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Cant tell summers over(pics)

Category: gardening from scratch | Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:02 pm

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It was so dry over the summer but in the last 2 weeks weve gotten over 15 inchs of rain. ANd now you cant tell summers over and we are sliding into Fall.

My yards is still as bright and colorful as always.
Heres a pic of my Perfumer Delight rose. I cut it for my brother Eli since he cant get out to see them. I was in awe of how big it was getting as it opened...and you could smell its scent before you entered his room.

first day I cut it


Second day


third days...ITS HUGE!!


My three Knockout roses


My mini cannas with the tropical Ginger down front




The whole front leading up to the door


My lil teasures too small to see in the pics
Mini red roses

mini white

Mini azlea (the palest of pinks...couldnt get the color on camera)


And...the darlings of my yard that cause ppl to stop and ask what they are. My Bougainvilleas. Only 4 are in blooms but the rest are close behind,,,just hope they do it before they die back for winter.

My purple bush


my rambling Hot Pink Mama (shes rambling into all the surrounding plants...tho it said give her a 3 foot spacing..uh huh)


And the last 2 have a story. I bought a pot on sale at Walmart and it had 3 bougainvilleas in it (ya know, to make them look fuller) But I never transplant them that way. I run water gently over the roots to seperate and then I have 3 plants. Well, only one of these were in bloom when I bought. Its the palest of lavanders. Well, I transplanted them in a lil group for show when they started bloomins. Well, guess my surprise when one turned out to be a girl!!! LOL Lookit
My lovely Lavender
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And my pretty in pink baby girl







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Look who I caught bathing in my sprinklers!!!

Category: gardening from scratch | Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:42 am

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They live in a tree in the yard. Arent they just too cute?

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around the yard (pics)

Category: gardening from scratch | Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:09 pm

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I have some new blloms.

My American climbing rose is just full of blooms being so small but next to the purple Mex Put. the colors just contrast so well. I love it!!!







The Jocabs coat (tho now Im wondering if its something else)
These blooms are on one bush!!! It acts like it gets sunburned!! LOL




The KNockouts are just covered and so pretty


Some of my special prides. I am trying my hand at orchids.


And the easiest one to grow in the world is my Bamboo Orchid. Shes just a baby(BTW I had to stake it from Claudette)



And some plants that were giving to me!!! LOTS!

First it the pregnant onion SHE GAVE BIRTH! lol


A lemon grass


9 or 10 Black Elephant ears (going in the green house til spring)


Some other Elephant ears


And a Giant Ruffle Elephant ear (2 actually)






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>sigh< My Dear Mom

Category: gardening from scratch | Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:52 pm

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I swear, me and my mom need to have a talk about her planting buying sprees.

We went to Lowes today to get a SCREW and come home with tons of plants and pretty pots to put them in. And the whole time Im thinking....you get to buy them BUT I GET TO PLANT THEM!!!! AND Im still 5 bushes behind. >sigh<

We are moving a small palm from the front of the house to the back in late winter/early spring and she wants to put like a rose tree or something of the sort there. Well, today she started looking at them. and wanted to buy one. I was like ,Mom, ummm...and where are we going ot put this "oh so pretty" tree til I move the palm IN LATE WINTER? She tells me, oh you can put it in the green house (which Im building at the end of summer for my seeds) And she looks at me with a straight face. >.> I had to grab her by the shirt and pull her away from the "oh so pretty" trees with a promise, that come spring, we will find the perfect "oh so pretty" to put there.

She like a kid in the candy store, but I get to suffer the rotten tooth ache.

Ebay loves my mom as much as me now, I think. I have seeds coming in almost everyday that I have to label and stash away. I found out today that I actually have some live plants coming in too....that will have to go into the greenhouse til sping.

>sigh< and Im still 5 bushes behind but the list keeps growing of what needs to go into the ground.
5 bushes, 10 flowers, 4 vines and 6 plants to be potted in pretty pots.

I think Ill get this all done about the time the bulbs are due to go under. Figures.

LOL I used gardening to get away from the stress and to think...its like medtation. But now I have to go to football pratice (yes Im on the womans full contact football team here) to get away from my garden.

Gee mom, I love you too

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Claudette beat up my gardens

Category: just life | Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:23 pm

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>sigh< Im in damage repair mode. The tropical depression Claudette hit land not far from us. The rains and winds were off the charts. Want to know how strong the winds were? It moved a full gallion can of paint about 4feet across the drive way.
My Bamboo orchid is laying down, and I cant get it to stand up. I think Im going to have to support it with bamboo stacks. :( My 3 bougainvilleas got tangled up in the Gardena and fountain grass. >rolls eyes< And the wind blow all the petals off my roses that were open.

