The thrill of Summer and the long wait for Spring group thread
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Comments (60)WooHoo! I received my box from Melinda today. It was packed full of wonderful goodies. She sent chocolate covered peanuts chocolate peanut clusters a garden puzzle to keep me occupied until spring brown paper bags to collect seeds in a package of floral note cards a journal for gardening a windowsill greenhouse plastic seed envelopes jiffy peat pellets sharpie ultra fine point markers a package of address labels a package of bubble envelopes two adorable bunnies for my garden a packet of gardeners hand therapy and the following abundance of seeds: Jacob Cline monarda cosmos picotee pony tails stipa grass marigold citrus mix cambridge blue sage black prince snapdragon royal bride snapdragon calendula bon bon mix cereinth shrimp plant sidaldea rosanna salvia east friesland malva bibor felho dianthus siberian blues chianti sunflower limonium latifolium sea lavender liatris floristan white phlox david nasturtium moonlight nasturtium scarlet gleam nemesia shooting stars nasturtium dwarf cherry rose nasturtium empress of india delphinium blue duet mix oneothera pink petti coats nasturtium night and day columbine dorothy rose columbine rose and ivory helenium mardi gras columbine cardinal columbine winky blue and white rudbeckia cherry brandy rudbeckia goldilocks rudbeckia kelvedon star Melinda you rock! I love everything! There were so many seeds from my want list and I can't wait to try all of the others too. I'm playing hookie from school today to wait for the man to come and install the phone and new internet so this was a wonderful surprise for me. I was sad because I had the day off and nothing to wintersow but you made my day. Thank you so much! You did a wonderful job! Becky...See MoreDoggie Days of Summer Seasonal Thread.... PART ONE
Comments (396)Kristine - I sure wish my Oklahoma were like yours!! Darn. Deborah - Sundowner means that the winds come from the west? Anyway, those winds sound horrible and dangerous too! I hope they blow away. Hang in there. Diane - oh wow...I can't imagine. Horrible deer. :( Could you grow roses in a greenhouse? Could you have a fence (really high) in the middle of your yard where you could have roses? There must be some way to safeguard some of your roses. If you can't build a tall fence...you could use wire that is relatively low - 3 feet. The wire would be staggered with a foot in between. If you want to get someone to help you with this...here's some info Height, or width, is probably the most important factor with deer fences, especially if high deer pressure. White-tailed deer can jump almost eight feet high, so effective upright fences against them should be this high. Deer may be able to jump high, but not both high and over a distance. So a fence may not be as high, perhaps six feet, but slanted outward. The deer will try walking under the fence and meet resistance. Such a slanted fence should be at a 45-degree angle, and may consist of fencing with a few strands of additional wire on top for extra height. A variation can be used to convert a shorter upright fence. Merely add additional height to posts, and string more fencing or additional strands of wire between them. If the fence is about five feet high, you also may add additions to the posts parallel to the ground and on the outside of the fence. Add strands of wire between these to achieve the same effect as a slanted fence. If you have a standard fence about four or five feet high, you can add a similar and additional one about four feet away. While not high, with this width deer usually won’t like to try and clear both and perhaps get caught between or on them. Out of sight, out of mind, applies to deer with solid wooden fences, or ones with overlapping slats they can't see through. Such privacy fences are quite effective, as deer can't tell what is on the other side. Even if they can smell what is on the other side, and it's attractive to them, they can't be sure that danger isn't lurking there as well. One less expensive variation on the high fence is to use a commercial heavy-weight deer netting if the deer pressure is low to moderate. These products are quite popular for home gardens as they are easier to work with than wire mesh, are less expensive, and blend into the landscape. Another inexpensive solution is stringing single strands of monofilament twine (such as deep sea fishing twine) between posts, about six inches apart. If deer pressure is really low, you might even get by with a single strand about two feet off the ground. Deer bump into this, are surprised at something they didn't or can't see, so may flee. Keep in mind deer can't see well (poor depth perception), so many advocate hanging streamers on the lower strands or netting so deer can see them and don't just try running through. Some recommend not putting such ribbon streamers on the top as this tells the deer the fence height. Some have even suggested adding streamers on extensions above the fence, to make deer think it is even taller and so even harder to jump. Some advocate using white streamers to mimic the white tail signal that deer use to warn of danger. There are many variations of electric fences. You may begin with a single strand, about 30 inches off the ground. Some make this more visible to deer by using bright flagging tape, or conductive polytape. This also helps people avoid these fences by mistake. Make this single strand even more effective and attractive to deer by smearing peanut butter on aluminum foil. One taste won’t kill deer, but it will surely discourage them from returning. Studies have shown, though, that using odor repellents in combination with an electric wire may be more effective than using the peanut butter bait. Single strands of electric wire may work if low populations, but if more deer pressure you may need to add multiple strands. You may add these in various configurations as for mesh and strand fences, with the electric wires about a foot apart along the post supports. With any electric fence, use them only if children won’t have a chance of getting injured. Some