September 2019 OBF End of Summer Garden Party

4 years ago

September 2019 OBF

End of Summer Garden Party
Summer is coming to a close and we are going to have a little online party to celebrate. This will be a easy peasy swap. Please send your partner

3 packs of seeds for planting. Something you think they would enjoy.
A goodie for the garden. This can be plant markers, gloves, pot hanger, garden flag, even a plant cutting etc. just about anything but the catch is it needs to fit in a bubble mailer.
A edible goodie for your pal. A special little treat to celebrate the end of Summer and the beginning of a new and Beautiful Season.

The key this month is to relax, enjoy and savor the last of Summer. Everyone is busy and I would like this to be fun and easy for all.
Hope you can Join in on the fun! Sign up until September 7th and please send out by September 25th. Thank you!

I have been absent from Houzz for awhile now and I have missed everyone. A lot has changed for me in my life. One of these changes is that I am now living in Florida. My husband and I have gotten a house with my Mom and our boys and we are close again to our family down here. It is a big change but I think it will be a great one.

*Our Blooming Friends Swap Group [0BF] was created to have a reliable, fair and safe haven to swap and trade between group members. If you care to join us, we would love to have you.

*Please be a successful member of GardenWeb/HOUZZ and have completed a trade with two or three of our members. Membership requests should be sent to Shirley [Brittneysgran]

1. Have fun! No bickering!

2. Send your swap by posted deadline.

3. Always include a Delivery Confirmation/Tracking number and

post it on the swap thread when you send the package if needed

4. Please send things that you yourself would enjoy receiving.

5. PLEASE POST after you have received your swap and POST what you have received (Pictures are always nice)

6. You will be required to replace a swap package that does not make

it to your partner, for any reason. Also you'll be required to replace any item that arrives broken/damaged.

7. New members, for the first two swaps, you will be required to send your swaps first.

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brittneysgran
4 years ago
Favorite plants to start from seeds: Bee Balm, Salvia, Sunflowers

Wanted plants or seeds..... Yarrow, Rudbeckia, Daylilies

Favorite season.....Spring with Fall in 2nd place
mcc371
4 years ago
Favorite plants to start from seeds: Vegetables!! I can a lot during the summer and fall.

Flowers I like: cannas, Irises, Carnations, Mums, Begonias, Houseplants: spider, aloe Vera, pothos, bamboo, Fern, elephant, hostas,

Wanted plants or seeds: I am not picky I enjoy Both.