But the good news is, the water that was dropped on the yards, caused one of my clematis' to bud, the wondering jew to bloom and my American climbing rose took the hell off. I dont know where she thinks shes going but shes going some where. I swear she grew 6 inchs over night. She almost taller than the Mex Put. I planted next to her. Im going to have to support her soon.

On to not so garden news, My boyfriend Eric was here for a week on leave. We had so much fun. We chartered a fishing boat and went out deep sea fishing. A friend of mines birthday was that week so we took him. Eric was hungover from the night before (noone told him to drink that much) do he was miserable on the boat...LOL serves him right. I had no sympathy for him, the way he actted the night before. I laughed at him the whole time....esp when he was hanging over the boat. LOL But my friend and I caught 7 King Mackels and a spanish. So all in all, a good 4 hour trip.

And Eric and I got offically engaged. Ring and all.

He leaves for Korea the first week in Sept and then deploys to Iraq (again) in Nov. I may get to see him in '10 but Im not holding my breath. His deployment to Korea is a year and his deployment to Iraq is a year. I should see him in '11 or '12.

OK..Im back to pickin up wing blown petals from all over my yard.

(BTW I bought a camera on Ebay so Ill be able to take good pics soon)

Hopefully Ill be able to get some really good pics of the Monarch butterfly migration. You can go out onto the beach and just watch tons of them flying south to Mexico. Its a wonderful sight.

>Peace --Love---and Chicken grease (as my nephews say)

Pinkie

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The rest of the yards

Category: gardening from scratch | Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:54 pm

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This is my moms front yard. Its split into 2 areas.

The first area is the patch of soil with sidewalks on all sides and a tree frowing right in the middle. (way to go mom)

The KNockouts are in the far back of this area and then theres a sidewalk, and a lil area for a lil garden and then the house. Well, on this sidewalk, I have filled it with plants. Ppl can jsut walk the long ways around, lazys.

When I get my own camera Ill take a pic of the whole thing so you get a better idea what Im talking about.

Starting with the very front of the house by the porch anf moving foward.

Mexican putunias, with some kind of lil palm (thats getting moved in spring) and moss roses in the very front. To the left is one of moms azalea bushes (sp?)



then on the sidewalk is 2 mandavillas. A red one and a white one


and a Surdiva



and a Hybiscus acuttaly 2 but ones on the other side of the driveway WAVE!!!



this Sunday Im building a trellis to cover the main walkway and will be planting this starburst clematis with a dark pink clematis and beside it is a Jacobs Coat rose




then behind them is the potted Bougainvilleas the lil one here is a gold orange and the larger one is a Purple passion (which is getting planted on the propery line (pics farther down) and the one by itself is a golden orange



Then the 3 Knockout roses



This is in front of the knockouts...its the tree in the center of it..lol
This where spidermites took over. But I think Ive gotten rid of them. Im watching everything closely. I put 3 Bougainvilleas around the tree and will train them to climb up.
We call this Villeas gone wild cuz of how its going to look when they take off. You can see the yellow canna the mite had started eatting and in front of this area if you look closely, youll see some unknown lilies. I had to cut them down because of the mites.




then to right of that theres nothign now but Im going to plant some Mexican heather there

and to the right of that I have a yellow canna (see spiter mite damage to see them ugh) But you can see it in the pic


and some Curcuma Ginger. Its a tropical ginger



Then down in the very front are my lil babies. 4 Blush mini roses.


OK..now across the main walkway back towards the porch is a azalea bush and some kind of lil white and green leaf bush. There was a space there so I filled it in with Colus and Wondering Jew

Next to that is a Sweet Olive tree (smells wonderful in bloom) and under it I transplanted some unknown lilies


now to the front of the house. I forgot to take a pic of the part of this yard.
I have a collection of to be planted plants here.

This beauty is going on the property line.
A Blue Plumbago


My sweet sweet and most favoritest plant The Sihouette Bougainvillea. Its actually a light lavender color but it kept coming out pink in the pics. Also going on the property line.





Then theres todays purchases
I lost my JFK rose so Im replacing with a Perfume Delight. Its going right up on the front of the house, with 2 other roses. And the lil pots are the Mexican Heather I got today for .25 cent each

The rose is about to bloom!!!!


To the front of the house...

theres 2 roses there. Small yet but they are there. The perfume delight is going to the left, the Climbing American rose is in the middle and a Love rose is on the right and you can somewhat see a Knockout in the foreground.

The American climbing rose



Know next to the Knockout in the foreground is a mini azalea...so they say but I have a feel they lied, if so Ill have to move it to the property line.
Its called Autumn Belle...so pretty but it doesnt clean up after itself.



and Last but not least is the property line.

the one closest is a unknown Gardenia, then a purple fountain grass and a Orange Canna in the very back. The spot at the very top will have a Fountain Butterfly bush in it come early spring. Its going to fill in so nicely here!!!



