Where as the region has not had appriciable rainfall in twenty some odd days, I was undergoing a flood at work. Which is not good, since I blog on my morning breaks.
However, there isn't necessarily that much to blog about. We're getting our "Indian Summer" slash heat wave. We've been setting record highs in the 90s. And although the back yard is going gangbusters, the front yard has brown patches underneath. Which is why I'm not going to mow that until after we get some real rain. Better long then dead.
About the only thing I accomplished was buying a hammock chair and mounting it under the deck. It is a cozy cocoon. I just have to buy some more S-hooks, so I can actually climb into it without a step ladder.
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Posted by millionbells Reblogged by Old Roses to weather on 2007-10-10, 18:40:57
When I check my blog stats, I notice that Google sends lots of people searching for "pictures of compost" to my blog. They usually see my Compost Pictures category which is mostly pictures of silly things I put in my compost bin. There was beer, champagne, 5 gallons of peanut oil, apples and some others.
I've thought about it and I think that these random web surfers probably aren't very happy with my site. All they wanted was a picture of compost, not some silly gimicks that were fun for me to blog. So random web surfers, this post is for you. . ..
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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to compost on 2007-10-10, 18:38:25
Looking back at the year in tomatoes, I have to say that it was an okay year. Not the greatest harvest of all times or anything but on the other hand, there were no problems with pests, diseases or drought. I grew a nice bunch of tomatoes and was able to make tomato sandwiches every weekend so I'm satisified. . . .
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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to tomatoes on 2007-10-10, 18:37:23
Finally, the weather has changed and instead of record high temperatures, including a brand new record of two back-to-back 90 plus degree days in October, we have a seasonably warm evening with a decidedly cool breeze.
The weatherman has promised that every day for the rest of the week, it is going to get a little cooler. . . .
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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to houseplants on 2007-10-10, 18:36:57
2007 Digital Flower Pictures.com Festival of Roses Continues
Happy ABC Wednesday to all.
Today’s featured rose is the Hybrid Tea, Legend. It was bred by William Warriner, who I think, has become my favorite rose breeder. Jackson and Perkins and Mr. Warriner are quite a team. ‘Legend’ is a beautiful rose that seemed to me to be classic in every sense of the word. Just a straight ahead red rose with nice sized flowers growing on long stems. Dark green glossy foliage completes the package. . . .
We always had a big garden when I was a kid. One year my mom went kind of crazy and she planted about forty tomato plants. When the tomatoes became. . .
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on Oct 9, 2007, 9:43AM
Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to tomatoes on 2007-10-10, 18:30:30
Google only counts to 1,000and then says "What's the point?"
I can't keep up with my favorite blogs even reading with Google Reader. I have more than 300 blogs arranged in folders like Honduras, Central America, Chickens, Cooking, Gardening, Technology, and then, so it will be at the top, "aaa-favorites." One by one aaa-favorites has increased to about 40 blogs and I can barely even get through those. . . .
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on Oct 9, 2007, 4:17PM
Posted by La Gringa Reblogged by Old Roses to blogs on 2007-10-10, 18:28:49
That's a graph of blogicito visitors for 30 days ending three days after Hurricane Felix. What a difference a hurricane makes. Too bad I wasn't charging admission to the blogicito. . . .
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on Oct 8, 2007, 12:04PM
Posted by La Gringa Reblogged by Old Roses to weather on 2007-10-10, 18:28:00
My kids love pumpkins almost as much as they do sunflowers or watermelon. Something about that big roundness that makes them giggle. Maybe it's when we carve faces onto them. Or paint faces on them or dress them up with hair and other such silly things. . . .
Winter is coming - I've put the curtains up! I'm on holiday this week (half term) and it's pouring rain today so I won't be in the garden and the empty chicken arks are too wet to paint, so I'm...
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on Oct 9, 2007, 8:19AM
Posted by Rosemary Reblogged by Old Roses to winter on 2007-10-10, 18:25:43
I can’t believe it. With this extra warm October weather we’ve been having I think my roses are blooming even more than they did through most of the summer. The garden looks lovely.
