1/3/16: What you learn this year on wisdom, roses, health, others?
strawchicago z5
8 years ago
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What I learn through my miserable flu-shot reaction this New year 2016:
1. Don't let people's evils possess you, abide in God's love and read the Holy books instead.
In the past, I let people's weaknesses bother me, such as someone's insensitive comments ... Now I just shrug them off, and occupy myself with God' love.
2. You don't need to take that in .. you can give to God who made you.
That applies to food, I don't need to eat food that harm my body, I can give to God's purse for the poor. That applies to people's bad behavior & negative thoughts ... I don't need to take that in, I can give to my Creator through prayer. God is bigger, He can handle that better than I can.
3. If people misbehave, that's their problem, not mine. I becomes my problem only when I make it mine. One of the NDE (near-death-experience) person complained about her brother, and the angel said to her, "Dear, don't make their problems be your problems."
4. Don't expect anyone to understand you, since they didn't make you ... the Creator did. Only God can understand my problems. Life is so much easier when I give up my control over the universe & respect others' freedom & their pursuit of happiness. Life is better when I take care of myself, and create my own happiness.
5. Religion is good since it teaches us to respect God's boundaries (don't take the name of God in vain), and people boundaries' (no lying, false-witness, hurting or adultery). My new year resolution is to attend church more often, so my kid can learn to respect God's boundaries established to protect us.
What do you learn this year on wisdom, roses, and the experiences you went through last year? What are your new year's goals? Thanks.
Bouquet picked in a hottest summer: Golden Celebration is on the left, that's my most favorite scent, like cupcakes from the oven:
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strawchicago z5
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Khalid Waleed (zone 9b Isb)
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What have you learned about roses this year?
Comments (32)In the past year I have learned to like miniatures. (Always tried to save those little giftable roses with no luck; they were unhealthy, spindly, miserable things.) Last year I got two REAL minis from the nursery: Gourmet Popcorn and Rainbow's End and have thoroughly enjoyed both bushes. GP looks just like popcorn and blooms well, and RE has a really cheerful bloom. Both are trouble-free and very cute too. If I like a bush but it's in a bad spot, move it!!! Yves Piaget has suffered in the shade for years (tree branches grew over it). This spring I moved it to a sunny spot. Poor thing was in terrible shape (some would have tossed it), and I hacked a lot of it, leaving 3 canes leaning one way and 3 leaves too. It's in full sun now and leafing out beautifully. Looking forward to that first happy, healthy bloom. Not that I've learned anything, but the drought and need to conserve water is on my mind every day (especially today and yesterday with 100-degree temps). The rose beds have been mulched heavily. Didn't learn much from the linked article, but it might be of interest to others. I'd feel terrible to let the bushes go unwatered until they wilted as mentioned in the article. If we don't get some rain this fall/winter, we may come to that. I must deadhead a couple bushes more aggressively all summer (New Day and Elle). They are so big by fall that they block my view when backing out of the driveway. Probably won't bloom as freely, but oh well. Have enjoyed everyone's input here. Sorry if I wrote too much!! Here is a link that might be useful: Roses and drought This post was edited by socks12345 on Thu, May 15, 14 at 17:48...See MoreNewbie - Lessons learned this year!!! What have you learned?
