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Post by beefjello on Apr 4, 2013 19:53:58 GMT -5
Got inspired to go take a few shots of what's growing here. Overcast today so they didn't turn out so great. Some pots in the front bursting with color  Showed this one a few weeks ago, it's really filled out now  First Hollyhock opened yesterday  Here's a Thompson Seedless we planted last spring. It has really exploded the past couple weeks!  View from the other side  I had cut it back to just 2 vines, but now there's several. Should I snip new growth or just let it go?  |
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Post by Bikerrandy on Apr 4, 2013 20:20:19 GMT -5
If it's got somewhere to go, let it grow!  |
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 4, 2013 22:00:03 GMT -5
Wow, beautiful floral display. Love the hollyhock. Bugs gobble them up around here. Your grape appears to be really shooting up. Watch out for leaf hoppers. Back in California they got on my seedless grapes and gave them all Pierce's Disease and killed them dead....Mel
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Post by helens on Apr 4, 2013 22:33:07 GMT -5
Do you guys do a lot of fertilizing, or is it the soil? NOTHING grows like that around here unless we water it 3x a day and fertilize once a week I think... LOL!
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Post by snuffy on Apr 5, 2013 8:20:26 GMT -5
Nice flowers Beef! I'm with Mel on the hollyhocks,dont see them around here hardly.
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Post by beefjello on Apr 5, 2013 8:42:26 GMT -5
A second flower is about to open on that hollyhock, by the time we get back from Texas there should be several and I'll take another pic. Helen, another couple months and everything around here 'cept the cacti will be nice and crispy lol.
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Post by sheltie on Apr 5, 2013 8:48:10 GMT -5
Love the flowers! We brought back some hollyhock seeds from CO a couple years ago and they have been doing great, no problems with bugs. I think we just lucked out. I rarely fertilize my flowers, bushes, and shrubs, maybe once a year. I have a sprinkler system (mainly because of the lack of rainfall), so everything gets irrigated twice a week. If I would pay more attention to everything, they would be even better. Looking at the potted plants makes me sick because of what I did this year. I over wintered my potted plants in our garden room (fancy way of saying enclosed back porch  ) and then put them back outside a couple weeks ago. They were in full bloom and looking beautiful. The night after I put them out, a surprise freeze hit and several of them died. The rest are clinging for dear life. I won't make that mistake again! |
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Post by beefjello on Apr 14, 2013 11:31:30 GMT -5
Here's a few pics of the hollyhock progress  More of the pinks  Some yellas  Christa's mother in law gave us this cutting last year, some sorta succulent. We came home to find the very first bloom  |
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Post by rockingthenorth on Apr 14, 2013 15:49:41 GMT -5
you are lucky with all those flowers already we are having another snow storm. they are all pretty
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Post by rockpickerforever on Apr 14, 2013 16:15:52 GMT -5
Beef, the succulent with the pretty purple flower is used a lot in So Cal to cover ground on the sides of freeways. Most people call it iceplant, but it's real name is "hottentot fig." It's originally from South Africa. It does pretty well as far as covering the ground, but if you plant it on a steep hillside made of clay (like around here!), a good rain will get absorbed by it, and the weight of it will cause the entire hillside to slip (slump) downhill. Doh! Jean
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Post by jamesp on Apr 14, 2013 21:58:38 GMT -5
Let me know when you want clean up;i'll come over and clean the rocks out.
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Post by helens on Apr 14, 2013 23:15:39 GMT -5
Let me know when you want clean up;i'll come over and clean the rocks out. I'll help!! LOL! |
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Post by beefjello on Apr 15, 2013 8:17:25 GMT -5
Jean, that's what she called it was ice plant. Thanks! Watch out for those Hottentot landslides!!  |
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Post by jamesp on Apr 15, 2013 11:20:59 GMT -5
The sedum pulling the hill side down is crazy.We get cherry tomatoes in the corn so thick the tractor spins because of the amount of fruit.
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) and then put them back outside a couple weeks ago. They were in full bloom and looking beautiful. The night after I put them out, a surprise freeze hit and several of them died. The rest are clinging for dear life. I won't make that mistake again!
