any gardeners?

“I feel like taking a blow dryer out to the yard to start working on that snow....



If the weather holds steady for a while I can start some winter greens in the hoop house....I cant wait, real veggies!!! Hurry up spring!”

“I'm hoping to have a cold frame built by next fall. It's part of the dog and log side extravaganza. The priorities are stone work, some planting, and cold frame. I was hoping for that Johnny's code to double up my order. They sell mayapple, trout lillies and trillium and dutchmen's breachs, among other wonderful shade lovers, but for a pretty price. I'm tempted to find some state land in the middle of nowhere and take some from here and there. I don't think it's legal though. Maybe I'll check into that.”

“i'm wanting to start some cold weather crops early this year in a hot box...anyone know what works best?...this will only be my second year putting out a garden...i'm thinking some greens and snow peas”

“Sass, If I can find the time, I know where there is a small bit of woods that is destined for destruction that has a TON of mayapple on it...

When they start sprouting I wills ee if I can get over there and dig some up.”

“thrifty, start some cabbage inside soon and set them out early with row cover....

they can take light frost. I'll be starting mine inside in about a week.”

“thanks for the tip but if i'm putting them under glass is frost an issue?...i was thinking about building some boxes and covering them with some old windows...what kinda stuff can i put out if i do that

oh, and pick a screen name and stay with it ;)”

“pretty much any cold weathr veg. Lettuces, spinach, radishes, cabbages.”

“Funny, I was never able to grow regular spinach in Florida, so I grew what's called Malabar spinach, a tasty vine that reseeds itself like mad. I think I'm far enough north now that I may try to grow real spinach in the fall.


You can grow just about anything in a cold frame.”

“Thank you Free.”

“If anyone wants it, I have a coupon code for $20 off a $40 order from Audumon Workshop

they have birding supplies as well as plants but i've never bought anythinging from them before so I can't vouch for them...

This Email Offer Expires March 30, 2007. Offer Keycode: 201924”

“looked into what the State says about plant harvesting. Not allowed unless a site is about to be cleared for construction. They offered the name of a local greenhouse and pond supply store that propagates native plants and I also found that Michigan Bulb Company sells the wildflowers I want for less than most garden catalogues. Anyone have any experience w/ them?”

“dont do it sass, they will arrive dead or almost there!”

“Rats! no wonder they're so cheap. dead plants don't take much heat or water I guess.”

“and when they send replacements to replace teh 80% dead plants I had recieved the first time, they were also dead!”

“Treebait, I sent you an e-mail this morning that may help with that roto-tiller. (hmmm, do we carry rototillers? pretty sure) Check your box :-)”

“Sass, just in case you didnt know, mayapple plants are posion. If you plant them, make sure kids know not to mess with it.”

“Dhutch send it to my email instead. It is in my profile. The humanpackmule.com domain is inactive and I haven't set it back up yet.
Thanks.
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“Thank you Dhutch, btw.


Spirit, almost sounds like Springhill!
Thanks for the warning about the mayapples. Ab knows not to eat or touch any plant in the outdoors w/out checking w/ us first....birchdog on the other hand is a stoopid dog and would probably eat the entire lot.”

“First flower of the year in my garden!!!

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“Happy Easter! Here's what's blooming in my garden today...



Purple azalea blooms first. Red and pink azaleas are still a couple weeks away.




a few of my many Tulips




More tulips. I'm trying to learn flower phototgraphy.




Pink rhodys bloom first. Red and Purple rhodys bloom later



Camelia




Something. Maybe blue bells.



...and daffodils..

In a couple weeks the Lemon Queen Trollius will be blooming, stay tuned...
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“Grrr.....I'm jealous!


I love that purple azalea though. Where did you get it?

We just out in 2 Japanese maples out front. Now all of the intense blue lithodora doesn't look out of place.”

“That azalea was here when I bought the house.”

“ack! wth is all that green stuff?

beautiful garden USA. looks like you've had all the nice weather out there. my garden is still suitable polarbear habitat”

“Texas would be suitable Polarbear habitat as I hear it snowed there yesterday. Oh wait, you're from Ontario. Still can't fix your profile? :>)”

“ooops.
i forgot about that.

sorry 'bout the pottymouth :) i'm normally the much more civilized helinka.
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“you know your a gardener when....


you get excited about the local farm/nursery having a 75th anerversy 75 cent sale...