Favorite season: Winter because Christmas is my favorite holiday and spring because everything starts to bloom.
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hi everyone, i too received a great box of plants from carol. i don't have the list in front of me, but a wonderful assortment of daylilies, asitatic lillies, huechera and others. i apologize carol, i don't have the list at all handy. i love everything - will do my best to get it all in the ground this week coming - our weather isn't supposed to be the best, but at least the ground is still soft. vina, i absolutely apologize for being so late. your box will go out before the end of this month, i promise. everyone has received some great things. once the last two receive, we can wrap this up. i feel awful being so late, but seems like everyone got caught up in time issues. better late than never, i suppose. UPDATE shirley - received sue g. - RECEIVED vina dottie -RECEIVED remy - received carol - received treasa frances - received dianne - received maryanne - received
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Shirley, yes, your picnic basket arrived yetserday. I opened late last night.....so wonderful!!!!! I received.... *Lilies....Hot Line,Mona Lisa and Stargazer.... *Chocolate Ball Sedum, Coral Reef Chinese Sedum *Caladium Postman Joyner *Two pairs of Atlas gloves...I am with you, love these! *Basil Herb garden *Lots of post its.....love these little babies! *Fall napkins *Fall journal *Russell Stover Mint paddies *A Green Hummingbird Wind Chime....cute!!! Love it all! I will go picnicing with you anytime! Thanks so much Shirley! And Vina, Daylily Col. Mustard, arrived yesterday as well. Thanks so much! Thanks again for hosting!! Awesome picnic baskets and great humor all the way around! Maria, my Mom also told me to butt out of things that are not my business. I would most definitley say, this is one of those times! Happy Thursday! Annie This post was edited by canyonwind on Thu, Oct 3, 13 at 12:31
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Thanks, Amy and Nancy. What a year it has been, though in all the wrong ways. I'm looking forward more than ever to 2020, or even to October, which at least is coming soon. Amy, Do you know what stripped the kale? Have you seen any cabbage loopers or anything? Maybe fall armyworms? Sadly, at our house, when the kale is being stripped, it usually is our own chickens feasting on our kale. I love Beck's Big Buck, but its size does stun a person when they are new to it. I like to slice them and oven roast them. You can sprinkle the sliced with a little olive oil and seasoning and create okra chips that are (to me) much tastier and obviously healthier than potato chips. With the cucumber plants and as moist as it has been, I'd suspect disease more so than pests. I hope y'all have a good weekend too. Nancy, There's three kittens and they all look just like their mother except they are going to be bigger than her. They are growing fast now that they are eating regularly. I think they are about five to six weeks old and beginning to get a little bit more used to my presence every day, but it is going to be hard to tame them. Still, I am making progress. One of them no longer runs and hides immediately when it sees me---it sits and waits to see if I am bringing food. lol. With cats, you can develop a friendship over food, so I'm off to a good start there. I need to spend a lot of time trying to tame them over the next several weeks and it likely will involve putting a large cage in the garage and moving their cat food dishes into it. Once they are used to eating in the cage, hopefully I can catch them in the cage and bring them indoors to start working to tame them. It needs to happen while they are pretty young, or they'll be impossible to tame. As soon as we get them caged, their mom will go to the vet to be spayed so that she won't have another litter of kittens. If I can't tame them, they can become barn cats/garage cats, but I'd rather tame them so they can enjoy being around humans. If we let them remain feral, it will be hard to catch them in order to take them to a vet for shots and medical attention as we'd have to trap them and then they'd be upset, hysterical wrecks. I'd like to avoid trapping if at all possible. I guess I can spend the non-gardening season taming feral kittens. I'm amazed they've survived living outdoors this long because we have raccoons in the yard every night and coons will kill and eat kittens (or even adult cats). This kittens basically have survived by climbing up into the engine of our Dodge pickup truck to sleep at night. You have to lift the hood, check for them and make sure they aren't in there before you can start up the engine....every single time. They also like to hide on top of the tornado shelter, which is covered by a large trumpet creeper vine that gives them lots of cover, so if we can peer into that mess and see them, at least we know they aren't under or in the truck. Have fun with the church group tomorrow. I'm sure the house and yard look simply splendid. I love our house when it is perfectly clean and tidy, which generally doesn't happen nearly as often as I'd like! You know, there's a level of everyday clean or family clean but then there is holiday/visitor clean. I love it when I take the time to get it all holiday/visitor clean BUT I don't love it enough to keep it that spic and span every day of the year either. I hope you get a good night's sleep so you do not feel exhausted tomorrow! Today there were new monarchs in the garden. I don't know if they hatched here, but they were enjoying nectaring at various plants. It is too soon for us to be seeing migrants here, so these are local more or less, one way or another, though they could be regional or local butterflies beginning to mass prior to migrating. All the butterflies and bees are why I don't rip out any plants too early....any more, it is all about them in the garden, not us. I looked at the plants at Home Depot today (inside the garden center, I forgot to look at the ones outside on the sidewalk) and they are starting to compress them down into a smaller area, probably in order to make way for holiday merchandise. They still had some shrubs and perennials, and some fall annual warm-season color, but nothing new for cool weather yet, and I forgot to check to see what Wal-Mart had. They had a lot of tropical plants that would look lovely indoors if only we didn't have cats and dogs that would destroy them. We were buying paint at HD to paint the house, a job which has been on our To Do list ever since we got the new roof put on the house, which I think was in July. We totally changed the shingles from light colored to dark colored and wanted a new paint color that would look better with the new color of the roof. We've just been waiting endlessly for cooler weather to arrive because who wants to paint when the heat index is 108 or 110 or 112? We cannot wait too long now that it is almost October or the nights will start to get too cool for the paint to dry properly, so we are going to start painting Saturday. I would have started tomorrow but Fred's funeral is tomorrow afternoon, and I don't want to go to the funeral with paint in my hair or anything. I'm seeing a definite pattern change in the behavior of the hummingbirds over the last week or two. Several weeks ago, hummingbirds were flocking to the feeders all day---flying back and forth from blooming plants to feeders in a dizzying whirl of activity that went all all day long. I knew they were our locals eating extra food to put on the fat they need to help sustain them on their journey south to Mexico. It was amazing to watch and then it ended, and I knew at that point that the males were headed south, though we still had females and juveniles feeding all day long but not in such a crazy frenzy---they seem a bit calmer. Over the weekend and at the start of this week, it appears the females and juveniles too had headed south, and we had a day or two with practically no hummingbirds. Now we have migrants. One way you can tell is that they appear suddenly at the feeders early in the day, feed like mad, and then pretty much disappear. I assume these are migrants eating as they travel south. Then, in the evening you'll see more of them. I don't think it is the same ones that I saw in the morning. They seem tired, and content to sit on the feeder perches and feed a long time before drifting away before dark. Then, in the morning, they probably feed again and leave on the next leg of their journey, and then new travelers come in, sometimes in the morning hours, and sometimes in the early evening hours and repeat the process all over again. They're definitely spending more time at the feeders, and somewhat less time at the plants in the garden or around the house. There's nothing feeding in between the morning crowd and the evening crowd. It is fascinating to watch it all happen. Oh, and also at Home Depot today, there was one lone hummingbird who was visiting all the flowers and was so thrilled. It was just happy and chirpy and the whole nine yards and not at all bothered by being in very close proximity to people. I forgot to ask if it is a regular visitor there or just passing through. The garden is full of sulphur butterflies, and some of the candletree leaves are being devoured, so we may have sulphur cats. I just haven't had time to check. The partridge pea plants in the pastures still are in bloom but there's much fewer flowers on them now, so I think they are about done. I'm glad we have the candletrees to fill that niche of time in October after the partridge peas finish up because their blooms won't last much longer. Helenium, goldenrod and and a few other fall bloomers fill all the fencerows and any pastures that aren't regularly hayed or grazed down low, so butterflies and bees have all the flowering plants they possibly could want right now, and that's such a good thing. Our weather was slightly cooler today, but still hot, though our heat index did not break 100 today---yay! The HX was 99 but that is am improvement and we'll take any improvement we can get. Have a great weekend, y'all. Maybe cooler weather is coming next week. Dawn
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smitties
4 years ago
My package went out with delivery for Monday. Margo
smitties
4 years ago
Oops, I lost points. The last post I had 25. Not like I can catch up though. Lol
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Margo, Sorry I don't know what I copied and pasted but that was all wrong

