to encourage it - a rose bush. I planted it on the fence, and do nothing, now the grass has surrounded it, but I dont weed, or feed it...

Are there any other roses like that I can plant in my semi circle in front of my cement patio?

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 9:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Very nice pictures Wink, it looks lovely.

LK I don't know much about that tree, but my guess is it is probably being over watered. What do you have in the bottom of the container for drainage. It may be that the roots are getting too much water and are rotting. Does the excess water drain out of the bottom of the container?

Good luck on trying to get it back to life. I would suggest if it gets any worse to take it out of the container and replant it with new soil.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wink, there are drainage holes in the bottom of the container. One of the two peaches I left one the tree has shriveled up to nothing--the other is still growing strong.

I sent the picture and a letter to our newspaper's master gardener--still waiting for a reply.

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 7:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Starting today with a huge whine! We have a groundhog in our backyard that has made a tasty meal out of the blooms of all my tulips! I got one of those live traps, as do my neighbors on both sides, but I am hoping that I'm not the one to catch him, LOL.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 3:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've had luck planting tulips with cayenne pepper... and when they bloom, you do have to spray, or spread the pepper after rain, or dew...

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 4:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Reader, you mean for me to spray my flowers so the critter doesn't eat them? Great idea, although too late for my tulips this year, LOL, I'll keep it in mind for next year.

I'm still hoping my neighbors catch the mad muncher (since I don't know what I'm going to do with it if he wanders into my cage).

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 6:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So I realize to my everlasting shame that the wild rhubarb in the garden in front of my condo has gone from not visible to redwood-esque in the space of a few days (lotta rain here lately). I head out early this morning to pull the crap, and I'm all wigged out when I head back to Colossus' condo nextdoor because there's wild oak (I know it's there, I don't know what it looks like) and slimy snaily things in the garden patch. But mostly, I'm griping about the rhubarb. Colossus, who wouldn't help me PULL rhubarb, says "don't worry, I'll make sure it doesn't come back." Out the door he heads with a can of paint thinner and a weed sprayer. Uhhh - OK, first is this an EPA approved method of weed killing? And secondly, this garden area is my only means of ingress and egress from the condo (Colossus says that's not true, there's a balcony I can jump from). Is it unreasonable of me to be uncomfortable with creating the environmental equivilant of a molotov cocktail right in front of my door?

I'm hoping maybe someone here has a viable method of removing wild rhubarb once and for all - something that won't necessarily draw the attention of a hazmet team or the swat explosives unit. Anyone?

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 8:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Rofl Gal!! BigC sure is gung ho on this sort of thing isn't he? Sorry I don't even know what rhubarb is, I'm a city girl at heart and the fact that we have a plot of grass still amazes me.

Grannyg
Member

05-28-2002

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gal, is he practicing to kill the shrub in front of the chapel?

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 9:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sorry ladies I'm a little distracted here - he's vacuuming the house in the nude and he wants to know what I want sucked next. Give me a few . . .

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 9:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Go for it Gal!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 10:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
damn! I wish I was at GAL's house

(Bill is doing our floors today also, but he is fully clothed, damn it!)

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL, please dont give my dh any ideas!! :-) wicked!!

and I'd like to know his recipe for getting rid of weeds!! I absolutely have no luck getting rid of the "sticker bushes" that keep growing in my backyard, and now the dandeloins have grown absolutely wild!! I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE!! So I went and bought weedBgone, and poured it on as many of hte sticker bushes as possible, than I got weed and feed, and poured it over the dang dandeloin... and if that dont work I'm buying me some paint thinner!!

Grannyg
Member

05-28-2002

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm on my way to Gal's house. Surely this means we will get a new pic in Gal's profile.

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 4:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've been organizing my deck, and planting the new planter boxes I bought to go over the railing on my deck.

For those who don't know, this is my city outdoor space -- one of three decks I have (this is the main one). It's basically a concrete slab, but having ANY outdoor space in the city is a luxury...

I'll post each photo in individual messages...

The teak bench is brand new. I want to get a skinny teak "coffee table" to go in front of it so we can put our feet up on it. The plants are young and some of them aren't flowering yet, but they should be nice as the season goes on.

deck

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 4:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's a different angle of the deck. You can see the planters I got to hang over the railing, and provide some elevation for the plants, and to allow for cascading varieties.

There are two lavender plants behind the railing on either side of the teak bench.

deck2

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 4:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Uhhhhhhhhhhh, GAL has been gone an awfully long time, hasn't she?

Hey GAL, remember I am always available to re-size any more nude photos of Colossus that may be ... well ... larger than life, so to speak.

Uhhhhhh, let's see, wild rhubarb. I guess there is too much of it to just pull it up?

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 4:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's a close-up of one my planters:

planter

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 4:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Couldn't resist posting this one. The colors are so vibrant:

flowers

Grooch
Member

03-15-2001

Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 8:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey Juju! I just saw the pictures you posted around 4/18.

I think those tiered (raised) beds are a great place to bury any husbands/boyfriends that might piss you off.