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Comments (12)It seems like almost everything in my yard carries some form or another of significance. Even when I am spitting, swearing, and throwing garden tools while pulling mint and mint roots, the smell will waft through the air and I am reminded of when we first looked at this house. It seems so long ago and that feeling of not believing the house is finally ours has long since passed. The few things that were planted here when we moved in have a way of bringing me back to those first few moments. Every time the daffodils and snowflake bloom in the spring it takes me back to our first spring here and the sheer delight I felt to see these beauties that I didn't even know existed in the yard. The balloon flowers to follow were equally exciting to see. The things I brought with me are constant reminders of the beginnings of a fascination that also tagged along. Some items were purchased while learning my way around the retail scene and from the days when I just plucked anything pretty off the shelf and haphazardly threw it in the ground. I must confess, I still find myself doing that sometimes. Other things brought home were gifts from family and friends eager to find something fitting to give to let me know they were thinking about me. My mom tried to get me interested in gardening almost all my life so when finally, at twenty-nine years old, I became interested she couldn't wait to dig up half her yard and send it off in the trunk of my car... every time I visited. My neighbor and I sort of inspired each other through the beginnings of this hobby and I still have chunks of this and that she would bring over. Still others are the remnants of plants I grew from seed the first year I had my little greenhouse. Of my current plantings, since we moved here, each one reminds me of a moment that makes me smile or in some cases laugh. If it isn't a lesson learned such as, don't buy thirty two of something you don't have a clue where you are going to put, it is a connection I made while browsing the nurseries. Some of these have also come from family and friends again as gifts. Out of all of my plants, the one that means the absolute most to me is a ball of pink sorrel. My favorite and most bestest neighbor in the entire world gave it to me when we first started gardening together. It is the first chunk of this or that I received from her and boy I have brought it back from near death too many times to count. I think it helps to know now that it isn't shamrock, which is what she was told it was, told me it was, and we had been calling it for five years. We barely knew each other at the time and both of us had little interest in gardening. I know why I got into gardening but I can't tell you what happened from there. We just hung out and worked in each others yards and somewhere along the way our love for gardening and each other grew. We have since moved and are no longer neighbors but we are still friends and keep in contact regularly. She still brings me chunks of this and that when she gets new plants and I the same. Yeah, I am a little sentimental I guess. I have a long term memory a mile long to store and cherish those little moments. Ask me about anything I grow and I'll have a story. While I hope my skills improve and my yard becomes more lush as the years pass, I hope that one thing never changes. For me, that is what makes all of the work worthwhile!...See MoreI'm ready for spring
Comments (20)I am worried about some plants, but not excesively so. However, we'd already had a hard freeze here a couple of weeks ago that hit plants fairly hard so I didn't have much left in the ground, except lantanas, that were likely to shock. The lantanas were protected from the previous hard freeze by adjacent plants that were taller and very dense and which protected them so they still looked great, after I removed all the plants that had fallen over on top of them after that hard freeze hit them. They still had green foliage and were in full bloom until a couple of days ago. Today they look pretty bad. Our soil is heavy in clay content and doesn't drain well, so some years the lantana overwinter fine here and some years they die. I always dig up my Texas lantana, put it in a pot, and overwinter it in the unheated greenhouse, but the rest of the lantanas have to sink or swim on their own. A lot of our trees here still had green leaves as of Monday. Some still have green leaves now. A lot of those would have had nice color, but now I expect the leaves will turn brown and fall off the trees. We were just starting to see some reds in the red oaks and ornamental pears, and lots of yellows in the elms and other trees that turn yellow in fall. I think it would have been a gorgeous and colorful autumn, albeit a late one, if this big, wicked cold spell hadn't hit the trees before the color could fully develop. I still have hollyhocks, Malva zebrina 'sylvestris' and a few other plants that aren't frozen yet, but we're expected to hit the low 20s tonight, so they all may be brown and crispy tomorrow. We just lost the comfrey plants two days ago, but they are pretty cold hardy and will come back from the roots. The native grasses and forbs that still had any green or any flowers whatsoever now are wheat colored. With existing plants in your area, I think if they are several years old, y'all might not see much of a long-lasting type of damage on them, but I never like seeing plants freeze when they weren't already sliding into dormancy. Newer and younger plants always seem to have the most damage from sudden cold spells before dormancy hits. We are in a low-lying microclimate and tend to freeze before anyone around us does, since they're on higher ground, and I rarely lose any zone 7 plants at a time like that, though sometimes we lose some of the current year's growth. With any zone 8 plants that I've tried to sneak into zone 7b and grow, this is exactly the kind of sudden cold spell that kills them after they've grown well here for 2, 3 or 4 years....See MoreNeed pattern ID on Noritake china set from occupied Japan!
Comments (39)Yes, this is the Lynbrook #4724. I own this exact set as well. From looking at your pictures I am missing a couple of pieces that I didn't know about, so thank you for the post. If you look on the bottom of the coffee cups, the name of the collection and number is printed. I know I know your going to be thinking you did all that research and you had it there all along, I speak from experience. The pattern identification is only printed on the coffe cups. A little more history to you occupied china - These piece were stamped "occupied" during World War II while America occupied Japan. These products were made for export purposes. It was actually a law that the pieces had to be identified as "occupied". On some of the older piece, you may see were the occupied Japan stamp is a different color than the Noritake stamp, this is because the occupied stamp had to be added to pieces that were produced before the passing of the law. After the signing of the Peace Treaty, the law was demolished; therefore, the occupied stamp was no longer used. If your coffe cups do not have the "Lynbrook 4724 stamp" will you please let me know, because mine do and I would like to be certain that they are original pieces. Thank you...See MoreLoose Leaf Tea
Comments (57)For those who use any old pot around - in our case, a tempered glass coffeepot - the compostable paper filters are wonderful. I've linked to amazon's page as they have a picture which is self-explanatory. One of my favorite teas is brewed at a couple of local restaurants. I haven't looked for it yet as we are stocked up with enough tea for the next year, all different kinds, LOL. It's a Ceylon-based black tea with organic lavender and vanilla. My DH doesn't normally like flavored teas - he hates Earl Gray and loves Turkish or Peet's (smoked) Russian Caravan - but he thought this flavored black tea was really exceptional. Here is a link that might be useful: Paper tea filters...See MoreRelated Professionals
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