Had to share my early morning rug purchase, impulse buy, amazing price
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8 years ago
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I have been looking for an oversized wool rug for my living
room for quite a while. I woke up at 7am today and started browsing for my rug
again. Then I came across this 11'x 15' rug on Wayfair for $93, its 100% wool, 0.65 pile height and
handwoven. I ran downstairs, took out my measuring tape and started measuring
the area, my husband thought I was crazy!!.
I wasnt looking for this style of rug, was more into a sisal or jute natural rug but the price was
unbelievable so I bought it!!
Now, I just hope it turns out to be right color and goes with
the rest of my room.
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Veterans Honor.... Newbies impulse buy....
Comments (43)Veterans' Honor is a great choice for a new rosarian to start their garden with. I have two of them. One is grafted on Dr. Huey and is four years old. The other is a two year old own root that I think actually just outdoes the grafted one in vigor and blooming. This happens to be one of my favorite roses of all and as a matter of fact was the first ever rose to bloom for me when I started raising roses. My VH flowers have a very definite sweet raspberry fragrance to them. It is not overpowering, but it is definitely there and a few in a vase will perfume a room to smell like raspberry kool-aid. I love it. My VH blooms will last 12-14 days in a vase in the house so long as they are treated right. I cut the stems under water and use water doctored with a little 7-UP soda and a couple of drops of bleach. The soda's sugar feeds the bloom and the bleach keeps the ends of the canes from getting that gooey gunk that plugs up the stem and prevents water from reaching the bloom. I also re-cut--under water of course--my blooms after about 6 days. I cut about an inch off the bottom of the stem. Doing these little things really extend the life of the bloom and they stay beautiful until the very end. I live in zone 6 in northwest Missouri and I don't winter protect my VH roses intentionally at all. I have a sweet maple and an oak tree that drop their leaves in the fall and most of them end up clustered around the base of each rose bush in my gardens. I just let them be until the next spring when I do my yearly pruning. At that time I use my blower and blow off the loose leaves as they have served their purpose. It works for me. I lost only one rose this spring--Strike It Rich from J&P-- and it was one that I just planted last year and it never really grew with much vigor or bloomed much. I think it was a dud from the very beginning, so I would probably try another one if given the chance. Good luck with your new roses and enjoy those Veterans' Honor roses as they are top notch in my book. Probably the very best dark red rose I grow. John...See MoreImpulse buy, need guidance
Comments (15)Well Karen, I'll probably be a nervous wreck trying to get this impulse repotted. I wonder if growers use lava gravel since the plants need to be on the dry side. This would be similar to orchids growing on wood chips in a pot w/lots of holes or as my antherium that has its roots spread over a large lava rock that sits in 1/4" of water. The rock absorbs the water and the roots take up just what they need. I'll just do everything really slowly and hope for the best. Plumeriastix, yes I'm up in VV, close to the 15 & Bear Valley Rd. I can't imagine 100+ plumeria. I think my DH would also start hyperventalating at the costs. He's about ready to throw up his hands over my plant buying in general. I have spent the last five years reading and studying landscaping and horticulture. That doesn't mean I can grow much of anything in this soil but I keep trying new things that I come across. That's also why I am going to do small investment areas (flowers) close to the house, then midway the yard will have clay loving plants w/low water needs and the very back will have native arid plants. I wish I understood five years ago that landscaping w/low water use plants was not the most important step, it's all about the clay soil. You must have all of your plants in pots, yes? Geez, 100+ plants in a year, that's amazing. I'd love to see your collection if you're giving tours. DH is a teacher at Adelanto SD, close to retirement. I'm a lazy stay at home, 55 yr old who just wants to play in the dirt, in the backyard with my two dalmatians. I will admit to one horrendous impulse buy of two HOTBISCUIS one gal plants at H&E. They were the most gorgeous hibiscuis you can imagine, one of the hybrids developed by Armstrong Gardens. I paid $25.00 a piece and they both died. I haven't seen this particular hyrid plant on the Armstrong list so wonder if that specific Hotbiscuis was not a good performer, thus H&E probably got a deal on the remaining stock. Did I feel stupid. I think I will work with Ms. Impulse to see if I can see success before making additional investments....See MoreYippe! Got my Christmas present early!! (new camera)
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Comments (37)Well, I hope that someone found it, bought it and took it home with them where it hopefully is someplace warm and frost-free/freeze-free. My big tomato plant is happily residing upstairs in the spare room right beside a south-facing window. I talk to it, thump its blossoms and check its soil moisture daily. A couple of lady bugs that were attempting to overwinter by hibernating in a corner of the spare room woke up in Tuesday's hot weather and now are climbing all over the plants in the room. They must think it is Spring. I do hope the folks at Home Depot in Gainesville brought in all those plants from the garden center or covered them up with a very heavy-duty frost blanket row cover because they had hundreds and hundreds of plants in stock over the weekend. If they had moved the plants, shelving racks and all, someplace indoors it would have filled up an entire 2-car garage with little room to spare, so it was a substantial number of plants. . And, those are just the vegetables, fruits (strawberry plants) and herbs. I'm not as worried about the shrubs and perennials they had on display. On Tuesday it hit 79 degrees at our Mesonet station and 77 degrees at our house, and it didn't just feel warm, it almost felt hot. That sort of weather could give a person planting fever. The bees and the wasps were swarming all day. This morning, though, reality returned and it was 26 degrees at our house and 23 degrees at our Mesonet station this morning around sunrise. Gainesville is at a higher elevation so they might have been slightly warmer, but probably not by much. Our weather is nuts. We've had more than the usual number of grass fires the last couple of days, which is par for the course as winter deepens and fine fuels like grasses become more cured following freezing weather. I'm surprised how many plants have popped up in stores across the state this past week. Even some cool-season plants can freeze or suffer damage with temperatures in the lower 20s, especially if they just came out of a climate-controlled greenhouse before they were shipped to the stores. I just don't understand why so many stores so far north have so many plants. Of course, the stores are happy to sell the plants. And, for the folks who buy those plants and put them into the ground too early, the stores then will happily sell them replacement plants. It is a great business model for the stores---the more plants they sell early which then freeze, the more plants they sell later to replace the frozen ones....See More
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