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Fran brought me this Spider plant back from her holiday at the Caravan in Skipsey. Chlorophytum Comosum, the original Spider plant.

When I was much younger the first plant I looked after and grew was a spider plant.I cant remember who we got it off but the plants were grown from the hanging baby plants that it produces. . . .

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Reading Augusts Gardeners World there was an Article by Monty Don about a garden needing an area of privacy away from the neighbours eyes and not visible from the gardeners own house.

A quiet Corner enclosed by either trees, shrubs, or willow fencing. Set back slightly from the main garden. . .

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Posted by snappy Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens on 2007-08-19, 00:28:55

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In August I always get the garden blues, because knowing that the beauty of my little garden is going to be over soon makes me kind of blue, so today I like to share with you my dear readers and blogging friends some blue pictures of my August summer garden and seeing that most of you said that you like my mixed posts I'd also like to show you some vintage hat boxes I've recently got and my latest soldered charms and pendants, seen in the picture above as well as in the pictures at the end of this long post. I know it's a lot of pictures to load but if you refresh the site it loads faster, this is my experience and I promise you that you'll not be deceived! There'll also be a give away in this post for you!

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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2007-08-19, 00:28:19

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La Ceiba is the little pink dot at lat. 15.77 N, long. -86.79 W
Map from Weather Underground

Several of you have asked whether Hurricane Dean will affect us here in Honduras. At this point on Saturday morning, all the experts are predicting that Hurricane Dean will pass well to the north of Honduras. . . .

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Romie and I have talked about putting a water feature in Max's Garden almost from day one, which was sometime in October of 2005, but we never could settle on just what to do. Then a couple of weeks ago, Kara and I were in Meijer and we saw these 3-foot diameter kiddie wading pools out in the garden center for a dollar. Kara thought that one could be sunk into the ground for a small garden pond. Brilliant. . .

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Posted by Kylee Reblogged by Old Roses to ponds on 2007-08-19, 00:27:04

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Kara called me early yesterday and asked if I wanted to come up and go nursery hopping and mall shopping with her and then spend the night. Adam was leaving after work to go to Chicago with friends to see the Cubs play the Cardinals at Wrigley Field today. (Lucky Adam! I got to see a Cubs game from the rooftops two summers ago. It was GREAT!)

At first, I said no to Kara because I had to be at work at 7:30 for OSHA training. That meant I would have to leave Kara's house by 6:30 and not being a morning person, that didn't really appeal to me. But I love spending time with her and was pleased that she wanted to spend time with me, so I decided to go anyway.

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Posted by Kylee Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens on 2007-08-19, 00:26:39

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For Garden Blogger's Bloom Day - I keep forgetting some! I'm kind of ruining the one-day thing, aren't I? But these are all in bloom now, too.

Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora
Sometimes called Montbretia, but the proper name is now accepted to be Crocosmia. I can't find where I recently read this and I don't know why it's changed. I mean, all the rest of the flowers only have one common name, right? We wouldn't want things to be too . . .

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Posted by Kylee Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2007-08-19, 00:25:47

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Small pleasures I enjoy in my garden . . .

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Posted by Naturegirl Reblogged by Old Roses to containers, pests on 2007-08-19, 00:25:20

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I came back to edit the last post and it ate the edits and then split up the photos so much you have to roll down heaps to find the rest!!!!, does anyone else have this problem? or is it just me,maybe I should follow the trend and head over to Typepad,grrrrr . . .

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Posted by Sometimes Unwilling Guru Reblogged by Old Roses to blogs on 2007-08-19, 00:24:48

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Okay, put your shades on if you want to view this garden! Near the front entry I have a spot that I struggled with for several years. Half of it is in deep shade most of the day from the porch, and the other half is in hot sun most of the day. I wanted something bright that would lighten up the shade. Yowzie!! Did I do it or what???

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Posted by Bev Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens on 2007-08-19, 00:24:25

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Two birds, two photos …

They have their eye on something …

Yep it was one of the bird feeders …

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I’ve found the weather to be very strange this week.

It was really hot hear last weekend, but we had a good rain storm on the Sunday and it cooled things down making the beginning of the week fairly pleasant. In fact, with the rain we had on Sunday and the cooler days on Monday and Tuesday we didn’t even think about watering the garden until Wednesday night. . .