The orange canna a Pretoria canna



Ok thats the front. Ill post the back later in blog. Thos it will be alot shorter...youll see why...LOL








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My lil brothers, Elis, garden

Category: gardening from scratch | Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:36 pm

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My lil brother who is 30 now, has cerebral palsy. He wheelchair bound and bed ridden. Well, when they redid his room, they added a window next to his bed, that he can easily see out of. Everything has to be above the window sill so he can see it laying down. He watchs the birds feed everydays and their messy eatting habits, tickle him to peices. We put a bird bath in just behind the feeder.

We had a cat in heat across the street and her male vistors used the birdbath garden to sleep in, to drink and try to catch the birds. When they would jump on the bird bath , the heavy top would tumble off into the plants below. So I had a light bulb go off and used Garillia glue(sp?) to glue the base to the brick below and the top to the base. I put way too much on and now theres plants glued to the base >-< LOL.

This is his window as he sees it. You can see the top of his head in this pic


When I started on this, everything was window level to him but it was bare under it..so I did it up...here it all is...Now if I can just get the rest of the gardens to look this good lol

As seen from the front of the house


(dont look at the birdbath..I gotta firgure out a way to clean it now that I cant move it) The thing growing up the trellis is one of my Bougainvilleas.



in the front is purple, pink and purple (in that order) skullcap.with Salvia in the back and on one side (check out the yellow glue!!!!! LOL)


pink and purple skullcap


I filled in the spot at the end in front of the bougainvillea with a moss rose. It juse sets off the dark purple skullcap






and since the birds are loving the feeder and bath only twice a day, mornings and evenings, I decided to try and bring in some butterflies for a lil show for him. So I planted a lil butterfly bush (a lil too close to the bird bath gardens edge) But it will grow tall enough for Eli to see it over the window sill and so he will get to see butterflys. Come late winter Im ordering a bunch more to plant along the side of the house (see second pic) all the way back to the backyard fence. That way he has a greater chance of seeing them.

If you look in the second pic, you will see a brick in the front to the left. Its sitting right in front of the butterfly bush.



and this beautiy hangs next to the feeder. Its a Purslane. And this pic doesnt to this stunning plant any justice



AND I got all these plants on the sales rack. Because of the drought heat wave that lasted all spring and most of the summer, all the plants had a very short life span in the nurseries (such as Lowes, Home Depot and Walmart) I think the only thing we paid over $3 for was the hanging basket of Purslane.









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I have a new love **update**

Category: gardening from scratch | Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:53 pm

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BOUGAINVILLEAS!!!!!

Oh man do I love this plant!!! I was looking around online after I had bought a hanging basket with a hot pink and a golden orange and just feel in love. I hate to say this, but my love for this plant rivals my love for the all mighty rose. I have 12 roses in the yard and have 7 bouginvilleas. My newest buy is the Sihouette. Its a soft purple dwarf shrub. Oh its so pretty. Im going back today for a few more of those and a few of the Miss Alice it plant with them.

I also got a passion purple...CANT wait to see it bloom.

Im on the hunt for a San Diego Red.

*** Update :( I went back to get more of the Sihouette and a few Miss Alice....they were all gone and I was told, that they arent getting anymore this year. >heart breaks< I guess is just as well. Winter isnt too far off and these plants have a fairly weak root systems. If I couldnt get the roots down deep enough by first frost, I would have lost them. I do beleive the Plant Fates have stepped in. DAMN THEM! j/k**


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Yesterday was my birthday

Category: just life | Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:23 pm

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And I was reading something I wrote in here on Pinkiered when I turned 32...God what a wuss I was...LOL If I had only known how my body would really feel like at 35. The doc siad Ill most likely need knee replacement by the time Im 40 cuz my knees are so bad. And do in fact have "extra knee caps". And need emergency surgery to put them back where they belong >.< (must read below to understand that statement. LOL

Ill just recap

"Yes.....Its that time of the year again. I have been thinking about it alot! I think all adults do after they have hit the 30 mark.

Yea I know Im still young to some of you BUT to me I will 32!!! Ive never been 32 before. Its just one step closer to 40!Not that thats a bad thing, mind you.

I found out last night that my little sister and sister in law are planning a surprise birthday party for me and Rob( my little sister let it slip). His was on the 2nd. And yes, he was out on the rig for it.

I was trying to think of what mile marks I have reached this year and you know, there just doesnt seem to be many. But I am ok with that.


