Re: autumn planting....
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  • Subject: Re: autumn planting....
  • From: P* E* <g*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:47:09 -0500
wow - sounds pretty Kitty!!  new cultivar of coreopsis?

On 7/24/10, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> You're a better man than I, Gene Bush....
> Jumping!  Would I had the energy. Actual is 93 degrees, with heat index,
> it's 100.
>
> I just came in fromlisting the plants in my little nursery.  It's time to
> start making sale tags for them for my sale next month.  Found a cartful
> that need to be moved up a pot size.
>
> No fall orders for me Pam.  I way-over-bought this spring, ending up now
> with one vauable Coreopsis 'Cosmic Evolution' that's still in its pot
> because I don't have a good spot for it yet.  She's a happy plant but not
> colorful like the pictures right now.  In extreme heat she comes out white;
> cooler weather the 3in flowers are flushed red-violet.
>
>
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Bush" <genebush@netsurfusa.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 2:05 PM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] autumn planting....
>
>
>
> 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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