Roses Love Sunshine Seasonal Thread
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Comments (13)I had similar experiences. Like Seil I had a hard winter, lots of dieback, too much rain and cloud cover, so much BS, but some spurts of great roses blooming. Sara, last year I had more roses and could cut a bouquet whenever, not this year, about 1/3 less blooms. However, right now the bushes are looking good with chance of frost tonight. I plan on cutting this evening! I do think I had more fun growing and enjoying my roses this year than in the past....See MoreSUMMER is here... Seasonal thread part 9
Comments (247)Kristine - google "Epley maneuver vertigo" - it's a series of head movements that your doctor can guide you through in their office, that helps settle down your inner ear. My Aunt was having a big problem with vertigo - she had never heard about this, and just happened to mention it to a doctor who was experienced with the procedure, and it made her vertigo go away. (The technical name is "canalith repositioning procedure".)...See MoreWINTER is here! Seasonal thread part 7
Comments (125)I love your photos, sultry, and that one of the live oaks is spoooky. Do ghost froggies live in the scary forest? What different climates we both live in. I can't grow any of the things you just talked about. I would love some bananas for Nana, please. But I'm glad I don't have to dig out those pink jasmine roots. Sara Ann, your Kathleen Harrop is gorgeous. I need to look it up. Oddly it reminds me of Olivia Rose Austin. Do you grow OLA? Jim, I love all those pet photos, especially the ones featuring the feral cat lounging in its comfortable living room. Love the cat/dog food sharing. Your pets get along so well. Right now, the coyotes are hunting in the gully in back, and we haven't been able to let our kitties out even for short supervised times. Finn is the scourge of voles, and I'd like him to be doing the hunting, though I expect that the yotes are a scourge on voles, too. Not very long ago, the neighbors lost their wonderful old cat to yotes. The neighbors were a little lax about letting him out too close to dark--they are from Hawaii originally, and are not totally used to our predators. I felt so badly for them.....I see we must move on to the new thread. Thanks for your loyalty, in keeping these threads going. I hope all is well for you as you continue to forge ahead. Diane...See MoreSeasonal Threads?
Comments (476)The Sabbath is a day of rest, Kristine. Don't take me seriously, please. You just make me feel guilty, though. I think there must be several books with the Coming Home title. I'll check yours out. Magpie, I like to read everything. In college I changed majors with the winds, but in the process, I got a wonderful education in literature. I'll go into it, if you can stand me droning on about books, later today or maybe tomorrow, because I've got a lot to do soon, and it's getting late. Your location and the resulting wind sounds just like here. We are in low hills at the base of mountains all around, with no windbreak in back, just a sharp slope down the hill to a big gully. No neighbors in back or in front of us (hills), just neighbors to the left and right. The first year we were here, we had some of our new roof shingles blown off, and my New Dawn roses blown down. Trish, that's so odd you bring up "the creep". I had a step dad with those inclinations, but I was a little older than Judith was. When the creep part of the book came up, I had to stop reading last night. I'll tackle it today with advance steeling of my nerve. Flugger the creeps. I will check out Penelope Lively. I don't have a favorite author, though I like Jane Harper and Amor Towles (a guy) very much. I really like the Mapp and Lucia series by EF Benson (a guy), as did my gardening friend to whom I loan books. I don't like my books too sappy and romantic, and his devastating wit was wonderful. Oh, yes--The Flavia series. As I wrote to Magpie, don't get me started right now. Carol, I see you started a new thread, so many thanks, and I'll be posting there later. I hope Holly gives that book a try and maybe some of the author's other titles. I love that you grow Bluebells of Scotland. They seem to love it here, and it's not anything like Scotland. But I read that BBs like it dry. And yes, they bloom all season, while Brunnera only blooms in early spring. It does have a long bloom period though. Diane...See Morerosecanadian
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