Re: more tornadoes!
I know the feeling of missing it due to being busy.
also seems that things are out of sync here again. Way
too much growing/blooming at the same time. Probably
cause of this heat wave that came quick and lasted.
Even the darn dandolines are blooming already!
A neighborhood nursery is having a sale on geraniums,
and I usually use a few here and there... so while I
was there I checked out what else they had...
Seems they have plenty of the Pixie coneflower but
geesh... at 24.99 a plant, it stayed there! Granted
they were larger plants in what appeared to be a 2
gallon trade size.... but ....
Donna
--- Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
> I, too, finally got a chance to do something of my
> own in my garden. All I
> managed was to trim all the grass around the rock
> edgings. The nice thing
> about this job is that it gets me up close and
> personal with the plants. I
> was startled to see my lovely little species
> Rhododendron in full bloom. I
> wish I had the name. I thought it was R. impeditum
> or R prinophyllum, but
> the pics and descriptions I see are no match for
> this. I bought it from a
> Pennsylvania mailorder nursery that dealt mostly in
> Appalacian plants as I
> recall; they went out of business a year later. I
> bought it because they
> said it would stay small and that it actually likes
> alkaline soil. I gotta
> get a picture of it, just lovely!
> And I might've missed it because I've been so busy.
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
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