Comments (27)Stage Rat, thanks so much. I googled it and that is what it is. I will go right out and dig it up. I don't want those in my flower beds. I wish all my flowers looked that healthy though. I forgot to mention lesons learned about which containers worked best for me. My favorite is the round containers that I get cakes or cookies in (also an excuse to buy them). I make newspaper pots, and they are so much easier to plant out than to try and get the babies out of a milk bottle or 2L bottle. I think the newspaper helps the soil also. I tear off the top as I am dropping them in the hole so that they don't wick away the water. All of mine that were planted that way are doing the best. Also, I put a small water bottle in the center and use plastic shower caps (16 for $1) from the dollar store on top of them--it works great. The second favorite is the 1/2 size stem table aluminum pans from Sam's. The shower cap fits on them also with a small water botter to hold it off the babies. I think I will learn many more lessons from the responses to this thread. Thanks again for helping me ID the plant. Also thanks to everyone who shared their lessons learned. It is a great help. Jeane...See MoreMeet the man who just spent £1.6m on roses
Comments (30)Ho yep, I joined the MGS forum (Daisy is a member too) and was a bit staggered by the exclusivity of it...in a huge comparison with the Scottish Rock Garden society (another one I lurk about). So, did you buy a plot of land and build a house Nik? It is weirdly immobilising, faced with a totally blank canvas with no features to build around - a bit like an allotment but bigger, I would have thought. When I got into a bit of garden design, I had always fancied doing a garden from scratch but faced with a completely empty space, I found it very hard indeed to start placing paths, beds, layout...whereas building a garden around existing obstacles does at least focus your mind on dealing with drainage, entrances, old trees, outbuildings and the house itself. What you are doing though, is making a garden in practice which is always different from theorising which plant should belong in which place. How many of us do that, I wonder, as opposed to shoehorning a desired plant into any available gap? Why have you not chanced your arm (and legs) on Mermaid - surely a fabulous choice to ramble down a hillside? With juniper and cypresses? It is a monster but is also surprisingly limber and amenable to training and bending and it certainly will bloom for months on end. I have been too squeezed to plant one (having to settle for the small Golden Wings) but am certainly back to fantasising about covering the side of the shipping container with one (although I also ordered Cedric Morris with that position in mind). Would be more or less evergreen for you. I looked through the plant list and was shocked to see only one measly campanula listed...when they grow brilliantly right across the Med and Caucasus...although they did have a nice selection of salvias and teucriums (germanders are such modest subshrubs and so often overlooked in favour of lavenders). I have grown a surprising number of plants on the list but these days, it is all about woodland gardening (although I am colonising the edges before the interior or clearings). I did my first experimental seed sowing this weekend of wildflowers and a few garden favourites such as hollyhocks, various mallows, poppies and a few oddities such as ipomopsis -most pleased to see weekend rain on the way....See MoreMorpheus & others: Lab Results, Words of Wisdom please!!!
Comments (12)Yardtractor1: The classen slit seeder did an awesome job. Yes, there was a very visible corn row effect upon germination, however Classen recommends you slit seed at 45 degree angles, so the corn row effect is less visible. Plus, after the lawn thickens up in a couple months, you never see the corn row effect. Morpheuspa- as usual, your level of science & knowledge of analyzing soil test reports is scary, in a very good way. It never ceases to amaze me that you take a fair amount of time out of your day to help others that are in need. I will take photos of my lawn on an overcast day before I embark on this journey. I'll also take a few photos after seeding, and again during the spring and fall of next year. I will follow your plan to a "T", and I'm sure the results will be awesome. Hopefully the before & after pictures will validate the time and effort you put forth helping others. Dchall- Regarding the soil, let me put it this way: If my soil was light gray instead of brown, I'd swear it was concrete. I haven't done a screwdriver test after it has rained, however I have when it is dry. On average I could probably make it 1.5" to 2" down before I couldn't go any further. And that is no exaggeration. To make it easier to collect my soil samples, I ordered a soil test probe on ebay for $20. It is about 3' long, and has a T-Handle at the top. ***I was not able to drive it deeper than 2 inches in most places. Logan Labs recommends taking the soil sample at a depth of 6", so here was my Handy Man solution: I literally took my cordless drill with a 1" diameter drill bit and drilled 4" into the soil. Then, I cleared out all of the loose soil from that hole and then proceeded to use the soil test probe to get soil samples between 4-6" deep. I must say, for anybody else that has super compacted soil, the cordless drill trick will save you an hour, literally. The soil is usually very dry. I haven't used any magnesium products on the yard. We've been in the house for 3 years, so I'm not sure what the previous homeowner did to treat the soil. There is a possiblity that a very very small amout of salt got on a portion of the yard nearest the road (they do pretreat the roads during the winter in VA before it snows) but I seriously doubt it would have drifted 20' into my front yard....See Morestrawchicago z5
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msdorkgirl
8 years agoThanks folks...
Hehe Sam, actually don't count the yellow ones, those are store bought. Here's the other angle:
Out of the ten stems I tried to propagate before my trip, one success it looks like! Will wait til end of January to count it as a real success though.
I'll try to add some pics in the travel thread :)
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