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| Have you fed your dog chili?
Better yet, are you growing annual or oriental red poopies? I'm not sowing any this year, but I do like to hear about them. |
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| I've got some oriental seeds in jug out in the snow. I'll let you know how they do come spring. Don't hold your breath. Spring is still a long way off. Martha |
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| Don't say that Martha! Spring isn't so far away, even for you in MI. Temps all over the country have risen in the last few days. Even though we have a few patches of snow left, it got up to 56° here. It was wonderful. The worst is behind us now, I can feel it in my bones. Spring will be here soon. Frigid Dec and Jan are gone, as is half of Feb. It's an easy ride now. One warm day and I feel like a new person. Karen |
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| Everyone, keep saying "Spring will be here soon" like kqcrna did and click your heels 3 times. Maybe if we all do it everytime we think about it, it might happen. Seriously, I feel we will still see some really cold weather, but Spring will come early with a bang, not easing in. |
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- Posted by countrycarolyn 6-7nwTN (My Page) on Mon, Feb 14, 11 at 8:43
| I have some oriental beauty of livermere I have sown and I also have some red corn poppies I am needing to sow. I love those red poppies!! Yesterday was beautiful here, I even opened up my windows for a little while and my papers went flying everywhere cause the winds were so strong. I am always so eager to get my windows open and feel the nice wind and sun it won't be long now that I can have my windows open from morning until evening. I actually pulled off one layer of socks so a few more weeks I will be pulling out the flip flops!! I am with Karen I believe the worst is behind us!! |
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- Posted by hibiscusfan zone 5 N.W. Oh. (My Page) on Mon, Feb 14, 11 at 9:29
| Saw 13 robins in my ornamental cherry tree Saturday. |
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| Oh, we'll still get cold weather, to be sure. But it won't be those entire months where we never reach as "high" as 30. It will be days at a time, not weeks or months. We'll most likely get some snow here and there, too, but only a few inches instead of feet, and it will stay on the ground for hours or days, not weeks or months. I can handle that. Karen |
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| So Bakemom, do you like poppy pictures too? :) My blog entry for this week has a big section on Angel's Choir poppies. It's also got a map of my insanity garden - the one that started with the 3600 wintersown containers in 2009, and got filled in with another 2500 containers last year. Would you believe that I haven's sown anything containers yet this year? (But I will do a quick hundred or two soon to add a few more daylilies and aquilegias. I hope it's not too spammy to post a link to my blog like this - but since it was about poppies and the garden that WS built, I figured it's on topic. Enjoy the poppy photos. :) And if you find any places where I made the "poopy" typo, please let me know! Lynda |
Here is a link that might be useful: My blog for this week
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| I wintersowed the oriental types in the past, but have yet to see them bloom. I think my soil has too much clay for them to be really happy. I am hoping that some will survive and adapt enough to give me those gorgeous poppy blooms in late spring when I really need something showy. At least they are easy to wintersow, so I can keep trying every year until I get it right! lgslgs, I liked your blog. Lois in PA |
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| I didn't ws poppies last year as had many self sown ones in my bed. Had to move that bed last fall so I will ws some puppies soon. I planted three Beauty of Livermore last spring. Hope they all return this spring. |
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| I should have some of the perennial Princess Victoria Louise ones bloom for the first time this year if they overwintered OK. Those are a nice bing pinkish one. |
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| Hi Lynda, nice to "see" you! Last year I sowed some annual red "poopies" - received them as a bonus in a trade. Decided not to winter sow them - just scattered them amongst the perennials in mid-March, to see what would happen. They sprouted so abundantly, I had to weed them out twice! They were pretty when they bloomed before the perennials and the bees absolutely loved them. This year, we have so much snow, I don't know if I'll even see the ground by the first of Spring!! May 11th - May 29th - June 20th - |
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| I do believe I shall go outside right now and DS some poopies. :) oh and PS, if you lay off the beets, it'll solve that problem. hee! |
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| Last winter, I WSed quite a few containers but also direct sowed a mix of seeds in the bare spots in my garden. One word of warning - if you direct sow mixed seeds and there's a bunch of poppy seeds in there, the poppies could "win" and snuff out all of the other seedlings. I ended up with areas full of poppies. That was nice until they died back, and then I had empty sections in the garden. I like using poppies as place holders in newly dug garden beds. Prepare the soil in the fall, sow poppies in the winter, let them suppress weeds and bloom their heads off. And then WS a bunch of perennials, grow them on in the containers over summer, and plant them out with a fall planting. The following spring you'll have a nice mix of sturdy perennials and gap filling annual poppies. Lynda |
Here is a link that might be useful: Video: Poppies take over a row of my garden
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- Posted by daisydawnny 5 (My Page) on Sun, Feb 20, 11 at 9:24
| I do not have red poopies, but I do have pink poopies. I fittingly planted the poopies in the jug that held the yucky stuff dh had to drink before his Colonoscopy. Somehow he did not think it was funny when i told him I sowed poopies in that jug, lol. |
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| LOL at Doris and Daisy; I noticed that beets will make your peepies red too! Lynda, the row of poppies in your video is really pretty; they do indeed go by pretty quickly, so I just yanked mine after they bloomed, and the perennials sort of filled in that bed. |
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| That was a good one, daisydawnny! |
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a 6 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 21, 11 at 9:14
| No red poopies here either but imagine my surprise when Lauren's Grape poopy seeds arrived as a bonus in one of my trades! I am SO hoping I can get them to grow and bloom. |
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