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I was thinking about it , and his email had his name attatched to it . Unfortunately for me it's common enough that it is impossible to pin point exactly who he his , even with google stalking all of us . I would love to dig it up myself and deliver it to his door step. I could only imagine his shock !
With a note saying , please take care of her , I'm moving to Walmart and can't care for her anymore! Lol

I know the sender of the nasty note wasn't from PA!!! We don't sell beer in our Walmart, only in Beer Distributors or you can buy 6 packs ONLY in bars. We have a "State Store" system here that the legislature and governor has been trying to get rid of for years.

Geesh, what a wet blanket. He needs to spend some time on anger management, I think.

You can transplant almost any time of the summer if you take the proper precautions and water and shade your transplants.

Linda

I have dogs so cats don't visit my yard, but my neighbor has strays/roamers. She sets orange/lemon and lime peels around. I hear they don't like citrus. . . when she stops I see them coming back but when she is on top of it not a cat to be seen.

Good Luck. . .

It's not the cats, it's the flies their droppings bring.

I always cut my plant, if not all the way to the ground at least 1/2 of the plant. Doing this, in my opinion, helps the roots recover quicker from the transplant (less to try to revive and try to keep alive) and there is less of an eye sore (no dried up droopy foliage)

I got mine from a friend 2 summers ago, dug it up in July from her garden, planted it in mine a few days later. The next season you couldn't even tell it was a new transplant. You CAN NOT kill this plant. . .

Okay that's what I was doing wrong. I didn't cut it back and it looked horrid! I will go ahead and cut it to ground. Thanks so much.

I think you Aconitum might be 'A. x cammarum `Eleanor' not 'Bicolor' this one has been said to grow to 6'. I have two different Aconitums in my garden 'Bicolor' and one I'm not sure what it is but it blooms in october when not to much else is in bloom besides my asters. Although all parts of this plant are poisonous it's often used in florist bouquets.
Lots of the plants we grow have negative effects of one kind or another, common sense in place one should be able to grow these plants and enjoy them.

I was taught when I was a child what not to eat or touch in the garden, I guess it stuck I'm still here :).

Annette

OOOOH Witch Tex, I am shaking down to my toes, LOL. I am in your camp. I loved all the dangerous plants when i was a kid. My mom RAISED me in Shark and sea snake infested waters of the South China Sea until I was 7.We swam a lot off of their sailboat in deep waters. The vine on the outside of my house had Kraits. They could kill you in 15 minutes as the legend goes. Did I mention Cobras and Tigers (we lived in the jungle part of the time)? I was cognizant of real dangers even at a young age. Poisonous plants are safe as long as you don't ingest what you don't know. They don't slither in the window at night and bite. Plants were not even on the top ten list of things to watch out for.

There is a new term that makes me laugh. "Nanny State". It is the urge to legislate and otherwise make the world so safe it will bore you to tears and all we will have is mediocre kids, no daring, no imagination. Better keep our myths without any violence and sounding like milk paste while we are at it. No Hans Christian Anderson for them.. No diving boards, no Greg Luganis. The rest of the world thinks that we are a bunch of nanny's when it comes to all things dangerous. That we have jumped the shark on this issue.

Gardenweed, I would imagine that the kids that will inherit your garden will be of the age to not eat the garden unconsciously. One could also put a warning in the will. My garden has a host of Dangerous things. I even have Death Camus, locoweed, hemlock, crows poison, oleander, larkspur, datura, bruganmansia,just for starters.

Campanula, Beautiful plant.

Crime can happen in any neighborhood. I've had solar lights stolen from the back yard and plants uprooted from the front yard. Once a thief came onto the lit back porch while I was in the kitchen. I heard a sound and opened the door. I thought maybe we had an animal in the recycling bin, or maybe my boyfriend had arrived home from work and had stumbled. Instead a stranger glanced at me, grabbed one of our umbrellas and ran away.

I still garden, and I refuse to let others deprive me of the choice to have nice things. Good for you for doing the same. Do what you can to avoid being a target and give yourself peace of mind.

I've been tempted to buy a motion-activated sprinkler like the Scarecrow to deter both people and animals. Have you seen these? They're obviously not for drought-prone areas, or if your house is right on the sidewalk.

If space allows, instead of multiple small pots get one huge one. Think about the weight of the contents, not just the pot itself. Even plastic pots can be too heavy to lift if the container is large enough. One pot is also easier to secure than four. As Karin suggested, if your porch has a rail you can run a bicycle lock cable through the empty pot's drain hole and lock it to the rail. Having an expensive item stolen will make you even more angry, so look for pots on sale. Or make your own planter, if you like that sort of DIY.

I have had hanging plants stolen right off of my front porch. I now have the hanging baskets under lock and chained to my front porch railing. The few pots I have on my driveway are in very heavy concrete pots that even I cannot lift. And so far they are not pulling the plants right out of the concrete pots. One year I had three of my geranium pots stolen from my driveway and that was heartbreaking.

Betty

mmmm I feel as though I am dicing with death planting c.rapunculoides (so pretty though). I have become very blase about invasive after a year of rubus murder.

"Dicing with death", Campanula; nice turn of phrase, though perhaps a bit melodramatic.

I'd simply say "communing with the Devil".

Thanks everyone for the ideas and suggestions. Assuming they grow back I'll just leave them. If for some reason they've died I'll try planting in back next time. I live in a condo in zone 5 with about 2 feet of gardening space in front so I grow some veggies in containers--easier to start them indoors and finish ripening indoors if necessary. The poppies wouldn't even be noticeable behind the containers but the pretty flowers are tall enough to see them :)

There are some, called 'Super Poppies' & in my area, they tend to retain some leaves & stay green thoughout the summer. It may be possible that in your zone, they may even actually have a repeat (second) flowering period, as the weather cools off. I suppose, it is approximately shortly after the ordinary ones, begin to show new growth again, next month.
I managed to get a seed packet imported, of the new cv. 'Plum Pudding' by T& M (of U.K. , via Germany) planning to sow soon and have hopes it may show similar characteristics.

