Re: how does your garden (or garden planning) grow?
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  • Subject: Re: how does your garden (or garden planning) grow?
  • From: &* C* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 02:42:33 +0000 (UTC)
Hi, guys! good to hear from you. I was in Steamboat Springs, CO, with friends and extended family, so didn't check email regularly. I, too, have missed garden chat. Do not do Facebook - my husband spends enough time there for the both of us! Weather has been milder than usual here in Quincy, IL this winter, though it was colder than Steamboat when I was there! Have started garden cleanup, though in the past few years, I can usually manage around the house, do the vegetable garden, and get very depressed about the state of everything else. I have overextended on volunteering and have less energy than I had... but 2017 is another year. My white fig has broken dormancy in the garage (there is a window there) so I bring it out daily to let it adjust to sunlight outside. Inside I have two cattleya in full bloom, and a crazy amaryllis that just now is breaking dormancy, so will probably bloom in the summer! My vegetable seeds are here, so I need to get the snow peas, lettuce, spinach and radishes in soon. Am still doing my bit as a Master Gardener, which includes going on the radio once a month to answer call in questions. That keeps me on my toes. Please lets continue conversing!
Cathy

From: "betsy" <25717d541@rewrite.hort.net>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 8:02:50 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] how does your garden (or garden planning) grow?

HI Everyone,
   Now it does feel like spring with everyone chiming in about their gardens and what is happening in them.

   I was in Chicagoland for the snow storm last week visiting my Mom. And returned to work yesterday at the garden Center. I guess it was 80 here in Denver last weekend.
   My husband wants to replace the raised south deck this year for sure, so my gardening space will be gone. My plan is to concentrate on the employee garden at work as a substitute. Should be interesting.

Take care

Betsy

-----Original Message-----
From: Melody Hobert-Mellecker <1679c9fb1@rewrite.hort.net>
Sent: Mar 17, 2017 8:08 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] how does your garden (or garden planning) grow?

So good to hear from all of you. Auralie...So sorry to hear about your fracture but glad to hear you are on the mend.  Carolyn...Good to hear you are doing well.  We are coming off a crazy winter here in eastern Iowa...So warm, so little snow and then a few days ago it decided to dump 6 inches and then get really cold (single digits).  Today we got back into the 60's.  I fear for my cherry crop this year as I'm certain my tree must be very confused.  My husband is now 15 months cancer free and doing well.  We are into a major remodel of our house now that all of the kids have moved out.  Anxiously awaiting warm weather that lasts. We are going to paint the house this summer so will have to work around the plants...  Take care all!

On Mar 17, 2017 20:18, "Carolyn Magnani" <9*@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:
Jim, I am doing well. 2016 was a full year for us. We built a villa which was the worst build we had experienced. It was to be completed end of Dec 2015 but didn't close till 13 March 2016. Fortunately we did not put our home on the market till we closed. It sold quickly for our asking price without inspection or any requests. We priced it with the idea the gardens would make it difficult to sell. The first thing the new owners did was took out a small water feature in front of the house and the pond, stream and all the rock which had to be done by hand. I'm sure that was an expensive job. I don't think they have done anything since. I was by there recently and the Lily stems are still standing from last year. I am okay as I didn't see the garden fall to weeds and overgrowth. My husband and I have both received a new knee since. This was his 2nd and he heals so quickly with no swelling or other problems. Mine hasn't been so easy as I had a triple fusion in my ankle (same leg) in 2014 but I am working at the greenhouse. We'll see how that goes.
Jim, are you gardening? I was thinking of you just the other day as I was caring for my Clivia which I still have.
Carolyn (Ceres)

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On Mar 17, 2017, at 7:47 PM, James Singer <1*@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:

Anyone heard from Ceres?

Gondwana has always been at war with Laurasia.

On Mar 17, 2017, at 5:40 PM, Cyndi Johnson <a*@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:

It's good to hear from you, Auralie! Sorry to hear about your fall but I'm glad to know you're doing better.

Cyndi


On 3/16/2017 4:58 AM, Auralie Logan wrote:
I, too, miss gardenchat, since I don't spend time on Facebook.
It has been good to hear of your garden plans.  I have been struggling to figure
out what I can do this spring since I had a fall and a broken hip over the Christmas
weekend.  I am getting around pretty well now, but don't think I will be able to
handle my hillside garden or do much bending for weed-pulling.  Old age - 88
years - has a lot to do with it, too.
 
Our winter was most peculiar - warm, even up into the 60s some days for the
months of January and February.  My white Hellebore has been spectacular
with more than 35 blooms. and about three weeks ago I took a bunch of blooms
from my conventional purple Hellebore to our garden club meeting.  Daffodils
are well up and  some of the early ones are showing buds.  Trees are definitely
budding out.  And then two days ago we had a so-called blizzard with a foot of
snow and temperatures down into the 20s.  (I used to be told that to be a blizzard
the temperatures must be below 20 degrees and the wind above 50 mph - with
more than a foot of snow.)  Anyway, today is bright and sunny, and already in the
upper 20s.  I think rain is predicted for the weekend.  Oh well. 
 
I really must get my head together and order at least things to plant in the pots
near the house. 
 
It was so good to hear from some of you
Auralie
 
In a message dated 3/16/2017 12:18:36 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 3*@rewrite.hort.net writes:
After hearing from you all in your quest to help me figure out a plant, I realize how much I miss our gardenchat.  How are people fairing now that winter in either over or nearly over?

Here in the Sacramento Valley we are in full spring mode. Bulbs, trees, etc blooming.  Veggie garden is planted.  Allergies are horrible this year after all the rain that we got.

Made an impulse buy of a White Fairy Magnolia shrub.  The flowers smelled heavenly and I was sold at one sniff.  Got it home with the help of a friend, but now need to get someone out to dig a hole (through a big tree root) to get it in the ground.  Since I hurt my wrist last Fall I have had to rely on others to do major digging and certainly sawing. (although I did briefly try to saw through it before I came to my senses this evening.  And then sat with an icepack on my wrist for the next 30 min).


Theresa


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