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This thread can't be derailed because there's no topic. HA!
Thanks again Steve for making it possible for me to attend to my thread. :)
Just so the header will have a thumbnail, here's my baby 'Vulcan' rhodie, now blooming happily. :)
Vulcan is very pretty!
I'm getting ready to prep my prom flowers. The good news is that there will be lots of pretty flowers left over for Sunday's festivities!
I have some girls with great dresses this year which will allow me to live up to the nickname they gave me in floral school - bodacious blooms! I have one with a turquoise wristband and a hot pink peony. Another with a turquoise band (it was a popular color this year) and absolutely drop-dead gorgeous chocolate orchids. That one also gets a white peony.
Another girl told me her dress was red, blue, orange, and yellow. I told her I needed to see it before I do the flowers. Lordy, I hope it's not as bad as it sounds!
I have a black and hot pink dress. I bought a celosia for it. Really going out on a limb with that one! I'll have some spray roses put aside just in case she doesn't like it. I've seen that dress and it's darling. Any girl who picked that out surely will go for a vibrant pink/orange celosia, won't she?!?!?
Okay, off I go....
There are the usual white with silver, please. I'll do those first to get them out of the way.
Oh, Gwen - I'm looking forward to seeing them . . . will you post pictures, do you think?
What a fun thing! When my boys were at the dance stage in HS, I experimented with corsages a bit and found them rather fun, although I just did it for the 'minor' events - the girls seemed to like them.
When my older son got married, his wife choose specific flowers for each bridesmaid to match her strengths - a bit woo-woo. My cousin, a bit tight-laced, did the flowers. Cousin Jean had definite ideas on what was 'proper' for weddings...and balancing football sized hydrangeas against delicate sweet peas in adjacent bouquets was a definite stretch for her. She rose to the occasion, though, and everyting was lovely. I also had a wonderful time working with grandma-in-law (?) to pull together the reception table bouquets. We started out so tentative and ended up just throwing flowers together into canning jars willy-nilly, laughing all the while. Good memories - but bittersweet now that son and wife are splitting up (dang).
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Yes, I'll post pics. I have pics on FB from last year's prom.
Bonehead, I'm sorry to hear your son is splitting from his wife. Must be a hard time. My youngest son's long-time girlfriend broke up with him last month. I was crushed - just a month before prom! What was she thinkig?!?!? They both have other dates, and I do like the new date but I loved his old girlfriend. I'm doing her corsage as well. She's the one getting the turquoise bracelet and chocolate orchids.
I love the florist's hydrangeas. They last so much nicer than the garden variety. Here's a fairly recent arrangement I did with some white ones. Only one of them shows up in this photo. I like to stick other flowers right into the hydrangea. They are just luscious!
Ooooh- pretty. :)
Bye-bye slugs. Traps still working!
Gwen, the boquet is beautiful!
I too used to play with corsages and thought it was great fun. Still have a box full of dried ones somewhere I think.
Bea, your pic is lovely too in a disgusting sort of way... PBR looks like it is the drink of choice for the little buggers.
Regarding my racoon from the last thread, I honestly don't think that he was diseased. I got a pretty good up close and personal look at him when he went back into the tree, and other than being dazed from such a long fall, he looked in perfect health. The "ruckus" was a bunch of debris falling out of the tree. It looks to me like he had found a squirrel nest that he was raiding and the nest gave way out from under him, which would explain the tumble of an animal who typically wouldn't.
I simply cannot make up my mind where to plant my 5 evergreen huckleberries. Anyone got experience with these? Apparently they can take sun OR shade and, depending on conditions, can be 3x3' or 10x10'.
If they are like our natives, they fruit best in sun or dappled sun.
I just stuck my nose close to the 'jacob's ladder' and wow does it smell good. All three are blooming together and each has a slightly different shade of purple.
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I think this is the right picture that shows all three. I have two more that aren't blooming yet.
Well no! I know I took one.
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Thanks, Willow, that's helpful. Off to scout the sunny spots ...
Ok this is it. It was still in the camera
Here's a pritty one of a hosta coming up.
And the anemone and bergenia
And the Lewisa is blooming
I took all my baby plants out for the day, for the first time. They are getting so big. Kym, those little tomatoes are about eight inches tall and one has a little bloom on it.
