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Comments (24)Leava, Yes, of course we are lunatics. A person would have to be a lunatic to try to garden here amidst the constant droughts, interspersed with flooding, and then not to mention hailstones constantly falling in Spring and early summer, tornadoes, severe T-storms, microbursts, blue northers, strong straightline winds, raging wildfires, ice storms, etc. So, lunatics we are. Gardening lunatics. Let's wear the title proudly! When we moved here, if someone had told me we'd see 90 days with no rainfall to speak of, or at the other end of the spectrum over 12" of rainfall in one day (more than once, in fact), would it have deterred me from moving here with the intention of having a big garden? Not at all. Gardeners just have to garden no matter where they are. TexasRanger, I bet they thought you were a troll at first. Gardening here is a whole different world. Let's use Fine Gardening magazine as an example. They always have such lovely photo spreads, but I look at them and mostly sigh and say "that would never look like that here, even if it would grow here, which it won't". (I will say they feature natives more frequently now than they did 10 or more years ago.) It is hard to accept that we cannot just grow whatever we want to grow here, but I've learned some hard lessons and have shifted to plants that tolerate the conditions we have here. I don't have time or resources to expend on plants that need lots of extra attention in order to have even a chance of surviving here. Amy, I agree. I just didn't want for anyone to think that you meant their seeds wouldn't grow here. Instructions? There's instructions? Heck, I ignore those instructions, always assuming they are geared to a climate that's not ours. I freely admit I do not read seed packet instructions. That's doubly true with cool-season seeds that have to be planted in winter here, and that is not always clear because for some of those northern seed companies, the cool-season flower grow and bloom all summer. Ha! As if that would happen here. In the 1980s I quickly learned not to trust gardening magazines or seed catalogs because they would show lovely things like delphiniums and snapdragons as summer plants. Well, maybe they are summer plants somewhere, but not here. That's one reason I try to avoid most nurseries early in Spring. They often have beautiful perennials in full bloom for sale, but once you get them home here and plant them, they're already peaking and going to decline quickly as we heat up. Mother Nature in Oklahoma is a hard taskmaster. dbarron, My closest local gardening friend, Fred, gardens a little less than a mile from me, but we are in a creek hollow that's much more low-lying than his place up on a ridge. He can easily plant 2-4 weeks before we can and give no thought to protecting his plants from cold nights, and he likes to give me hell (in a friendly way) because I haven't planted yet. If I planted when he planted, it all most likely would freeze. Sometimes I cannot believe the difference between his place and ours. Along the same line of thinking, we have gardening friends 2 or 3 miles north of us and they can not and will not plant warm-season crops as early as I do. In their case, they are more exposed to cold winter wind and haven't found any upside (and many downsides) to planting as early as I do. So, we all have our own routines that work for us in our specific spots, even though we're all not very far apart at all. I also know someone who used to garden in 3 different spots within a few miles of each other, and he had different planting times for each place. I cannot imagine how great the differences would be 20 miles away considering how great they are in a much smaller distance. Microclimate is everything, and I don't think I truly realized that when we first moved here in 1999, but Mother Nature taught me quickly. Dawn...See MoreOT. Why do we always want what we can't have?
Comments (13)Oh, Daisy - I LOVE that picture of your steps with the little bunch of daffodils (or are they narcissi/jonquils? Sorry, I don't know the difference!) - on each step. Just stunning! I used to live in the UK and I remember the daffodils everywhere in spring - I especially loved seeing a whole meadow of them, sort of "growing wild" in the local parks (I don't know if they were or probably carefully planted by the park gardeners - haha!). I can also relate to your feelings of wistfulness - I used to live in Oxford and had all those romantic, beautiful Cotswolds English gardens on my doorstep that I never really paid much attention to - and now I live in hot, dry Australia and desperately want an English cottage garden (and am trying to create one, even though everybody local tells me its a lost cause and will only lead to heartache eventually!). Argh! I wish I'd appreciated all those gorgeous gardens I had access to when I was still living in England - can you believe that I never even went to the Chelsea Flower Show? I'm kicking myself now!! :-) ~ HY...See MoreTest, titlemust have a minimum of 15 characters
Comments (6)It is something we can get used to. I agree with Chi. Maybe a complaint was the Help!!! threads. I do like knowing what the thread will contain. It gives you a heads up of whether or not you want to open it....See MoreCarpul Tunnel - good grief houzz, why do we have to have 15 character
Comments (11)Unless your doctor has told you it is carpel tunnel it may be other things. I have a tendon in my wrist that ruptured on my right wrist. It forms a knot ever so often and can cause tingling etc. My left hand has a pinched nerve somewhere in my should that causes the three outside fingers to have the same problems. I do have carpel tunnel problems on the other finger and thumb on that hand. I had to stop gardening because of the pain in both hands. Talk to a hand surgeon to see what they suggest as it is one of those you can do it now while it is not a major problem or wait in pain until you have even worse problems....See Morejemdandy
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