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If you’re shopping for new patio furniture or possible a wooden picnic table that compliments your existing outdoor furniture you should visit allpicnictables.com. They have a wide selection of high quality picnic tables in a variety of woods such as cedar, pine, select pine, cherry, oak and teak.

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Posted by Tricia Reblogged by Old Roses to landscape on 2007-08-19, 00:22:50

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Every now and then I like to write about a plant that I feel is special enough to deserve its own chance in the spotlight. Recently, I wrote about plumbago, one of my all time favorites for its profuse blooms and great color. Another of my all-time favorites is buddleia, or Butterfly Bush. I’ve grown several from tiny cuttings to huge (over 10 feet tall), healthy, beautiful plants that bring so much wildlife to the garden it’s almost hard to believe. Butterflies I’ve never before seen in my area have appeared, and hummingbirds are regular visitors to the sweet-smelling flowers. The one in my front garden is constantly covered with happy little skipper butterflies (left) who are so enamored by the nectar that they don’t fly away even when I walk within inches of them. The blooms are wonderfully fragrant and are a joy to take in your hand and inhale the scent – just be careful, as the bees like it too. Butterfly bush comes in several shades, grows in zones 4 – 10, and can be found at most major nurseries or by mail order.

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The picture is from the Uppsala University webpages over exhibitions, and can be seen here (link in Swedish - unfortunately there are few links in english about the event).

If you are planning a trip to Uppsala this year I suggest you schedule it for September, or somewhere between the sixth and the sixteenth to be more precise to see the Harvest Festival in the Orangery of Uppsala Botanical Gardens. The university (which owns the garden) doesn't run it every year; I've been told it should be on every other year but if I haven't missed a show it was three year since last time. . . .

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Posted by Rosengeranium Reblogged by Old Roses to botanical_garden, harvest, shows on 2007-08-19, 00:22:12

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reBlogged to cacti on Aug 17, 2007, 10:40AM

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Tomorrow I will be moving all my exposed plants to the shelter of the verandah, as we prepare for Hurricane Dean to affect us starting early on Sunday. I'm mostly concerned about making sure the plants I grew from seed are okay, and any others I might consider to be delicate or special.

Apart from that, all there is to do is clear up anything that might become a missile in the wind, and batten down in the house while the storm passes. Hope there won't be too much damage, and there's still time for the storm to divert and not affect us so severely.

I have been taking photos of my plants from seed to update my Webshots page - it's more than I realised and taking a while. I suppose I just need to do a little at a time all the time and I'll be able to keep everything fairly up-to-date. I'm now up to just over 250 plants from seed that are now over two years old. At the rate I'm going, with the improved survival rate of my seedlings, I'll have quite a lot in another year or so.

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Posted by Jade Reblogged by Old Roses to weather on 2007-08-19, 00:21:22

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I have a tomato plant that didn't grow very big this year and the leaves look dried up but I got a few tomatoes that grew. Would it be ok to eat the tomatoes even though the plant doesn't look too healthy? Would a disease plant cause some ill effects to humans? Even though the leaves don't look that healthy the tomatoes do. Thanks.

reBlogged to tomatoes on Aug 17, 2007, 10:45PM

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Any suggestions on growing kiwis? (answer).

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

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Posted by The Old Farmer's Almanac Reblogged by Old Roses to fruit on 2007-08-19, 00:20:57

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From top left: long red cayenne, anaheim, jalepeno M, large cherry, hungarian wax.

Capsicum

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Precipitation Compared to Historical Distribution (Ontario Region)
Map: Agriculture Canada (See key below)
Featured comment: T Gordon said...

Finally! The drought has made the evening news. Only because it is the worst drought since 1959, so worth reporting. I feel some validation. All summer I have been frustrated by the lack of acknowledgement of the drought. Several times I have mentioned the drought only to have people say, "Oh really?" If it were not for your blog, I might have thought I was imagining it. It helped greatly to have it. Thanks!

I wrote about this very thing in an earlier post: I guess it's just a reflection of how uninvolved most people are with growing things.

Partial Key to Drought Map
Red = Record Dry
Brown = Extremely Low
Orange = Very Low
Yellow = Low

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And I can see it's going to be a crazy fall.

They're talking frost warnings for Saturday night to the north, in freaking August.

Lake effect rain expected. Yeah, "lake effect"! Ugh...I'm not ready to start saying those words in any capacity. . .

