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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:14 am    Post subject: Here come the plants Reply with quote

A number of people here are gardeners. Since this is the most active time for our plants, some people might want to discuss them here. Post photos too if you like.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i have a question , but probably not to be answered here... may be, ahem, illegal.... LOL

But a great forum!!!
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

beachbaby wrote:
i have a question , but probably not to be answered here... may be, ahem, illegal.... LOL

But a great forum!!!


heh. Does your question involve a grow light and a walkin closet?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Here come the plants Reply with quote

This is a great idea, agate. I love flowers.

It's so hot here that my hygrangeas are wilted (no matter how much I water them) and my veggie garden is only a memory. It's a crispy patch now.

I have a question though. Can Camellias survive in pots on the terrace during the winter? Our temps are fairly mild. It genreally falls below freezing for only a few days. These pots are large and very heavy so I don't want to try to roll them around to the garage.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This exchange:

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beachbaby wrote:
i have a question , but probably not to be answered here... may be, ahem, illegal.... LOL

But a great forum!!!


heh. Does your question involve a grow light and a walkin closet?




Would somebody mind telling me what this is about?

I'll cover up the plants' ears if necessary.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joy, I've never had a camellia, and so I don't know. But I glanced over some camellia Websites and could find no mention of container-grown camellias. In fact, don't they eventually become small trees?

Have you looked at the American Camellia Society Website? It has a message board where people post questions.

You can post on their message board without paying to join their society, too.

I belong to one of these message boards for tuberous begonias and have had some helpful replies when I had questions.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Joy, I've never had a camellia, and so I don't know. But I glanced over some camellia Websites and could find no mention of container-grown camellias. In fact, don't they eventually become small trees?

Have you looked at the American Camellia Society Website? It has a message board where people post questions.

You can post on their message board without paying to join their society, too.

I belong to one of these message boards for tuberous begonias and have had some helpful replies when I had questions.


Aww I love begonias. So many beautiful varieties.

I'll check out the American Camellia Society. Camellias do become small trees but I'm hoping to dwarf mine and if not I'll transplant them to the yard. It's an experiment.

(cover your greenling's ears) I think we're talking about their distant fragrant cousin, Mary-jo-wanna. Not that I know anything about it. :)
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AHEM.

Resident fed here to tell all you long-haired hippy-types that I'm taking you all in.

No, really!

As far as pots go, I think that A) as long as your plant can take cooler temperatures if it grows in the ground and B) If you do take the pot in if it gets really cold, then you should be okay. At one time or another, I have had various types of plants in pots thru the winter, waiting to figure out where I'm going to plant them, and as long as I'm careful they survive.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've heard that too, LoLo--that anything can be grown in a container.

I will say that it's quite a problem dragging large heavy pots indoors on a blustery winter night with the icy wind whipping around you, and you know you have to work fast to get the plants inside, though.

Sometimes I just cover them up with large plastic bags and anchor the bags down around them. By the time I finish that, I'm frozen.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yikes! I try to keep the pot size down to less than a ton. Knowing I will be schlepping them in.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks to me as if most camellias have to be in fairly big pots.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My garden this year:
















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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

agate wrote:
Looks to me as if most camellias have to be in fairly big pots.


And these pots are HUGE! That's why I said try to roll them around to the garage! It doesn't get really cold here for long and I'm hoping the pots will stay warm enough to save my camellias. I just bought them this summer so it will be a test.

I'm going to try your suggestion, agate. Cover them with large plastic bags and anchor them to the ground. I've done this when ice is predicted. It works.

My house faces north and the pots are on the south side so I think they'll make it. Come spring we'll know.

Thank you all for caring about my poor camellias.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joy, when you talk about rolling the pots along--do you have them on those rolling plant stands? That makes transporting heavy pots ever so much easier--in fact, possible when otherwise it's impossible.

Cherie, your garden is spectacular! Would that be a birdhouse behind the red geranium in the last photo? Does it have any tenants?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lady,

Beautiful garden! Did I see a Martha Washington geranium in one of the hanging pots?

Stay cool,
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

agate wrote:

Cherie, your garden is spectacular! Would that be a birdhouse behind the red geranium in the last photo? Does it have any tenants?


Thank you Agate. I love flowers, and was feeling well enough to tend to the gardens this year.

Yeah, that's a birdhouse, but I don't stock or hang it, so it doesn't attract any birds. The hanging plants do attract quite a few hummingbirds though, so that's always fun.

stillstANNding wrote:
Lady,

Beautiful garden! Did I see a Martha Washington geranium in one of the hanging pots?

Stay cool,
ANN


Thanks Ann. It is a geranium of some sort, but I'm not sure what it is called. I have "clown" stuck in my head because my youngest daughter (10 yrs) names all the flowers, and that's what she calls it. geek

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree. That is just spectcular, Lady.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lovely flowers.

I have spring pictures but no summer pictures to share. It's been so hot that even my veggie garden is nothing but a crispy memory.

I can share some spring pics.

