Heavenly scents & Evelyn and older Austins & healthy tips
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Comments (105)I made my raw cranberry relish yesterday so flavors can blend. Left out the slivered almonds but will add them tomorrow so they'll stay crisp. Some recipes for this call for blending up a whole orange, peel and all. I think the white part of the peel can be bitter, so I cut out the segments, and made sure there were no seeds. Grated the peel. My mom made it with candied ginger. I've made candied ginger before but decided just to grate some fresh ginger into it. I don't know why you'd need extra sugar since you put 1/2 c. of sugar in it anyway. But a little ginger is good with it. I think I put powdered ginger last year. Fig, I made the brussel sprouts according to your recipe a few weeks ago. I burned them cooking them that long. They looked good at 20 min. . I think 30 min total cooking time would have been better. Today we're making two pies, pecan and pumpkin, and cooked cranberry sauce, and cornbread for the dressing. Plain pecan pie is so good but we might try a bourbon pecan pie recipe from Acadiana Table. I hope everyone will have a wonderful Thanksgiving! There's a lot of wisdom in thankfullness in my opinion. How so? Because it is so easy to overlook the good as bad stuff seems so pressing and insistent and must be solved. The good waits. Ok, enough from me....See MoreInfo/Experience on these older Austins?
Comments (13)Jeri, how would you describe the scent of Emanuel? *** I don't remember, sorry. There are very few Austins left here, and will be even fewer soon. Also, how much smaller are the blooms? Are they similar in size to Graham Thomas, Golden Celebration, Pretty Jessica, Pat Austin, etc? *** Maybe Pat Austin? Think of it as a Floribunda, with smaller (2.5-3-in) blooms in nice clusters. Would The Squire have growth similar to WS2000 that tends to throw out lateral canes? *** Never grew WS2000, so I cannot say. Its growth is simply angular. Not a handsome plant in the garden, to be frank. I considered Prospero, but HMF says it grows rather large, *** Are you sure? Prospero is one of the small Austins. Until we learned that it did not tolerate pruning, I don't think it got over 2 ft. Now, it is "bend & snap" deadheaded, and never pruned, and it HAS made it almost to 5 ft. My only question on this one would be whether it will take your winters? It's got some tenderer ancestors. We treat it like a China, and it thrives that way. I am growing Golden Celebration, Evelyn, and Abe Darby in containers as well, but they mostly have tall arching growth aside from Abe Darby. *** You know that GC is a very big rose here? But beware of the Pernetiana heritage behind this one. Evelyn was an unweildy giant with a few blooms at the top end of 12-ft canes, and is long gone. Jeri...See MoreRoses with bush beauty & fast repeat & health & scent?
Comments (73)Hi Kristine, Yes, we are getting prepared here and watching the forecast closely. We are about an hour inland from the panhandle coast (a little closer as the crow flies) so we won't get the brunt of the hurricane but we could still get lots of rain, some wind, tornado spin offs, flooding, loss of power, etc. Our wells are electric powered so we do have to prepare for that. I am filling up two huge horse water troughs left by the previous owners, for the animals' water today , just in case.. as well as water bottles, jugs, etc for us. I always keep some milk jugs of clean water in our freezer, frozen, in case the power goes out, it helps keep stuff cold much longer as long as nobody opens the doors up too often lol. We do have an older generator that works and a gas chainsaw. The last hurricane that hit near us in FL, we lost power and got trapped in by fallen trees and power lines, etc across the driveway lol. Many stores are already selling out of some things here & even on the east side of the state from what I hear from relatives there. Hopefully, it will miss us but once its in the Gulf, its gonna hit somewhere so I hate to wish it on others. I am worried about the farm animals. I have one very pregnant doe (goat) due any time now. During H Rita, when we lived in Louisiana, we had a very pregnant cat who went into labor just as the hurricane hit. She was having her kittens in the car as we evacuated. We also had our parrots in the car with us and our dog. All the hurricane shelters were full of Katrina refugees from the month prior, so we literally spent a week in our car. We had 6ft of water in our town so we had to wait for that to recede before we could return. There's something about barometric pressure changes and labor lol....See MoreRatings of scents & vigor for own root roses and LongAgoRoses
Comments (144)Judith: Pumice is porous volcanic rocks with neutral pH, versus red and black lava rock at high pH over 9. Pumice comes in smaller particles, and used for growing succulents with its fast drainage. Pumice is very expensive at over $25 for 3 gallons, versus I can get a 40 lb. of lava rock for $6 at Menards store. Inviting everyone to continue the discussion on soil & fertilizer & own roots in below new link, since this thread is getting too long: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6252246/tips-for-own-root-vs-grafted-roses-in-pots-longagoroses-bands#n=11...See Morestrawchicago z5
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