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| Bionika | Feb 26 2014, 11:40 PM Post #76 |
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No, no : no snow in my area (France near Paris - it's different in mountain areas) but flowers which are growing in trees. Bionika |
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| Bionic Kathy | Mar 3 2014, 09:51 PM Post #77 |
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Paris sounds lovely. It's much better than all this snow we're getting. I hope to visit Paris one of these days. I just don't know when. |
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"Look inside yourself -- say what's in your heart -- even if it is made of teflon." Dr. Jaime Sommers Austin "Oscar, if you want to find us, don't come looking for us." Colonel Steve Austin | |
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| bionic4ever | Apr 7 2014, 06:16 PM Post #78 |
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I TALK TOO MUCH! LOL!
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My crocuses are blooming!!!
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| Bionic Kathy | Apr 7 2014, 07:29 PM Post #79 |
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Oh how pretty. Purple, my favorite color and my favorite shade. |
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| Inanna | Apr 7 2014, 10:21 PM Post #80 |
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Silly question, but do they have a fragrance? I haven't seen them upclose before, so I don't know. Only early spring bulbs I've planted before were freesias. They have a rather delicate but lovely smell. Currently have some bearded iris and gladiolas in the ground. I suspect the irises aren't going to bloom this year because I think they would have by now. I'm hoping they'll bloom next year though. And.... if I look out the back...not much to see (because it's dark ) but I can see the lights of the houses/labs on the hill behind mine.
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| bionic4ever | Apr 7 2014, 10:41 PM Post #81 |
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I TALK TOO MUCH! LOL!
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It's not a silly question at all! I have to admit that I didn't know the answer, because they're very low to the ground and I'm unable to bend down there. But I googled it, and found that a lot of people describe the smell as sweet, sort of like honey. I'm just SO excited to see them because (to me) they're signalling that this long, extra-tough Winter is finally over. I've lived here just over a year now, and last Spring (into early Summer) my walkway was lined with hyacinths and violets... and I was in the hospital from May 6 - June 6 and didn't get to see most of it. I'm really looking forward to being here this year to enjoy the flowers! |
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| Inanna | Apr 8 2014, 12:31 AM Post #82 |
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Hmm, honey. So I'm guessing it would kind of smell like a daffodil because that smells like honey to me. Your winter woes/happiness about spring reminds me of a story my mom use to tell me. She grew up in Boston and she told me that the advent of spring for her was her mom going out to the backyard and hacking at a patch of garden which she said was 'this side of permafrost' so that some sort of early spring bulbs would come up. Apparently their lot was on some sort of reclaimed land, so occasionally my grandmother would come across an old tire or some other refuse as she was working on this patch of frozen ground. The sight of her trying to push a shovel into the ground (and only make it in about 2 or 3 inches) would make my mom think 'Spring is coming.' I live in the desert, so I have the opposite problem. Winter for me is usually a cold day in December or, if I'm really lucky, a cold week in January. My gladiolas usually end up frying every year in 90 to 100 degree heat before they're half way done blooming, unfortunately. |
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| Bionic Kathy | Apr 9 2014, 07:15 PM Post #83 |
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I planted lilies of the valley on the side of our house years ago. They were from my Aunt's house. They do come up year after year. The only thing I don't like is that we seem to get more leaves than flowers. But I still like the idea that they were from my Aunt's house. |
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| bionic4ever | Apr 9 2014, 07:32 PM Post #84 |
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I would love to plant some snap dragons, as each one of the various houses I lived in as a child always had snap dragons. I can't really bend or stoop enough to do that, but maybe if I just sat down on the sidewalk... |
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| Inanna | Apr 10 2014, 02:40 AM Post #85 |
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It's been a while since I planted snapdragons, but if I recall correctly, you really only need to broadcast them on the ground and press the seeds in the damp earth with your foot and it's all good. I think they only need a planting depth of 1/4". So you wouldn't really need to stoop down at all to plant them in a patch of dirt. I liked it a little muddy better because it was taking care of planting and the first watering at the same time. Had some sweet violets along the north(ish) side of the house, but after two summers in 100+ heat, the last of them finally got fried. The snail vine on the other hand loves the heat as long as it's watered regularly. |
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| bionic4ever | Apr 10 2014, 06:16 PM Post #86 |
