How do you know when you have too many plants??
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How many new plants have you aquired this year? Do you do this?
Comments (17)Mike, First I want to say, the plants I received, beginning Jan 1, 2010, were in 3-4" containers, bulbs and cuttings. Only a handful were larger, meaning 8" to 1' tall. Total: 58. :) :( Marguest, your Banana Tree is beautiful. The colors amazing. There's even a pup. Did you find it on Ebay? Mike, to answer a few questions. I MUST stay away from Ebay..It's one addicting site. Not only do they have great deals on plants, but plant supplies. There's also a few online nurseries I browse every other wk or so. The internet makes it too easy to shop for such an exciting hobby. A few clicked keys, next thing, a package is at your front door? One word of Warning for those who really want to stop buying plants.. Well, an attempt. Do NOT sign up for nursery News Letters. It's convenient, swaying us to their site, displaying their wares. Hear the clicking keys to Paypal? lol. As for local nurseries, fortunately, there are two that sell very very nice and rare specimens..luckily, opposite directions, both a long distance drive. An hour on non-congested days, 1.5-2 hours during 9-5, Rush Hour traffic. Although, traffic has gotten so heavy the past five years, the only time to go anywhere with time to spare is between midnight and 5am. Problem is, the stores are closed. lol. Our grocery store, Jewel's, always has plants for sale. Mostly, basic plants like Spaths, certain Dracaenas, etc. My problem arises when they have dollar sales. 3-4" potted plants for 1.00. Every so often, they'll have a rarer specimen. Buy 3, pot them up, and you have a lovely plant for 3.00. Four years ago, they had, mixed in with other dollar plants, Schefflera 'brassaia/actinophylla, a plant I hadn't seen in years...last one) I grabbed it up fast. lol. That's about it. Not too bad for 9 months. lol. Toni...See MoreDo you know how many daylilies I have?
Comments (17)Well, it's not as if the daylilies are very hard to take care of. Certainly no more so than any other flower and lots easier than most. And I had to do most of the hardscape as I needed a place to plant. By the time I had gotten the daylily crazies all the easier places to do a garden were all filled already so I started on terraces and raised beds. Lots of works (and money) but the results were so worth it. But I was so focused on daylilies that most of those things that were moved for hardscape projects (and mostly moved back) that died because it was never the right time of year to move things, I just let go. This sping started buying many and bringing back. Not always the exact same. Like I had ALASKA shasta daiseys (tall). I bought SNOWCAP this spring as they are dwarf and work better. I had some plain yellow yarrows and bought some stunning red STRAWBERRY SEDUCTION yarrows this spring. I bought the fancy new hot colors of coneflowers to add to my garden instead of the RUBY STAR and just plain purples that died out. I bought CHEROKEE SUNSET blackeyed susans instead of Goldstrum which I thought was boring. I bought new honeysuckle vines to replace some that died out. Well, you get the picture. I am not done with everything I want to add or bring back but I made a great big dent in that project. I also want to grow more zinnias as I deffinately love zinnias. The first year I had zinnias in amounst the daylilies in the 2nd terrace of the terraces garden. Coundn't do it years after. I have decided that I can get the look I want and have room for the zinnias by removing the middle grouping of daylilies from the second terrace and leaving the the ones at both ends. Since these are very favorite daylilies I am certainly NOT getting rid of them. Then upstairs in the garden that for year one I called the cosmos garden, second year snapdragon garden (as I planted those annuals to fill in) I want the color back. But I am cetainly not doing to dig up the daylilies and hack the clumping fans back to the two that I started with. So it get a look that works for me, I need to remove a daylily here and there in that bed and then put a spot of color in the empty space I left by moving the daylily. Again these are very favorite daylilies up there. They will not be leaving the garden. I am guessing that by removing and sending away about 50 daylilies I can have the look I want. So I will see what needs to go by evaluating during bloom season....See MoreHow Do You Know When a Gas Range is Too Old?
Comments (23)Just following up to my original post. We kept the range for 4 + more years since my original post, but will be getting a replacement this week. The Caloric is still fully functional - including the electric mechanical clock - it just doesn't look too great anymore - even with my attempts at repainting some of the trim. As far as I can tell the only physical issue is that the bottom of the oven cavity has rust - probably got its start when the range was stored in an unheated garage, The planned obsolescence that many people have experienced with the new ranges has kept us from going too crazy in buying a replacement. We are getting a Kenmore 74332 gas range. I'm not too thrilled with idea that the new range's lifespan may only be 1/3 of the old range, but the replacement has a convection fan, so that will be something new to try....See MoreWhat do you do when you like too many styles & can't decide?
Comments (15)Thanks all; sounds like I'm not the only one that has trouble deciding from time to time. I agree with the difference between liking pictures in a book or online versus living in it. I remember about 4 years ago, maybe 5, I loved the shabby chic pink look. I just knew I wanted it. I did two rooms in all white - one has lots of light blue accents, the other pinks and lavenders. They looked really good - straight out a magazine. I hated both of them. Even though I liked the look, I couldn't stand being in the rooms. One was redone in rich reds and gold and black, the other in, uh, gold, and rich reds. Hmmmm .... I'm sensing a pattern here. Thankfully (at least I *think* it's a good thing) I uncovered a new element - something that's going to restrict my choices a bit and therefore hopefully make the decision less stressful. When I was ripping up the various kitchen flooring layers .... carpet on top of pad on top of old vinyl on top of underlayment ... I accidentally ripped up a piece of the underlayment. I didn't mean too, was planning on putting the new floor (hadn't decided yet, was waiting on updated budget figures) and guess what I found? Yup, the kitchen had hardwood under there too! Hallelujah! It, however, is different than in the rest of the house. It's a wider plank, wider spacing, a MUCH more casual look and a more porus wood - meaning if I use the same stain it will not look the same and will likely look funny where they join. That led me to choose a contrasting stain choice so that it looked purposeful. I was torn between ebony (with cream cabinets), weathered / distressed barnwood (with either cream, black or barn red cabinets) and whitewash (with black cabinetry). Today when I started sanding, it became clear that I was likely not going to get it sanded white enough (without sanding down so deep I hurt it) to do a whitewash. The floor has gaps and grooves and the stain color fills those low spots. Trying to sand down that deep will leave me with a paper thin floor. That takes that color out of the options....See Morepilotkh4
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