Re: lurking

Scottie - If you do join the landlubber crowd, I can fill up the car w/
stuff for your garden. Four o'clocks, volunteer purple coneflowers,
summer/annual poinsettias, black-eyed Susans, cannas and whatever else
I've got growing on!! Not to mention my usual overabundance of seedlings
every Spring. Just say the word. I made a road trip to Jesse's her first
Spring in OK. Car was so full I had to use my side mirrors. LOL


keep us posted - excellent to hear from you!!

Pam

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Scottie Baugh" <scottieb@mindspring.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Wed, 6 Aug 2003 03:27:48 -0500

>I confess, I'm still lurking.  I didn't realize the list had dropped to so
>few contributors.
>
>My dock garden is just about at the end of it's time.  It's been so hot here
>for so long, then we have afternoon showers, which just make it hotter.  The
>combination of 90 plus temps and humidity, and things are nicely steamed.
>The lemon basil was first to go, then a couple of pots of petunias, then we
>had the storm and had to move everything to keep the seawater out.  Lost the
>nicotiana and 4 o'clocks, even the marigolds gave up.  Nothing worse that a
>collection of dried out, burned up container plants.
>
>So I'm thinking about a late summer crop.  Thought I might plant some
>tomatoes toward the end of the month, and more lemon basil.  Maybe some
>other kitchen herbs, though the oregano, chives, sage and parsley have
>managed to survive, and I think cooler weather will revive them.
>
>In the meantime, I'm trying to save my miniature roses, the jasmine, some
>verbena and a beautiful hibiscus a neighbor gave me. Sometimes I really wish
>for a nice shade garden!  Lovely cool ferns and hostas.
>
>And my husband is fulfilling a life long dream of growing orchids (under the
>awning on the boat).  This is great, except the boat looks like it is
>growing green hair, and he expects me to do most of the watering and
>feeding.  He takes over on weekends, and presents me with lists of things to
>do for the next week.  On the other hand, the vandas are blooming, and the
>Lady of the Night (B. nodosa) seems to stay in bloom and wafts it's
>enchanting fragrance over the deck as soon as the sun goes down.
>
>The best news is he is so taken with the orchids he is considering moving to
>land and getting a greenhouse for his 'babies'.  I will benefit, because
>I'll get a kitchen, bathroom, and a closet, and best of all the rest of the
>yard to garden in.   I read the post about 4 o'clocks last week and thought
>how wonderful it would be to grow them again; they're one of my favorites.
>
>So, if I end up with a real garden, I'll probably start quizzing you guys
>for ideas, especially those of you in our hot, humid, very looooong summers.
>
>Any body do fall gardens?  I know many of you have suffered with more rain
>than you can handle; are you thinking about doing a fall planting?
>Unfortunately, most of the things I planted in the fall in Colorado won't
>take the heat here, so I'll have to be creative.
>
>Where there's a will, there's a way!
>
>Scottie
>Texas Gulf Coast
>(still) aboard Betelgeuse
>docked in Kemah, Texas
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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