Shasta. English Coon Hound mix.
Our porch is being remodeled right now; we're going with all metal railings. It's been through 13 puppies, all chewing on it! ;)
Posted on 07/24/2021 5:52:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Bon, where are you growing plumerias? I miss them so much! (no way where I live...sob)
The purple and lavender look to be good old petunias, the small yellow look like calibrachoas; the goldenrod with brown look to be a variety of black eyed susans; the shiny leaved one, center top, looks to be an annual hibiscus, and if it is, someone gave you a real treasure. Those pot-lickers were $49.99 here this spring, so I potted up some cannas @ 4.99 ea. for my front entry instead... all jmho.
i’ve got a 17 year old barn cat that has trained over 30 tree dogs...we have typed to each other before... ran bear in cal with star mountain plott line many many years ago. maybe i will live long enough to harvest a missouri bear over my dogs. we have a huge number of bears in southern missouri. not many dogmen around here any more, but i have a set of 13 year old twin granddaughters with long bright red hair that love to watch dogs tree and then harvest raccoons. Have lots of grandchildren but only two boys. Unlike our new kiko buck who had mostly male kids
I worked all night then got him at 530....remembered that I did not deep watery tomatoes on Friday and did that until 7 am.
Stumbled off to bed but not before seeing g the garden turned was up and running.
My Chinese broccoli seeds were delivered wjile I slept. They get started the end of August.
Thank you 😊
Oh, and the small rose colored ones at the bottom front are Impatiens.
Picking squash. Heat slowed the green beans, so it’ll be a couple more days for them.
The corn that began tasseling last week is all umbrellas & silks now.
The early spuds are starting to look droopy, so won’t be much longer for them....nor for the onions.
Flowers are all over the Muncher cukes.
Scarlet Runners are a mass of red; pole beans are still climbing, and no flowers yet.
And I read, Petunias are treated as annuals in most areas, but can be grown as tender perennials in Zones 9 to 11. The flowers come in many colors and patterns, and bloom from spring until frost!
" the small yellow look like calibrachoas; "
And I read "Calibrachoas are treated as annuals in most areas, but they grow as tender perennials in USDA Zones 9-11."
" the goldenrod with brown look to be a variety of black eyed susans;"
We though these were mini sunflowers.And I read, "Black eyed Susan plants may be annual, biennial or short-lived perennials."
"the shiny leaved one, center top, looks to be an annual hibiscus,"
And I read, Perennial hibiscus comes in multiple varieties and is hardy in zones four through nine.
"and if it is, someone gave you a real treasure. Those pot-lickers were $49.99 here this spring, so I potted up some cannas "
Now to the far right you can see the sister plant to the rhododendron on the top next to the wall, and when we given both then most of the plants were "dead," yet both have life yet one is better than the other. I read you cut off the brown branches if they are not green inside. It seems like ones on the other plant came back to life.
Thanks for your help!
OK, thanks again and I read "Although technically tropical perennials, these plants are grown as annuals in all but the warmest regions (zones 10 to 12)." We are in zone 6.
Bee-you-ti-full!!!
My first one is probably 6 years old. I have to bring the plants indoors from October through May, and the first one got so tall that i couldn’t fit it inside my doorway. I had to make cuttings and replant them. Now I have 5 plants! My neighbors probably think I am crazy, but who cares, right?
I will continue feeding them and using the grow lights in the winter.
I don’t go quite as far as this couple has, but I think I’m in the running for a few steps below them. Last year, instead of putting my overwintering plants in the basement, I used every square inch of available space in my dining room to house the plants, since we weren’t having a large number of guests at the holidays. I figured that I might take better care of the plants if they were nearer me during my usual day, and I was right. I was more successful this past year than the last, though I did lose a couple of plants. Imagine a dining room table filled to capacity with your garden loves, and then every foot of floor space for the plants that didn’t fit on the table. Oh, and grow light cords to trip on!
Among my favorites that were newly successful this past year are heliotrope, and a curcumin ginger plant. Many have been going on 5 or 6 years of overwintering, but these two were ones that I succeeded with on my first try.
I AM impressed. Everything I’ve tried to winter over in the past has been in the house, so that I could grieve at their passing, one by one. The only thing that has survived has been a huge rosemary plant, and even IT lost 1/5 of its branches.
I grow them in Southern California. They grow very well here - I’m hoping to get some new verities soon.
They seem to tolerate our heat and dry winds very well, but feeding them is critical - they don’t bloom every year, some every other year. One successful grower I heard about in a mountainous area near me uses string lights to keep his plumerias warm all year round.
There has been a rash of thefts in my neighborhood - mine are behind a fence. Some of the larger ones go for $1500 at the local nursery so I know they are valuable. One of the neighbors had one chopped apart and pulled through a fence!
I’ll post more photos next week - I’ve got several more starting to bloom right now. My yard smells heavenly.
I can’t grow tuberous begonias, fuchsias or gladiolas well (wish I could!).
I love the sporting life! :) I wasn’t too sure how good I was going to be with raising and training the pups with the basics, as I’ve only had ‘pets’ before and not real working dogs.
So far, so good. Sad that we’ve lost a few through the years - just to illness, no hunting issues, but I have found that there will always, ALWAYS be a new puppy that needs my care. :)
Love that your granddaughters are into this! Beau does a lot with youth hunting, and is also a Gun Safety instructor for youth. They can gun hunt in WI as young as 10 years old now, with an adult and one gun between them, of course.
Shasta. English Coon Hound mix.
Our porch is being remodeled right now; we're going with all metal railings. It's been through 13 puppies, all chewing on it! ;)
I was planning to try growing some more potato varieties this year. Instead I accidentally ran a different kind of test on them. The seed potatoes I ordered, plus the ones I’d saved from last year’s crop, finally got planted last night! I was certain they would be dried out and useless by now, but every single one of them was still alive. The Red Pontiacs had sprouts 2 feet long, and they’ve been growing in the box since January, but the sprouts were so strong that my little pocket knife couldn’t cut them! The Elfe sprouts were only an inch long, they held up better in storage. Still, even though everything had been sprouting in the basement all this time, they were still viable.
They were planted by laying them on the ground, covering them with straw, them a snowfence over top to hold the straw in place. If it works I might use that technique for other crops. My farm has lost whatever quality was making it immune to erosion, so I need to change my methods.
I have no idea if I’ll get any potatoes from this patch, but at least they’re finally in the ground.
That looks gorgeous!
We are seeing the same thing - and the fights! Amazing how they crash into one another. Had to put up another feeder.
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