some cheer on a cold winter day
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nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
6 years agoso some exaggeration in advertising..can relate to your "photo op to fool the masses" comment..I've seen that too..plants that need sun in a pot blooming profusely on a covered porch for instance..looking forward to shopping for summer plants..this is my backyard right now..made some "peanut huts" for the animals..
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Comments (1)Have you tried them on scratch? Preferably one with several grains rather than just corn. Geese can be picky. Mine won't touch corn, tolerate scratch some of the time and most of the time will only eat the organic layer mash I buy for the chickens. Grazing is best for geese, of course, but in winter the turf just isn't enough. This is my second winter with geese and I worry too. Just posted about rehydrating alfalfa hay for them. I find they eat grains better too when I soak them. As far as the cold... they can take quite a bit, but it is good if they have a place they can get to that is out of the wind. I always put mine in their house at night and on a handful of really severe days keep them in completely. They hate it, but there isn't much out there for them anyway and MOMMA KNOWS BEST. If your geese are the kind with the knob on their bills, please note that they can get frostbitten there and that it can be serious. I am not familiar with the Chinese/African/Egyptian type of geese... I like the "goosely geese" descended from the European graylag. I have three Pilgrims and an American Buff. So I can't be more specific about the frostbite question. You'll find a good discussion of geese and winter feed in this old thread. Here is a link that might be useful: Geese - Winter feeding...See MoreCold Winter Day for the Birds!
Comments (14)Awesome Greeting card quality photographs. I do love to look at snow in photos. But Ill stick to my Florida sunshine. Today it was cold enough,49 degrees RRRRRRRRRR Now thats COLD for Florida. It will be warm by noon thank goodness. My ducks keep peeking in the screened porch as if to ask if they can come in LOL...See MoreTo cheer up the winter blues for a minute!
Comments (25)Thanks Laurie. The white trees are "Pearl Meidland" high standard (tree)roses. They can remain in our front garden as the deer cannot quite reach them, so that is a good thing! :) I had a lot of roses in that front garden, but waste of time because of the deer. Though I did keep them at bay for a long time by egg spraying the roses, but it was a lot of work every 5/6 days and I finally gave up. We now have a deer fence around the back, so hopefully this next year, my roses will start to be healthy again. Pauline - Vancouver Island...See MoreWinter Cheer
Comments (7)Gorgeous, of course. I recently found her Fourth of July photo in a google image search. I nearly died of glee. I had no idea my little band could grow up to look like that. I'm hoping I can do half as good as Hoovb. Sherry Here is a link that might be useful: If only sweat were irrigation......See Morenicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agojust yesterday we used our snowblower for the first time..and our snow was not as heavy as what you had..pretty photos..we have cardinals but not bluebirds..the begonias look terrific!..I've been recovering from a basal cell surgery..small innocent looking spot on my face ignored by dermatologists for years..well a new Dr did a biopsy and I had a basal cell..had Mohs surgery and was SHOCKED at the size of my incision..I'm trying to be an adult about it but I'm sad..hoping to look normal when it's time to go back outside..at least this is a good time of year to be inactive..another reason why I need some mid winter cheer..
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
6 years ago
hc mcdole
6 years agoHang in there. Old age isn't for sissies. Hopefully the pain and tingles will ease up and go away in short order.
Spring is a long way for me and probably a little longer for you. I will just have to tend to my jungle indoors for another four months. UGH!
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6 years agoSome things will start blooming here but I don't make an all out effort to go see them up close. March things will be coming along, a lot more blooms, and some things greening up. Camellias is the biggie for me. April is azaleas if the buds are still intact. I like the trees to leaf out for shade before moving houseplants outside so May is my best bet. They say it is safe the middle of April but the nights can still be chilly.
Here's wishing you well! The rexes and some blooms do cheer up dreary old winter. We have a little snow on the front lawn now and even a little accumulation on the driveway. Tomorrow may get to single digits. I wonder if this will hurt the big leaf hydrangeas.
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6 years agoThanks for the comments. The green begonia with a red center is conchifolia var. rubrimacula and is doing quite well despite hanging to edge of a light stand.
