Pix of your Garden and gardening tips!

Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

I don't know if they would grow there. I don't know their zone listing or your growing zone. I have a small regular veg garden too, but wanted to try the TopsyTurvy for a tomato this year.

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Firecracker · Subject: Re: Pix of your Garden and gardening tips! Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:19 pm

Aerwin is in Georgia. I think it gets pretty hot there right Aerwin?

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aerwin · Number of posts: 1043 Location: Georgia Registration date: 2008-08-09

Well let's see is it hot? YES!! WE are at 84% humidity today , that's all! At least In live in the NE GA Mountains. It is always hotter in Atlanta. But still it is the south. In summer.

Firecracker · Subject: Re: Pix of your Garden and gardening tips! Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:07 pm

Well, we are really humid here today too!

But that is because it is raining AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

ahh

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Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

Each area has growing zones, you'd have to look to see if it grows well in your zone.

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aerwin · Number of posts: 1043 Location: Georgia Registration date: 2008-08-09

I am going to buy a pack of seeds and try anyways. The most I'll be out is a dollar. I put Zinnia and Calendula out and they are comimg up. We need rain.

Firecracker · Subject: Re: Pix of your Garden and gardening tips! Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:14 pm

You can have ours!

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Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

aerwin wrote:

I am going to buy a pack of seeds and try anyways. The most I'll be out is a dollar. I put Zinnia and Calendula out and they are comimg up. We need rain.

What kind are you going to sow?

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aerwin · Number of posts: 1043 Location: Georgia Registration date: 2008-08-09

The poppies! They look so pretty.

horselaydee · Subject: Re: Pix of your Garden and gardening tips! Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:47 pm

Sky wrote:

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A landscape architect.................oh, how lucky for you. My hubby mows the lawn, that's it. I don't have the time anymore to be out in the garden like I'd want to. I have a hard enough time just getting the beds weeded. FC, I'm not that knowledgeable, but some of these plants I've had a while so you learn. I buy what I like and sometimes that means taking a huge risk. I've learned that I don't HAVE to keep something that's not doing well, or I don't like, or any divisions of plants! If I like a plant, I look it up so that I know what it wants to thrive. The Painted Tongue I found at one of our Grocery stores nursery section and fell in love with the colors. I had never seen or heard of it before. The following year when I had so many little seedlings in the pot, I knew something reseeded itself, but I had no idea. So when it bloomed I posted at a gardening forum to find out what it was.

HL, I can't wait to see pics of your gardens.

Well, he is a LA, but no longer works in that industry. He got into traffic engineering in the 80's the last time the economy went into the toilet and has stayed with it. He is a very talented designer and can build/make just about anything. He isn't so keen on yard work, weeding, planting, or plant selection so that is all up to me. I am lucky though, I definitely value his opinion on landscapte ideas and he has designed our place and has done a great job.

Yikes, the weeds are a nightmare at our place. It would be a full time job just keeping up with them!

Aerwin, you vegetable garden sounds lovely! I gave that up years ago. i just don't have the time. I did plant a raspberry, backberry, blueberry, and roma tomato plant this year though, also have a patio tomato and need to plant some herbs I bought too.

I was hoping a few more flowers would be in bloom for me, but I will take a few photos tonight and post them.

horselaydee · Subject: Re: Pix of your Garden and gardening tips! Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:00 am

Ok, well I got a few while it was a bit overcast this afternoon. We still have lots of work to do finishing the hardscape walkway to the front of the house and will eventually do aggreggate or some stone treatment to the side entry to cover the concrete pad. We tend to like to save money anywhere we can on landscape projects.:twist
Remember we are in a semi-arid climate here, much different than the rain forest Seattle area climate.

This is view of the side entrance to the house:

Close-up of a garden sculpture my husband made:

The terraced perennial gardens:

Hubby's attempt at a Knight chess piece topiary:

My fav Hybrid tea roses are starting to bloom:

Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

HL, your house and gardens are beautiful! I do remember the sculpture. I love the aggregate entrance and the terraced perennial gardens. I have to stake or somehow support my delphiniums because with a heavy rain they will topple. Your rose is beautiful and I love roses but with our climate they are a lot of work to keep healthy and I don't have the patience.

I love some of the grasses, do you have any that aren't invasive? I had planted one last year to temporarily fill a spot until we could move a tree to the location and it was really invasive and spread rapidly with underground runners. Now, I will only plant one in a pot first to see how it behaves.

Do you grow lavender? I have a nice grouping of lavender on the front corner and will take a pic when they come into bloom.

I have a small vegetable garden, just lettuce, carrots, parsnips and this year watermelon. We'll see how that goes as our season might not be long enough. I usually plant eggplant, but I wanted the white eggplant and couldn't find any starts. I also grow rhubarb. My sis just sent me a kick-ass BBQ sauce recipe using rhubarb!

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Firecracker · Subject: Re: Pix of your Garden and gardening tips! Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:51 am

Simply gorgeous HL!

You guys did an amazing job with your landscaping!

Your house looks so warm and inviting!! Very Happy

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aerwin · Number of posts: 1043 Location: Georgia Registration date: 2008-08-09

That is beyond beautiful HL! It is gorgeous. I really wish I could grow Delephenium. They are one of my favorite flowers! Oh gosh I love Rhubarb!! Love , love. It is to hot for that here too. I gues neither of you are really humid?

Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

No, we don't have humiditiy here. I live in Western Washington state so we get a good amount of cool cloudy days with drizzle, usually.

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