I Couldn't Help it
I just bought a lilac and carolina jessamine on line. I'm probably in for it once they arrive but I couldn't help it
Our Carolina Jessamine in the front yard didn't survive the winter. I guess a week of bone-chilling, below freezing temps will do that to a plant that likes the sun and the warmth.
So I bought a 3 gallon container on line where I also bought 2 1 gallon container lilacs. The jessamine gives me an excuse to go buy a new trellis at Lowe's.
Mr G may have some problems that I bought them without him knowing (he's the gardener in our house) and he will have to dig the holes.
Oh...well. Can't wait to take photos of them next spring!
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Here's the Jessamine:
Lovely ... you've turned potholes into planting holes.
Spring has sprung here in Arkansas. The daffodills are fading, the tulips are getting eaten by the deer, and the Dutch iris are beginning to bloom
Having a normal Spring up here, as usual it will be late.
Very pretty. I cannot wait until my flowers pop. Of course we just did have snow yesterday, so it may be a while.
Spring is coming but it was 25 last night and snow flurries
My tomatoes are growing in the window
Yesterday in my neck of the woods.
Mother Nature's way of saying "April Fools".
I hated those jokes when I was a kid. It got down to freezing last night so Mr G had to protect the sprouting lily trees. But it's gonna be gorgeous this weekend
Hubby was going to put out the potted geraniums on Tues, since the high was going to be 73. I told him not to since we had a gale force wind warning & the temp was going to drop & we were going to get snow. So my potted geraniums are still sitting in front of the french doors & my lilac bush had lost it's green buds....
I need to buy something for my wisteria to climb on. I planted it about 2 years ago, and I hope it really gets going this summer, once the temps warm up a bit.
Uhhh, Noooooo!
You may regret that. Down here that shit takes over everything. Very invasive. My Aunt has some planted and she ended up with it growing on the house. Had to track how it got there and found underground runners that were about thirty feet long. Then it found its way to her fence and took it over.
It is pretty though, just hard to keep contained.
I know it is, but it's so pretty I just couldn't resist it.
She did manage to get hers to look almost like a small ornamental tree about ten ft tall. It is really pretty, just the underground runners.
I love them, too. You just have to keep on top of them with the pruning.
I like them very much. They're blooming here now. I like how they smell like Grape Koolaid, or is that kudzu? Anyway, down the road from me is a section of woods that have been over run by wisteria. It's very pretty in the spring
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Thanks, Greg. The label on the plant didn't say when I bought it, but it looks like I got the less-invasive American or Kentucky variety, as they didn't bloom last summer until after they'd leafed out.
Yeah, crazy Spring weather! Last week we had temperatures in the 60s, 70s, and close to 80 one day.
Yesterday, had some sleet and a little bit of snow. This morning it was 29 degrees and right now it's 38 degrees.
I remember when I was 16 - it was mid March or thereabouts and we had a blizzard. By the end of the week we were throwing snowballs in our T-shirts. School was out for a week and we were actually getting bored.
We went down to the fifties last night.
And I had a dusting of snow in the shady spots of my lawn.
That is cold where you live.
Springtime in Ocala FL. isn't much different than summer, fall, and winter. Well in the winter we do wear socks with our flip-flops.
Beautiful flowers. My stepmom sent me pics of her flowers - she lives in Cocoa.
"Springtime in Ocala FL. isn't much different than summer, fall, and winter. Well in the winter we do wear socks with our flip-flops."
Rub it in why don't ya!
Are those tiger lilies in the first photo? I love lilies, especially those!
What kind of flowers are those? They look like daffodills but I don't want to assume
My guess was an Iris? Ours are usually blue or yellow though.
They have the shape of a daffofill but the color is unusual. I would really love to have some of those
I'm not sure what they are other than beautiful.
I know what those are now!
They are amaryllis
Same here! I bought some ornamental trees and bushes as well as spring bulbs and I got the skunk eye from my farmer Jones. Oh well, LOL.
Skunk eye?
I was thinking more like this...
