Monday, June 30, 2008
Plants and plants....
I'm glad to hear they hydrenas are doing so well! And, it must be nice to talk about plants all the time..ha ha..i should be so lucky to stay home day after day and piddle around in my garden. I'm getting jealous....However i do believe i have a brown thumb and not a green one. I've been told i'm good at killing plants. Anyway, the vacation plans are ----we are here in Va Beach. I'm considering spending $5bucks for limited parking for the day at Mt. Trashmore. Have to get their early at Mt. Trashmore. Then if we can --I would love to sit at the top of the Mountain and watch fireworks. Want to do this once in my life= and since i don't have to work the next day, this may very well be my opportunity. I plan to leave next monday for our trip outta here. I will do an email to you all w/our itenitary. I will give Jane one of our spare cells so she can be in touch if needed. We will return home on the 13th of July. Then i will have the 14th off - and will visit with Jane and Ellen if she is still here. Then back to work on the 15th --BOOO. I'll send ya all a picture of Dolly Parton!!!
Nancy - when are you leaving on your trip? Are you still planning on going to DC for the fireworks?
The hydrangeas we are talking about are the ones you provided for our anniversary party. They originally had blue blossoms but are now pink - a very pretty pink. Mine is not as big as Jane's but seems to be quite vigorous. The others are not in very good spots, but I will move them come fall.
We haven't had any rain to speak of and everything looks horrible, even the tomato plants. The sky darkens up every afternoon and the wind blows and we get about 3 or 4 minutes of rain drops - not even enough to get the sidewalks wet!
The hydrangeas we are talking about are the ones you provided for our anniversary party. They originally had blue blossoms but are now pink - a very pretty pink. Mine is not as big as Jane's but seems to be quite vigorous. The others are not in very good spots, but I will move them come fall.
We haven't had any rain to speak of and everything looks horrible, even the tomato plants. The sky darkens up every afternoon and the wind blows and we get about 3 or 4 minutes of rain drops - not even enough to get the sidewalks wet!
glad to see people doing a little blogging
Yep, Nancy the hydranga does come back every year, 2 summers now blooming.
Mom, now I have the jap. beetles, Mark sprayed with sevin yesterday. There was one right on top of the heliopsis that just bloomed, and I guess they are eating the petunia flowers. Looks like we got a few drops of rain over night. I moved the impatients to the shade, they were out front, I planted wave petunias in their place.
I also planted the heliopsis in the big flower pots that mark painted, and I put small white wave petunia's and a small plant that has very small lavender and yellow flowers...don;t know what they are called but they will hang down the side of the planters.
I hope we get more rain today!
luv
jane
Mom, now I have the jap. beetles, Mark sprayed with sevin yesterday. There was one right on top of the heliopsis that just bloomed, and I guess they are eating the petunia flowers. Looks like we got a few drops of rain over night. I moved the impatients to the shade, they were out front, I planted wave petunias in their place.
I also planted the heliopsis in the big flower pots that mark painted, and I put small white wave petunia's and a small plant that has very small lavender and yellow flowers...don;t know what they are called but they will hang down the side of the planters.
I hope we get more rain today!
luv
jane
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Greetings People
I've done nothing this w/end except wash clothes - a bizzion b/c Wiiiiam bought Joey alot of clothes.
Too nasty, smoky for me to go outside. It smells like dam smoke everywhere.
Worked in my room - stocked up stuff in my little frig, Jane. Getting excited about our vacation to the mountains. Still have the hersey bars - unopened Jane, for our s'mores!!
Found clothing in my closet that i can fit into again. I have a yellow dress - and if i can lose alittle more weight, i can wear it to Adam's wedding. So, i will give it a try to see if i can do the job.
Mom - good to hear your hydrenas are doing well--is it a plant that will come back each year?
It's been a quiet weekend otherwise. Tootles for now
Too nasty, smoky for me to go outside. It smells like dam smoke everywhere.
Worked in my room - stocked up stuff in my little frig, Jane. Getting excited about our vacation to the mountains. Still have the hersey bars - unopened Jane, for our s'mores!!
