The Aviary is fun but I could get lost in Phipps (literally, I get lost in there, the place is a maze). So nice in the winter when it's warm and steamy inside.
They sell light boxes on eBay. For me, I have been craving grapefruit, eating 2 a day. Those little suckers sure are expensive though. I got a seed catalog in the mail yesterday, yay!
My mom nearly, and I mean very nearly, burned our house down burning pampas grass We just cut ours with electric hedge trimmers - my husband likes to do it actually, he thinks it's ugly and seems to enjoy "killing it" but of course it comes back every year.
That's what I'm eating right now, a big pink-red tomato and cherries and smokehouse almonds - yum - of course it is someone else's home grown goodies because my garden was a massive fail. We were in Butler and stopped at a farmer's market and they had the best (and cheapest) stuff - we got a bottle of cherry-apple cider and it is the best stuff I ever tasted, but we only got a little bottle and it's gone and I don't live near Butler
I have been trying to learn more about ornamental grasses...my understanding is that some of them grow in neat clumps and need to be split like pampas (though I have never split my pampas grass ) and others spread by root and the new shoots need to be pulled up if unwanted (like my blue festuca). Correct?
Semi-tame? The last time my husband was there a deer stuck his head in the window of his car...a duck sat next to him on his tools..not so sure about the "semi"
You're in TL, right? I think we will plant nothing but ornamental grasses. I like them and I know the deer won't eat them.
I've never had any luck with hostas even here - slugs. I've salted them, beered them, poisoned them..nothing works.
After all of my seedlings died I planted tomato seeds from the freebies forum (pack of Campbell's tomato seeds), I thought it would be really cool to have Campbells tomato soup tomatoes. The seeds grew, too! Except they weren't tomato seeds, they were leaf lettuce seeds. I give up.
I have a pumpkin and I tried tomato seeds in a flower box one more time, I used the Campbells seeds from the free stuff forum. The rest of my failed garden sits in a dumped over pile of potting soil under my tree
Right in front of a window with the shade halfway down and a lace curtain to filter the light...and in front of a heater vent too LOL. I probably could have grown orchids
Our sweet bobtail & my sink sleeper Bo "Bocephus" 3/05/2008 - 3/13/09, killed on the blind turn in the road I was so afraid of. We only had him for four fun months. He was all heart covered in fur and is irreplaceable, we are getting a hamster
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All of my herbs are up except for the mint and there is just no sign of it. The seeds were practically microscopic and I couldn't see what I was doing so hopefully I covered them up with soil.
I had no idea where I was going to start my plants this year and my husband said "You know, I think there is a terrarium up in the attic..." Check it out! My computer is on life support and I can't upload pictures so this is from the net but it is exactly the same. I have seen reproductions but Grandma says this one is older than me. It's so ugly it's cool
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BA HA HA! We were over at the "new house" yesterday and I pointed to the corner of the yard and said to my husband "That's where the pot garden goes!" and he raised an eyebrow...