I bought socks. Now I'm confused.
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Trillium?? Now I'm confused.......
Comments (2)A fairly common variant. I've also found doubles. "Both the red trillium and the large-flowering trillium occasionally produce "quadrilliums" with four leaves, four sepals, and four petals. Finding one is like finding a four-leaf clover" Here is a link that might be useful: quadrilliums...See MoreNow I'm confused... what would you do?
Comments (13)Thanks everyone for the responses... I agree that nothing stands out when this was taken. I rescued the magenta phlox, liatris, coneflower, red hibiscus and knockout roses from this bed before it got eaten up by the obedient plant! It somehow seems to kill it all off. I think it grows so fast and so dense that it prevents the other plants from getting light. Last year I had decided to take out this bed so I let my sister come over and she dug up a ton of plants...This pic was taken moe then a month after everyone dug up stuff lol. I have tried digging it up (OP) but it is a losing battle. I can't get rid of it and it really has taken over everything. Not only that but that bed is now LOADED with ground ivy. What a nightmare. I really think I need to start from scratch, dig up my good plants and bushes (there are bushes in there but you can't see them because of all the overgrowth of OP. I hear what you are saying about the screen but there is nothing I need screening from. We had 18 acres and sold off a few but there is nothing on the other side of those evergreens but more trees for about a quarter mile. The guy who is building his house we can not see at all through the regular trees. He up a little hill then down it and way back further then our house. So we have privacy for sure on all sides even across the street nothing but woods. It is hard because I love the evergreens. I just wish when they planted them they had cleared out some land and put them further back. Yeah last year I got overzealous with my Scott's and killed off a lot of areas in the yard . DH is not the "yard" type of guy so all the outdoor stuff I have to do myself. Well I learned when they say one pass over an area, they MEAN one pass LOL... Finally TRUST ME...my ideal back yard would be nothing but gardens with rustic looking paths going through it all. That was my plan when we first bought the house 10 years ago when I had energy LOL...Now, at almost 50 I am losing steam. I have thought about killing off all grass, making raised beds everywhere and putting in pea gravel or mulch paths. Would LOVE to do it but would need some serious help. It is like pulling teeth to get DH to do anything manual. He is a "thinker" HA! I guess I am just overwhelmed. This house was pretty much neglected for decades when we bought it. No one had a landscape plan, put things in where ever...and worse, never did any cleaning up in the spring so there is out of control brush, downed trees, etc all over the place. It is way too much for me to attempt to make positive changes and work on the neglected areas as well. Sorry for the whining, just frustrated. Last question (for now lol) Once I pull the plants I want, can I rototill this all under then bring in the compost and amend? How will I know I got all that OP out? I would hate to do all this work then have it come back!...See MoreNow I'm confused. . .
Comments (10)It is possibly true that flowering plants do one thing or the other as far as foliage and flower production is concerned. I noticed on some of my plants that once they start blooming consistantly, you don't see much new growth in the foliage. Having had hoyas for years not thinking they could flower outside of a greenhouse, I initially kept them because I liked the foliage, so getting a bloom here and there is exciting, but not a priority for me. I think if your main priority or reason for wanting hoyas is the flowers, then you should get the hoyas that are known for flowering young, because with alot of them, flowers on a young plant are the exception, not the rule. I have a kentiana that is several years old and hasn't flowered yet. I have hoyas that took over a decade to flower. Though it does happen early with some of the ones that notoriously take a long time, if you count on it too much you will probably lose interest in hoyas, because even growers with perfect conditions wait a long time for flowers in most varieties. But there are pretty reliable bloomers that bloom as young plants, like lacunosa, bella, multiflora, and a few others. Let your kentiana do it's thing and become a big bushy plant first - from a "decorative" point of view, you have to look at the whole plant, the flowers need some kind of background to show themselves off against, they really aren't as attractive if you just have a bloom hanging from a skimpy little plant. So, let it grow and in the meantime, look for the early bloomers, you might be able to find bella and multiflora at home Depot or Lowes, I would get those plants to keep me happy while I wait for the others to bloom!...See MoreNow I'm Confused!
Comments (22)If you install the latest version, it should recognize that there's a version installed and upgrade it. As far as Zonealarm requiring you to let Firefox access the internet, that's actually a good thing. I think the version that costs money is preconfigured with certain applications and their signatures so it's easier to use. Forewarned is forearmed: any time a program that access the internet is upgraded, you'll need to give it permission the first time it runs. This is also a good thing. Years ago (probably around 2000) some security expert discovered that all the firewalls except zonealarm could be bypassed by naming a malicious program iexplore.exe. Zonealarm recognized that it wasn't the valid iexplore and blocked it. Now they all have this feature. The key is that you can't just always allow an executable whose name you recognize access the internet. If you didn't install any upgrades, patches, etc, you shouldn't get a message that the program has changed. Note that IE is often upgraded with Windows updates. One other note is that sometimes Zonealarm gets a little aggressive in blocking access. If you share devices on your network, you may need to designate it as a trusted zone. I do a lot of work with various VPNs and sometimes I need to set them up as trusted zones so Zonealarm will treat them as LANs. One other note on Ravencajun's advice that if you don't know for sure, don't allow the access, you may want to leave the "remember this setting" unchecked when you disallow access the first few times, just in case it's something that does need access and you just don't recognize it. There's a way to change these settings after the fact, but IMO it's easier to do them using the popup boxes....See MoreElmer J Fudd
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