Gardening?

[Jakaleena]

BK - I've seen both Dahlias and Daisies with that petal pattern. Here are some photos of Orchid Dahlias that are similar.

http://www.dahlias.freeservers.com/p211.htm

The bud and plant itself in your photo looks more like a daisy though. I have been racking my brain trying to remember which type of daisy has that particular petal pattern, but I just can't seem to get the ol' gray matter to cough up the info...

If you look on the page above at the Honka Dahlia, you'll see a bud there. Dahlia buds almost always look like that. If that's what you see on your plant (hard to tell exactly from your photo) before the bud ever starts to open, I'd say you've got a Dahlia. If your plant never gets buds that looks like that at the early stage before blooming, then it's probably some sort of daisy.

You might take one of the blooms down to your local nursery and see if they can tell you...

[Blacknight]

Too bad this isn't the GardeningPRO site...then I would know!

I turned it into a kaleidoscope!

[Jakaleena]

I just took a photo of the garden a couple of days ago and thought I share "baby pictures" with you all...

[d_kendal]

your garden is looking great Jak! it looks like a really beautifull place to live.

- David

[Jakaleena]

Thanks David.

It is really pretty out here. The only drawback is nothing is convenient - the closest "convenience" store is about 12-15 miles away. When you decide to just "run to town" you'd better make sure you have a list and get everything because that only happens about once a week. The peace and quiet and country life (I lived in a huge city for 28 years) more than make up for the lack of 7-11 stores.

The garden has changed a lot just since I took that shot a couple of days ago even. It's amazing how fast it grows! Now, the tomatoes are staked, and today I plowed the right front quarter (where the compost cage is) to transplant suckers from the corn rows in the back/right.

Oh, and here's a picture of the best spot on the whole place - the front porch. There's usually a huge plant sitting right under that window but I'd moved it to sweep and forgot to put it back before taking the picture. I'm standing about midway on the porch to take the shot, so there's as much porch behind me as there is in front of me.

The building you see beyond the porch is just the Grange Hall...

[d_kendal]

Wow Jak,
that must be a great home even though it's fairly remote. I'm sure being away from the noise and everything of the city makes up for that.

- David

P.S. that's a great shot of the hummingbird in there!!

[Ed_L]

Jak,

The garden looks like it's coming along well. Are those "walls-o-water" I see by the tomatoes? We have something feasting on our bush beans now. They look like a bunch of moths got hold of them. But the pole beans look pretty good so far.

Ed

[fugitive]

I like the garden too. Is that good rich soil, looks red, which I usually associate with deserts or clay. My relitives have farms in MN and their soil is almost black.

Do you live out there alone or with husband, who's idea to live in country. I love the country but the closeness of hospitals and retail markets sorta traps me to the city.
I bet it's great at night with the stars and frogs and churping and quiet.

[Ed_L]

Originally posted by fugitive
I love the country but the closeness of hospitals and retail markets sorta traps me to the city.

We moved from the city atmosphere to a small town of about 100 people. We lived there for about 5 years, but we moved back because of the extremely poor medical care in the area. When my wife became ill, her problem was diagnosed as Meniere's disease, but we couldn't find a doctor anywhere nearby who could effectively treat it. Once you get to the 45 - 50 year old range, that becomes a major concern.

Ed

[chiquitita]

Just curious, did anyone ever order from Garden.com? If so, did you have a good experience?

[Irene]

Originally posted by Blacknight

What is this? I have seen it somewhere in one of my flower books but I can't find it. Do you know what it's called? It wasn't there last year, but now it has bloomed and I think it is just so unique...

It's an Osteospermum, common name African Daisy. For more info check out <http://www.osteospermum.com/>
Under Photo Album see Spooned. Yours may be one of those pictured.

[Blacknight]

Originally posted by Irene


It's an Osteospermum, common name African Daisy. For more info check out <http://www.osteospermum.com/>
Under Photo Album see Spooned. Yours may be one of those pictured.

It is indeed! Thank you so much! Now that I know the name I can research it and find out what it needs and what it likes and maybe get it to multiply.

[Doug Nelson]

After my roses bloomed, and changed colors (which was cool), the flowers wilted and fell off, which is normal. But that was it, no new roses. Is that the way roses work? A week or so of blooms, then nothing the rest of the year? The canes are getting enormous, though, almost taller than me.

[Jakaleena]

Roses like to be cut. You have to deadhead roses to encourage more blooms. It's also good to harvest some for bouquets, which also encourages more blooming. If spent and wilting blooms are left on the canes, energy that could be used to produce new blooms will be spent trying to revive the dead ones instead.

(and if the bush is new, it may not hit it's blooming stride till the second year...)

[Ed_L]

I probably shouldn't be posting here because I know *very* little about roses. But I think it depends on the type of roses you have as to how and when they bloom. We have some roses that bloom, die down, get deadheaded, then new ones come on. We also have different roses that I think bloom throughout the whole summer. Some roses don't even look like what I think roses are supposed to look like! Nature and Photoshop --- so much to learn.

Ed