Finding Joists in Porch Ceiling for Plant Hooks
Carol love_the_yard (Zone 9A Jacksonville, FL)
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Comments (14)Wow! Thanks for all the responses! I have lots of sedums and ornamental grasses that I work with out in the garden that may be candidates. Yes, I'm happy to do different displays for summer and winter. I would love to use bougainvilla and I'll research that. I had also thought about growing herbs there in the winter months. Our micro-climate is created by the L of the house and garage -- porch faces south, garage side wall faces east. No northern or western harshness. (My husband is a forestry major and knew how to site the house to create the micro-climate.) Today's garden check to see what is looking good in this micro-climate in the front garden: My in-ground thyme, oregano, rosemary and lavender are all still very green and fragrant, so those are winter season possibilities and then I can plant them in the summer. My heuchera (amber waves and key lime) are so beautiful right now that I wonder if some heuchera may actually work well in both seasons. There are wonderful sun-tolerant colors and they will like the shady porch in summer. I could put creeping jenny in there to hang down from the pots. The lime, peach and new burgundy varieties would add lots of color. What do you think? You can barely see the 3 rectangular planters along the front edge of the porch in front of the rockers. Also, that topiary (June photo) is the one that died. I have two round tables (one beside the loveseat and one between the rockers) where I switch pots in and out. June photo when there were blooming geraniums: October photo before the winter sun fried the white pansies: center>...See MoreBringing Plants Into the Sun Porch
Comments (5)1.)Claire sez: A room of their own! Ha! When my houseplants finish their inward trek, they'll be lucky if they get a seat near a window - winter is sort of like rush hour on the subway in my house. Plants standing shoulder to shoulder leaning towards the light. It's a beautiful room - a very peaceful place to sit in. Claire Well, Claire, you have a few more years of gardening up north to account for the Grand Central situation. My depth in northern (read: winterizing) gardening is less than two winters. But I am quite fond of enjoying my plants all year. The first time I lost my lovely May Night salvias due to the dry heat. And when it got really cold, we went south and nobody was here to look after them. This year, we are fortunate to have friends staying who usually live aboard their sailboat. That is something you cannot do up here during the winter, unless you want to be a popsicle. Down south I don't have to winterize MUCH, but we are planning to take an old cement block garage/workshop which lost its entire roof several hurricanes ago, put a polycarbonate roof on it, install an Endless Pool in one end and house my tropical-like plants in the other, along with a tiny dining table for all-weather enjoyment. HE thinks there will be a workshop in this space, but that will NOT happen. He already has a storage shed for his ugly piles of stuff. With the economic crunch, this plan will not happen immediately, needless to say. But I am already using the space in a crude fashion. I'm thinking of buying a roll-around basketball goal, use it as a center pole and putting a large nylon parachute over that, then tying sandbags around the parachute perimeter and throwing them across the top of the walls. This will not be perfect, but perhaps it will keep all my ferns and tender plants alive through the winter months down south. I won' have to bank bales of hay around them like hubby did several seasons back to keep 2 hens and a rooster alive up here. 2) cynthial_2006 sez: I recently brought in my plants and now have an infestation of white flys (I had bought "Good Soil" from a local nursery to pot my elephant ear in and the soil was contaiminated with them). I have put up the yellow sticky traps and have been spraying my plants with neem oil. Any sugestions that might help? Cynthia, Mr. Jones at Jones Farm here in Chelmsford told me to take all my plants which had spent the summer outdoors and spray (actually he said SOAK) them with this oil and let it dry before I brought the plants indoors. I did that pretty much as he described, and so far have found only one cutworm on my beloved geranium babies. I have no idea how to deal with white flies. I used traps in the kitchen to deal with the flour moths--disgusting the way they can grow inside sealed packages of grain products. One thing I use, which is safe around my parrots, and dogs, is a product called CAMICIDE. It is a pyrethrin insecticide. When you have parrots, you don't want ants, seed moths, roaches, etc. And you don't want residual poisoning. I'm not sure if Camicide is safe on plants or soil, I know it is not poisonous to animals after it dries. However, I don't put it where they can eat it. For a real gardening product to do the job, I'd ask this question as a topic all on its own. It will be a quick way to get your perfect answer....See Morewhat to put on porch hooks that is NOT plants or windchimes?