I've only seen Perrie's head.
I was talking about Matt. He gave me the skunk eye.
Speaking of Perrie's eyes:
Matt was a fan of David Letterman?
I've seen alligator eyes at night. Very eerie
I have too. Creepy.
Five years ago my sister and I visited my father & his wife in Cocoa, FL. They have fenced in their property, but at night you can hear the alligator noises in the marshy stuff beyond their fence. Creepy is a good word.
We used to go fishing on a lake down near the MS-LA-AR border. There were gators in there and we would see them at night when they swam on the top of the water. We mostly saw their red eyes. I never heard them make any noise tho
It was eerie. It would be all quiet out there while we were having a smoke & a tipple of alcohol and then those sounds start up.
One night we were camping at this lake and we were still tent camping. One of my friends had some weed that night and I did my share of drinking so I get woken up in the middle of the night thinking the gators are slapping their tails against the sea wall and coming to get me. It was the waves on the lake making that noise.
One of the few times I ever experienced paranoia
Ahhhh - the good old days - weed & Jack... and then paranoia.
And gators around the bend...
I think there might be a country song in there somewhere
LOL, O My !
I lived in FL for 17 years and saw many many gators.
I was also out in a lake, in a small johnboat that had an small old sputtering motor, as we came in for the night we came out of a small tributary into the main lake and a fairly good sixed group of alligators were there to greet us.
Evidently they congregated there at meal time.
OMG: "Sputtering old moor don't fail us now !" was all I could think. And .. Yes those EYES !!!
I'd run into them at work fairly often as well.
IMO: Snakes are bad, alligators are even worse.
Here's a picture I took and posted on craigslist when I had pups for sell. lol Of course its doctored...lol
Get your puppy now, they are going fast !
I know I shouldn't laugh but that tickled my funny bone
This 11 ft gator was wandering the streets of Ocala, Fl in a few years back.
LOL Thanks thought it was funny and original.
But when that add picture was running I got No calls on the puppies. As soon as I changed the picture .. I started getting calls.
LOL I still thought it was funny.
Thanks again Trout
LOL WOW !
Probably some one's pet got out.
lol
Pretty. I hate vines with a passion though.
The jessamine I ordered is a vine. The one on the deck is doing ok but it had to be trimmed back. The one in the front yard went tango uniform and has to be replaced.
Almost 80 today.
Live Oak trees are bouncing back from the Big TX freeze which stripped them of every leaf, so much for their being 'evergreens'...
A few other ornamental trees are also greening.
A Texas sage looks like one branch died ( 50% of the "tree" )
The Rosemary is a mess, but still alive.
Pansies survived, then the squirrels dug them out, wtf?
Monkey grass, Echenacea, coreopsis, dianthis all bouncing back and some blooming already.
Gerberas and Lilly time, too.
Still have to replace all of the succulent aloes and even cacti were killed.
Is one of your personalities a day older?
Nah, about 30 years difference,
My aloe, or whatever it is, is about to bloom. Have two flower stalks that have popped up.
I was wanting to try roses. There are two that I liked but both are out of stock where I looked. The peace rose and one called Tropicana.
Never really tried roses before. Someone told me they end up with some kind of leaf rot around here.
LOVELY!
They're worth giving it a try
I think I will if I can find another place with them in stock.
They would get full sun.
They wanted like a hundred bucks a plant though.
Good grief! At that price they better bloom all year round and be especially smelly!
I probably shouldn't do this to you because it makes me a dealer...but you can get catalogs that have pretty much everything you want. Mr G orders from them a lot, but he's trying to curb his addiction. I don't help because I look at the catalogs and go "ooooo....look how pretty!"
I thought that too. Apparently there are some that are grafted and some that are pure. I was told to avoid the grafted ones.
I really don't know. I kill every rose plant I come into contact with
We had a lilac bush where at the house where I grew up - loved the smell.
Hop vines look great as well, if they will grow in your climate. I used to grow them a long time ago, easy to maintain, provide shade and they are edible, though I don't recommend them.