We went to the dermatologist last Wednesday and now we both have to go back on the 25th to have basal cell removed. It is DH's fifth one and my first. But I sure don't regret spending my life outside in the sun. Tis a small price to pay.
I agree, Willow. Plus you certainly don't LOOK as if you abused our native sunlight.
Kymm, I've really been enjoying your lettuces, too.
Hi summer. Smoking and sunshine sure doesn't help anything though.
I also planted seeds outside today. The daylilies RJ sent and some Beahive sent last fall. Plus some cosmos I had
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I've read that cats can be attracted to Jacob's Ladder (polemonium). Has anyone experienced this? I have never noticed my cats pay any attention to it. They do like their catnip, and occasionally lay in the catmint, but totally ignored the cat grass I planted one year. Perhaps, like people, they all have their vice of choice.
I don't grow Polemonium, but my cats are attracted to some grasses and to members of the mint (salvia/agastache/mint/catmint) family . . .
My cats have dug up every kiwi I ever tried to plant, and then dragged the lifeless bodies all over the place.
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My cat loves grass, mint, carrot and celery leaves...
Speaking of carrots - I saw a piece on the news about Water Hemlock, the most poisonous plant in North America. Looks a lot like a carrot -
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/05/10/1421715/bellingham-man-warns-others-after.html
I've never seen my cat on the JL but Mindy sat on the pot before it came up, to get herself in the sun. She likes to sit on plants.
That piece on Water Hemlock was in the Tacoma Tribune also. We have a lot of it in Mason Co. and dealt with is a lot in Master Gardeners.
There's a lot of sitting on things in my yard, too. :-)
I didn't realize that there was so much of it - or that it looked so much like parsley, carrots, etc.
These are blooming now, right? I was just about to ask whether anyone knew the name of the current roadside plant that looks like Queen Anne's lace on steroids.
We have a lot of Queen Anne's Lace, though, too. Unfortunately there are quite a few of these plants with white flowers . . .
How someone who's into "local foods" could confuse them with a carrot, however, is a mystery to me.
Yeah, the scary part for me is that he saw the difference and was so careless about eating it anyway . . .
Doesn't sound to me like the root looked like a carrot, just the leaf?? Even the stem had purple spots. People who pick wild foods need to know what they are eating for heaven's sake!!! There is also an edible Camas, I have heard, and another one that is poisonous.
On another topic, I am just back from an 'adventure' helping DH and friend get a truck out of bad situation up a steep access road (read: a partially overgrown path) to a water tank where they are putting in a solar panel. Actually, my role was to drive to their location with the come-along and hike it up to the place where the truck had gotten stuck coming around a sharp curve (and nearly over the side of a ravine), and also to hold the flashlight as dusk fell. There were some dicey moments in which we discussed the possibility of hiring the football team, but in the end we were successful.
Very nice photos of beautiful plants! Thank you all. When I get home I have some great photos of AK to share. The sun has been a constant visitor here. My ferry ride today was breath-taking. I am headed to the ocean beach tomorrow at Yakutat. They have a mountain that rises off the ocean to 18,000 ft. No cell so pictures in 6 days
Oh Lordy, my back is screaming tonight. I worked for several hours today trying to catch up on things in the garden. I still have lots to do, but I made a good dent today. I finally got all the dahlias planted- I hope they do well, it would be so awesome to have tons of pretty dahlias! Planted and re-potted a lot of other stuff too, no more mini pot ghetto on the porch!
It seems that none of the seeds I direct sowed last fall did anything. Very disappointing. I had a lot of cool stuff I was expecting to come up, but they all fizzled. Looks like I also lost both my cannas, my black magic Colocasia and my Odontonema strictum. So sad. :(
Okay everyone! I need your wide awake thoughts on Saturday (your day, my night) - I'm off on the Moonwalk again tonight - 26.2 miles starting at Midnight in our bras! And I have to say it is not all that warm out there! But - there will be 15,000 of us walking walking walking, and I am just thrilled to be part of it! And I've just totted up my sponsorship forms and I am pleased as punch that I've come up with over £700 sponsorship! Yea team! Tomorrow I will be sleeping the best sleep of the year, nothing like staying up all night walking to let you get a good 12 hour sleep - just love it.
See you post-walking. xoxo
Just keep walking, walking, walking!!! Sleep well afterward. Hope you stayed warm enough.