Found clothing in my closet that i can fit into again. I have a yellow dress - and if i can lose alittle more weight, i can wear it to Adam's wedding. So, i will give it a try to see if i can do the job.
Mom - good to hear your hydrenas are doing well--is it a plant that will come back each year?
It's been a quiet weekend otherwise. Tootles for now
Loved the pictures, Jane. The hydrangea is gorgeous. Tell Nancy I have 3 of them, one is blooming now, same color as yours. The other 2 are much smaller - don't have them in the right spot yet. The small lavender flowers with the dark markings is a musk mallow - malva sylvestris Zebrina. It gets pretty tall and reseeds abundantly. I like them as "background" plants because the leaves are large and quite attractive. The other plant that you described as a cross between a snapdragon and a pansy is torenia, I think. It was really too small to be certain. I don't know where it came from - not here, I don't think. I had some a few years ago and I don't think it's a perennial. Can't imagine it reseeding and having tthe seeds sprout 2 or 3 years later! Anyhow, it's named after Olaf Toren, a Swedish missionary who discovered it in China in the 1700's. It does pretty good in our hot and humid summers.
Speaking of hot and humid - YUCK! Supposed to get thunderstorms today - don't I wish! Ellen and Scott are on their way to Lynchburg now with Katie's "stuff" for her appartment. She will still have her dorm room and dining privileges, so we know she won't starve or be cold (or hot) and will always have a place to go to. They will be back late this afternoon and then Scott will go back to Fredtown. Ellen says she will stay over a couple of days which will be nice.
Somthing is eating my tomato plants! It must be something tall as only the top parts are gone. I have never known the deer to bother the tomatoes so can't imagine what is going on with them. The leaves are curling up too and I can't find out about that either. It's driving me crazy - I even dreamed about it last night.
I am now reading the last of the 7 new books, The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III. Just started it - hope I like it. I have enjoyed the others very much, Lottery was just a nice, nice story. In the Woods could have used come judicious editing - just went on much too long, The Commoner was pretty dry. Katie left me her copy of Malcom X which I have meant to read for years now, so I will start that next. Dad and I had a conversation about how in the world the German people could have allowed Hitler and his regime to gain so much power so I recommended Stones From the River to him, which he has just started.
Well, that's all the news from the homefront. Oh yeah- one more thing - haven't caught the little siamese kitten but we did catch a cute little bunny. Set it free.
Nancy - will get Joey's birthday card in the mail this week!
Speaking of hot and humid - YUCK! Supposed to get thunderstorms today - don't I wish! Ellen and Scott are on their way to Lynchburg now with Katie's "stuff" for her appartment. She will still have her dorm room and dining privileges, so we know she won't starve or be cold (or hot) and will always have a place to go to. They will be back late this afternoon and then Scott will go back to Fredtown. Ellen says she will stay over a couple of days which will be nice.
Somthing is eating my tomato plants! It must be something tall as only the top parts are gone. I have never known the deer to bother the tomatoes so can't imagine what is going on with them. The leaves are curling up too and I can't find out about that either. It's driving me crazy - I even dreamed about it last night.
I am now reading the last of the 7 new books, The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III. Just started it - hope I like it. I have enjoyed the others very much, Lottery was just a nice, nice story. In the Woods could have used come judicious editing - just went on much too long, The Commoner was pretty dry. Katie left me her copy of Malcom X which I have meant to read for years now, so I will start that next. Dad and I had a conversation about how in the world the German people could have allowed Hitler and his regime to gain so much power so I recommended Stones From the River to him, which he has just started.
Well, that's all the news from the homefront. Oh yeah- one more thing - haven't caught the little siamese kitten but we did catch a cute little bunny. Set it free.
Nancy - will get Joey's birthday card in the mail this week!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
I have been out in the yard
mom the 1st 3 pics...do you know what they are, I noticed where I planted the forget-me-nots, there is something else blooming...looks kinda like a small pansy mised with a snap dragon. My hyacinth bean is doing very well and my malva alcea is huge and getting ready to boom. There is the dames rocket and hollyhocks that have huge leaves.
luv
jane
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