6 pack pansies for .75! along with geraniums, garden tools, and more :)

WOHOO!

this is tomorrow...I like Portage :D

Note: Gardening while intoxicated is not recomended....
and i freakin forgot to restock my first aid kit from my last insident LOL!

how do you get blood off the keyboard?”

“Are you talking about Remus? I love this place!”

“yes wounded knee...free omlets tomorrow morning over there :)”

“Sweet. Think I will be out there at some point”

“its down the street from my house :)

I thought about walking but that would be hard to carry all those plants back with me...I'll have to take the car.”

“If I come out, I will stop by and pee on the side of your house.”

“ok, I have a compost area you can pee in :) That should give old Mary (my neighbor) a cheep thrill!
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“What a great looking place! Spirit, think they'd have seed potatoes?”

“sass, I know they do. there is also Jansons, and Johnsons too, and I boought some seed taters from Jansons the other day, also some fat healthy fresh canna tubers as well for .50 each (not dried up and icky like you get at the box stores in packages) I am surrounded by these farmstands. Down county line rd too there are some private places that open up now and then to the public for selling---the flower lady for one who I discovered last year by accident who sells daylillies and hostas from her own gigantic garden which is breath taking to see but she only sells for a few weeks every year for 3.50 a plant (big huge healhty plants she digs up right there for you when you buy them). I am going to have to call her soon to find out when she opens again, I want more daylillies!
Then there is County line Greenhouse, which I managed to find open to the public once last year---they have all kinds of special hardy perrenials and alpine plants, with a very cool koi pond, demestration gardens and a Gnome garden that is way cool LOL”

“There's a bunch of places like that around here too, Sc. I just have to find them all. :P

There's a big storm system coming this way, so I may hold off on planting much this weekend. Actually, I need to get up and find out how much of a gift certificate my aunt Carolyn got for me at a local nursery that's the total bomb!”

“Its a good 3-4 mile walk from my house








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“HEY, Nice.........but right now I'm lusting after a backpack.......Gregory Z 55.....and makin some coffee....and trackin bad storms comin our way......”

“Lust...


isnt that one of those bad things that we are not supposed to do?”

“'one of those bad things'.......lol, we full of those sc.......thank God for grace and mercy.......and ingenious folks who make great packs...........”

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Tulips



My "Strawberries & Cream" tulips which bloomed this week

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“Very nice USA!


I went to that remas farm this morning.....they had a live band, and champagne with thier free breakfest...they were selling flats of Pansies ofr 75 cents...nice big beautiful pansies too, not the crap ones from lowes or walmart, so it was worth going! :) I have all my flower beds chock full of pansies now, it looks great!”

“Hmmm, I wonder I could find BIG pansies around here... and at that price. I am only familiar with the Walmart/Lowes/Home Depot kind.”

“Nimblefoot and I did a little plowing yesterday afternoon....;)”

“We got 2-3 inches of rain last night, and our problem drainage spot is going to get excavated as soon as HPM gets back from his haircut. We got 3 pots, one large purplish one, a smaller white one stamped with Chinese characters, and a small black one, that we are putting out over the area that will get dug out and backfilled with gravel. We're working the front yard over in a Japanese theme, and we already have a series of viewing triangles going. Coolness. I need to learn to post pictures here.”

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Its actually dry here for a change :) NICE!”

“Treebait, does it freeze hard in NC? Up here we have to move our pots inside for the winter or they end up broken into little bits by the end of winter. =(

Hope you'll post pictures when you're done! It sounds cool.”

“No idea about that, Sass. I move the softer terra cotta pots in no matter what, but high fired ceramics should be fine.”

“Concrete and plastic are all that's safe up here. Its a bummer when you spend $45 on a pot and find it in shards come spring. But it doesn't usually get as cold down there does it? I bet you're a couple zones lower than us. Yep, you have about ten degrees on SE MI, on average. We get a few freakishly cold days most winters.
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“I'm near the southern edge of zone 7. THe general rule of thumb is if it freezes, empty the pots and store them in the garage stacked upside down, unless, you're bringing the pot and plant inside.”