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does your town have a garden club?
Comments (4)Quickpod, StatesvilleAppearance Committee has scheduled a garden tour in Statesville on May 6 & 7. There will be 6 gardens included and our garden is one of them. I have a lot of shade plants and natives with a natural waterfall (after the rains like today). I am active in the Town and Country Garden Club here in Statesville. We have about 20 members with many of them 70+. The tickets for the garden tour are $10 and includes all 6 gardens. You can buy the tickets at any of the homes. I will be glad to email you directions to our home. Nancy Here is a link that might be useful: Link to Statesville Garden Tour...See MoreWhat addition have you made to your home that's unique?
Comments (53)When we moved into our Indiana lake house in 1976, there was a huge iron bell on a post in the front yard. It was original to the house, which was built in 1930. We used it to call kids home from neighbors, in from the boat, and to signal approval to the decorated boats in the July 4th Flotilla. The first picture I took in that house was my DH lifting our 4-year old son up to ring the bell. When we decided to move to Tennessee to be near (next door, in fact) to our two daughters, I insisted we take down the bell and bring it along. It took 5 men several hours to get it down, but it's here, in storage, and will be outside the kids' entrance to our new home. Can't take pics now, but maybe someday! Incidentally, when we tore down the 1930 house in 2001 and rebuilt, we used the rough-sawn cedar from the outside of the old house to line the screened porch. It took about 15 coats of paint to get it sealed and smooth enough to be interior siding. I loved reusing it!...See MoreDo you have little free libraries in your town?
Comments (16)Little Free Library The project for little libraries has gone world wide! Great project. I have tons of books I want to get rid of I sure could fill up a lot of little libraries! I hosted a book swap at the garden club meeting here at my house. You could bring one or more and take one or more any left over were given to NAM for their book section in their store. It was a great success. I also really like bookcrossing.com Book Crossing You can put their label in the book (print it ) and then release the book into the wild and watch it as it moves from person to person. You can also go in search of books that have been released, like a treasure hunt....See MoreSpecies roses native to your country, state or region
Comments (10)There are other species that grow wild in the province, mostly, I suspect, up in the mountains. In our hills, patched with woods, fields, hedges, and areas in transition, the ones I see are dog roses (R. canina, but there may be other closely related species, too: I see a fair amount of variation in the population), R. gallica, and, occasionally, R. arvensis. The dog roses make big shrubs and are a common colonizer of abandoned fields, also growing in hedges and along woodland edges. They're usually shrubby but will scramble up trees if necessary to reach the sun: a couple of times I've seen dog roses twenty feet up oaks. Some are rather pretty, but all in all they're not roses you long to take home and put in the garden. The relationship to the Albas, in growth, habit, and flower color, is obvious. R. gallica is short, usually not more than a foot high, suckering, mostly growing along the side of the road in wooded areas, on woodland edges and along ditches. It has relatively large flowers, pale to bright pink with a white eye, charming. Round black hips. (Dog rose hips are oval and bright lacquered scarlet). I've tried a couple of times to collect and grow suckers of this, but without any luck; the soils in which it grows are generally rocky or compacted. When I did get a couple of suckers they didn't take. Rose arvensis looks a lot like a dog rose, but it blooms a little later and has the fused styles of Synstilae. This is the least common of the three, but I see it occasionally. Not surprisingly, the once-blooming old roses and ramblers bred from these species are the best, easiest to grow roses in my garden....See Moreraee_gw zone 5b-6a Ohio
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