Colorado Moonstone decided rto bloom after a little rain
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Comments (21)I think I'm like Debra, several of my dependable rebloomers didn't rebloom. Here is my list: Annabelles Blush Bill Norris Blue Eyed Butterfly Buttermilk Moon Caribbean Eye Spy Clown Parade sent up a scape, but the blooms dried up during that hot spell we had. One bloom opened but looked terrible, so I guess CP doesn't count really Choral Fantasy Delia O'bryan Brown-rebloomed almost as well as it did the 1st time, & not a rebloomer Destined to see-not a rebloomer Evening Enchantment Final Destination Fooled Me Gift from Heaven Hello Heartstrings Hillbilly Heart Jamaican Me Crazy Jamaican Music Janice Brown-not a rebloomer Jersey Spider John Kirkland Lake Norman Spider-not a rebloomer Matt-not a rebloomer Moonlit Masquerade Mystical Rainbow Pandora's Treasure Raspberry Pixie had several rebloom scapes, Not a rebloomer Romanian Rendevous Rose Electra Stella's Ruffled Fingers Storm of the Century Storm over Toledo Strawberry Candy Touched by Grace Wild Horses Wineberry Candy-not a rebloomer Woman at the Well Wyatt Earp I have rebloom scapes on 3 more right now. Siloam Virginia Henson has 4 scapes from 5 fans, & it isn't a rebloomer. Jim Brown & Westbourne Homestead. This is actually pretty good rebloom for me. I have a few that have rebloomed every year for me though, nothing from them yet. With all the rain we've been getting though, who knows, that may change....See MoreRain, rain, go away, come on back another day - like next month
Comments (20)Jali, when I emptied my rain gauge on Wednesday it had 1.4” in it. When I emptied it yesterday morning it had another 2.4” in it! Flood of '65, indeed! I emailed Barb last nite to let her know I had arrived safely—tense, but safe—and I mentioned the Flood of '65 to her! She's not old enough to remember it, but I am! It rained, like this time, for a week or whatever and everything was saturated—and then, like you said, it DUMPED and that was all they wrote! All the bridges in/out of Denver on the west side of town but ONE washed out, including one that was just a couple years old and had been built for a “500-year flood!” I have pics of a span of that bridge laying in the middle of the Platte! Huge sections of I-25 and the train tracks between Denver and the Springs washed out! I still have the newspapers from right after it with all the pics! But I hadn't stopped to think that this was the 50th anniversary of it!!! Cherry Creek Dam was still new back then, and there was near panic on the news that it was going to break—they were releasing water as fast as they could. I lived in an apartment about a half a block from Speer and we were listening to the radio so we'd know when to RUN—and then the power went out! I'm still here—so, no, it didn't break! And 25th anniversary of the Limon tornado! Wow! Some years to remember! Guess you remember that one well! What I remember was I was watching TV weather and all of a sudden the radar went down! Switched channels, and no radar! Switched again—nobody had radar anymore! That's when we knew it was “serious!” If the Limon radar was wiped out—what else in Limon was wiped out! Wasn't long and the channels were picking radar up from the airport, and that's when most of them switched to doppler! Memories! I've been watching Denver radar today, and the forecast, and at least it looks like this is about the end of it for right now, so, hopefully, no repeat of '65! Thinking of you all down in the lowlands--make that WETlands--right now, Skybird...See MoreSouthern oklahoma more rain?