residential areas may even prohibit them, so check local ordinances first. If you have just an isolated tree or few plants to protect, consider building a cage around them. You may drive stakes into the ground, stretching wire mesh or deer netting between them. Or you can make a portable frame of scrap lumber or PVC pipe, attaching netting to these. If portable, make sure such frames are anchored so deer wont push them over. Make sure such mesh has small openings, or is far enough from the plants, to keep deer from reaching the plants through the mesh. Rhonda Massingham Hart, in her revised book on Deerproofing Your Yard and Garden, gives many more details on deer fences and installing them, plus some additional tips: -- As with other controls, it is best to use them before you have a problem. Train deer first, before they find your plants, or even before you plant. -- Fences must be tight, can't have gaps, and should be checked often. Deer almost always will find the openings. -- With this last point in mind, installing fences over uneven terrain can be difficult, leaving openings large enough for deer. -------------------------- I'm sure you've tried so many things...I just want you to have roses and hope again. And you don't have to have the fence go to the end of the property...just at the flat part or just around a rose section. My black dog is 100% standard poodle...we just didn't cut his tail. He looks different when his coat is grown out. :) Jubilee Celebration and Chartreuse de Parme ... thank you for liking them!! Jubilee Celebration has the most fabulous scent!!!! I have 2 large wheelbarrows, 1 small wheelbarrow and the other planter is a small bathtub - about 8 inches long. :) I love my wheelbarrows!! :) Thank you!! Oh bummer about the chair! You just can't catch a break! :( -----------------...See MoreSUMMER is here... Seasonal thread part 5
Comments (105)Flowers, your bed sounds similar to mine with CdM x2, but I have Violet's Pride and soon Quicksilver for the lavenders and Heathcliff.. I hope to have CL, but am currently planting Jerabek's Peggy M and Star of the Republic . As it goes from fence to bridk wall, there's Lavender Crush next to Gold Blush. I love these colours and am so happy I found a place to incorporate into my yard away from the cool pinks that predominate my backyard plantings. These colours never appealed to me until recently! Go figure! I can't wait to see pics of yours. I'm hopelessly lost in this post, but wish everyone well. It just moves too fast and I feel bad if I miss anyone's post. Thanks again, Jim for keeping it up. Flowers, I will post pics of my 1st bloom on Nahema since she went in the ground. She's just growing her roots so not as impressive as the one I got last year when she was just a tiny cutting I grew up. Don't you adore her fragrance?It seems many dislike her holly-like leaves, but to me they are fascinating. Yay for different rose leaves! : )). As usual, click to enlarge. Nahema 2019: Nahema 2018:...See MoreSummer's Start Thread 2021
Comments (2449)Carol- Diane is correct. Many people need special lenses and a dedicated pair of glasses for the computer. Do you know what material the lenses in the glasses are that are currently bothering you? Polycarbonate lenses can be difficult for many people to adapt to despite their widespread use and Superior impact resistance which results in high levels of safety as well as their ultraviolet protection. Unfortunately, polycarbonate lenses have a low Abbe Value. In fact, polycarbonate lenses technically have the absolute worst optical clarity due to this low value which results in a high dispersion rate which results in an experience called chromatic aberration. It will often be picked up as swim, dizziness, distortion, and looking through the peripheries of the lenses one will often get highlights of red and yellow and one direction and blue purple and the other at the edges of objects. That's even with single vision lenses! Modern progressive lenses that are digitally surfaced and sometimes called freeform or high definition lenses, can help with this and they also take into account vertex distance, prescription strength, pantoscopic tilt, and of course the individuals prescription and pupillary distance. Unfortunately, all progressive lenses will have the peripheral distortions due to the nature of the design in manipulating the surface to allow smooth progression of power from the distance prescription down through the intermediate area and into the reading zone at the lower part of the lens. A pair of dedicated computer progressives can be made to exist where the top part of the lens is all your intermediate strength for in between work going down into the near power for closer work. The newest technology is variable base curves with lens blanks that are both front and rear surfaced for progressives versus being made from just a single vision lens blank as today's free form progressive lenses are. For lens materials which have an increased Abbe Value and therefore Superior clarity, the safest modern choice is Trivex. It was developed by PPG industries as visual armor for the US military. It is the absolute lightest lens material available on the market today and is considered a higher index lens material which results in thinner prescriptions versus traditional plastic (CR-39) and Crown Glass. These last three materials actually have the highest Abbe Values and therefore the very best optical clarity possible. Some individuals are non-adapt to progressive design or polycarbonate material. I myself who have tried every lens material that is a mainstream option on the market today can tell you that polycarbonate will give me the most dizziness and sick sensation when I switch between the the types and usually takes a couple 3 days for me to adapt and I'm still a single vision individual who is very nearsighted as well. I apologize for this ridiculous long post but I am an ABO optician and I decided to continue my education credit to maintain my certification despite the lack of return on investment it provides me! Steven...See Morerosecanadian
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