Comments (41)WOW, what a response! Thank you all for the input and for the compliments on the house. She is a cute little thing even with the remuddles and the *cringe* vinyl siding and windows, I just think the plain cream and white is a little bland and could use a wee bit of perking-up. That porch is one of the things that drew us to the house though. Fern(s) it shall be! I wasn't sure if conventional faux plants would hold up to the sun and rain but it sounds like they will do OK. Home Depot had some inexpensive ones (like $19.99) last year so I will check there and I'll start with one in front. Everyone's very happy with the wind chimes now that they've been moved to the side. It's amazing what ten feet and some shrubbery (very overgrown OLD lilacs which are being butchered for "rejuvenation" this fall, but the arborist says that's the only way to salvage them) does to mellow the volume! They're also deep-toned ones rather than the high-pitched plinky-plink kind. They were only $10 at Walmart last year. A carved plaque reading "merry meet" has been ordered to go over the mailbox, but it won't be very visible from further away than the porch itself as it's only about half the width of the mailbox. I had a wreath over it but it blew off. :-p teacats, that's what the BACK porch is for! *wink wink nudge nudge* *snicker* amysrq, your response to flyleft was the best laugh I've had all day. :-) bungalow_house, gingerbread is most definitely on the "someday" list! I love these simple square brackets, with a similar gable trim. We know the house was very plain to begin with so we want to keep the tarting-up relatively low-key as well. SH, love those purple stairs! The porch floor (ye olde battleship gray, the norm for this style house here) actually hasn't been painted lately, it needs to be torn up and replaced as it's pretty rotten in many areas. Ditto for both sets of steps. We may be completely un-period and use a composite product because it accumulates snow and ice something fierce in the winter. Next year, we hope. I do dream about a house in shades of purple though. There's a real charmer of a Queen Anne in my town all done up in shades of lavender: flyleft, I can't carry the water to keep plants alive right now. I'm not walking much without a cane and my hands aren't working too well (but I am the fastest two-finger typist I know!) so even drought-tolerant plants are pretty much out... I think if I ask DH to do one more thing he may do me an injury. :-) In general though I loathe grubbing around in the dirt, I know some people find it enjoyable but I consider it miserable drudgery. Blame my parents, who dragged me out for endless roasting, sunburnt hours weeding their enormous vegetable gardens. Blech. :-) We will do some landscaping stuff on the front but not this year as I will need to have a hosebib installed so we can do a drip-irrigation thingy like we did in the previous house. namabafo is correct, I am not selling the house - the first picture is from when we bought it to show how it looks with some actual greenstuffs around it. I should have captioned that. :-) The porch is smaller than it looks so it can only really support one chair (I LOVE this classic Bar Harbor style one but OMG the price, I would just die if someone swiped it so I'd have to chain it down!) in the front corner, which is on the shopping list for when I have some spare cash. Might be next summer instead of this one. If it were deeper we'd hang a porch swing! I'm in love with these copper house numbers but at well over $50 for two... woof. OH, and just to crow and brag - we finally cleared the last room of boxes this weekend! It only took us 7 1/2 months! LOL We now have a guest room. Thankfully we already have pretty much everything for it, recycled from the old house. so that's one room that won't cost me much money....See MoreMud on porch ceiling
Comments (31)MYSTERY SOLVED - for real this time! Since I last posted, our housekeeper's son washed down the ceiling. Everything looked great! The next day all the spots were back. I called a window washer, thinking he would have better equipment and taller ladders. When he left all of the spots seemed to be gone. The next day they were back! I drew two conclusions from that. Either (1) when the spots are wet, they are the same color as the ceiling, or (2) they are being removed and then replaced quickly. Today, DH caught the head of the golf course's maintenance team (did I tell you we are on a golf course?). He said they are army worm eggs. His advice was to do nothing about it until fall and then get our lawn treated when they treat the golf course. He suggested then power washing the porch ceiling. The number of egg sacs have multiplied dramatically since my first post. My ceiling looks scabrous! I suppose it is foolish to do anything to it until we and the golf course try to eradicate the army worms in the fall. Maybe I'll just put very colorful cushions on the porch chairs and no one will look up!...See Morebrickeyee
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