Is anyone here an avid gardener like me?

Moe has spent much time gardening. Tis quite a peaceful experience. I once read that how you treat your plants is how you treat youself.
If this is true then Moe is in trouble. If not the landing saucers than it either bigfoots stomping or mysterious cropcricles that destroy my precious work. Is Moe doomed?

My dad is great at gardening .. I love to want around in the garden asking about stuff about plants .. maybe some day i will grow up being like him

I enjoy gardening.I used to have a black thumb but over the years I have learned.
Dot9M

Edit: Hey DoomgirlI just noticed that you had a gardening forum. Cool!

Moe
Let us hope that Moe isn't doomed to come back in the next life as a plant if Moe is doomed to come back as a plant me hopes it's in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing


djdodo
That is how I got interested in gardening, but it was with my mother, my fathers specialty was crawling around on his hands and knees digging clover out of the grass with a screw driver


Dot9M
I think we've all started out with a black thumb, but learnt to turn that around, I think I now have abt and 80% sucess rate, some plants still give me trouble

This weekend we planted our front garden. My husband put up some aged cedar rails on the corners of our lawn. They look like they have been there for ages and have fallen down. Someone actually came up and asked him why he was using that old wood . We dug up flower beds and planted [can’t remember exactly what as Eric did the actual planting] perennials there. I also planted my centre flower bed with 4 different kinds of zinnias and a border of heirloom poppies. I had a lot of luck last year with the zinnias so I made that bed a little bigger this year. BTW I was out to an estate sale on Saturday and found 3 little gardening books from the 1920-30’s. My big passion is indoor plants.

Dot9M

I love in door plants to, but so do my cats , I ended up making a terrarium, that stopped them

I like the colour of Zinnias, very bright and cheery

I have old railway sleepers in my garden, they look nice, but it was mostly to stop the dogs from moving the dirt about when they are playing.

I've even got my boyfriend interested in plants and garden, he actully like going shopping for plants now, and enjoys picking out a plant that he wants.

I don't mind the cats going outside, it's better then in side

but I'll try the chilli on them, thanks for the tip

we have a garden, its rather large, but its not like a flower garden, we grow the staples. last time we had LSU, the state university, test the soil we were almost at
6 1/2 ph. that was about two years ago, so i think its safe to say we now have a perfect 7, since we have a never ending supply of manure to add in. got a new way to keep the worms out the corn ears, just got a tiller, the damn borers are destroying the squash, we got the tomato disease under control, and we just started having cherry tomatoes. the first set of corn just came into tassle, and second set is turning pink towards he top. got the first few tomatoes a week ago, they were late this year. ummmmm.....thats all i can think to say. right now.

Sounds like your a farmer cool

I like herbs, I've been collecting them for a while

Hey Doomie, Have you ever planted Russian Sage? It's beautiful!

No I haven't Dot9M, but it does look very pretty and I will be keeping my eye out for it next time I got shopping

Right on I gave up on trying to grow lavender, but I love the Russian Sage

Every Lavender plant I brought has died on me so yeah I've given up to.

herbs have become a passionate fascination for me over the years.

I was brought in and taught about them while in germany in the mid 80's.

I just keep learning more and more, and always finding new varieties.
I started into herbs originally for their homeopathic properties, but over the years as my cooking skills have gotten better, , our collection of culinary herbs has grown as well.

We now have herbs mixed into every bed in the front and back yard, including the veg. garden

Like I said - " they're a passion

lavender hates being wet

loves improved soil ( well drained )

BTW:
That was some beautiful Russian sage Dot9M

Yes they are a passion, I love them to. I did have many herbs in my back garden, but it was impossible to keep my dogs off them, and as you can imagine, they killed most of them off. I now have all my herbs out the front in pots, now the cats think they belong to them, one cat in particular loves the garlic chives, she thinks of them as grass.

I wish we coul have any type of garden! I lve in a town called Barstow it's in California. The heat here is way to hot for us to keep a garden going. It's hotter than he**.

cats and herbs-uuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhh

love, hate relationship
-They love to lay in them and you hate for them to keep lying in them.

two of our cats adopted the tyme this year.
-second year in this bed, it was doing great, nice big plants. Now thier stubble, after about 5 months of being used for bedding/matting.
They really seem to like the lemon tyme.( well atleast they smell good)

Yo D12 -
Deep S. Texas here man.

