Re: OT-CHAT: nail in the foot
- Subject: Re: OT-CHAT: nail in the foot
- From: n*@charter.net
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 17:08:13 -0000
"I do keep my tetanus booster shots up to date...I'm used to
doctoring horse foot abscesses, punctures etc so have a complete
collection of veterinary supplies & have started the hot
epsom salt soaks. I'll live."
You have my care and concern too, although prior to now it hasn't
been expressed, just thought about and prayed over. Good to hear
you'll live--punctures are scary things these days.....This just
hasn't been your spring, has it.
"Companion plants," aka "native vegetation...." is on par as far as
I'm concerned with the native fauna. Slugs are trying to eat this
and that, and a rabbit (?) sheared off a clump of Blue Rhythm found
here under a dogwood tree. Earlier a deer went through and took a
Euonymous clear to the ground that I had started from a cutting. I
went and dug out a few moth balls and sprinkled them around the clump
of Blue Rhythm just in case the Eater Bunny thinks the regrowth
equally nutritionally potential. That clump wasn't far enough from
the seedlings to be comfortable.....
Tantara (my only SDB for now) opened its first bloom yesterday.
Dorothy had no idea iris came in such colors. She actually rather
liked it.
CIrisPond had a picture of Ghio's ROGUE posted. Keith Keppel had
sent us this three years ago and it is just now going to bloom for
the first time (my fault, I think---poor soil and the move out from
Fletcher). Trouble is, it is going to almost completely bloom out.
I'll have the spent rhiz's and two slivers left. It is a red-bearded
red, and rather striking. Now what am I going to cross it with? My
L and VL things have buds up and some of the M's haven't even started
to swell at ground level, whereas the VE-E things are no further
advanced than some of the L's. Is this an abnormal year or what!
At least the Dogwoods are putting on a spectacular show--for a
change. Last year they were all brown from wind burn.
The Trout lilies, wood anemones, ferns and Jewelweed Impatiens I
brought from my stepson's other place he's developing last year all
are thriving, and a few Trillium (the hanging head one that has the
invisible bloom) survived too. Most of the bulbs I planted this
spring (Montbrecia, Tigridia and Freesia) have been either eaten by
squirrels or rotted, or both. Few have come up. No SIGNA seeds
germinated as yet (planted April 1 or 4 after 4 weeks stratification--
perhaps not enough), and only sixteen seedlings from the two crosses
that took last year have germinated so far. Small crop--miniscule
crop.
Neil
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