Re: Gaura

Theresa -- your energy amazes me (and inspires me)!
    Yes my Gaura flops too, but since I am trying to fill up space, I don't
really mind.  I am going to experiment with cutting off the flopping parts
and seeing if the center parts will stay more upright.  But I think it is
just its pattern.
--Barb Tandy, Grass Valley CA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Theresa" <tchessie@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] update


> Ugh!  You should be immobile today from the sounds of it!  Hope you took
> a nice long soak in the tub last night!
>
> Here I just finally got the laminate flooring put into my office at
> home!  It's so nice not to be walking on the cement pad any longer.
> Nothing like ordering furniture to get the clock ticking....  New desk
> and bookshelf come on Tuesday.  Of course, in the process of working
> around the house yesterday, I decided that the laundry room is my next
> project to tackle.  I already picked out a paint color, and will use one
> of 2 tile choices for the floor  (the linoleum has to go!).  I also
> decided that I hate to color my husband chose for the the hallway- so
> actually I will be painting it the same color as the laundry room.  When
> he gets back from Mexico on Thursday, he may think he walked into the
> wrong house!
>
> Today it is a toss up- I can either paint, or mess with the chainsaw and
> prune back the Bradford pears.... The chainsaw is borrow and likely
> needs a new chain....not sure I'm really in the mood for that.  Think
> I'll just do regular deadheading/pruning for a while this AM, and then
> come inside to paint after it gets hot.  Supposed to be 90 again today.
> Summer may have finally decided to come!
>
> Oh- on a gardening note...I have 2 guara plants- I think they are both
> "siskiyou pink".  Mine flop all over the place.  I thought it was
> becuase they didn't get enough sun, so I moved one to see if that would
> improve things-  Nope- now it is just more visible (and hence more
> annoying).  Anybody else have this problem?  The dang stems absolutely
> drag on the ground where they aren't leaning on other plants.   This may
> turn into another project today- to yank this out!
>
> Theresa
>
> Donna wrote:
>
> >Well I feel like Theresa tonight... worked my butt off today!
> >
> >We finally got the pond cleaned out although we still have the two
> >waterfalls to tackle tomorrow. It turned out to be a bigger project than
> >either of us thought. With all the rain we have been getting it was a
> >loosing battle, not to mention we got water under the liner somehow in
this
> >process. Lotsa innovated ways to get a pump under the liner to drain
> >it....and quite a bit of heated discussions on how to do that.
> >
> >Also took a few minutes to see what is happening in my garden. Not much
in
> >bloom, but any day now they are all gonna pop. What really impressed me
was
> >the size of my hostas! Geesh... this wet weather made them grow like
crazy.
> >
> >Speaking of wet weather, I found it interesting that much of the soil
under
> >the surface a few/6 inches is dry. I can NOT understand it with all the
rain
> >we have gotten lately. Did also get the beds on the side and back of
house
> >weeded and assessed. Need something for where the sweet autumn clematis
was,
> >as it got moved out to an area it can overtake. Any suggestions, would
like
> >something about 6 ft tall and has about 3-4 ft for width space. Full sun,
> >western exposure. Decent soil, drains, will be against a beige brick
wall.
> >
> >Donna
> >
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