Re: autumn planting....
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  • Subject: Re: autumn planting....
  • From: P* E* <g*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:33:47 -0500
Sounds nice Gene!   And best not to overdo things right now.  I don't stay
out more than an hour in the heat w/out a tea and cool off break.  It's just
too bloody humid this year, don't know why.  It's crazy.

On 7/24/10, Gene Bush <genebush@netsurfusa.net> wrote:
>
> Hope to hey you are right about the heat easing in this lifetime, Pam
>        I am jumping about in my garden. Weeding a bit here, doing a small
> planting there. Perhaps getting rid of a plant and replacing it with
> something I like better. Improving the soil before something new goes in.
>        Near my rock garden I moved my birdbath and set it on a circle of
> stones. Next to it a flat stone with a bronze sundial down on the soil. I
> to
> weave some small asters in between the stones of the rock garden, the bird
> bath and sun dial. It is a flat creeper with starry white blooms named Snow
> Flurries. This week I also intend to work on my tall screen of perennials
> in
> a raised arch along a path that I mentioned before.
> Only working a couple of hours or so a morning, not much gets done. this
> coming week is to be more of the same...sigh.
>
> Gene E. Bush
> Munchkin Nursery & Gardens,LLC
> www.munchkinnursery.com
> Garden Writer - Photographer -  Lecturer
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf
> Of Pam Evans
> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 1:23 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: [CHAT] autumn planting....
>
> Well God help me, I just placed my fall order at High Country Gardens.  2
> Grosso lavenders, 2 Kim's knee high echinaceas, 2 Eryngium 'Big Blue' (sea
> holly), 1 Arizona Sun gaillardia & 1 Firewitch dianthus.   Most of that is
> for planting in chimney flue liners, pots & raised beds.  One fine day it
> will be cooler here again.  LOL
>
> Anyone making fall plans yet?   if so, what's on the agenda??
>
> --
> Pam Evans
> Kemp TX
> zone 8A
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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