Diane - I'm really glad you had rain. Your garden and you deserve it!!! I love your Snowball!!! If you hadn't mentioned that your OD is 6 feet tall, I wouldn't have gotten the scale of it. My puny one is growing; hopefully it just gets to 3 or 4 feet. Why don't you put in a dense ring of short stakes (like you do for the quail, but thicker stakes like rebar) around your Orange Dude so the deer can't get close to your rose? I think that would work. Amazon has these: 3/8 x 15 inch Heavy Duty Ground Anchors Stakes, Straight Metal Stakes for Concrete Forming. And then, when you want to get closer to prune, take them out. Anyway, those are beautiful OD blooms, and they really go well wtih your Snowball. :) Happy autumn back atcha. :)
Jim - are you getting overnight freezing? Ours have come back. :)
Kitty - Yes, thanks to you, I got a Pink Ruffles!! That's the rose I most wanted. :) :) Thank you SO much!! Oh, you can have a business Fb page too. That will be good. This is the week you move!! How exciting!!! :) :) :) I wonder what Anastasia will think of her new home? How many times have you moved with her and your kitty? :) We've been warmer than your temps. Hard to believe. We were 14C/57F yesterday, and I almost died on our walk; it was so hot, even with short sleeves and shorts. lol Same temps today, but we're heading down to 2C/36F by Friday. I love that you and your family are so musically gifted. It must really be fun to all get together and play. :) Flute and piano when you have guests, especially for Xmas would be great. I'd love to sing Christmas carols around a piano with a small group. That would be magical. Nice that you and your son will connect over cooking. :) How do you stay so thin while eating all these yummy treats? lol
Carol, I think the answer to that question is that Kitty never stops moving.
Diane, what lovely autumnal photos. That snowball is humungous, and Orange Dude and it complement each other beautifully. I've come across an author called Elly Griffiths. Maybe you told me about her? She writes detective novels. I'm reading Crossing Places. The protaginist is a middle aged, woman archaeologist. Set in Norfolk, UK.
I wish we'd get some decent rain. We were forecast to get heavy rain yesterday but just got a smattering, while a friend who lives 3 miles south got it. Very frustrating. We're only getting emough to dampen the mulch, then it evaporates.
Hansestadt Rostock (Tantau). In reality it's a glowing, soft yellow/amber this morning, much brighter than the photo shows.
Love Affair (Kordes) leaves. This has happened almost overnight. Meanwhile, there are two very healthy looking basals. Does anyone know what's going on?
Trish, Hansestadt Rostock is gorgeous and the close-up picture says it all.
Carol, I’m prob a lot older than you and I was raised in a warmer climate is why your 34F may be too cold to take a 30 min stroll for me…10 min to bundle up!
Diane, after seeing your snowball bush, I totally understand why your Love Song is big and loaded in blooms!
Diane - I'm really glad you had rain. Your garden and you deserve it!!! I love your Snowball!!! If you hadn't mentioned that your OD is 6 feet tall, I wouldn't have gotten the scale of it. My puny one is growing; hopefully it just gets to 3 or 4 feet. Why don't you put in a dense ring of short stakes (like you do for the quail, but thicker stakes like rebar) around your Orange Dude so the deer can't get close to your rose? I think that would work. Amazon has these: 3/8 x 15 inch Heavy Duty Ground Anchors Stakes, Straight Metal Stakes for Concrete Forming. And then, when you want to get closer to prune, take them out. Anyway, those are beautiful OD blooms, and they really go well wtih your Snowball. :) Happy autumn back atcha. :)
Jim - are you getting overnight freezing? Ours have come back. :)
Kitty - Yes, thanks to you, I got a Pink Ruffles!! That's the rose I most wanted. :) :) Thank you SO much!! Oh, you can have a business Fb page too. That will be good. This is the week you move!! How exciting!!! :) :) :) I wonder what Anastasia will think of her new home? How many times have you moved with her and your kitty? :) We've been warmer than your temps. Hard to believe. We were 14C/57F yesterday, and I almost died on our walk; it was so hot, even with short sleeves and shorts. lol Same temps today, but we're heading down to 2C/36F by Friday. I love that you and your family are so musically gifted. It must really be fun to all get together and play. :) Flute and piano when you have guests, especially for Xmas would be great. I'd love to sing Christmas carols around a piano with a small group. That would be magical. Nice that you and your son will connect over cooking. :) How do you stay so thin while eating all these yummy treats? lol
Carol, I think the answer to that question is that Kitty never stops moving.
Diane, what lovely autumnal photos. That snowball is humungous, and Orange Dude and it complement each other beautifully. I've come across an author called Elly Griffiths. Maybe you told me about her? She writes detective novels. I'm reading Crossing Places. The protaginist is a middle aged, woman archaeologist. Set in Norfolk, UK.
I wish we'd get some decent rain. We were forecast to get heavy rain yesterday but just got a smattering, while a friend who lives 3 miles south got it. Very frustrating. We're only getting emough to dampen the mulch, then it evaporates.
Hansestadt Rostock (Tantau). In reality it's a glowing, soft yellow/amber this morning, much brighter than the photo shows.
Love Affair (Kordes) leaves. This has happened almost overnight. Meanwhile, there are two very healthy looking basals. Does anyone know what's going on?
Trish, Hansestadt Rostock is gorgeous and the close-up picture says it all.
Carol, I’m prob a lot older than you and I was raised in a warmer climate is why your 34F may be too cold to take a 30 min stroll for me…10 min to bundle up!
Diane, after seeing your snowball bush, I totally understand why your Love Song is big and loaded in blooms!