Archive for October, 2008
« Previous EntriesGas War Updates
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
Y’all remember the gas war?? You don’t? Then, go HERE to refresh your memories. Well, the other day, I reported they’d gone down to $2.03… and yesterday, they broke the $2 barrier to go to:
Sweet, huh?
I can almost live with this price, and [...]
Halloween Sighting at May Dreams Gardens
Submitted by May Dreams Gardens Blog
It was a dark and stormy night…
It was Halloween night.
As I walked along the garden path, dry leaves crunching beneath my feet, I thought I heard the sounds of someone else walking through the garden. But when I stopped, I heard nothing.
Nearby an owl let out a screech.
I jumped at [...]
Absolutes of Gardening: Tender Plants
Submitted by May Dreams Gardens Blog
This plant doesn’t look good at all.
I think I should have moved these Red Banana plants, Ensete maurelii, into the garage before morning temperatures dipped below freezing.
But I didn’t and now they look like a big mess of “cell collapse”.
That’s what happens when tropical plants are left out in the [...]
Popcorn Memories
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
I like popcorn. I’ve always liked it. It was one of the treats my dad made for us, and taught us how to make. He’d make it on Saturdays and Sundays when he watched football or basketball…or golf.
I will admit to preferring the popcorn made in a good dutch [...]
Happy Halloween
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
Tomorrow is Halloween, and, unlike past years, our neighborhood has a LOT of kids of Trick-or-Treating age. So, ‘Pup and I have bought a lot more candy than we usually have in the house. (Temptation!) We’ve tried not to get the candy that we like the best, but still [...]
My Sweet Tooth
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
Do I need to point out that I like candy? I mean, I kinda wish that diet pills came in chocolate flavors, or, even better, that chocolate kisses WERE diet pills, ’cause then it might be a lot easier to lose weight.
However, [...]
Goin’ Down the Road
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
I got very irritated at ‘Pup last night. As I left work, I called him (as I usually do), and got no answer. Called again, thinking that perhaps he was outside with the Wests, working on the fence…still no answer. After about 14 more calls I was irritated and [...]
MURRRRDER!!!
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
I hear them whispering behind my back. Nosy neighbors, witness to crimes unimaginable. And, now they’re stirring up trouble:
“It’s murder I tell you, murder most foul! This killing spree began early in springtime. We saw with our own eyes how she tortured those little flowers through the long, [...]
Frosted Impatiens
Submitted by May Dreams Gardens Blog
I am pretty sure that those gardeners who garden in climates where there is no killing frost, no forced dormancy, no real end to a gardening season, secretly envy those of us who have gardens that die back and go dormant for several winter months.
Why would they be envious of [...]
Goin’ Down
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
I’m glad gas prices are going down. In fact, remember the price war ? The lowest price reached during that little exercise in capitalism was $2.08. Well, today, the price was $2.03. I think the two fighting stations are still the price leaders [...]
Remembering Other Frosty Days at May Dreams Gardens
Submitted by May Dreams Gardens Blog
Today we had a killing frost.
A year ago today, we had a killing frost.
What are the chances of having a killing frost like that on the same day, two years in a row?
I don’t know, as I don’t have the math knowledge to cipher like that, but I suppose you [...]
Other Colors Revealed
Submitted by May Dreams Gardens Blog
Botanists tell us that the fall leaf colors, those yellows, oranges, and reds, are in the leaves from the beginning but are masked by the green of chlorophyll for the duration of the growing season.
But as the days get shorter and colder, the plant makes less chlorophyll allowing the other [...]
What’s Coming Up…
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
One more plant that had gone away before the storm, but is popping up here and there, once more. Now, if only ALL of them had done that… sigh… I need to plant new caladiums this spring/fall/winter…
I think I’ve mentioned that our GP [...]
The Answer is Roses!
Submitted by May Dreams Gardens Blog
I have a problem in my garden and I think that roses are the answer.
This may surprise some people who know me and my garden because currently I have only two roses.
One is this white rose, a Flower Carpet® rose that is planted in a bed in the front, but [...]
Stories About the Garden and the Gardener
Submitted by May Dreams Gardens Blog
Remember that time I caught a rabbit in a trap, but the trap door wasn’t secured?
I took pictures of the rabbit, while standing there in the pouring rain, and then when I picked up the trap… Bam! That rabbit shot out of there like a champagne cork on New Year’s [...]
Porch Chat: How to Tend Your Imaginary Garden
Submitted by May Dreams Gardens Blog
It’s a little bit chilly this evening, but with a jacket, a hat, and some gloves, it’s pleasant enough to sit on the porch and enjoy the crispness in the air.
These crisp fall days are numbered. Rain is expected to arrive later tonight and temperatures will be dropping steadily [...]
Buddy
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
Here’s to Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of the cat door.
I sometimes wonder if Newton’s apple story is just that - a story - and he pondered gravity because he watched how his own cats defied it. Whenever I get that paranoid feeling I’m being watched, I look high up [...]
Bad Dog Takes a Walk
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
Oh, boy… I thought to myself as I was fighting on the phone with an unrealistic client. These days, everybody wants something for nothing. My workaday world has become so tiresome…
Then the ‘Uh Oh!’ sound that alerts me to new emails grabbed my attention and… my perfectly horrid rotten [...]
Embrace Fall Clean-Up for A Happier Life
Submitted by May Dreams Gardens Blog
There are some gardeners who claim that they do little to no fall clean-up. They make it sound quite virtuous to let nature do its thing through fall and winter.
They want us to believe that once the first leaf falls from a tree, they put up their hoes, put [...]
Blooms Busting Out
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
It looks like the Pinata rose has mostly recovered from being half yanked out of its bed, and the Golden Showers rose was blooming too…just too high up for me to get to it.
And Ms Belinda (Belinda’s Dream) is busting out all over with blooms. Walking up to my door [...]
Orbits, Oxhearts & Little Finger Carrots
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
In spite of gloves and a warm sweater, I shivered as I harvested the last of the carrots. It’s been near freezing at night for over a month, now, though a deep layer of mulch keeps my little, round carrots toasty warm.
In spring, I planted heirloom Oxhearts. (They look [...]
A Wedding!
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
A dear friend, a teacher I worked with, is getting married. She’s the mother of a grown son, and the last thing in the world she thought she’d do was get married again. Oddly, when I met ‘Pup, I wasn’t looking to get married again either. Life has some interesting [...]
Stylin’ Shoes…Sorta
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it, but our regular MD has retired. So, ‘Pup and I are out and about looking for new doctors. One of the new doctors is a podiatrist. (Good Doctor! ) The podiatrist resolved a problem ‘Pup had needed addressing for a while, and while we [...]
Lullaby
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
The cool weather we’ve been having here in Houston has been wonderful. There are so few days of the year that we can open our windows and just enjoy the air, but we’ve had 3 of them in a row so far… and a couple more to come! I don’t [...]
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
This is a tale of two neighbors, one good and one…not so good.
Excerpt from: Mending Fences, by Robert Frost.
……….
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That [...]