- my gardens are green and full.
organic fertilizer and water

I wish I was good at gardening, but it has been a little rough for the poor plants at fluff hacienda... Sooner or later I will learn how to do it well, but for right now plants seem to be cowering away from me at the nursery...

One thing that I do like is the Lemon Verbena that my wife really likes the smell of, it is incredible and between that and the lavender and jasmine, the front of my house smells nice.

oh man i know--
Dry, Hard, Leached dirt..... It's the worst.
When it gets HOT ( south type of hot )
diggins just to much work
-just about anythings to much work

fluffbunny- That sounds NICE. really nice..
- wish i could get jasmine to grow

If you can't get a Jasmine to grow try a Daphne it's a small shrub with lovely deep green foliage and twisted gnarley branchesit loves acidic soils and full sun . Tingling your senses with a heavinly sent and it will even stand up to Doomie's cats.




Right now I'm working on an evening garden .
If any one knows of any plants that flower at night time that I can get my hands on ,it would be appreciated .

My soil can get pretty hard here to, I usually wait for it to rain, then I'm out there in the mud digging. I keep digging and turning as is slowly dries. After about a week it's great

Wait for rain we better not get our hopes up. But I guess we can use the hose to wet the dirt and then dig like you. Not a bad idea.

I works, and it makes for easier weed removel, I've had to do it several times

-L O L

- - That was good.

HAHA that was a great one.

good one Joc

My son is getting into gardening. He has a carrot, pumpkin and gourd patch outside. Inside he has 2 carnivorous plants; A venus flytrap

and a cobra plant

Did you find them easy/hard to grow?

While I was looking after them, it was easy, but if your son is having problems with them, suggest trying a terrarium.

You could try some of these Sasass

A few plant suggestions for an evening garden.

Sweet Alyssum - Lobularia maritima -Fragrant sweet smelling annual that easily self-seeds. 2-6"

Hosta - 'Sum and Substance' - bright glossy chartreuse/gold large leaves (9-10" across) that form a mound of brightness in the moonlight

Licorice Plant - Helichrysum petiolare - small round woolly leaves in silvery grey drape well in hanging baskets and very showy at night. Annual

Lamium - Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver' - Ground cover 8-12". Leaves are smoky-white centred with green edges.

Trumpet Lily (Aurelian hybrids) - Black Dragon - very tall 6-8' with dramatic maroon-coloured exterior to contrast with brilliant white inside. Very fragrant

Heliotrope - Heliotropium - Lilac-like clusters of heavily vanilla scented blooms comes in white as well as more common purple. annual. 6-12"

Impatiens - Impatiens sp. - very prolific flowering annual available in bright white. 4-6"

Lamb's-ears - Stachys bysantina - Soft silvery leaves with a woolly appearance. Grows 12-18" tall with purple flowers. The leaves will glisten in the moonlight.

Nicotiana - Nicotiana alta. - Tube-shaped blossoms in white that are highly scented in the evening. Tall plant that is excellent for edging a walkway or the back of the border - 2-3' tall.

Trumpet Lily - L. regale album - 5-6' tall very fragrant with outward facing white flowers.

Source

They can be fussy to look after, but I found this page and it might help you, good luck

Linky

Thanks doomie

Thank you Doomie , for the evening garden plants .

You may also include , Evening Primrose and the Moon flower .

Both open in the evening and are great for around your entertaining B.B.Q. area , or as is becoming very popular around here , near your out door bath .
Also the Moon flower can be picked and placed on your dinner table indoors so that you can watch the flower open while you and your friends enjoy a meal .


The Moonflower is a climber and particularly good for creating privacy ...I want one in Blue .....Link to the Moon Flower

yw Kismit and Dot

Kismit, you might want to try Angels Trumpets datura

** just note that the seeds are toxic **




Doomie, I think my son's fly trap was water logged so I drained it & cut off all the dead traps. Hopefully it will survive.

ttfn

Dot9M

thanks Dot I think the Daytura and the Moon Flower might be very closely related , allthough I am not entirely keen on having Daytura in the garden . It's a very toxic plant , so I'm still looking for one with a blue flower you can get them but I want one that will grow under pretty extreme conditions. Particularly heavy frosts .

Also Dot , fly traps starve very easilly . One of the leading killers of the Venus fly trap are small boys and there little fingers . If it dosen't come right Doomies terrarium was a great sugestion , for this reason alone .

Good luck .

I also should have said that if it comes to the terrarium, make sure the venus flytrap has plenty of light