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That's excellent news on the snapdragons; thank you! And my neighbor (who is also the landlord's girlfriend) said they have a little platform on wheels that i could sit on and scoot along the sidewalk, if i want to use it. She was out there today, clearing debris and trimming the flowering bushes outside my back door. She loves gardening and landscaping, which is wonderful because it means I'll have blooms (mostly hyacinths, irises and violets) all along my side of the house. She really keeps it looking sharp. And we asked her today if i could plant a few snapdragons - that was when she offered to let me use that rolling thingie. I'm almost abnormally excited about the arrival of Spring and the flowers since I went into the hospital last year right as the hyacinths started to bloom - and by the time i got home (a month later), a good portion of them were gone. I'm going to be spending a LOT of time outside on my lawn chair this Spring/Summer, just enjoying the flowers, the rolling green lawn and the gorgeous big old trees that make such a perfect canopy overhead. Oh - and watching the trains going through my backyard! |
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| Inanna | Apr 10 2014, 08:06 PM Post #87 |
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I'd love to have a trellis with vines on my patio so I could have some shade up there during the summer heat but it's not a project I'm going to be able to do anytime soon. Soon not being for another few years at least. Have wisteria on the north side of the house that I would love to eventually trellis for the purpose of shade but that again seems to be on the long road. I'm discovering it seems to like the winter better than the summer here.I use to have music class in a classroom that was as close to the tracks as the shed or carport in the picture I saw of your backyard. About 1:30-2pm each day, a small cargo train of about 20 to 30 cars would come by. I think all the kids would pretty much giggle because the entire building would shimmy and shake, it always felt like a good 4.5-5.0 on the Richter scale. My instructor would always throw his baton on the podium and prop said podium up until the train passed because trying to teach at all when it was going by was a complete effort in futility. Here, there is a park a few miles from where I live that has a train track going right through the left field of a baseball field. My FIL said if anyone hits one deep into left field when the train's going by, you might as well forget it and just give the batter the homer.
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| bionic4ever | Apr 11 2014, 05:41 PM Post #88 |
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The trains come through at all hours here, but even more frequently at night. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed, they sound like they're going to come crashing through my bedroom! And yet, when I spent that month in the hospital it was hard to fall asleep without those sounds as a lullaby! I didn't realize until yesterday when I went a little closer and looked over the side, that there are TWO sets of tracks down there! One thing I'd love to see from my living room windows is a bird feeder. There's one on the big front porch, but on the other half - not on my side - and not easily visible from my windows. Would love to put one by the window behind where I sit at the computer; that's the one my daughter made into a padded window seat for the cats. I know the boys would love to sit up there and watch the birds. Have been looking into getting one of those small feeders that attaches directly onto the window with suction cups. |
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| Inanna | Apr 11 2014, 06:29 PM Post #89 |
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What type of birds? I've gotten into bird watching a bit since moving to Arizona. Most of my visitors are house finches, though I do think there's a purple finch that hangs out with them, gold finches occasionally, sparrows, gila woodpeckers, quail, thrashers, cactus wren, and some type of titmouse, I think. Usually hear a pyrhloxia (desert cardinal) or phaniopepla once a day. There's an Anna's Hummingbird that hangs out on the lot next to us -- he's very territorial with an other hummer mosinging by... Got doves too, really, really not the brightest creatures on Earth. See hawks every once in a while too. Not sure what type the most recent ones I've seen, maybe red tailed, not sure. Had a Cooper's Hawk hanging out in the neighborhood for a while, then a family of Harris hawks, but only for a couple of weeks thankfully. If Harris hawks are in your neighborhood, you'll know because they never seem to shut up and you can hear them a good half mile off, sometimes more. I laugh when my cats have done that chatty little meow when they see a bird on the other side of the window. I tell them, "Right, because they're going to be stupid enough to be perched there without that glass between you and them..." Well, come to think of it, some would, but I wouldn't tell the cats that. |
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| bionic4ever | Apr 11 2014, 10:14 PM Post #90 |
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So far, I've only seen sparrows, robins and crows in this yard. Have seen cardinals in various parts of the city, but only occasionally. There are gulls, doves, hummingbirds and jays in the area, but haven't seen them here yet. Ducks and geese at the local parks. There is a stream that runs directly along the edge of the property here (although it's at the bottom of a rather steep embankment). Depending on how my legs are doing, I'd love to go sit there this Summer (at the top, not the bottom) and see what I can see. There's also a river that runs behind the house, but that embankment is even steeper - and on the other side of the railroad tracks. Last Summer, my health didn't allow for much exploring. It took several months just to get back any of what pneumonia (and a flare-up) drained out of me - so pretty much all I did was laying the sun. This year, I hope to enjoy this gorgeous property a whole lot more! |
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) but I can see the lights of the houses/labs on the hill behind mine.
Have wisteria on the north side of the house that I would love to eventually trellis for the purpose of shade but that again seems to be on the long road. I'm discovering it seems to like the winter better than the summer here.
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