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Comments (5)I'm adding a lot of chopped leaves as top dressing/mulch for the perennial/annual flower beds. I'm also planting tons of industrial-strength perennials . For example, I just put in a couple of polly mallows (Callirhoe involucrata), several Veronicas, an ornamental sage (artemisia - Silver Mound), a couple of different Salvias, and relocated some Ratibida (yellow Mexican Hats) to the back of the bed with the Blue Flax, Moonshine Yarrow and Purple Coneflowers. I planted some cosmos and zinnias this spring, and they were water hogs. The cosmos grew to be five feet tall and drooped everyday unless watered. No more fussy flowers! In my hell strip, I poached various cactus from some land that was about to be developed next door: prickly pears and some yet-to-be-identified jointed, low-growing stuff and a very cool-looking type that seems to be a spreading dwarf cholla of some sort. Along with the cactus, I planted yuccas: needle-leaf native (also poached/saved from the bulldozer), a dwarf banana-leaf yucca and a softer verigated yucca with yellow edge "stripes." Hens and chicks have come on strong next to the big rock along with a clump of blue fescue and three hardy ice plants. I planted some tough-as-nails ground covers: Sedums in sun and wooly thyme under the thornless hawthorn. The far edges have yellow and red Indian Blanketflowers, lavanders and Moonshine Yarrow. My hell strip will scoff at drought and be merely amused by summer sun!...See More#2 The Poll To End All Polls (until the next one) - BLUE
Comments (26)oh, man... mocassin... you are being such a good sport... but I've got to tell you, I've been agonizing over whether Fragrant Blue is a medium - or a large. I've got old clumps that break the 48" mark, but more typically they would be around 36-40"... we're calling them MEDIUM. And hhb... I too was kind of disturbed by all the back and forth on the sizes around the BME dispute - and finally just came to the conclusion that those folks who want to do leaf shows and judge leaf shows just get to set sizes any way they want. As much as I enjoy a leaf show, there is no way that I'm going to call a 28" diameter hosta clump of small leaves a mini... and likewise, a plant that stays small in diameter by nature but has leaves 18" long on a couple of eyes after a decade in the garden just isn't an extra-large. Of course, the nursery folks and catalog writers are pretty much ignoring the official AHS leaf-area size labeling and going with height-and-width sizing anyway......See Moresome from this Halloween week
Comments (9)The "buff" flower in the first Summer Song picture behind the Summer Song is actually a fully open HT Marilyn Monroe that has been on the bush for a while. I have some apricots, oranges, and whites together as a grouping. The unopened buds in the foreground that are showing orange and yellow are on the HT Tropical Amazone which turned out to be quite a looker also. It took the heat quite well and kept going even though it just started as a band....See MoreOnly 364 Days Left Until The Next One ---- ( Pix heavy!!!)
Comments (15)Thank you everyone, your complements make it worth my while to try to figure out what to do with two weeks worth of leftovers. Posted by hawk307 "------ DC: Talk about Dinners fit for a King !!! Wheeooo ! ---" Be careful Lou, behind every great king, there is a great queen who actually rules the kingdom. Posted by jasdip "----and now you have a year to plan next year's festivities.---" Yes I know, I hate to hear, "Come on dcarch! Not rib roast and duck again!" Posted by mustangs "Amazing!! How does one get on your guest list? Cathy" Marry me? LOL! Posted by jimster "It's the spectacular food we have come to expect of you, dcarch. And the photos too, are mouthwatering, even the blurred ones. ---" Thanks Jim, but truth be told, there are so many folks here cook with great panache, yet my cooking with sous vide, that requires absolutely no skills, nothing can go wrong, no overcooking or undercooking possible. Just flip a switch, "Set it, and forget it." Ann_t and FOAS, regarding Potato Latkes authenticity, what I went by was as defined by Wikipedia, under the section: Hanukkah Tradition - "Latkes need not necessarily be made from potatoes. Prior to the introduction of the potato to the Old World, latkes were, and in some places still are, made from a variety of other vegetables, cheeses, legumes, or starches, depending on the available local ingredients and foodways of the various places where Jews lived." And I did not invent the Mushroom Wild Rice Latkes recipe either, it was adapted from the KosherEye Web site The Wild Rice Latkes tasted very good because I didn't have Schmaltz, so I used the dripping from the roasted duck and rib roast, as it turned out, much tastier than Schmaltz, IMHO. It is always fun to engage your guests to go out of the regular food boxes a little. They really liked the purple Okinawan sweet potatoes, for instance. dcarch...See Morenannykins
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