Wonderful tongue-in-cheek emulation, ZoneDenial... gave us all a smile!
more humblebumble jumble
OK....THAT made my day!!!
Back to gardening.......
Blooms/Darius on your Powis Castle have you ever pruned them? I did this Spring (2 plants from last year) as they were bare twigs and boy was that ever a mistake!!! They are now stunted silly looking things. I'm hoping in about 3 yrs they might be back to the size they were last year! I learn a lot of things the hard way in my gardens. LOL
Brenda, I always cut mine back to green wood in late spring. I never had any that did well after 3-5 years, though... no matter what I did to them.
sorry this was a double post!!!!
This message was edited Aug 26, 2004 12:11 AM
OMG the boy has REALLY LOST IT!!!!!!!!!
I am glad to see that DON is never alone.....................
Norman your Reflecting Pond is beautiful, you should really add it to the DG photo contest!!!!!!!!! LOL
Hey Badseed, I am eating jalapeno popper's with cream cheese. My monitor was totalled!!!!!
sue
This message was edited Aug 26, 2004 12:17 AM
Brenda, mine was new last year. It froze back to the ground and has come back twice as big as last year.
and 'spin has had a Powis in the same spot for years and years - it spread to an easy eight foot in length and she kept it cut to about a three foot width to allow for the pathway. Of course that's southern Cal where it's never really winter.
She really butchered it to a fare thee well this spring and I've no idea how it's recovering... but it was a remarkable size. ~'spin!~ you listenin? how's it doing?
Well the only thing I can figure is that mine are in too wet of an area. It's stays pretty damp in the location my two are in except in cases of extreme drought (which we are NOT having by any means this year!). Hmmmmmm......wonder how extensive the root system is after nearly 2 years? I'd hate to dig up and lose them.
Brenda, I suspect what got mine was almost no drainage in heavy clay soil.
When I pulled out the roots after 3-4 years, they were a root areal about 14" across and not as deep.
Thanks, Darius. Maybe I'll dig one and see how it goes. One is doing worse than the other so I'll make it the guinea pig.
zonedenial, To be continued, to try to get to the bottom of his many personalities. Donna
zonedenial (love that name, by the way) It looks like y'all have just worked your little tails off to get this beautiful garden looking the way it does. My my, it looks like your neighbors think so too. They are walking all through your backyard looking at everything. A little bold, if you ask me. *sniff*
That's what the stop sign was for, but people just make their own rules anymore; that sunken garden is right next to my conservatory,too... oh, I really should post some pictures of my house,too...
Don
Oooh! I can only imagine what your house looks like! LOL And I really love all your homemade signs! They're all so quaint, especially the red hexagon.
You guys are killing me!
Don or is it Norman :-).........would love to see your house and some more gardening pictures......send me whoever is helping you because I am busting my bud and not getting anywhere...hahaha,
Brigitte
i to was wondering about your house .. do all you brothers live together or married ??anyone single..??the petunias are so lovely.. i would like some of your signs are they high ??where do you buy them..?well bye don, dan norman or??
"Anyone single?" Recommend you stay away from that bunch.
Imway2dumb...you're right on...there isn't a "single" one in the bunch! LOL
~julie~
Oh. Its (they're) expotential, then!
having gotten to meet one of the many zonedenials in person! I must say I wouldn't have guessed that he had all of those other people inside him!!! He is very slender I can't imagine where they all fit!!!!
I must also tell you that his gardens are even lovlier than the pics he showed you!!!! He is being very modest!!!!
Wandasflowers got a chance to view them for herself and was awestruck by them!!!
So Zone what is your response to those who know!!!!!!!haha
"Oh. Its (they're) expotential, then!" imway2, I think you got the message! :-)
~julie~
Hey Don, dan, dave, homer, norman and anyone else at your house that's listening (GRIN) I'll have to find out where Iowa City is and drop in sometime. I'm sure *one* of your multiples would like to talk gardening.
Well, I guess it's back to reality... even adding city park didn't really make my garden look like HumbleBumble's (or is it JumbleBumble?) There's just me, three cats, and my cute and cuddly wife, Liz, around here... though it would be nice to have several people out working in the garden while I'm eating nachos on the deck! There are times, though, when the sun is just right, and if you squint your eyes so you don't see the weeds, when my garden does look pretty nice. A cold beer in your hand helps. Julie if you get to I.C., by all means stop in. Do you follow the Badgers football team? The game is in Iowa City this year and isn't quite a sellout yet, but getting close. Now get your eyes all squinty... this picture is for real.
Don
Don, that is beautiful! Show us more!
Terrie
WOW Don..............how BEAUTIFUL!
Brigitte
Believe me it only gets better!!!
Don show them a photo of your gate, as I remember I thought it was absolutely wonderful!
Wow! And, no *!@#&*$ lawn!
I've shown this before, but this is the main front gate (there are 5 gates into the garden, as the whole thing has to be fenced in, due to the dear deer. These gates were made for us as a gift by a friend who is a mason by trade and very handy (you should see HIS garden; three acres in the middle of town with all kinds of walls, gates, trellises, etc. that he made himself. You can't get a piece of paper in between his wall blocks). A few years ago his wife developed breast cancer, and so they had a long winter pretty much staying at home while she went through chemo., and so he started making things for the garden in his basement workshop. This was the first gate he'd made. His wife is fine now, and we call these the Sunshine Gates.
With that I'm off to New Orleans for the weekend... why I'm heading South when it's so hot and drippy here you could cut the air with a knife, is a GOOD question.
Don
Very nice!!!!!!!!!!!
Ohhhhh Don...that garden is gorgeous...and positively LOVE that gate. I might have to talk my DH and sons into making something like that for me. Of course, that would AFTER they put up the STOCKADE privacy fence between me and my "neighbor!" (My neighbor just happens to be my youngest son...and I'm always teasing him about about the "people" that hang out next...and those NOISEY cars, motorcycles and other VROOOOM VROOOOMS.) (BIG GRIN! I LOVE my kids! AND my grandkids...just wish I hadn't made it possible for ALL of us to live on 5 acres. hahahaha)
Thanks for the laughs, Don...lots of fun!
~julie~
(not really a Badgers fan...they don't skate do they? :-D)
Again, no lawn! "Love the wild look!" No signs? Ha, ha.
Well, zonedenial, hope you have a great time in LA. My oldest son lives in Baton Rouge, but I don't visit this time of year. Show us more pictures of your garden when you get back home. Love your gate. My near neighbor made my Frog gate for me. I've posted it somewhere. Donna
O.K., back in town again, and not to stretch this thread totally beyond recognition, but you wanted more REAL garden pictures: I never think this garden looks like anything in pictures, because #1 I'm a lousy photographer, and #2 the garden is infiltrated into a hilly woodland, with winding trails that only reveal little snippets of the garden at a time. I don't know if you're familiar with the Yellow Book garden tours in England; 3,500 gardens all over the country that are open to the public one day each year, with the proceeds going to charity. The requirement for inclusion is that your garden must provide at least 55 minutes of interest for a reasonably sophisticated gardener; I always laugh that this garden would qualify just in that it would take 55 minutes just to find your way back to the house, regardless of whether you ever saw a flower. Anyway, here's some pictures roughly in order of season.First, daffodils in Spring:
Don
Some Rhody and Azalea pictures:
More of same:
And more:
Himalayan Mayapple:
Sunset with rainbow on the pond:
Creeping phlox and cardinal shrub:
Old fashioned rose:
Mum jumble:
