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Posted: Jan 13th, 2007 07:52 pm |
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Since now is the time to place orders for seeds and plants, I would like to know which ones grow well around here, particularly the less familiar ones. Just to get this discussion started, my favorite plant that is blooming now and has been since late December, are Hellebores. These are fairly expensive ($10-50) per plant but are perennial, have beautiful flowers, and self propogate by spreading their seeds. They have a long flowering period (usually January through March or early April), blooming at a time of year that not much else is. I especially like the pink varieties but the white and purple ones are attractive too. They are unaffected by cold and disease. Although they will grow in most any soil as long as drains fairly well, they do best with some compost and light organic fertilization. If I can figure out how to do it, I'll attach a picture or two on another post.
I like to try something new each year so this year Ihave ordered some Gaura's to try. I'd love to here if anybody reading this have tried them.
Happy New Year,
Scott
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Posted: Jan 13th, 2007 08:31 pm |
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| I saw on one of those local early morning shows before the holidays that the Guilford Co. Agricultural Extension Service (or whatever it's called) had some kind of booklet available showing what grows well locally. I think it also had info about when to plant stuff....
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Posted: Jan 14th, 2007 09:51 pm |
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Steve,
I didn't mean to post this as a new thread but rather a new topic in the Gardening thread. I didn't know how to put it there since it was a new topic rather than a reply to something already in there. Can you move these posts from this new thread into the Gardening thread? I guess to add a new topic to an existing thread what you have to do is reply to any existing topic with the new one. Am I correct is all this?
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Scott
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Posted: Jan 14th, 2007 11:15 pm |
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Scott - actually I think all is well. The Hierarchy in the NWO Town Forum is
Category - MAAN
Forum - Much Ado About Nothing
Topic - New Plants We Like
Only someone with administrator rights can add Categories & Forums, however any participant can start a topic.
Participants have been using the word "topic" and "thread" interchangeably, they are really the same thing.
Your comment above: I didn't mean to post this as a new thread but rather a new topic in the Gardening thread. I didn't know how to put it there since it was a new topic..........there is no Gardening Forum, so you were correct to create a new Topic called "New Plants We Like".
If participants would like, I can create a separate Forum called "Green Topics" or something like that, so we can keep the discussions about Growing Grapes & the like in their own forum area. I find these topics very interesting as do other folks, they are certainly deserving of their own topic.
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Posted: Jan 14th, 2007 11:42 pm |
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Posted: Jan 15th, 2007 01:58 am |
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Steve,
Green Topics would be fine as a Forum to me. I don't know if there is enough interest in grapes to keep that one going or not. We should know in the next few months.
Scott
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Posted: Jan 15th, 2007 10:18 pm |
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I have Gaura also but find it will not stand much crowding. It just sort of gives up. I love Salvia and you can't kill it with a stick. I have several clumps that I have had for years. Love the smell of it too.
There is a Salvia developer in Mcleansville who has dozens and dozens of varieties. He has come to the Farmers Market on occasion when they have had their herb sale.
This warm weather really puts us in the mood doesn't it?
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Posted: Jan 16th, 2007 02:27 am |
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HEY! Herbs! I don't have much of a green thumb, but I like herbs! Ya'll be sure to let me know if you hear of some good herb sales this spring! The Greek Church on Westridge and Friendly used to do a great one (probably still do) in April and I always enjoyed finding unusual herbs there.
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Posted: Jan 16th, 2007 03:12 am |
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Posted: Jan 16th, 2007 11:24 am |
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| A mediterranean diet is supposed to be good for you!! ♥♥♥
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Posted: Jan 16th, 2007 12:14 pm |
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Posted: Jan 16th, 2007 12:22 pm |
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Jim Flynt wrote:
macca wrote: A mediterranean diet is supposed to be good for you!! ♥♥♥
'Shirley Valentine' affirmed your statement, except she wasn't talking about food.
Okay, Jimbo! I'm sure you knew I'd have to "google" it!♥♥♥
Plot Summary for Shirley Valentine (1989)
Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she's stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
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Posted: Jan 16th, 2007 12:28 pm |
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Posted: Jan 16th, 2007 11:23 pm |
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Jim Flynt wrote: Cracker Jax wrote:
The Greek Church on Westridge and Friendly used to do a great one (probably still do) in April and I always enjoyed finding unusual herbs there.
Crackah, just out of curiosity, which herbs do you consider unusual? What do the Greeks know that the rest of us don't?
I don't think it's the Greek church members who are showing herbs and other plants there Jim. I think they just invite a group of master gardners to share their crops if I'm not mistaken.
I have found lots of stuff there that you can't find (or at least I haven't found) at the area nurseries. Bay trees, foxglove, St. John's wort, bergamot, horseradish, angelica, feverfew, savoury, and countless varieties of mint, thyme, parsley, chives, rosemary and basil.
I think my favorite purchases from there were loofah seeds which we grew, dried and actually got lots of loofah sponges from, and papayrus which is a lovely little water plant, which I quickly killed with salty little decorative stones that we collected from the beach.  Who knew that rocks could hold salt? Talk about feeling stupid. Just think of the reams of paper I could have made by now!! 
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Posted: Jan 17th, 2007 01:07 am |
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