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Post by OasisNZ on Dec 22, 2007 21:35:25 GMT 12
Would love to see more pics of peoples gardens, and if you have any handy tips, please feel free to start a thread, we have quite a large garden, and I love to see what people are doing even on a small scale, I used to have a saying on the forums, "Do the world a favour, plant a cabbage!" LOL! Our raspberries are coming on, about three kilos a day at the moment... The greenhouse tomatoes are coming on nicely... And a Christmas Lily for you all, Merry Happy HO HO HO! ;D
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Post by ladypenelope on Dec 22, 2007 21:38:31 GMT 12
I'll try and get some pics tomorrow......... my tomatoes are about 3 months behind those!!!! Those raspberries look delissssssssious.
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Post by misilon on Dec 23, 2007 19:02:47 GMT 12
oohhh goody Just bought us a brand new digital camera today from dick smiths it our present to ourselves really cool ,...now I can take some good pics of whatever garden we have left ,...catch you laters
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Post by OasisNZ on Dec 23, 2007 19:27:19 GMT 12
Awesome Misi, look forward to that!...
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Post by mamamia on Jan 4, 2008 15:53:57 GMT 12
Ok just for you Kim, we are not gardeners and just have bits and pieces around the yard Starting at the driveway, Michaela and I were fancying up some rocks will do some more when she is here for the holidays, These are the kids pebble garden, the flowers in the baskets are the ones I got from the garden centre before xmas, also I put the birdbath there (WIP), Going down the left hand side of the house, there is a very dry garden, I have put in a sun dial, that I got for xmas on a ceramic pipe temporarily till I mosaic the pipe, and also when we took out our potbelly stove it is in this garden too lol, This the top of the stove next, Pene gave me cuttings of this ground cover, These green lilies grow down in the back left corner, Across the back to the other side is an area that has been overgrown with ferns, which i put in a brick edging last year, with help from my mate Michaela, this is where I put violets from Pene and Violets from my daughter, Pene's violets, Shelley's violets, To be made into a Lily of the Valley garden, Pathway, Spanish shawls going up from the bottom garden, Blackeyed Susans, Birds of Paradise, Bougainvillea Tomatoes and herbs under the kitchen window, And that's about it apart from a deck full of plants lol! I hope the pics come out ok Sorry folks, I posted the pics in here yesterday and then moved them to another folder lol, so the pics should all be there now.
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Post by meandog on Jan 4, 2008 16:03:12 GMT 12
The Bird of Paradise, I have once managed to grow from seed. They are not good at setting seed but my one here did, once I found a seed and it germinated. If you have not seen the seed they are about the size of a pea, black with a small orange tuft of fur on one end. There is also a blue flowered B of P. not common in this country.
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Post by mamamia on Jan 4, 2008 16:13:00 GMT 12
The Bird of Paradise, I have once managed to grow from seed. They are not good at setting seed but my one here did, once I found a seed and it germinated. If you have not seen the seed they are about the size of a pea, black with a small orange tuft of fur on one end. There is also a blue flowered B of P. not common in this country. I will look out for the seed MD, I used to try and grow Birds of Paradise when the kids were young but the plants never survived them lol, so it was good to get one to grow. The blue flowering one sounds nice
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Post by meandog on Jan 4, 2008 16:21:47 GMT 12
Sometime over the week end I will see if I can scan a pic and put it up for you.
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Post by mamamia on Jan 4, 2008 17:07:21 GMT 12
Sometime over the week end I will see if I can scan a pic and put it up for you. Thanks MD, what would I do without you
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Post by meandog on Jan 4, 2008 17:17:25 GMT 12
;D ;D ;D ;D Giggles ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by mamamia on Jan 4, 2008 17:23:09 GMT 12
;D ;D ;D ;D Giggles ;D ;D ;D ;D Now you made me giggle lol!!!
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Post by OasisNZ on Jan 4, 2008 20:19:57 GMT 12
Thanks Val, that bird of paradise is an amazing plant, I saw it for the first time a while back on our Meals on Wheels round, we just visited that lady again today and she had some poppy seeds for us, her birds of paradise flowered quite a while back and are now starting to wilt, I will go and ask her if any seed pods are coming on, thanks for the tip Capt! Love the birdbath too, heaps of ideas here, thanks so much for sharing your garden with us!
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Post by meandog on Jan 5, 2008 6:06:29 GMT 12
;D Just to be a wee bit pedantic Bird of Paradise is Strelitzia.
You can grow it from a clump chopped off the main plant, but be warned DON"T plant it near paths or any other concrete structure unless you want some damage caused. These plants can get quite large. I had to have a chuckle to myself I have a book on indoor plants and Strelitzia is listed as an indoor plant, well I for one would not consider it indoors. LOL. ;D
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Post by mamamia on Jan 5, 2008 9:03:08 GMT 12
Thanks Val, that bird of paradise is an amazing plant, I saw it for the first time a while back on our Meals on Wheels round, we just visited that lady again today and she had some poppy seeds for us, her birds of paradise flowered quite a while back and are now starting to wilt, I will go and ask her if any seed pods are coming on, thanks for the tip Capt! Love the birdbath too, heaps of ideas here, thanks so much for sharing your garden with us! Thanks Kim, were all the pics showing when you looked, I had to redo them cos I moved them into another folder after posting lol DOH!!! My Birds of Paradise flowered earlier too and then they started flowering again Sometimes they have double heads as well, they look really good.
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Post by ivyplus on Jan 10, 2008 11:14:24 GMT 12
Ok just for you Kim, we are not gardeners and just have bits and pieces around the yard Starting at the driveway, Michaela and I were fancying up some rocks will do some more when she is here for the holidays, And that's about it apart from a deck full of plants lol! I hope the pics come out ok Sorry folks, I posted the pics in here yesterday and then moved them to another folder lol, so the pics should all be there now. Hello Mamamia I just enjoyed your pics. The bird of paradise is one of my favourite flowers, but we can't grow them here it's too cold.
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Post by ivyplus on Jan 10, 2008 11:17:26 GMT 12
Just a garden question, maybe someone can help:
At the gardening course we went the teacher told us to cut of the flowers on garlics because the goodness will go into the bulbs instead of the flowers.
Our potatoes are flowering at the moment and I wonder if the same would apply to potatoes?
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Post by meandog on Jan 10, 2008 11:30:31 GMT 12
;D Better to try that after flowering, I think I posted something about this a little while back. LOL
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Post by ivyplus on Jan 10, 2008 12:31:31 GMT 12
;D Better to try that after flowering, I think I posted something about this a little while back. LOL Do you remember where you posted it? I would appreciate any help.
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Post by ivyplus on Jan 10, 2008 12:33:12 GMT 12
Tonight I will make some icecream with the raspberries. It is so easy and so delecious:
Fresh raspberries (stored in the fridge for a while that they are cool) cream (cool) raw sugar
I put all the ingredients in the food processor and then in the icecream maker. It takes about an hour and this delicious icecream is ready!
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Post by meandog on Jan 10, 2008 13:03:43 GMT 12
;D Better to try that after flowering, I think I posted something about this a little while back. LOL Do you remember where you posted it? I would appreciate any help. I can't find it Ivyplus, but it was when you mentioned being given some I think, Aria spuds from some friends. Not that long ago. You mentioned it might be a bit late to put them in but you were going to give it a go. Well I told you about this old fella that used to cut the tops off his spuds after flowering as he said that more goodness went into the crop, and also to protect them from a snap frost. I have not tried this myself. ;D ;D
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