Annie 65 points

Jayeanne 65 points

Margo 25 points

Susan 20 points

Shirley 20 points

Tammy 15 points
brittneysgran
4 years ago
I received two Grand Champion Ribbons for my two entries.
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Shirley, They are beautiful. That Dalia is so unusual! Congratulations!!!
skyblue52
4 years ago
Congradulations on the ribbons.
brittneysgran
4 years ago
Thanks Amy and Susan, the dahlia is "Show and Tell"
smitties
4 years ago
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Literally spent hours weeding today and right in the middle of the job, the mailman pulled up with a package from Susan. I quickly Took the picture so I can use the pot Sox immediately! Love these Susan. She also sent carrot, watermelon, squash, and pumpkin seeds which I will definitely plant. I also got a coral bells plant which is so pretty. Going in my freshly weeded garden after a good soak. I’m currently taking a break and enjoying the mermaid candy corn. Thank you Susan. As always yours is an awesome package. Margo.
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Margo, That sounds like a great package from Susan!

I hurt my back so I am not getting a whole lot done. I will be working on my package this week as soon as this back heals up. I hope you all have a great Sunday! We are finally getting some much needed rain. Take care, Amy
skyblue52
4 years ago
my coral bells were planted 2 years ago and done very well in my shady area. I have 2 the tags are faded. I keep hoping I see the names and triggers my memory.

the one Shirley sent me did not make it this spring. . Gaundi violet may get split in the spring. the mermaid candy just sounded fun. the pot socks are a big item in this area. easy way to make your pots match. Glad you liked this package.FYI we need rain so bad.the weeds are not even growing.
smitties
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago
Susan, I just realized the picture did not come up. I tried again but it still didn’t load. I’ll keep trying.
smitties
4 years ago
Finally planted the coral bells Susan sent and to my delight, there was two plants. Have tried several times to upload a photo but no luck. thanks again Susan. Margo
canyonwind
4 years ago
Jayeanne,

I am goofing off a bit to much....and have not forgotten about your end of Summer garden package.....I will be working on it in the next few days!! I am aiming to get it out of here and headed your way on Monday. Let's see if I can pull that off....LOL!

