Grandfather's Beard
Claire Pickett
15 years ago
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Comments (6)I thought the second looked like Chionanthus virginicus as did the first. This plant is dioecious so male flowers are on separate trees from female flowers, like most hollies, so fruiting will occur only on female flowered plants. If I recall correctly, the male has showier flowers. Leaves on fringetree are opposite or subopposite and there appears to be both a northern and southern form for the two species, Chionanthus retusus ( non-native) and Chionanthus virginicus. In Dirr's book , the leaf shape is clearly different on the southern and northern forms. Chionanthus retusus leaf shape looks quite rounded on the northern form. C. retusus seems to have brown exfoliating bark. Were there any labels with the trees?...See MoreClean-up time!
Comments (14)Hey...my daughter also has the Little Ponies. She is keeping them 'cause they are wonderful for little girls to play with. She was married last August and only has a few containers of her stuff left in my house now. You know, her lego (there was pink lego sets out when she was into lego), her barbie stuff and ponies. Now that she is gone...her old room is MINE!!! My crafts/sewing stuff is coming out from under the stairs, out from our bedroom, out from the boys' room, out from the laundry room and boy, do I have organizing to do. I think I have every craft and stuff for that craft since I was in 4-H 30 years ago. Plus, when my MIL passed away, my brothers-in-law went through her stuff and I now have all her old knitting and crochet patterns and suppplies and some other misc. to go through, cull and then put what I want to keep into the room also. I bought 20 of the clear stackable rubbermaid photo organizer containers and now have all the photos in them, my patterns in 5 of them, and one even has sea shells and sand collected from Cuba, Florida and the west coast of Canada. Memories from all those keepsakes...it's hard to know what to throw out and what to keep. It's a big job to organize and de-clutter! I also have to do the laundry/pantry room...anything that there is no room for in my kitchen cupboards has to be stored downstairs. I need to go through all the canned goods and organize. Also, I have to go through all the canning and cull that. I am not canning fruit like I used to when the kids were younger and so, I need to get rid of jars also. It does feel good though to have space on the shelf. First though, the Christmas tree and all the ornaments need to be taken down and put away. It's time!...See MoreOur Grandmother's Gardens
Comments (26)forgot to say that I think Aunt Lillie's house may have been where I got a great deal of my gardening obsession. She grew irises in the bed around the front porch, Turk's Cap below the evaporative cooler/swamp cooler/water fan, althea beside the living room window. She had an odd old metal table about 18" high that she kept under a shade tree. This was where her houseplants spent their summers. In the winter, they moved onto a regular greenhouse table her husband built & installed on their "back porch", a room on the back of the house that had windows all around. In the late 60's, African Violets were a new rage, & she loved them. "Everybody" said that African Violets were temperamental, & you had to have exactly the right conditions, & they'd die like vampires if the sun touched them. She read up on them & got one little pot to try. & the rest is history! Her African Violets were so gorgeous that everybody always went "out on the porch" to see them when they visited. She once gave me an angel wing begonia, & she called my mother to come see her night-blooming cereus one night around midnight. "& bring Sylvia", she said. My mother told her I was asleep, & I had to work the next day. "Wake her up!", said Aunt Lillie. & she did, & I went over there in my pajamas... & I'm glad I did. I have a cutting of that night blooming cereus sitting under a shade tree today. & I have irises (everywhere, my dears, simply everywhere!), Turk's Cap in the flower bed, 2 altheas by the fence, & a ragtag assembly of "starts" in various plastic pots, yogurt containers, & coffee cans. I haven't had an African Violet for many years, but I finally have *one window* in *one room* where the cats can't get in & dig things up. Maybe it's time to try one of those temperamental little divas again....See MoreWANTED: Spanish Moss airplant
Comments (2)I have some growing but still only small. If no one else has any you are welcome to a handful, but it would take ages for it to get to any size. If no one else replies email me with your address....See MoreClaire Pickett
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