My veggie plot - summer is coming!
05-24-2009, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by JoanneS
Whatever they are, mine preferred sun, and at the end of the summer I put them in the basement. They went dormant, and they came back to life the next spring. Sometimes, when we come back to CT later than early April, they came back to life and got tall and stringy, developed new leaves and started searching for light. This is hard in our dark, dank, dirt-floored 142 year old basement! But they lived on until last year when I finally realized there is no place with sun where I want them any more. I gave them to my daughter. I guess I have to buy the other kind, the ones that like shade. But our local nursery only carries geraniums, and the labels say they need sun.
05-24-2009, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by butterflywing
k - i didn't know you went to horticultural school. does that explain the 'weed' habit?
K x
PS Yes I really did got to hort college - does that mean you bow to my greater knowledge re plant names? NWMK!
05-24-2009, 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by quiltncrazy
where's hans in all this...
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05-24-2009, 11:51 PM
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This is absolutely my LAST word on pelargoniums!
The nomenclature of plants is a universal system in Latin invented by Linnaeus in the 18th century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus...naean_taxonomy
All plants have Latin names which are the same the world over so Pelargoniums are called that officially everywhere in the world! However many plants also have common names which can vary from place to place and can be very confusing, which is why the Linnaeus system is so great if only non horticulturally trained (unlike me, tee hee) would use it! The great thing is that I can go into a French garden centre and read the Latin plant labels, even though the common names are different, and know what plants I'm buying!
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The nomenclature of plants is a universal system in Latin invented by Linnaeus in the 18th century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus...naean_taxonomy
All plants have Latin names which are the same the world over so Pelargoniums are called that officially everywhere in the world! However many plants also have common names which can vary from place to place and can be very confusing, which is why the Linnaeus system is so great if only non horticulturally trained (unlike me, tee hee) would use it! The great thing is that I can go into a French garden centre and read the Latin plant labels, even though the common names are different, and know what plants I'm buying!
K x
05-25-2009, 04:19 AM
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gee, davey, dunno...sounds like she mighta, really went to the hort. college! She sure knows how to talk hort.
while your at it, B,...pm me that smiley too...an agent has to keep her wits about her...especially in a threesome! lol! :lol:
So, K's, gonna get the last word on that, hmmm?
K, what did Hans think of the poem?
Makes him kind of famous too...15 seconds, lol...but it means you gotta share some of yours, with him! :wink:
Hans, looking out for ya, buddy! :lol:
while your at it, B,...pm me that smiley too...an agent has to keep her wits about her...especially in a threesome! lol! :lol:
So, K's, gonna get the last word on that, hmmm?
K, what did Hans think of the poem?
Makes him kind of famous too...15 seconds, lol...but it means you gotta share some of yours, with him! :wink:
Hans, looking out for ya, buddy! :lol:
05-25-2009, 04:34 AM
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We have all seen those commercials for the topsy turvy-whatever-they-call-it. But I was at Home Depot last week, and they had taken a five gallon clean bucket (which they sell), cut a hole in the bottom, stuck in a tomato plant, filled with dirt, and hung by the handle....I think the bucket was 2 or 3 dollars.....
Waaaay cheaper than the other thing.....
Ellen
Waaaay cheaper than the other thing.....
Ellen
05-25-2009, 05:43 AM
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Originally Posted by ellenmg
We have all seen those commercials for the topsy turvy-whatever-they-call-it. But I was at Home Depot last week, and they had taken a five gallon clean bucket (which they sell), cut a hole in the bottom, stuck in a tomato plant, filled with dirt, and hung by the handle....I think the bucket was 2 or 3 dollars.....
Waaaay cheaper than the other thing.....
Ellen
Waaaay cheaper than the other thing.....
Ellen
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05-25-2009, 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by ellenmg
We have all seen those commercials for the topsy turvy-whatever-they-call-it. But I was at Home Depot last week, and they had taken a five gallon clean bucket (which they sell), cut a hole in the bottom, stuck in a tomato plant, filled with dirt, and hung by the handle....I think the bucket was 2 or 3 dollars.....
Waaaay cheaper than the other thing.....
Ellen
Waaaay cheaper than the other thing.....
Ellen
05-25-2009, 07:30 AM
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