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Comments (18)The koi are ALWAYS hungry LOL! We do have orange trees and lemon, and jasmine, lavenders, santolinas, pineapple salvias, (actually we have pineapples too) and 'Casablanca' lillies, wisteria, freesias, and Brugmansias and Brunfelsia, a really really fragrant Iris called 'Heavenly Vision'...the orange and lemon blossom fragrance is so sweet, as good as roses. We run a smelly garden here. Oh, there are a few roses out there too. ;^) Very fragrant iris 'Heavenly Vision'...See MoreThey're cute when they're not eating your hostas!
Comments (15)I still love the deer, they are so beautiful, especially the babies. We put up a deer fence along the woods and now they leave me alone. It is heartbreaking to go out and find your hostas mowed down, been there. Sometimes they are so smart, they come in through our driveway. What I did notice is they only bothered the old solid green junk hostas. Couldn't figure out why, then I thought maybe because all of my good hostas and roses get the Bayer 2 in 1 applied every 6 weeks or so. Maybe something in that makes them taste bad....See MoreThey're back!!
Comments (7)Peonies are actually pretty hard to killÂat least from my experience they are! When I moved in here, there was a peony in each of the two whisky barrels (peonies in whisky barrels???), and another one in the middle of the rock mulch in the backyardÂdoing very poorly! I didnÂt have anywhere that wasnÂt thoroughly "rocked" that year, so I dug them up and put them in 2-gallon pots. Was planning to put them back in the ground the next spring, but I still had rock all over the place in spring, and they wound up staying in the pots a second year. That was the winter (Â06) that was one big long blizzard, and I was sure theyÂd be dead by springÂif it ever came! At one point the snow melted on top of the pots enough to fill them up with water, which couldnÂt drain out because the soil was frozen solid, and when I discovered what had happened, I tried to dump the pots over to get rid of the waterÂbut they were frozen solid to the ground! The water froze and I had peony-pops! I was SURE they were dead then! When they finally thawed enough that I could kick them loose from the ground, I laid them on their side so the extra water could drain out as it melted. In spring they happily started growingÂand I sat the pots back upright! I still didnÂt have a place to plant them, but I wasnÂt gonna deal with them in pots for another whole year so I cleared a big enough spot in the ROCK in the front yardÂwhich gets lots of sun, mushed all three of them together, and planted them in the one holeÂit was too hot to dig two more holes thru the rock! I now have a (third year in the ground) "multicolored" peony which is doing quite nicely. I have a peony ring around it, and itÂs up to the top of the ring and budding already this year. This will be the first year I hope to get a pretty nice bloom. SOÂJennifer, donÂt give up on the other one yet! You never know! ProvoGirl, IÂll be posting a list of seeds I have on the swap thread, but since you brought up lavender here, would you like me to put you down for some lavender seeds? Once you get one started, youÂll have plenty of seedlings coming up in the area. I always have seedlings coming up, but unfortunately theyÂre growing in/thru the landscape fabric (that was in when I bought the place), and IÂve tried everything to get them out of the fabric and into pots, but they always dieÂso I canÂt bring you a plant. Any of the English lavenders, Lavandula angustifolia, should do well for you. Mine is either ÂMunstead or ÂHidcoteÂ, not sure which since it was here when I bought the place, and they're too similar to tell apart without a label! Hang in there and keep an eye out for your other peony, Jennifer! Skybird P.S. Jennifer, I thought you were gonna say grasshoppers or something too!...See MoreThey're back!
Comments (35)I read this on a site from the UK. "A common reaction to this is to reduce the amount of detergent in the wash, but bizarrely, and counter-intuitively, washing machine detergent contains anti foaming agents so using too little can ironically cause too much foam due to a lack of these agents. The most common cause of excess foam is using too much detergent, but as described above, too little can also cause excess foaming so the important thing is to use the right amount as suggested by the detergent manufacturer, which is determined by the hardness of your water and the level of soiling."...See Morestarfruitsage 9b
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