Gardening threads (merged)

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

I won't be having bananas. I don't even like bananas. If my wife wants them she can go to the market and buy them. As for flowers my wife chooses the ones she wants and I plant them. The roses are the only thing I can get and have a say so on. When I get my next house I will have a garden and plant what I want along with what my wife wants.

Only Commies hate bananas! You a Commie, boy? That last part about your wife planting things sounds a bit nefarious, just stay away from the chipper/shredder, that's all I'm saying.

Please send your rain to Virginia. Am fed up of standing around with the hose

Please tell me that handcuffs aren't also involved.

[Krikit 1,164]

Rather in poor taste, don't you think?

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

Rather in poor taste, don't you think?

Are you the arbiter of good taste or are you planning on thread banning me for no earthly reason? Grow up!

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

Now where was I? Banana horticulture in the Great Lakes a 300 page dissertation...

[Krikit 1,164]

Are you the arbiter of good taste or are you planning on thread banning me for no earthly reason? Grow up!

Excuse me?

[Ban Hammer 13,335]

Are you the arbiter of good taste or are you planning on thread banning me for no earthly reason? Grow up!

cease and desist immediately. this is your only warning.

[luckytxn 2,264]

I will be very pizzed off if my Gardening thread gets locked so chill.

[Shoot Em Straight 385]

waaaaait til I get home on the 18th...I have so many photos to share of my CROPS!!!! Dont close anything.

[Shoot Em Straight 385]

NIGHT Blooming Jasmine!!! The bushes that only show fragrance at night in the summer!!! WOW

Not much of looker but even my neighbors further down the street benefit from the scent on evenings...

Do you plan on planting a jasmine or two? Gotta go with the stinky stuff, instant air freshener, who doesn't like the smell of jasmine or lilac? It's always a good time to crank up the Flower Power.

[luckytxn 2,264]

waaaaait til I get home on the 18th...I have so many photos to share of my CROPS!!!! Dont close anything.

It won't get closed. I will be looking forward to the pics. I also am heading home and hope I will get more done in my beds and take pics.

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

NIGHT Blooming Jasmine!!! The bushes that only show fragrance at night in the summer!!! WOW

Not much of looker but even my neighbors further down the street benefit from the scent on evenings...

Do you plan on planting a jasmine or two? Gotta go with the stinky stuff, instant air freshener, who doesn't like the smell of jasmine or lilac? It's always a good time to crank up the Flower Power.

Cestrum Nocturnum is one of my faves, the day blooming jasmines (Jasminium sp.) are nice, especially the doubles, they look great, too! Indian Jui (Jasminum Molle) is great, too!

Edited April 15, 2012 by IR5FORMUMSIE

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

It won't get closed. I will be looking forward to the pics. I also am heading home and hope I will get more done in my beds and take pics.

I've got more pictures, I'll see if I can find them. Can't wait to see your pics.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

We bought some geraniums, vinca vines, Dracaena spikes, coleus and violas. I have to watch the weather and if it gets too cold a few will have to go in the garage at night. The Dracaena spikes, violas and vinca vines are very hardy. Tulips have buds but haven't bloomed. I think planting bulbs in containers messes them up. I need to do more research on that.

[Krikit 1,164]

I bought a container of bulbs last Spring. Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths. When they had finished blooming I set them aside and pretty much ignored them until their foliage had died. I removed and just left them alone for the remainder of the summer, then put the container in the garage over winter. This Spring I noticed they were starting to sprout again so I brought them back outside. They bloomed perfectly and now their foliage is starting to wither so the container is going to be set aside again. They looked really lovely on the plant stand on the deck, so I am quite happy with this method.

The draceanas from last year survived the winter. However, the two out front in the large urns look a little worse for wear. I may have to replace those. The violets from last year are going crazy. I had just ignored those all winter also. I trimmed back the vinca vines to a few inches and now they are blooming and have thickened so much that I may have to transplant them to give the other plants room. I did notice that the vines which had embedded themselves into the soil on the other side of the pot have created new roots and have basically recreated themselves.

The landscape company weed-eated my lavender last year, so I dug them back up and re-potted them. They don't look happy and I am ticked.

[Shoot Em Straight 385]

Loooove Hyacinths!! I have white ones that sneak up on me each year and remind me I planted the bulb in this forgotten spot many years ago!!!