Happy Wednesday!!

Annie
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Annie 65 points

Jayeanne 65 points

Margo 25 points

Susan 20 points

Shirley 20 points

Tammy 15 points

Congratulations Annie and Jayeanne! I am going to send prize out by the end of the month. It has been really hot and dry here but I think there is another storm maybe headed toward Florida. I am hoping we just get a little rain and no damage. Hope you all are enjoying your week!
mcc371
4 years ago
Thank you Margo for the awesome package. I loved it all. Those gummies are already gone, my granddaughter got them as soon as they came out in the open. Love napkins and always something I can use and never have enough of. Hummingbird coasters are on my side table by my recliner( love, love hummingbirds) the flag will go in my yard this weekend- I needed a new one. And I sure can never have enough Garden time planting seeds. Thank you for these:

Mother of Thyme, muncher cucumber, gardeners delight tomato, snapdragon day and night, Japanese morning glory, morning glory scarlet O’ Hara. And last but not least. Thank you for the beautiful handwritten card. I will enjoy it all. Thanks for the thoughtful gifts.
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Margo, Another great package! So pretty!
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Lets Play Bingo! Please choose 7 words and message them to me. Bingo will start tomorrow.
- Watering can.
- Spade.
- Trowel.
- Fork.
- Pruners.
- Shears.
- Hose.
- Lawnmower
- potting soil
- vegetables
- flowers
- greenhouse
canyonwind
4 years ago
Amy, I just messaged you my BINGO selections. Let me know if you do not receive and I will resend.

Happy Friday!

Annie
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Annie, Thank you! I received your words!
sandlapper_rose
4 years ago
Sorry not to have stopped by earlier this month. It seems I get hit with pain issues sometimes and this past month has been rough - to the point where I wasn't even able to sleep much. I've been to see my regular doctor and got a cortisone shot which only seemed to help for 2 days, so now I'm waiting for a referral to an orthopedist. Of course my regular doctor suggested physical therapy, but I'm signed up to begin some classes on Thursday and one is called Chair Yoga so we'll see how I do with that. I certainly don't need to have more than that one class a week for starting out. If the exercises help I'll be sure to do some at home, too.

It has been so hot and dry here. My garden has really been suffering and I haven't been out there a lot to help it out much. Hopefully once it cools down I can catch up out there a little bit.

Jeanne
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Jeanne, Hope you start feeling better soon and your pain goes away. Not being able to sleep sure makes it a lot worse. My niece has been inviting my Mom to go to Chair Yoga and thinks it would be good for her also. I hope it goes really well for you. It has gotten really dry here also. We were getting lots of rain and then for the last month it is dry as a bone. Hope you have a nice weekend. Take care, Amy
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
I am going to wait one more day and see if we have any more players for Bingo. Come on and join in Bingo, it will be a short and sweet game.

Susan thank you for your words!
skyblue52
4 years ago

If any body would like a nice plum tomato. I have lots of seeds. My 3 plants are still producing. they peel easy raw and keep their shape . even being very ripe. little seeds. I will be canning again this week. The cherry tomatoes are getting their second wind. I also have a nice yellow cherry called lemon drop. very sweet and no splits when picked.

One plant in a cinder block giving out tons of tomatoes. I have a lot of yellow tomatoes this year.
canyonwind
4 years ago
Jayeanne, your end of summer garden party package went out yesterday. Delivery looks like Tuesday! I came in ahead of schedule regarding sending.....unusual for me...LOL! Enjoy!

I came home this morning to a package on my front porch from Shirley.....wonderful!!

*a pumpkin THANKFUL sign...cute!

*THANKFUL napkins

*Daylily "Bubbling Over" with a marker

*KIND Bar

*Seeds.....Ojito (need to look this one up), Pumpkin Little October, Pumpkin On A Stick, Tomato Maglia Rosa, Ponderosa Sunrise (need to look this up), Pepper Grand Bell Mix, Carrot Cosmic Purple

Thank you so much Shirley!!

Annie
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Another wonderful package! I'm running late but mine will go out this week.

