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Comments (84)This must be the official seasonal thread??? Carol your other thread threw me off..lol..Oh WAIT! I just read your other thread Carol is the seasonal thread..OK wiil post this on that one..LOL I need to catch up on this thread so will start reading posts soon... I took Gracie and Lacey to Vet yesterday. Two weeks ago I took Gracie to Vet cause she had a terrible cough. Gracie (dog) had infected lung passages... So yesterday was the follow up. Gracie got a clean bill of health yesterday. Sadly Lacey my cat did not...Lacey (cat) is starting into kidney failure...Vet said she will have 6 months to one year to live... So putting Lacey on Kidney cat foods etc... I need to research this subject more deeply... But all in all Lacey still doing well... When I get time I'll catch up on the thread... Have a great day everyone!...See MoreRED ROSES! Color Threads 2021
Comments (118)Sorry for going so OT: Thank you all for all the advice and encouragement. You are all my friends and I am very grateful for it. The baby boy is 5 weeks old now and his name is Michael Orlando. We have tried incline, gripe water, gas drops, tummy time, bicycle leg exercises, osteopathic manipulations every day for the past 2 weeks. We just discovered that a warm towel on his tummy helps the best. Diane I am lactose intolerant and definitely thought that could be it. We switched him to a lactose free formula for a few days and no improvement so we are back on breast milk. I have accepted we will just have to outgrow it hopefully soon. I’ll definitely take any advice from you all, having a new baby and hoping you are making all the right decisions for them is hard. I have found myself doing foolish things like texting the pediatrician to show her that his booty got a bit red despite my best efforts to change him every 2 hours and using preventive diaper rash cream at every change. I am hoping he will be a great garden helper in a few years. sorry I won’t get to do an individual post for everyone who so kindly posted but I can hear him crying...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape/Gardens - A Photo Thread - April 2021
Comments (60)Defrost - It’s really a shame that life has to get in the way of our gardening. [g] Last year, we changed our mowing habits a little. We started mowing higher on the first cut of the season and staying higher. Normally we’d cut as low as possible in both early spring and fall and not start keeping it long until it gets hot. I thought it made sense to follow that recommendations because the taller grass shades out some of the weeds. I thought it looked better last year. Don’t get me wrong - we leave a lot of ‘weeds’ growing in the lawn and do not use commercial lawn products at all. We have clover, violets and dandelions and a few others. We use all the grass for mulch mixed with fall leaves when we have them and mulch the vegetable garden. I’m always afraid to delay cutting the dandelions because they go to seed so quickly and I don’t notice and then miss my chance before the seeds are flying all over the yard. I am happy to have some dandelion but I don’t want to keep increasing them. [g] I’m doing the same thing with my Blue Holly. It needs a hard pruning but it’s full of flower buds that the bees just love and I’m waiting until that is done to prune it. Dunbarton for a daffodil display - that sounds nice. I’ve always wanted to go to Daffodil Week on Nantucket but have never made it. Too busy using every weekend to get the garden ready every year. That’s a nice idea for a community to focus on adding daffodils. I don’t know of another place, sorry. I don’t have the fiddlehead ferns either. I wonder if New England Wildflower Society has them?...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - July 2021
Comments (78)PM2, sorry, it took a few days but I finally got some photos of my agastache! The only thing is you and everyone else must promise to ignore the weedy paths and all the other overgrown stuff (not to mention my pathetic little tomato plants!) If you must look at the veggies, check out the squash plant behind this clump of agastache. This (and I think all of the clumps pictured) are growing in the holes of the cinderblock walls. You can see its all over this garden! I've let it go for one reason because these beds now get a lot more shade than when I built them, especially at the far end. The beds need to be revamped and I need to rethink whether I even need them or not. I could use them to grow some more shade tolerant perennials, but don't think that would work as this is really more about function. So I may just make them smaller. IDK... There is an oak tree that is really starting to shade this garden that the electric company has been saying for fifteen years that they want to take down because it's growing into the wires. I keep telling them PLEASE do, and they haven't. If they do I'll have my veggie garden back! :) Dee...See MoreSheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
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