What are you doing now that gardening is over for a little while?

leaveswave

18 years ago

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zenpotter
18 years ago
Beading, making envelopes to hold seeds, surfing on my computer and first and formost spending more time on my sculpture. Cleaning the house for the holidays will be squeezed in somewhere.
kec01
18 years ago
Just got the Christmas decorations up, am working on holiday cards, refinished a wood door this past week, am working on another. Then I'll be refinishing the wood in our hallway (where the 2 doors belong). With traveling for the holidays, that about takes care of this month!
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Sunset has wonderful books aimed at southern gardens and gardeners. I have one that must be 30 years old. What I like about it is that it has older varieties listed that you seldom see anymore but that you might encounter from time to time. I think everyone should have a book like that to look up impartial information. That is how I came across my Brandy which is an amazing bloomer in cool or even the hottest weather. It out-performs all our other flowers and is about the size of a small woman's hand. A good 4-6" I would say. Jackson Perkins also has a great book with the more modern varieties, but they seem to imply that all the varieties featured are fantastic performers, and I couldnt disagree more. Many a bush has come to my house only to go back, because it didn't tolerate the heat or wasn't the color they described. We live in zone 8a which might be the same as where you are.
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My grandma was the gardener in our family, and I think of her often, wishing she could see what I can grow out here in California, and all of the roses that I tend in the cemetery. I find that gardening is the time when my thoughts move most freely. I might figure out problems, or have insights, or think about the friends who passed along plants. I really understand your pain at losing your dad. It's so hard. My father's been gone for 15 years. I could not believe how badly it hurt, and it's not something that you get over in a little while. My dad loved Christmas, and I still feel pangs when I pull out boxes of ornaments and see his handwriting on them, or recognize a box that he constructed to keep things safe. It's wonderful to have things that remind me of him, but I'm sometimes surprised to find that my eyes are full of tears. A memorial garden is a lovely idea, but it will be a memorial to him every time that you grow a plant that he loved, pick up a tool that he used, or remember something that he said to you. Anita
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Spring - Green, blue, yellow, white Summer - Green, pink, purple, mauve, burgundy, lilac, white Autumn - As for summer Winter - Green and any other colour I can get! My garden is microscopic so I have to restrict the palette. I think if you are going to do bright garish colours you have to do them boldly and within a suitable palette, not as random splotches. Also it depends a lot on your climate. Under grey skies and drizzle luminous salmon and shocking pink just look sad to me. Under bright sunshine they can look terrific. Currently the summer palette is being disrupted by a clump of magnificant yellow sun flowers which seeded themselves under the bird feeder. I don't have the heart to pull them and they'll provide winter entertainment from the birds when the seed ripens.
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Wait. Don't disturb them yet. They may have just leafed out with stored energy as Countrygirl said but if they are rooting you don't want to break any of those tiny roots by trying to re-pot them. You want a nice big healthy root ball before you do that. I like to use clear plastic cups for my cuttings so I can see when they are rooting. I wait until the cups are full of roots before I move them up to bigger pots.
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luvmydaisies
18 years ago
I like to work on getting all the plants I bought this year into my book I keep.Each plant has it's own section and it is divided into each garden. That way I can keep track of what I have and any special requirements it might have. I take pictures of the plants in bloom and put that in the book too.
selkie_b
18 years ago
knitting, sewing, and hand embroidering my little fingers off actually :)

The embroidery is a Green Man on some Druidic robes for my uncle if anyone out there is at all interested :) *LAUGH* this gardening stuff is definately genetic!

-Marie
twohuskies
18 years ago
I'm hoping to get a dog sled for my three fur babies. I also want to get out and x-country ski, and I have new snowshoes to play with too. With my recently adopted third husky I will also be working on obedience training. By the time I'm done playing in the snow it will be spring : )
leftwood
18 years ago
Speaking of snowshoes, my binding broke. I really liked the way this old guy, Crow (in Ely), had made them. He used rubber from a really thick inner tube. Any chance anyone would know of a source of this 3/16" thick rubber?

Hey, I just happened to notice there is a Wisconsin forum now. No posts yet though.

And now, back to the regularly scheduled program . . .
doucanoe
18 years ago
Working hard on getting my new stained glass shop to become profitable! LOL
All my classes are full so that is a good sign. Doing a couple of cmmunity ed classes, too, but not til March. One in Braham and one in North Branch. Will be teaching how to make stained glass hummingbird feeders so the timing is perfect. Cambridge community ed wants my first born child so I don't think I will do one here, but that's okay because my shop is here and people can just come here on their own. Can't believe all their rules and regs!

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