Gardening and the kindness of strangers
Tina Ellen
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WANTED: Always rely on the kindness of strangers, Encyclia Cochl
Comments (0)I'm hoping that some kind person would be willing to pry two p bulbs off their lush Encyclia Cochleata Alba. I have a variety of items on my trade list including bulbs, palm seedlings and more. Just check it out and let me know if you're interested....See MoreStrangers in the night
Comments (9)Well, madgallica, from the point of view of the squirrels, cherries are more valuable than roses (haven't they discovered rose hips yet?), and so they do their squirrel farming. It just seems impossible to keep everything named, between labels, maps, and lists. I try. I like the sound of your garden, wars and all. Catspa, I've used purple and yellow before as well: it's the dominant color scheme for mid-spring in the shade garden when the lilacs are in flower. I like it a lot too. It started by accident and then I developed it further. I still have a cherry-pink tree peony that I need to do something about, though the thought of moving a tree peony intimidates me. If I can lay my hands on a deep purple, or even a lilac pink tree peony--I know they both exist--I believe I could nerve myself to try. Stick to your story. We need our roses. P.S. you name a couple of interesting-sounding plants. Gladiolus tristis? a species? purple Iris ochroleuca? I thought the latter was the definition of yellow and white. Ingrid, you work out methods to deal with hundreds of varieties Though accidents happen and discipline slips and chaos is always at the door, and as a result I have way too many mystery roses. I haven't done the mapping review that's so important this time of year when the once-blooming roses are in flower. The name of the lavender rambler came floating up to the surface of my mind this morning as I was lying in bed: 'Rose-Marie Viaud', she of the chlorosis, from cuttings I got in a swap by mail. I looked it up on HMF and sure enough that's my rose. One mystery solved. The other rose has cupped, small, double white flowers and is a Wichuriana rambler of the 'Dorothy Perkins' school. This post was edited by melissa_thefarm on Sat, Jun 15, 13 at 1:59...See MoreStranger in My Garden
Comments (2)Most edible members of the squash family don't come true from seed; my volunteers usually turn out to be gourds. If you like the vine, though, it can be fun to leave it and see what it turns into. Usually by mid- to late July they start to overwhelm anything around them, and simultaneously start to look messy, at which point you can cut it to the ground. It will no doubt hog all the moisture in the bed and, unless it's trained up the post it will probably wipe out the annuals by that time. I usually leave a few in my vegetable garden, but I have to keep an eye on them so they don't kill the tomatoes and basil....See MoreWould you share your garden with a stranger?
Comments (7)I confess, my instinctive reaction to reading the thread title was a shoulders hunched, "what do you mean, share?!" However, I did have an arrangement a bit like that a few years back. I rented the second floor flat in a house with a garden, and in exchange for a break on the rent, I sorted out and maintained the garden, landlord supplying the materials. I also fed/ temporarily adopted his his cat as he was abroad for work. That arrangement worked well, because I was only planning to live there for a limited time and he was planning to sell the house, so the garden (weedfilled rectangle of 'grass') needed sorting. Because I knew I wasn't staying I was able to not invest myself in the garden, and make it look ok, even if it wasn't how I would like it. In my experience it's not an unusual arrangement, but it's more commonly done with absentee landlords. I think depending on your area, finding someone willing to do garden chores in exchange for reduced rent would actually be pretty easy. The advice to get it written into the rental agreement is a good one. Finding someone to actively share the garden, in a sympatico fashion will be considerably harder - my advice is to go for the former and see if over time the tenant wants to shift into a more sharer type agreement. Gardens have a way of working on people after all. I was into my thirties before gardening awoke like an inherited disease in my blood....See More
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