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Comments (21)I understand what she says about "overdosing" soil with organic material/nutrients, but if you have 50+ productive roses plus perenniels and annuals in a bed, you use up the nutrients pretty dang fast. She references trees and shrubs - both will have a sort of steady growing habit. Roses, on the other hand, will continue to grow canes and bloom as long as there is sun, water, nutrients and appropriate temperatures. Roses are the only shrub that will bloom from spring to frost - they have a much higher nutrient requirement than a once blooming or non-blooming shrub. This is very simple to demonstrate - just take a look at the roses in gardens where people treat them like regular shrubs and what you see is roses with minimal growth and very little bloom. On top of that many of us add companion plants which also require nutrients to grow and bloom throughout the season. Linda Chalker-Smith references "agricultural" versus home/stagnant environments. If you have big rose beds with companion plants you have an "agricultural" environment. My DH makes jokes about "rose farming", but to a certain extent he is right. I am rose farming and when I manage my rosebeds in what Linda Chalker-Smith refers to as "agricultural" manner I get the rose production to show for it. Which, of course, is EXACTLY what I want. Part of what I love about gardening is the whole management of the environment. I pay attention to the plants, they tell me what they need and I provide for those needs, the plants reward me with their beauty....See MoreNoone understands the Pacific NW
Comments (69)Well, there are stupid people everywhere, and people who manage to be stupid about everything! Mind you the PNW is guilty for creating some of its own myths. My parents had one close friend who was into gardening. I remember in the late 80s they took a big trip to the west coast after their son moved to San Francisco. I was just getting into gardening there and he said to me "David, you wouldn't believe the roses at Butchart Gardens. And do you know what, they told us they don't even have frosts in the winter." I was skeptical of that at the time, and consulted my trusty World Book encylopedia LOL. Anyhow I can imagine the PNW once seeming remote - that's the reason the likes of David Lynch set Twin Peaks there - but I don't think it seems that way as much anymore in these internet connected times. it is after all the secondary silicon valley. (OTOH my Mom jokes that my brother who lives in Seattle was trying to move as far away as possible LOL) I will say one thing that struck me driving south from Seattle to LA was that after the Willamette Valley, that highway _really_ clears out. In the middle of the day, headed south through southern Oregon, it was mostly logging trucks, some RV/campers, but really desolate. Very very little "just people in cars" traffic. In comparison the whole of the I95 corridor from Boston to Florida is busy all years, all days. Even in the less dense sections there are people on the move for whatever reason. In southern Virginia on 95 it's nothing at all to see New Jersey and NY license plates. I've been at a gas station near here and run into some kids from the Boston area driving to South Carolina to go to the beach. OTOH, it seems like for a Seattle area person to even drive to the Bay Area is rather rarer...and LA would be like driving to another country LOL. I don't think there's anything like the mass exodus to/from Florida which happens on the east coast. Just in my definitely middle-class neighborhood...in this county (most northeasterly in Maryland) but not even on the water...I know of a couple older families that winter in Florida....See MoreWashy wonder
Comments (32)One of the benefits of living where I do on the coast is our slow cool down in the fall and slow warm up in the spring. We have a fairly mild, mostly snow free winter so it's common to have things like camelias , winter jasmine and early crocuses blooming all throughout winter. But starting in mid March, we're influenced by the cold ocean temps. When DC, Wilmington and Philly are starting to see temps in the upper 60s to mid 70s in March and April, we're frequently stuck in the 50s, sometimes with chilly ocean fog or wind. While that doesn't bother the daffodils, tulips and flowering trees, those temps keep tender plants from sprouting. So IF there is a freeze or frost then, it seldom bothers anything. I remember Will in Winston-Salem has a bad freeze in spring after his cannas, bananas and EE's took a big hit. That just doesn't happen here really because that stuff is still asleep. Castor bean seeds won't sprout until its warm enough. They often come up from seeds that dropped last year....See MoreI found this a bit saddening
Comments (44)Investopedia.com has some decent tutorials. I started by opening a $5K trading account with Charles back in about 1990. I As a banker, I already knew how to analyze a corporate financial statement. So, in the beginning I stuck with companies that I knew & understood their business models (in my case that was financial institutions). After I got used to buying/selling, etc. (in those early days I used a broker to make the actual transactions), I branched out by choosing other industries & studied everything I could get my hands on about that particular industry. Home builders were a logical investment area, for me, since I'd been a construction loan officer for a couple decades. From there, I moved to insurance companies. About 2000, I started trading online. Then, several years ago, I hit a home run trading WorldCom after the fraud was announced. It was trading between $.09 - $.15 for a couple weeks before the ultimate outcome was known. I day-traded 50,000-75,000 shares sometimes buying & then selling 4-5 times/day. Stocks are an area where size does matter...by trading those quantities of stock I made a very nice profit over a two week period. Now, my trading account was large enough to start seriously buying 100 share blocks. My TV is tuned to CNBC all day long starting at 6:00 a.m. through the closing bell. I've learned a lot by listening over the years. But really there's no experience like just getting in there & giving it a try. I don't hold stock for long in my Charles account - two years is the longest hold, to date, & normally I'm in/out within 3-6 months. I've chosen to sell whenever I can clear 20%. Often, I buy/sell the same stock over & over...sell when they've posted a good quarter & rebuy when the bloom is off the rose a bit. I am NOT a buy & hold investor. IMO, that's a sure fire way to get burned...possibly, badly. I'm an active, hands-on manager of all of our investments (including DH's 401(k). I came of age watching my family take huge hits because they'd bought companies like Kodak, IBM, GE...little 'ole lady stocks. But, because they'd been told to "buy & hold" forever...they lost huge. So, when I entered the equities markets it was with a different attitude. I don't buy mutual funds (except in the 401(k) where I don't have a choice). Rather, I have built over time my own little baskets of stocks that I rotate in/out of depending on where we are in an economic cycle. I've studied these companies, understand their business models, know management, & often even attend annual shareholder meetings. Then, I trade those stocks, sometimes daily, over & over & over. It's worked well, for me. I've got a pretty high tolerance for risk & also a pretty darn good nose for spotting problems. I spend, on average, one hour each week studying EVERY stock currently in our portfolio. Then, I also spend several more hours each week studying stocks that I rotate in/out of but do not currently own & also looking for new companies to add to my baskets. Here is a link that might be useful: investopedia.com...See MoreRelated Professionals
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