My favoriate tree, a lacy oak or a weeping oak (or some scientic name that I know not of :)


One of my peaches that either the squirrels ate or the puppy jumped up and bit a hole in:


The evil stickers that we fight all summer long:


Dragonwing begonia



Columbines - spring bloomers (natural to Arkansas)



AND piece de resistance! One of our skeeters!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another incredible photo display. What totally beautiful columbine! And, the skeeter, to keep things realistic!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gorgeous columbine! And the peach would have been tasty, I'm sure--shapely and with a nice blush to it.

The tree is breathtakingly beautiful. I hope you get a chance to just gaze at it often.
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agate wrote:
Gorgeous columbine! And the peach would have been tasty, I'm sure--shapely and with a nice blush to it.

The tree is breathtakingly beautiful. I hope you get a chance to just gaze at it often.


We'll have to ask Trinny (da puppy) if the peach was tasty. She would, I'm sure, wholeheartedly, agree with your lovely description, agate.

Yes I do. I gaze at my tree every morning. It's in my backyard, one of the reasons I saw potential in this house.
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Matt wrote:
Another incredible photo display. What totally beautiful columbine! And, the skeeter, to keep things realistic!


You always make me laugh!

Yup, reality bites. (heh) I HAD to say it.

The big black ones, like this one, actually chase you! Shameless blood suckers.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:28 pm    Post subject: My balcony plants Reply with quote



Balcony viewed from the street


Begonias



Hosta


Begonias and Streptocarpus
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I LOVE begonia's Agate. They are so colorful and striking.

So nice to see that you are getting the enjoyment of a garden, even while living in an apartment!

Very pretty.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a lot easier than a real garden. I don't have to weed or mulch, don't have to rake leaves, cut grass, or prune. Once I get the dirt in the pots and the plants in their places, I can mostly just sit back and gaze at them.

Watering and fertilizing and deadheading are the major jobs.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cheri,

You have a lovely garden! :)

Agate, Your begonias are beautiful! I haven't had them in a few years... I need to next year. I'm so happy you can have a garden on your patio. I would do the same thing if I live in an apartment. :)
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

WOW!!!!

Those pictures were all beautiful! I love the blue chips, the lilies, the colombine, the begonias.

And that SKEETER!? Swoon. I will NEVER complain about our paltry little buggers again.

Gorgeous gardens, all. What a great way to start the day.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That columbine is amazing, Joy. Do they grow wild there - is that what you mean by natural?

I've never seen one like that before. Very beautiful!

Cherie
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, the columbine is amazing, it looks almost like fuschia.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice begonias Agate. I really wish I could show my orchids, but I don't have any photos of them.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am so impressed by everyones aboslutly gorgeous flowers! ( and jealous)

I have been trying with shade gardens this year; this is the first year in MANY that i have actually had energy to work on gardens. But becuase it has been so hot and not much rain Just not doing as wwell as they should.

My dream is to have my yard look like cherie's! And my deck to look like agates!
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

We got a tropical Hibiscus. Ours is uniformly pink. The flowers are the size of a large desert plate. It's amazing.

http://www.trop-hibiscus.com/index.html
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Impressive! When you say it's uniformly pink, does that mean it looks like Rum Runner in the link you gave?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Almost. It doesn't have the whitish areas closer to the center, though, but it does get a little bit darker at the actual center itself. Only 8$ Canadian...what a deal. Orchids cost 35$ to 70$ in this city.
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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

James, I'm sorry I apparently missed your post here!

I hope you don't mind some questions because I don't always know what I'm looking at. Is this a water garden in your yard?

I'm curious about the large bubble in the center of the pool.

It looks like a restful place. Did you make it?

Nice to see you back!
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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi James,

Wow, that's nice! thumbright Will you have Koi fish in there that can winter over? I would LOVE to have a little decorative pond in my yard. Is this in a shady spot in your yard? What kind of plants are those growing around it??

It's just beautiful!
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PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2007 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

agate wrote:
James, I'm sorry I apparently missed your post here!

I hope you don't mind some questions because I don't always know what I'm looking at. Is this a water garden in your yard?

I'm curious about the large bubble in the center of the pool.

It looks like a restful place. Did you make it?

Nice to see you back!


Agate sorry It took me so long to reply. That Is my fish pond that I just built/created this year. The "Bubble" that you see Is actually a fountain that sprays 360 degrees.
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ewizabeth wrote:
Hi James,

Wow, that's nice! thumbright Will you have Koi fish in there that can winter over? I would LOVE to have a little decorative pond in my yard. Is this in a shady spot in your yard? What kind of plants are those growing around it??

It's just beautiful!


Ewizabeth I have about 10 big Koi fish one of them Is Yellow and a very beautiful fish.It's partly shaded during the day. The plants growing around It are Hybrid Lillies and I have water Lillies that are In the pond It's self.
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jamesrsmith5 wrote:

Ewizabeth I have about 10 big Koi fish one of them Is Yellow and a very beautiful fish.It's partly shaded during the day. The plants growing around It are Hybrid Lillies and I have water Lillies that are In the pond It's self.


That's very nice. I hope you do an "after" pic when the flowers get bigger and start blooming. You have a little piece of paradise right in your own yard... sunny
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PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2007 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Koi fish are really special!

They're so graceful and colorful.
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