Bingo words for today
trowel
vegetables
pinkiris
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago
Annie ...THANK YOU SO MUCH for the wonderful 'End of Summer' garden party... FYI Today is the first day of FALL ... sure doesn't feel like FALL here, 90 something all week and next. a beautiful card ... the edible is gone, hiding in my purse ...LOL ... LOVE LOVE LOVE the garden flags, ''Football and Fall Y'all" and "Love is a four legged word" and the fantastic selection of seeds ... wow ... Beans 'Dragon Tongue' and 'Old Homestead' will most definitely grow both of these! Cilantro! always grow this - many times throughout the year, Squash 'Red Kuri (Hokkaido) Have not grown this, but I am going to stick a few of these seeds in and see what they do for the Fall season, and Cucumber 'Beit Alpha' have not grown these either, love cucumbers! and love the napkins! Fabulous garden party Annie! Thank you so much, very much appreciated!
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago

Susan, Could you please message me your address when you get a chance? Thanks!

Great package Annie!

Bingo words today are:

Lawn mower

fork
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Susan, your package is going out tomorrow. Thank you for your address!
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Today's words are:

greenhouse

watering

Words called so far:

Lawn mower

fork

trowel
vegetables
canyonwind
4 years ago
I will be hosting OBF for the month of October. I am headed out of town until Saturday or Sunday. I will post the OBF swap Sunday or Monday. It will be simple and inexpensive as far as swaps go!

Miss Florida, great swap this month.....Thank you!

Annie
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Annie, Thank you! Enjoy your weekend!

Today's bingo words:

hose
flowers
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Bingo words:

Potting soil and shears

Speaking of potting soil, My husband saw a great deal today at the store and bought me 56- 8 quart bags! YAY I am so happy!
skyblue52
4 years ago

my your package came today. I have company so I will get it posted tomorrow. Thank you
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Todays bingo word:

pruners
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Bingo word: spade

This is the last bingo word so first person who calls it wins.
canyonwind
4 years ago
BINGO.....
brittneysgran
4 years ago
Amy I love good prices on potting mix if a bag is torn Lowe's will sell it at 50% off.

Tammy thank you so very much for my awesome box:

Cinnamon sticks

Apple Cider Mix - Yum

List Pad - Use so many of these

Cranberry Health Mix - These are my favorite snack

5 Big Sign Markers - Love these (Can't wait to use them)

Seeds - Black Eyed Peas, Red Yarrow, California Poppies, Banana Squash

Everything so useful and can't wait to try all the seeds. Thank again Tammy.

Last week my Daughter and I went on a Bus/Airplane/Train trip to Arizona, it was wonderful and I will post some pictures hopefully tomorrow.
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Annie, Congratulations!

Shirley, That sounds like so much fun. Can't wait to see pictures! Also, great box of goodies!!
skyblue52
4 years ago
Congradulations Annie. to busy on sunday to check. Took a homemade birthday present over to an elderly neighbor. ended up cutting her toenails, getting her laundry soap, and ordering sandwiches. now need to work on another gift to send out. amy I took a picture of you package. Then cant get the mini sd card out of the camera. It is so far in I can not even see it. so I will get it together again. Lamama gummies too cute.
canyonwind
4 years ago
I just posted the October OBF Swap.....Easy Peazy!!

Happy Evening!

Annie
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Jayeanne, Thank you! I will let you know when it arrives. Hope you get some rain! It is so dry here also. I think I have lost a few things from drought.

All other packages have been received

I will send out prizes asap, sorry I just started a new job so I may be a little late sending.

Hope you all have a wonderful October. Take care and thanks for joining in! Amy
skyblue52
4 years ago
any loved your pa ckage. Lots of gardening goodies along with beautiful dish towel. And so thoughtful to get me black datura. And tomatoes I don't have . Will get a good start for next year. Great deal ..thank you for hosting
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Jayeanne, Thank you for the fun package! The card is so cute and I love frogs so the windchime is perfect. I am like a kid with stickers and they are an adorable Fall theme. I love all the seeds you sent and can't wait to start them. The jubilee tomato sounds especially good! The yummy chocolate will be enjoyed tonight! Thank you again so much! Amy
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
I am having a problem loading a picture. Not sure what is going on with Houzz
canyonwind
4 years ago
Amy, I received a lovely something in the mail from you today....love it...you knew I would. I will stay quiet on the contents so not to spoil the surprise for someone else. Thank you very much!!

Annie
pinkiris
4 years ago
Amy, thanks so much for the beautiful garden flag ...
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Jayeanne, You are welcome! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
amybabyboy3
Original Author
4 years ago
Annie, You are welcome and I hope you enjoy your weekend also! Take care!

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