We’ve also had a lot of rain in the last week. Much needed rain, and it’s really helped give the garden a much needed boost.
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on Oct 10, 2007, 2:03AM
Posted by Tricia Reblogged by Old Roses to roses on 2007-10-10, 18:25:34
All good things must come to an end? That’s definitely not my kind of philosophy but it was a little bit true in the Display Garden today. The mansion is closed for the season and it’s time for us to start working on next year’s gardens: Hopefully, if funds and weather allow, Fred and Dan will be able to continue the Display Garden redesign this winter. The Idea Beds are next on their list. Gail and I want to save most of the perennials and shrubs from those beds and decided to move most of them, at least temporarily to the new Display Garden beds (the Ellipse and Stone Bench Beds). . . .
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on Oct 9, 2007, 4:50PM
Posted by Kris Reblogged by Old Roses to autumn on 2007-10-10, 18:25:10
What I’m about to say may make me the biggest hypocrite in Iowa, but I’m going to say it anyway: I’m ready for a little cold weather.
No, I’m not interested in snow or ice or sleet or frost or shoveling or sanding or salting or adding chemicals to the sidewalk or whatever the rest of it entails, but after days and days of sweating in my house during unnatural heat, I’ve had just about enough. . .
Good morning from Marshfield, Vermont where the geese fly high overhead today on clear skies after two days of rain. It's 43 degrees and the sun is halfway up the valley, lending promise of a fine day. . . .
Rainy day. The Busy Lizzy Carousel F1 plant has given me another flower. The last few flower buds that were developing pink flowers dropped off before opening. I am quite taken with these flowers now, double blooms. I will try in the new house (Fingers crossed) to grow these again. . .
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Posted by snappy Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2007-10-10, 18:22:20
Remember the owl Romie and I heard down at the cemetery last Thursday evening? I forgot to tell you what happened later that night. We had gone to bed and sometime around 4:00 a.m., I was awakened by a familiar sound.
"WHOOP!"
I nudged Romie to wake him so he could hear it too, and he mumbled something about a cat. I shook him a little more forcefully and then he said, "It sounds like the owl's in our tree." Indeed she was and whooping repeatedly and loudly. ..
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Posted by Kylee Reblogged by Old Roses to birds on 2007-10-10, 18:21:53
It's been 11 days since the Monarch caterpillar from my garden made its beautiful chrysalis. I had wanted to take the chrysalis in its bowl on the road with my mom and me as we traveled to Cleveland this weekend, because I didn't want to miss the emergence of the butterfly. But concern for the effects that the jiggling of the car as well as the high temperatures that could occur as we did our thing away from the car led to my decision not to take it along. . . .
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Posted by Kylee Reblogged by Old Roses to beneficials on 2007-10-10, 18:21:24
This must be the best-kept gardening secret in Northwest Ohio. Neither Mom nor I had ever heard of Schedel Arboretum and Gardens until I read about them in an e-mail from Ohio Magazine. I saw that they were literally just off the Ohio Turnpike near Elmore, Ohio, and we'd be passing right by on the way home, except that I had no intention of just passing by without stopping!
The instructions from Old House Gardens came today along with a box of wonderful, earthy-smelling bulbs. I put the box of bulbs next to my other big box of bulbs (soon to be joined by the next box UPS tells me is about to arrive). . . .
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Posted by EAL Reblogged by Old Roses to bulbs on 2007-10-10, 18:20:02
I am off on an little adventure……to the Basque region of Spain. I will be flying to Madrid tomorrow, arriving early Thursday morning. Going arm in arm with gorgeous gal pal Julie from Sun Valley. Her daughter, Scarlet, is in the International Student Exchange program in San Sebastian/Donastia, Spain, and that’s our excuse for going. Yes, we have to check on Scarlet and friends. . . .
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on Oct 9, 2007, 12:22PM
Posted by Mary Ann Reblogged by Old Roses to gardeners on 2007-10-10, 18:19:24
Finally we have some nice cool air from up north. The temp is 51 right now as I sit here writing this, the wind is coming from the north, low humidity, low dew points, ahhhhhhhhhh life is good :). We took both cats and Quasi the boxer to vet today for routine vaccinations and to have Quasi's heart checked, he has boxer cardiomyopathy, he has been on medication for the condition for over 3 years now, usually they do not live a year so I feel blessed, the vet said his heart sounds great. My dear sweet little Callie tired to bite both me and the vet when we were getting her out of the carrier. . .