But I look just as good now as I did on my 31 birthday so that counts for something! (if you over look the fact that my "heavy top" has gone down another two inches in the past year(it keeps this up, Ill have extra knees for my 35th birthday) and my butt seems have started track down.I have few more wrinkles around my eyes and the lines around me mouth are deeper. But I cherish every one of those! Ive worked hard for them. Same with the new silver (NOT GRAY! thank you very much!) hairs I found last night. My mom was completely "silver" by the time she was 40 and so was her mom. Im following in thier foot steps! How proud they must be! But hey! I see it like this! My hair is a beautiful red(yes begging rights here) and over the years (younger) I had tried dying it different colors but my hair wont take a bottled color for some reason. I dyed it black once and it come out a plume purple. I think Im the one who started the purple hair phase back in the 80s! I tried bleaching it blonde once and it came out a hot pink...there was no losing me in the night! So, when it is completely void of color, I will have a blank canvas to work with! Hmmmmmm the possiblies! :P

But for now, I just let ppl think the lights are shining on my head! Which thats what it looks like. You cant see any "silver" hairs unless the lights or sun is shining on my head and then, all youll think is that my hair is shiny! I wont stop them from thinking that!! >flips hair<

Heres a peice of advise to all the "young" viewers. When the older ppl say and weve all heard it..." After you hit 30 its all down hill from there" They are NOT talking about how fast life seems to fly by! They are talking about the tricks Mother Nature plays on your body! And oh what a funny little woman she is too!

My feet are a little wide cuz my butt and waist are a little thicker too. My knees hurt if I keep them bent too long in one postion. My hips pop when I crawl out of bed. I sometimes need help getting up from a kneeling postion. I can tell when its going to rain but the pain in my knees (old cross country running injuries- long story)and in my ring finger from an old break. I sometimes feel like the TinMan whose joints need a really good oiling from time to time.And my butt has taken to falling asleep if I sit too long....like being squished between my body and a hard chair isnt entertainting enough for it. Its very strange to get up from the computer and having that feeling that you have something attacted to you that you cant feel! But I should be happy that I dont get pins and needles in my butt cheeks!! Well.....I cant say that! I think I would rather have the feeling of fireworks in my butt cheeks than knowing its there but not feeling it!! Since its track south of the border, just knowing its where it should be is a relief. As I come in to my 32 year on this planet, I have learned something. I now understand why women in their 30s wear tight jeans. Its not to show off their girlish figures! Its to bring the butt back up where it belongs.....its like a bra for your butt cheeks.

My skin isnt as firm as it use to be and there is no "inner glow" of youth unless Im constipated. I thought my complexion was clear until my lovely hubby pointed out a spot on my head (in my hair thank god!). I couldnt see it so I went to the doc over in Jacksonville. It turns out I have my first "age" spot. Whatever that means. I think its just a freakle (yes I spelled it right...its my word for a freaked out freckle.)Im a red head....I have lots of freakles.

I think I will invent a new bra to sleep in so when I rollover onto my side, I dont have to pick up my boob and move it out of the way. Come to think of it, I think since Im in that phase now, Ill invent one to keep them in the front when I lay on my back.I would think "back boobs" would be uncomfy. I do beleive that is coming nextand a girl needs her beauty sleep! ;)

Im looking foward to seeing what my body will come up with next. I told hubby not long ago, that I needed to stay out of the hot sun more because my body is actting like playdough. Its melting in the heat! He then told me that it wasnt the suns fault. I am a rea head so its all my inner heat....I was damned before I was even born!HAHAH!

But all in all, Im not bad off. Im a year older come Thurs (AND NOT A DAY BEFORE!! Dont wish me Happy Birthday until the 13th or Ill stick my freakles and freaking wrinkles on you!);P and I think I will live another year!

Im a year older and Im doing fine!


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God, I sounded so care free, didnt I?


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new plants ....and more roses

Category: gardening from scratch | Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:52 pm

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Yes, I went shopping again..... :D

I was doing some running around and saw a lil nursey tucked away so I stopping in. She had most everything on sell.

I went nuts I tell ya!!! And all on moms credit card!!! I bought a JFK rose for $7 (doing great), 4 red Knockout roses for 7.50 each and these things are HUGE!!! About 3 1/2 foot tall and about 2 foot wide. I got these cool lil plants that look like a cross between a lil bamboo and a Cora Vinca. It has the flower somewhat like it but they stand about 18 inches tall on thumb size trunks that look just like bamboo. They are so pretty. I got 12 of those for $1.64 each. Most are red floowers with bright green trunks but tucked in to the middle of all the bushiness was one with bright red trunks and leaves and orange flowers...I love it!!! Im going back to find more orange.

I have a nursery of bougaivillea cuttings. Ive searched this town over for orange ones but I can find anymore. So Im going to try and grow some.

Oh and I got 3 Clemtis vines that says they are Sunburst on sell for $2 each. They looked like they were dying but turns out, they just out grew thier pots... gotta love it when the ppl taking care of them, dont know the diff. Great luck for me!

Im trying to get my hands on a camera to get pics to post.



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