Least Favorite Garden Fad
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Comments (74)I want to add my two cents worth about my disappointment with the way Org. Gardening has turned out. I have read it for decades and am now reluctantly giving up. Garden Design is useless. Love Fine Grardening - yeah, it's lots of pictures (I think the best photography of the lot), but really good articles and advice. I have volumes going back for years - that's the one I keep. And I share them a lot w. new gardeners and friends. It's easy to locate specific articles with useful info. Also like Horticulture a lot. And I have just become a "member" of New England Gardening Club - primarily for the magazine People, Plants and Places - which is really quite good, but also because with joining comes a discount card for many NE garden centers and nurseries. This advice is only useful for NE, obviously - but if you are in this region check it out at newenglandgardening.com. I also belong to the Americal Horticulural Society and their magazine is excellent - that's an expensive join, but I get free entrance to many botanical gardens and so it pays me to do this (besides which, it's a good org to support_) I know this is supposed to be about least favorite but, hey, it just leads one to think about what one DOES like. sorry if this is incorrect...See MoreFavorite/Least Favorite Color Daylily?
Comments (32)I've always loved orange daylilies, and my first sight of PRIMAL SCREAM merely confirmed that love. Really like brown daylilies as well....and yellow, well, no need to say any more. Yellow daylilies are WONDERFUL! Mauve to me is probably not what mauve is to an artist or colorist. Naturally, no daylilies come to mind at the moment, but I've seen what I think of as mauve intros and have not cared for them. My recollection is of a palish, dirty purple-pinkish shade. Not that that's very helpful I'm sure! In fact, someone mentioned ALWAYS AFTERNOON, which is in fact a mauve. But I've seen it and have liked it well enough, and I've not thought of it as mauve. But EAGLE NEST is very much NOT mauve IMO! And Faye Shooter would probably agree with me, seeing as how she registered it as a "medium purple." :) All this as a way of saying that my new least favorite color is a dirty lavender-pink. :)))...See MoreWhat is YOUR Favorite (and least favorite) Lettuce?
Comments (8)I'm growing greens in large stock tanks this year on a deck, so can get some free from slug and vole predations for the first time. The lettuces are perhaps too crowded to form big heads, the arugula and the baby bok choy is bolting. An unusual green I'm enjoying is Brassica juncea, Ruby Streak and Golden Frill, from Evergreen seeds. The Ruby Streak is bolting, but the Golden Frill is larger and not bolting yet. It is making long leaves with lots of frill, finely divided, so it is quite crisp, yet still tender. I'm going to have to keep trying on the lettuce. I've found that some greens like Wild Red Kale, and turnips left in the ground for spring greens, need to be planted by July 15 in order to get large enough to make it through the winter. I had some excellent bok choy one year planted in the fall, but can't seem to duplicate it. It won't make it during the winter, though. A wild green I enjoyed up until frost last year and in early spring this year is Sheep Sorrel, for a sour lemony taste....See Morefavorite fads
Comments (14)My first fad was in Jr. High in the early 50's. We wore slim long black wool skirts with wool sweater sets. Dalkeith brand sweaters made in England were my fav brand. Alternatively one could wear a wool cardigan alone buttoned up the back. Separate white peter-pan collars could also be worn with a pullover sweater. Very preppy looking. In the mid-late 60's synthetic wigs were quite popular altho not very comfortable. Mine was light brown with definite 'streaks' even tho my hair was blonde. Another 'fix' for bad hair days was dry shampoo. I see it's still (or again) available but I won't use it unless unable to wash my hair daily. My most extreme hairstyle was in 1968 when DH and I were leaving Montreal for a rural area. I wanted something stylish so went to a Sassoon trained stylist who cut my hair with points here and there. It was a good haircut but was difficult to grow out. I'd forgotten stirrup pants which I wore in 1969 when I was pregnant. They were stretchy and so comfortable and looked good with a long top. Maternity clothes were not very stylish back then so I either sewed my own or used regular clothes that worked. Even wore a hand-knitted Aran vest of DH's toward the end of my pregnancy! Short white western-style boots in the 70's were so cool. ;D Also I seemed to have a lot of orange clothes in the 70's but it's not memorable for style. Never wore hot pants but wore a lot of culottes at one time. Maybe in the 70's/80's. Puffy winter coat with legwarmers in the early 80's. Which I wore with my long curly (permed) hair! I loved that hair style! Had a really good hairdresser then so it was a good perm even if 'big hair'. My fav fad last year and this are tunics which I wear either with tights or slim pants. Very comfortable and great for layering. Also have several uneven hem skirts which are fun. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!...See Morewesttxteach
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