Comments (18)That's so true about the video. It is easy to enjoy it knowing that it wasn't from anywhere around here. I heard the screams from a long ways off (probably down along the river) for 2 or 3 years before I heard one up close, and it truly is the most horrifying sound I've ever heard in my life. Let's hope she had to scream a lot and never found a male in your neighborhood (or mine). And, if a tornado wouldn't scare one off, then what would? Tim and I decided to drive down and check out a couple of our favorite river roads yesterday to see how much water they'd been under. Some of what we saw, in terms of mud residue left on trees and such quite a distance from the river, was horrifying. I just cannot imagine water got that close to homes (most of which, thankfully, were not that far away distance-wise but were up on a higher ridge). We didn't get to drive around as much as we wanted because the roads were one or more of the following: closed off (and we do not drive around barricades), still under water, washed out in low spots or covered with so much mud and debris that they look washed out, or still under water, still under water, still underwater. It is scary to see that much water still on roadways that far from the river even after it officially has dropped below flood stage. While our Flood Warning for the Red River bridge is gone, much floodwater remains in the flood plains areas. Now that it is so hot outside, my gardening ambitions have been whittled down to harvesting, eating the harvest, and processing the harvest to put up a significant part of it for future meals. Tim mowed like a maniac yesterday, cutting down everything his wife would allow. Ha ha! I didn't want for him to cut down the front meadow that sits between the roadway and the house. I regularly put out a little henscratch and cracked corn there for the doves and other birds, and our young wild turkeys are coming to that spot to eat. I wanted him to leave that area tall so they'd have good cover.....and also because it is filled with wildflowers from a seed mix I sowed back in the winter. With so many mostly drought years recently and poor wildflower showings in those years, I'm loving having a rainy year with tons of wildflowers. While he mowed out there in the heat, I was inside running tomatoes through the tomato strainer to prep them for salsa-making. As I did it, I bagged up the finished tomato product in gallon zip-lock bags, with enough in each bag for one batch of Annie's Salsa. Then I fed all the tomato waste to the compost pile. I have enough tomatoes prepped for nine batches of salsa, so that's how I'll be spending the rest of today. After the cold front comes through and we have some cooler temperatures this weekend, I'll try to catch up on weeding the garden and harvesting other stuff. I might run outside in a couple of minutes and harvest the peaches that are ripe. We're getting about a dozen a day and mostly have been eating them, but they are starting to pile up so I can see that some peach processing is in my future. Probably I'll slice and freeze the freestone peaches and will boil down the cling type peaches and make jelly from them. I'd rather be out in the garden if the heat and humidity weren't so bad, but since they are so unpleasant, I guess it is just as well that I have a lot of tomatoes to process. Well, I think they are tomatoes. They are beautiful and big and look like tomatoes. They are the shape of tomatoes. They grew on tomato plants. But, are they tomatoes? Their flavor is so watered-down that 95% of them aren't worth eating fresh (the only really tasty ones are the ones I harvested in early June in between the big May rainfall and the big June rainfall), and their texture also is sort of mealy thanks to the ridiculous amount of rain that has fallen here in such a short period of time. I really devoted time to draining off as much of the excess water as I could while processing them for salsa yesterday. I think that the salsa will be fine, but I'll taste the first batch carefully before I make the next 8. It would be such a waste to make all that salsa and have it taste bland, but I don't think that will happen. There are things I could do to fix the flavor if the salsa doesn't taste right due to the watery nature of this year's tomatoes. After doing the amount of processing required to end up with 72 cups of chopped and drained tomatoes for salsa-making, my kitchen had red splotches everywhere....it looked like a slaughterhouse in there. My family and our pets are pretty well-trained to stay out of the kitchen while I'm canning and doing canning prep, so I was able to get all the mess cleaned up before they came in there and started asking questions about what I was killing in there. : ) I've got enough tomatoes piled up on the shelves but not quite ripe to make another 3 or 4 batches of salsa, so I suspect that I'll be spending a portion of every day for the rest of the week making salsa. Today, I'll probably spend most of the day and late into the evening doing just that....See MoreWell, I guess it has started: More new blooms.
Comments (20)Hannah, Nancy is right, my blooms started a couple of weeks earlier than last year, but mainly, Fernstone. It, Colorado Moonstone, and Bill Watson always race to be the first to bloom, I did think last year was also a bit early so it may be creeping along. I usually have two peaks of blooms now; the early and mid blooms, then the mid and lates. I do usually have a hundred or so that re-bloom,but it will often start as instant re-bloom. It is not my gardening skills that cause it, other than perhaps the mulching which they love and need here as hot as it gets. It is the climate I think. I do put out slug killers, and ispar on rare occasions. If I am really indiustrious and can find it, I scatter alfalfa meal or puut out fish emulsion prior to bloom season. I have put out time release fertilizer and they seem to like it, but not tremendously. Nancy, my plants do the same thing yours are doing...One or two buds get ready and the others hold back while from blooming. kay...See MoreBrad KY 6b
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