As for winter damage, that is part of the cycle of nature? After our heavy snow in early December, there was a lot of damage to trees and shrubs - mostly pines and Bradford pears. I don't know who is responsible for the cut/broken limbs lining the roads - the property owner or the county but eventually it will either be cleaned up or rot away.
Oh yes, Hellebores, Crocus, Daffodils, winter honeysuckle, Mahonia, Okame cherry, and some camellias could be blooming in another month if the weather cooperates. Even my Harry Lauder's walking stick has its male catkins out already.
My white blooming cane is already going to seed.
closer view of Teen Angel and Hot Tamale. The big silver leaf in the bottom corner is Silver Beauty or Silver Collar.
Mary Bucholz
I cannot believe we are in the middle of January and my Escargot is still looking halfway decent.
Kevin Whitecotton
I got this unknown from either HD or Lowe's last summer in Orlando and is a lot larger than this photo shows. The other half of it is in the shadows hanging off the backside of the stand. This side was bare just 3 weeks ago until I turned the pot 180.
Looking Glass is halfway decent as well. There is one Miniperba in between four pots of L.G.
I put these 3 moyesii cuttings in a Jiffy pellet which went inside a six ounce drinking cup filled with some aquarium gravel (to hold them up) and then housed in a new high dome tray yesterday.
Dimitri
I don't know the name of this small rhizo and I wished all rhizomatous could wait until I moved them out to bloom so bees could pollinate them. Oh well?
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago12 degrees right now..yuck..I'm happy to stay home anyway..we do have a warm up on the way..your Escargot looks very nice..flawless actually..might have said this before but the dark leaved ones remind me of heucheras..the white blooms on the cane sure remind me of summer..makes me think of wax begonias..I've been buying wax begonias every summer for many many years..I like all of them..bronze leaves..green leaves..red, white and pink blooms..can't wait to buy some..saw this on Pinterest..no ID..blooms are different..very pretty..are they begonia blooms or another advertising trick with cut flowers added in?..I see a leaf sort of like a geranium just below the center of the pic..but the blooms don't seem like a geranium..a mum maybe?..
hc mcdole
6 years agoIt was 18 a little earlier in Atlanta with a wind chill of zero. Most of the snow has melted if it is in the sun but the shady spots still have snow. We are supposed to be 63 or so on Sunday. Typical weather.
This will be the first year that Escargot will come out just fine (keeping fingers crossed since we still have a long way to go). Hmm, heuchera? If you could see the dark leaf begonias up close and in person I showed above, you would change your mind pretty quick. Colors maybe, leaf shape and size - no.
I don't get wax begonias anymore - at least the bedding type. I had Charm (variegated) and the double blooming ones such as Lady Frances, Cherry Blossom, and Lady Carol. I think those were the names. I could never keep them over winter so I quit but maybe one day I will try them again. I will get 'Big' since it is like a super wax begonia - much bigger leaves, much bigger blooms, and semi-tall - maybe two feet tall?
My old double blooming wax begonias - all 3 together.
How about 'Big' which you can buy at HD and other nursery centers in the spring?Dragon Wings on the left and 'Big' Bronze form on the right. Blooms all summer long in the heat and full sun.
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6 years agoI look for bargains too but try to avoid the old standards unless they are worthy. I like new and different but they also have to be affordable.
Getting too old to just go with the ordinary if I can get something exciting for a couple dollars more.
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6 years agoSome of those prices are probably peanuts to the 1%. I remember years ago where a company in Atlanta spent $50,000 to move a very large Japanese maple from their old location to their new location (digging it up, having the police give an escort to stop traffic, planting it in its new location, etc). Why not just buy a new smaller tree for a lot less and let the tree live out the rest of its life where it was?
A private garden on the ABS convention tour (on the small strand of Palm Beach) said his annual budget for plants alone was $100,000 and he employed six gardeners - two full time if I remember right. It was six acres and the largest private garden in Palm Beach. I wished I knew the name of the place since it used to have a website.
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