Re: Queen's wreath

Cathy - mix a bunch of safflower seed in the bird seed mixture.  Tree rats
hate it.  It tastes bitter to them but the birds don't care.

On 2/5/07, Cathy Carpenter <cathy.c@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
> I'm feeding them: 7 feeders total! And figuring out how to outwit the
> tree rats that are determined to clean them out in a heart beat...
>
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>
> On Feb 3, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Pam Evans wrote:
>
> > If it's this miserable for us, how much worse is it for the
> > birdies?  I had
> > to drag an old umbrella out to do mine the other day.  Sugar had
> > never seen
> > an umbrella before, it freaked her out when she saw it blow across the
> > porch.
> >
> > On 2/3/07, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> It is bitterly cold and blustery here Donna, don't know how you
> >> can stand
> >> going out there to fill the feeders, but bless you for doing so.
> >> I had to
> >> go out twice today, not counting getting the paper.  Once I went
> >> to help
> >> the
> >> lady across the street who couldn't for the life of her get her
> >> new dvd
> >> player to work. (you connect yelloew to yellow not yellow to
> >> white).  then
> >> later I had to visit a friend who'd recently had back surgery.
> >> Meanwhile
> >> I
> >> have a zillion projects I need to work on.  Well, tomorrow is
> >> another day.
> >>
> >> Kitty
> >> neIN, Zone 5
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 5:18 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Queen's wreath
> >>
> >>
> >>> wonderful pick me up Jim.....
> >>>
> >>> Here it is currently 4 with the wind howling
> >>> at 37mpg, which translates to minus 18.... yipes!... going down
> >>> to minus
> >> 4
> >>> tonight with a high of 2 tomorrow... then minus 10 tomorrow night. I
> >> think
> >>> they said we are in for a week of this nonsense.
> >>>
> >>> So all this means- start
> >>> cutting now... gonna loose allot of plants this winter as they
> >>> really
> >>> don't
> >>> have the protection they need.  We usually have a couple inches/
> >>> ft of
> >> snow
> >>> when this happens.  The last snowfall was light and fluffy and
> >>> blew into
> >>> the
> >>> next county... sigh.
> >>>
> >>> My mother has taken on feeding every bird for miles...
> >>> trust me- they are all in our yards... hundreds of them.  Bird
> >>> feeders
> >> are
> >>> filled twice a day and can't keep up... she also has started the
> >>> 'bird
> >>> bread'
> >>> campaign.  Local thrift hostess place is doing a great business with
> >>> me....
> >>> they are going thru 8-10 loafs of bread a day.... I really didn't
> >>> think
> >> it
> >>> was
> >>> a good idea to give birds bread, but there is no arguing with
> >>> mother...sigh.
> >>> Donna
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message ----
> >>> From: james singer
> >>> <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> >>> To: Garden Chat <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>> Sent: Saturday,
> >>> February 3, 2007 3:56:38 PM
> >>> Subject: [CHAT] Queen's wreath
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> For those, like
> >>> me, mired in crappy weather at the moment, our Petrea
> >>> continues to bloom.
> >>> Makes it almost pleasant to go outside for a look.
> >>> Here's an old picture:
> >>> http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/14176/
> >>> Wonderful vine, but I can't
> >>> figure out how to propagate it--I've tried
> >>> cuttings three or four times and
> >>> it doesn't appear to set seed. Maybe I
> >>> need to try air-layering it.
> >>>
> >>> Island
> >>> Jim
> >>> Southwest Florida
> >>> 27.1 N, 82.4 W
> >>> Hardiness Zone 10
> >>> Heat Zone 10
> >>> Sunset
> >>> Zone 25
> >>> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> >>> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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> > Pam Evans
> > Kemp TX
> > zone 8A
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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