Yet another Tricyrtis affinis clone that grows in a shady part of our garden is Tricyrtis Key Lime Pie. This plant also primarily is grown for its foliage, as the flowers are a small afterthought, but the foliage is quite something: light green with a jagged darker grey-green stripe down the middle of each leaf, and green spots. It grows two foot tall here and three foot tall for others (this particular affinis selection seems to struggle a bit with winters here). It's rather stiffly upright, so could use some thought in placement, which I haven't provided it, since my plant is growing next to a silver-leafed pulmonaria, which it towers over... maybe there's a reason Fine Gardening magazine has never called about doing a photo spread on our garden.
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Posted by IBOY Reblogged by Old Roses to plants on 2007-10-10, 18:17:36
I got an e-mail recently from Shirley Watts, an Alameda landscape designer I posted about a couple months ago. She wanted to tell me about a pro bono project she's working on to put in new landscaping at the recently revamped Haight School and asked me to spread the word. Installation begins at the end of this month and they are in need of volunteers and, of course, some green stuff--that's right, money. Here's what Shirley wrote me. . .
Have NO idea as to what I'm doing.."just copy and paste"...yeah. right. :>) there is supposed to be a link to a slide show here...all I see is code. dreaded code! Arghhhhh!
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Posted by weeder1 Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2007-10-10, 18:15:42
Cocoa and chocolate connoisseurs know that Trinidad is famous for its Trinitario cocoa-a hybrid created in 1939 from the famous criollo cocoa and the more robust African forastera. This attempt to produce a more hardy cocoa plant resulted in a particularly fine tasting cocoa, blending delicate flavour with strong fruitiness, and a delightful aroma. . . .
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Posted by Nicole Reblogged by Old Roses to cocoa on 2007-10-10, 18:15:33
No, I haven't been able to cut it yet. A little time to age will make it all the better. This is one of the Rouge vifd'Etampes pumpkins. Six have been harvested (some shared around already) and others are still on the vine working on their rougeness. It will be interesting to see the amount of pumpkin that comes from it. It's quite heavy as DH pointed out for every second it took for the photo. . . .
The last couple of weeks the weather here has been awful, hot, humid and rainy. Today it was picture perfect with temperatures in the high seventies, sunny and a nice breeze coming from the ocean it was perfect for you know what?. . .
Surprise. My lycoris bulbs have been one of the best-performing plants that I transplanted from my city garden.
At least this bunch has been. I planted a couple of smaller bunches also which have not done quite as well. This one is getting a little more water, thanks to being closer to some other plantings. The others have mostly been on their own.
The deer have not bothered them much either. They nip a flower off here and there but evidently its not to their taste. These are underneath a big oak and the deer have lately been picking up the acorns that fall in between the flowers.
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on Oct 9, 2007, 10:24AM
Posted by Bill Reblogged by Old Roses to lycoris on 2007-10-10, 18:14:12
Are you a blogger? Do you know what kind? To find out, take the Quiz at Blog Action Day. It's fun and free plus you get your own badge announcing to the world who are you. Here's mine. Happy Gardening.
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Posted by Nancy Reblogged by Old Roses to blogs on 2007-10-10, 18:12:48
Some people hope for an afterlife where they can stroll along streets paved with gold, happily humming along with the celestial choirs. Personally, I’m hoping for a used bookstore.
That’s my idea of a pleasant way to spend eternity: poking around tall bookcases crammed with interesting old volumes. There would be a creaky wooden floor and [...]
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Posted by valwebb Reblogged by Old Roses to books on 2007-10-10, 18:12:40
With a navigational sunflower for a guide, Jill Nokes takes us wading into the Kansas prairie. Eyes out for Jill’s forthcoming book Yard Art and Handmade Places, due from University of Texas Press next month.
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