Spring has sprung

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Spring has sprung

Post by Niner » Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:42 am

Well it is starting to spring into spring. I even have some azaleas blooming ahead of time by a couple or three weeks.
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Post by Woftam » Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:56 am

Obviously you're a gardener because you can not only name the plant but know when it blooms. My horticultural world is fairly simple, there being only two types of plants -
"Plants you mow around"
"Plants you mow over".
These obviously fit into the first group, just.
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Re: Spring has sprung

Post by Niner » Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:06 am

Actually....I'm no gardener either. The dark red flower is a Camellia. I've got white ones and pink ones and red ones. However, the pink flower in the middle is an Azalea. The house I'm living in had them planted in long before I moved into it. The Camellia's have been blooming for a few weeks now.

I did plant some bushes in recent years. Planted two pear trees in the fall. Be interested to see if they start back to life soon.
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Re: Spring has sprung

Post by DuncaninFrance » Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:59 am

Woftam wrote:Obviously you're a gardener because you can not only name the plant but know when it blooms. My horticultural world is fairly simple, there being only two types of plants -
"Plants you mow around"
"Plants you mow over".
These obviously fit into the first group, just.

There is a third group - Those that the wife tells you to tidy up - we seem to have a lot of them :roll:
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Post by Niner Delta » Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:12 am

My wife is so afraid (paranoid) of bees that we never have had flowers in our yard, so I don't have to take care of them.
Good thing, because I don't know one flower from another. :roll:
And I don't have to mow my gravel yard, every time she mentions having a grass yard, I remind her that bees just LOVE grass yards, end of conversation. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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Post by Niner » Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:13 am

My wife doesn't like bees either. But she particularly doesn't like birds. But she likes flowers and shrubbery and trees. Somehow she doesn't always connect all the dots. :loco:
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Post by joseyclosey » Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:23 pm

A lot of the spring flowers are coming out here too, they added a nice splash of colour in todays sunshine.

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Re: Spring has sprung

Post by dhtaxi » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:24 pm

My wife is the gardener every thing I touch just curls up and dies.
She does a good job.
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Re: Spring has sprung

Post by DuncaninFrance » Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:32 am

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We have clumps of them around the barn, beautiful :D
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Re: Spring has sprung

Post by Karl/Pa. » Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:56 am

Niner wrote:My wife doesn't like bees either. But she particularly doesn't like birds. But she likes flowers and shrubbery and trees. Somehow she doesn't always connect all the dots. :loco:
You guys have the killer bees down there, don't you?
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