New to the group...but an avid gardener. I've posted a couple of pics of spring in my photo album It's still early here in Virginia for the garden. We got a late frost about a week ago and it fried the early spring bulbs, and flowering trees. Much of the tree fruit crop in VA and the southeastern United States was damaged.
tis the water Katy, tis the water...sure didn't you know it flows down from those mountains...and a little poteen added!!!!!...
Ahh!! to be sure now....Katy did no dat fact.....havin a wee bit of the irish, in her....lol....tis a wee one of those irish secrets.....dat we will keep secret...lol.....mega ((Hugs))) from me to you...lol....cheers Katy
Hey, what a great lot of responses! Thanks to everyone--I feel very welcome here. Jools, I hope to someday visit...
hi, revel, piping in to let you know we got the deep south covered, too. in tennessee on this end. so right about the variety and how beautiful it is. we have many awesome people at ic--hope you will thouroughly enjoy time here. welcome, and many happy returns--and about the frost there and in mo., we had 22 and 18 degree nights for that here mid-state--so sorry to lose my impatiens, but my seedlings managed to survive--my ireses and tulips fried along with my tiger-lilies--will come back and bloom next year, though. but my gladiolus are still alive and well. friut crops here were also ruined--this was what we call a blackberry winter, but even the blackberries around here aren't doing so well after that.
Hi I love gardening too [when I'm in the mood], here in england [Lincolnshire] the weather can be a constant surprise, the frost usually kills off tender plants if you put them out before mid may time. It is very mild for the time of year, but we could still get a frost at night. however everything is growing well [too well in some cases] and I struggle with weeds.- or plants that are growing in the wrong place!
I wouldnt mind winter Fantail if I could look at your beautiful snow capped mountains.
Even in summer days you have the lovely snow capped mountains. You lucky duck.
All I have is the sea to stare out at,but thats ok...could be staring at a brick wall I s'pose.
i get to see green rolling hills; fields of tall colored grasses and wildflowers--foothills carpeted in varying shades of trees--lakes, streams, rivers, and hollows--magnificent sunrises above water and molten in the sky--spirit expanding sunrises that suspend time for their viewers--and still not leave my hometown, but if i go to rural areas, get to see more. (have i convinced anyone to come visit us in tn. yet?) wildlife? we got it--and night life, too.we even have one natural swamp in our state due to accomidating earthquake in 1912....
would really love to see those mtns., though, our smokies are old enough to be foothils, now, and not mtns.
any takers on the nifty hie to tn and wendy's place trip?
Well, I have to say that in Florida right now, we are praying for rain! Everything is getting brown and crispy. Also, fires have been a problem. The water level is so low in Lake Okeechobee that we are looking at serious drinking water problems. What we need is a nice hurricane ... just kidding!
Yeah Irish coffee!
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pleasant, you know the saying--be careful what you wish for. they said on the news their is a hurricane brewing in the gulf--a small one--class 1 i think. thank the Good Lord not bigger, though. i so feel for you and others near wild-fires--the haze here in tn rolling in from it is awful--can't imagine what it is there! y'all have my fervent prayers. good luck and God bless!
Thank you Wildflower. As you know by now, the storm wasn't much. But we are finally getting some much needed rain. We need more! And I do hope the hurricanes stay away. People are in such an insurance crunch here too.
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i'm sure . i can't even begin to imagine what their premiums must look like or what the co."s
will or will not cover. hope to get more rain here, soon, too, just not getting enough, but spatters here and there. am with you on being glad hurricanes weren't bad, though. hope you have lovely weekend, pleasant
Just popped in to say hello and what a terrible state my garden is this year it has been very dry and hot oh well there is hope for next year have a good one everyone
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hiya Moira...So has my garden been a mess..because I was laid up with a bad back for weeks. I'm just getting over it now, but wont be gardening for a long time.
We had a huge hail storm here and it stripped the roses and I thought thats them gone...but now summer has arrive they are coming up lovlier then what they were before...maybe they need to be stripped.
I have never fussed with them, like feeding them etc..and when I pruned them back I just hacked at them..I saw a fellow some years ago on a gardening program saying to do that...it works
New to the group...but an avid gardener. I've posted a couple of pics of spring in my photo album It's...
Hello Revel. I enjoyed the pictures that you have on your space. I am also new to the group but enjoy gardening very much.Gardening is something that I do to relax. I hope that you have better luck in the summer months with your bulbs and trees. Where I am it is extremely hot now and dry so I have to water constantly. I look forward to seeing more pictures in the future of your flowers. Crystal