This is the time of the season when I lose my enthusiasm to garden and get back to my other hobby, writing. I have to start pushing myself to get out there and pull those darn weeds when all I want to do is vegetate and write. I spend all of my gardening energies in the months of May through July, and by the time August comes around I'm getting burnt out. Which is why I like living in the north. I have several months of cold yuck to hibernate through and by the time spring comes around I'm ready to go.

Karen

Don't be too hard on yourself - after all, it is your VACATION. And while you sound like me, a person who takes vacation from "official" work/job to do yet more work at home (be it finishing a home improvement project, starting a home improvement project, or a sacred vow to finally get something done in the garden) that doesn't mean we have to stick to our vacation plans.

If you decide to be a slug and sit around and eat for a week, good for you; you probably need a break and quite frankly that sounds like an awesome vacation to me! The work will be there waiting for you later - and even if you had done it, there would be more work waiting for you anyway.

My mojo was and continues to be stolen by the clouds of flying gnats who just won't go away. That's why I'm being a slug (an indoor slug) today. Now I wish I had bought that ice cream while at the store yesterday...

:)
Dee

One shorty I could never be without is Geranium renardii. Even considering my disenchantment with perennial Geraniums it remains one of my top 5 perennials!

Geums are a favorite of mine, as I am sure everyone here knows by now, lol. ;-)

A Gentian? 'True Blue' is a nice, although I doubt there is a Gentian that is not cool!

Deschampsia 'Northern Lights' is a great little grass. I'm thinking I may need more in fact...

I still like Prunella, even though mine have started to seed about a bit with age.

Right now I am lovin' my dwarf balloon flowers.

If you are looking for something with a structural "woody" presence, how about Teucrium chamaedrys 'Nanum'?
CMK

christinmk--I was looking for a really short white geranium and so I will keep an eye out for 'renardii'.

Annette, I want to add astilbe 'chinensis' to the list. forgot about it until sitting out this afternoon and thinking about how nice it is looking! :)

***ETA--sorry Annette, the astilbe in the garden that gets a fair bit of sun is doing well but the blooms are fading quite quickly in the heat/sun, so maybe they wouldn't be a good choice for your sunny area. I do have some in a garden that gets only about an hour and a half to two hours of sun and the blooms are very nice and fresh and seem to be lasting much better than the others.

This post was edited by greylady-gardener on Sat, Aug 9, 14 at 20:10

What a treat then! We have a season-long sequence of yellow, daisy-like wildflowers in our woods here and I'll have to see if this is one of them. It's been a spectacular year for wildflowers here. I'm glad your little one is lighting up your wild shade.

H. divarticus is all over the woods here in Arkansas...esp on the edges of fields,etc, where there is more light. It's in peak bloom right now.

campanula, Yer wantin' proper language from Texans? Really? Yer not from around here are ya? Just kidding.

The best way is:

Common name(s)
Proper Botanical Name
PICTURE

Everyone is happy.

I just had another thought on this. Is it the Sally Wasowski book 'Texas Native Plants' (Landscaping Region by Region) you bought? If so, that book's main intent seems to be to encourage people in those specific regions of Texas to opt for native plants over less suitable plants for environmental reasons. Its not intended as an encyclopedia or horticulture book that would typically use terms you are expecting. Rather, the audience it is directed to are mainly Texans & the goal is to encourage them to consider the wealth of local native plant choices as water wise options or to deal with difficult situations. Most of these people would be familiar those plants by the common names.

This post was edited by TexasRanger10 on Fri, Aug 8, 14 at 15:54

Indeedaroony - that's the one. Having fun attempting to classify which area comes closest to the watery, yet rain-challenged fens.
Ah, here in England, horticultural snobbery runs far, far deeper than mere verbiage - plants and styles are definitely placed within a hierarchy which is minutely nuanced - rare paeonies, obscure snowdrops or species rhododendrons are infinitely more rareified than dahlas or gladioli (but as ever, there are distinctions even within those classes since the Bishop of Llandaff, Arabian Night (dahlias) or tricky species glads are acceptable) .....while chrysanthemums are too far gone for rehabilitation regardless. Even veggies are subject to this class scrutiny - kale, for example, or some of the oriental greens such as bok choi are perfectly at home in one's potager....as are obscure heritage tomatoes........yet the humble but utterly indispensable onion is far too proletarian for serious consideration. Of course, I could simply be misled by the gigantic chip on my shoulder........

barron, if I see one more S. Day Lily I will vomit. We ought to do a thread on over-planted plants. Currently the big new sexy plant on the scene are the gaudy stripedy yellow/green Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard', so much better than the natural nature-made soft & subtle glaucous blue ones. I figured some hosta breeder must have gotten into the act of breeding yucca's and walla! --I googled it -- low and behold the culprit is Paul Aden aka "Mr Hosta". He is the person responsible for all these hundreds of fakey looking banana colored yuccas showing up every few feet in this city. Like mushrooms they are appearing, one day there were none, now they seem to be in every yard and median singularly or even worse, in formal groupings of stripey banana color screaming for attention.

Remember the Bradford Pear invasion? Most have been decimated or culled out by wind and ice but there was definitely a danger hanging over the city of becoming a forest of those 'perfectly shaped, well behaved' trees that simply everyone had to have.

Then there are the Knock Out roses.........

I could go on.

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This post was edited by TexasRanger10 on Fri, Aug 8, 14 at 14:59