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Posted by Tina Reblogged by Old Roses to weather on 2007-08-19, 00:20:26

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These photos were taken while I was on a business trip to Russia in late-August 2007. The market pictures were taken at the Vykhino Market, located outside Vykhino metro station. It's widely considered the best and cheapest market in Moscow. Many fruits, veg, meat and preserves make it up from the south of Russia and the Caucasus this time of year, belying the notion that all food in Moscow is drab old meat and taters. The prices in a market like this, though expensive for many Muscovites, are much lower than you'll find in the many Western-style supermarkets that have sprung up in Moscow and other European-Russian large cities over the past decade. . . .

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Posted by Central FLA Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens on 2007-08-19, 00:20:06

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White Dahlia

This is another Dahlia portrait. It is actually a white Dahlia but it has a little yellow in it, which seems amplified in these pictures. I took it at the farm where the roses are growing. I spent all day yesterday removing the spent flowers and getting rid of the diseased foliage and stems. Karen had to help me for half a day to get it finished. I am cleaning up all the weeds and dead leaves, which is a job in itself. . . .

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Posted by Digital Flower Pictures Reblogged by Old Roses to dahlias on 2007-08-19, 00:19:41

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I've avoided posting views of my garden this summer that show how dry everything is. Today, however, I'm facing the dryness, showing the dryness, writing about the dryness, embracing the dryness. I'm allowed one post about the dryness, aren't I?

As you can see, I don't believe in coddling plants with all kinds of extra watering. This bed should be full and lush right now. There are Michaelmas daisies growing there that should be twice as tall as they are. There are coneflowers that should not be all wilted and spent. That honey locust tree at the end of the flower bed should not be dropping its leaves already. Only the sedum seems to be happy. . . .

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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to weather on 2007-08-19, 00:19:22

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Here are some pictures of my backyard garden. This garden is two years old now and coming along nicely. It is almost completely filled with perennials and I started dividing the daylilies this fall (Aug 07) to fill up other gardens.

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The Rouge Vif d'Etampes pumpkins are progressing. I can just see the mice out here soon having pumpkin carriage races through the pasture. Both my neighbor and Anita gave me seeds for these. I love how they grow and hope they'll reach the nice color seen in Anita's pumpkins here in her Country Cottage Garden in Germany. I keep finding signs that Petunia and friends have moved from the garden to the pumpkin patch. I haven't seen her exactly. I did take matters in my own hands, though, and relocated a small garter snake to the garden from a spot near the garage (we'll call her Petunia II). S/he had a red stripe like Herbert, seen here last summer. She should be quite happy in the herb row.

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Posted by Nickie Reblogged by Old Roses to cucumbers, recipes on 2007-08-19, 00:17:13

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Posted by Nickie Reblogged by Old Roses to gourds on 2007-08-19, 00:17:04

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With the move less than a month away, it's time to get serious about figuring out how we're going to transfer the perennials from the plot to the new backyard. We'll first move our worldly possessions from apartment to house, and then we'll spend some time designing our new garden. My goal is to get our perennials from here to there all in one piece and in time enough to allow them to settle into the ground before the first frost. We're staying in the same grow zone (USDA Zone 7), so everything that grows here should also grow at the new house. . . .

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Posted by Christa Reblogged by Old Roses to propagation on 2007-08-19, 00:16:08

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This is the Musa Basjoo (hardy non-fruiting banana plant) that I posted about a lot last year. I don't know why it didn't make my blog in 2007 yet, I didn't lose interest in it or anything. I guess I just never got around to it.

In any event, it's doing great and getting pretty tall even though it's in a pot. To give you an idea of it's size, the pot in the picture has a 24" diameter and the tip of the highest leaf is about 10 feet up. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to trees on 2007-08-19, 00:15:41

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I can't believe that it's been so long since I posted on this site.  Let's just say that it has been a busy year.  After over 30 years in the consumer side of the lawn and garden business, I was "re-organized" with a nice opportunity to sail into the sunset early and leave corporate life behind.  No Way!  After a brief hiatus, I was hired by a small company to head up their Market Communications department.  It's a great job and one for which everyone I know seems to think I'm agood fit. 

I'm unsure if it's better than listening to Jimmy Buffett and drinking Margaritas on the beach...the jury is still out on that.  So...I'm back and will resume posting here as of today.   

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Coming to a California nursery, library, county fair, garden exhibit, or plant clinic near you!

Touch-Screen Pest Management Kiosks

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