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Comments (12)Flora, Thanks for explaining this further. It makes me think that the exposure to sun may have little to do with my current problems: I live close to the ocean, where it is cooler than inland, and there are cooling breezes. Also the sunlight (for just a couple of hours in the morning given the facing and construction of my balcony)is broken up by a slated railing. However, we sometimes get Santa Ana winds here -- very hot and dry from the desert -- so I'm glad to have this info for the future -- when I could take the plants inside. I do understand the odds are against me, but I've already invested time, work and money in these plants and since I have the one plant that looks happy, I want to see if I can't do the next-to-impossible. :) If you, or anyone else on the list, can answer my question about possible cuttings, I'd appreciate it. Claire...See MoreThe Ebay saga continues.....
Comments (42)I recieved this message a few days ago. Dear gpborger, My name is Richard Norris. I am a hybridizer of daylilies. You can check out my credentials through Google. The person from whom you purchased Ginny Mitchell listed an offering using an image stolen from my website. It was of a plant that had never left my property. I complained to eBay and his listings were removed. I checked out his other daylily listings and many are of fictional plants with stolen images. It is quite certain that the plant you received is a cheap substitute. It will most certainly not be the plant from the image you saw in the listing. Please check out the discussion of this problem on the garden forum at TinkerÂs Garden. The link is http://forums.tinkersgardens.com/active_topics.asp or at GardenWeb http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/daylily/ We would like to see to it that he does not continue to cheat people in his offerings. - norashwd14m1 Here is my response: Dear norashwd14m1, You say stolen from your website but you didn't say what your website was. I did however go to the gardenweb forum. The taking of others pictures concerns me for a few reasons. 1) I do not know if what I paid for is what I'm getting. 2) I ask permission from the people I buy from to use those pictures on my website that shows what daylilies I currently have. (I do not sell, only show)I did not even ask about yours yet because it hasn't been planted yet. Obviously I don't need to ask him though if they are not his pictures. Thank you for letting me know this though. 3)I know that many honest, serious daylily growers sell on ebay, Blueridge Daylilies, Northern Lights Daylilies, Marietta gardens to name a few, I know because I have bought from almost all of them. I would hate for many growers and sellers get a bad name because of one incident or one grower. I also wanted to let you know that I just checked and ebay has NOT removed this persons listings. Thanks gpborger...See MoreThe Saga of the Stupidest Injury to Myself
Comments (36)One of the dumbest things I did was many years ago, I was playing with a kitten in my DR. We were having great fun batting around a golf ball until the ball rolled under the DR hutch. I was on my knees at the time, so without thinking at all, I put my face and shoulders down on the floor and reached with my right arm under the hutch to get the ball...couldn't quite reach so i reached in a little further, a little further, stretched a little more, until I grabbed it. Then I went to pull my arm out and it wouldn't budge. I mean it was really wedged. So here I am, face down on the floor, home alone, DH won't be home for hours with my arm wedged under the hutch and no way to get to a phone or call for help. As I'm laying there trying to assess the situation, I realize my arm is starting to go numb and is starting to swell up. I can't just wait for help. I have to get my arm out before I'm in real trouble. Fortunately at the time, I was young and fairly flexible. So I managed to twist to my side so my knee and shin were up against the front of the hutch for leverage and I pulled...I mean really pulled...and managed to free myself. My arm was all scraped and somewhat bruised, but I was free and I was ok. How scary was that! What to do next? Why keep playing with the kitten and the ball of course. Would you believe, the ball went under there again, and without thinking, the next thing I knew I was reaching under there again? Fortunately the wiser part of my brain started screaming at me, "Idiot! Do you want to get stuck again?!?!" and I stopped myself in time...and got a yardstick to fetch the ball. Man! How dumb can you get!...See Moreredoing Sagae bed after late Winter freeze
Comments (32)For me, as an amateur, I would not reuse the bleach water. I wouldn't know the correct smell nor would I want to have it on my hands. So fresh bleach water for me! "I have had limited experience with virused plants . . ." Good for you Bruce! After removing dead tissue, "they will come back SLOWLY if they are healthy." Makes sense! Thank you! I would like to note here that the concentration of bleach can vary depending on what brand you are buying. It would be good to check that out. You know what I would love? I would love to be there when you Bruce are dividing and/or redoing some of your hostas. I think that that would be a real education for me! But I will dream on . . . well, that's part of gardening, don't you think . . ....See MoreRelated Professionals
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