I've been out working in the garden...pics.

pattico_gw

15 years ago

This day lily is really overdoing this year.

Here's one of it up close...

And I found this little guy hiding in the flower garden.

{{!gwi}}

It's a surprising day out there today...Almost cool feeling. Breezy and not a bit hot like it has been. So I went out and picked some weeds that were long over due picking.

We need to mow again..that stuff grows so fast I can't believe it.

patti

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glenda_al
15 years ago
Don't pick him up or you'll get warts :o)

Well, that is what I was told when I was a little girl!
Linda Wayman
15 years ago
That's a pretty day lily and a cute little frog.

We've had rain predicted the past few days, but no luck so far. Today the temps are in the low 90s as opposed to near the 100Â° it has been the past few days. I want to go out and work in the yard or rather I need to, but it's like being in a suana out there. I keep putting it off. Anna is spending the night with my mother tonight and I have some frozen pancakes ready to nuke for Bob's breakfast in the morning. I'm hoping to be out there at daylight and get some of the weeds up that I haven't gotten rid of yet.

Linda
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WOW!! Thanks everyone! You all say the nicest things. This forum is a blessing. I've heard that you guys may be in for a pretty fierce winter this year so I'll be mindful of that and post pics of garden happenings regularly. My Our Lady Gardyn has become an overgrown mess and you can't even see the paths anymore there's so much growth. I cut them all back last month but they've grown quicker than I have time to tend them. My GF was over last week and complained that all my wonderful paths were blocked off and I better get out there and do some work. She's right, but I hate cutting off flowering stems. But I want to see the paths again, too. Such a cunundrum! I'll tell you my secrets LOL. OK, they're not really secrets, just what I've finally learned about where I live. First is an open garden that happens the first weekend in November. These people sell plants and 'junk', too, at extremely low prices so I always do good there. Then there's the church rummage sale. Whatever they don't sell they give away to the charity shops and, because they'd rather have the money themselves, you can bargain sweetly with them. My other coup is having a GF that works in one of the local CS's who saves everything that's chipped or broken for me. But the #1 'secret' is having faith that our Good Lord is looking after me and, wherever and whenever I go 'junking', what is really meant 'for me' will be there at a really good price. What do they say, "Leave you hands empty so God can fill them"? Something like that. Anyway, the Salvia Group is meeting today so I'm off to check out what promises to be a beautiful garden. You folk really are THE BEST!!
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As a newbie, it's this kind of chaos that I'm aiming for. They're beautiful. Tiffy, I could not bear to rip out my lilies and I found the beetles were more aggressive than usual, but then I did not do my usual treatment which I got from the horticultural college here in town: just when the lily buds start pushing their heads through the earth in Spring, spray them and the surrounding earth with a 10% solution of household ammonia. It does not hurt the plants, but seems to kill of the beetle eggs/larvae. I have done this over the last several years and had only a few beetles, but didn't this year because I was too busy with WS and I had quite an infestation. However, I saved all my lilies- they have always been my favourite flower. Strangely enough, I had none in my front flower-bed where I have a collection of "Infiity" the so-called green lily, nor in my new bed against the western fence where I have all my trumpets and 4-5 footers (removed from the front). I guess they haven't found them yet!!!
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wheelman, I'm just across the pond from you in Wisconsin. I live about 4 miles west of Lake Michigan just north of Milwaukee. The lake does indeed keep me warmer in the winter. I only fall to about -10 or so each winter, while just west of me they see some nights of -20 to -25. I've had palms in the ground since 2008... and that oldest one is still alive today! Here is a picture of it from early last week. That trachy was planted as a tiny 3 gallon in July, 2008. I protect it with a double poly box (air space in between). Over that I have a 1 1/2 inch layer of styrofoam and inside is a space heater set at 40F. Works great! I usually leave the foam off the south side unless we're expecting below zero weather. Sun free heats it during the day and the palm gets light. Bonus! I put the boxes on when lows start getting below 20, so about Thanksgiving or so and they come off in mid to late March. 20F doesn't phase trachys at all, as long as it gets above freezing during the day. Here is a picture from last winter. And here's a picture of the yard from last week.
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kayjones
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Patti, your lily is beautiful! It's a great gardening day here in KCMO, too - I just finished watering everything, even though we are supposed to get rain - I don't ever believe the weather person - I just stick my head out the door and make my own weather forecast!
grammahony
15 years ago
Patti that is such a pretty lily. I'm tempted to turn on the sprinkler system, as we haven't gotten any rain for a few days. But, I'll wait till morning, because Weather Bug says there's a chance late this afternoon (like now as it's 5:10) Greater chance tonight.
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pattico_gw
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15 years ago
Leslie...my lilies I got from you are blooming too...but only a stem or two on each plant.

That one in the pic has been planted about 4 years..but is still a fairly small plant. This is the first time it has had this many blossoms...and it has a bunch more coming out.

patti
nodakgal
15 years ago
Love the color!
wendylynders
15 years ago
So pretty and so cute... the frog being the cute thing. LOL!
Your flowers are just beautiful.

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liz
15 years ago
Gorgeous Daylily!! Isn't it fun to play in the dirt!!
JoanMN
15 years ago
The lilies here are nuts this year. They must love the cold, wet spring we had.
Pretty, Patti!
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