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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2010 12:32:29 GMT
I think I saw the first trace of a leaf on a tree. It must be admitted that sometimes this is due to a tree being near a hot air vent.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2010 18:00:36 GMT
Oh, I did not know that! It makes perfect sense, though, doesn't it -- a micro-mini climate.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2010 19:09:27 GMT
The tree outside my mother's window has made a little progress, but not all that much considering the terrible weather. I am hoping that Casimira will be back before the "main event"!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 7, 2010 20:17:43 GMT
! Great picture!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2010 14:13:32 GMT
Should be any day now...can't wait to see. The ones here are all shattered on the ground,beautiful unto itself,a blanket of petals and a half naked,bare tree. I will try to capture it.
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Post by Jazz on Mar 11, 2010 17:15:58 GMT
So good to hear from Casimira! The photo of the bird in the magnolia tree is lovely. Is the bird real? err... surely Kerouac wouldn't plant a fake bird for a photo op for the Port!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2010 18:17:44 GMT
Yes, it is a real Parisian pigeon. I was really surprised to see a pigeon sitting in the nest, because I thought that it was the nest of a smaller bird.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2010 18:20:14 GMT
Are you sure you didn't use your hypnotic powers over it, to make it pose like that? ;D
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Post by Jazz on Mar 11, 2010 18:37:10 GMT
Ah. Le pigeon des magnolias est beau. She looks content.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2010 19:50:58 GMT
So good to hear from Casimira! The photo of the bird in the magnolia tree is lovely. Is the bird real? err... surely Kerouac wouldn't plant a fake bird for a photo op for the Port! Thank you Jazz.! I fear Kerouac is trying to divert our attentions away from the OP,and,not post the BLOOMING Magnolia,by luring our attentions to the pigeon,who is indeed lovely.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 14:07:04 GMT
On my walk this morning!( I have been eying these guys for days now...) LOUISIANA IRIS (our very own species)
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 18, 2010 15:33:32 GMT
I have to ask: is this vengeance for the hollyhocks? ;D Beautiful. There is a fairly complete discussion about Louisiana iris somewhere in the Putting Down Roots board, but I just spent several minutes not being able to find it. Now that it's Spring, maybe some of the older threads will get dug up, as it were, since there's a store of useful information here that can always be augmented besides.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2010 19:30:40 GMT
No,no vengeance,simply a love of the iris,every time I see one I am reminded of how incredibly lovely they are. Gosh, I'm fuzzy on there ever being a discussion on here about them. I will look later for it but really don't think so...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2010 0:02:02 GMT
Paris parks are just beginning to get to the proper stage of spring.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 21, 2010 9:38:29 GMT
My camellia buds are still fat buds with their colour peeping through but seem to be at a standstill since February.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2010 10:19:58 GMT
My camellia buds are still fat buds with their colour peeping through but seem to be at a standstill since February. Don't despair Spindrift! The first hint of some warmer weather and I feel confident they will burst forth!
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Post by spindrift on Mar 21, 2010 10:35:14 GMT
Casimira - what should I do with all the brown and seemingly dead vegetation in my garden...shall I cut it out, some of it down the to roots, and hope it will spring up again? My garden looks like a no-man's land.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2010 12:26:15 GMT
I think that Bixa addressed this on here,I will look for it. I don't know that much about your climate and seasons to specifically address this. Our cardinal rule is to generally wait until all danger of frost before cutting back dead growth. Then,there is the plant itself,how much to cut or remove depends on what it is... I started a little over a week ago whacking stuff here,but,we had an out of the ordinary winter. I am chronicling some of the process and plan to post in the Garden Aspirations...thread.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 21, 2010 14:05:54 GMT
Spindrift, there is an easy solution for your garden, not pioneered but followed by numerous residents of where I was raised. It takes a little effort at first but pays off by being extremely easy to maintain throughout all the seasons.
Concrete and scrap cars. Q.E.D.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2010 17:03:39 GMT
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Post by spindrift on Mar 22, 2010 12:06:56 GMT
Oh, Casimira, that's dreadful. How pitiful it looks. Mine isn't quite that bad! The agave cuttings that Baz gave me (and were doing so well) are definitely dead and gone, having turned into jellyish mush I have two Fatsias. The plain green, and common or garden one, is just about ok but my expensive fatsia (tipped with white) is a sorry sight. I'm afraid to cut out its centre which is also it's growing point. My Hydrangea Petoliaris (sp) has come away from the red brick wall and I don't know the best way to re-fasten it. It had put out tendrils and was clinging nicely but high winds have torn it away. It is already budding. My beautiful Japanese oak ferns (underplanting an ordinary white hydrangea) are brown and floppy . I don't know whether they will sprout anew or whether to cut them right back and perhaps kill them? Mark......concrete......CONCRETE
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 22, 2010 15:33:35 GMT
Spindrift, I strongly recommend that you hold off on cutting back anything until you see some good new growth once Spring has really arrived.
You have such a good aesthetic sense, why not go out into the winter-ravaged garden and take some detail shots of ravaged vegetation? That would allow you to look at what's there abstractly and distract you from the desire for premature pruning.
Can you put some slender stakes in and around the hydrangea to support it and give it a chance to reattach itself? Since the garden is dormant right now, it won't matter if the stakes show. You could put several in front, then pull them out little by little as the plant gets going again.
Oh, the heck with it -- I'll just give you Mark's phone number & let him come over and really give the place a nice new look!
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Post by spindrift on Mar 22, 2010 16:44:04 GMT
Thank you Bixa. The hydrangea has fallen forwards but I can put some sticks behind it and tie it up with garden string. I will put up some pics of the poor dead Agaves and the fatsia...
*who's that knocking on my door? hope it is not ConcreteMark*
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 18:23:37 GMT
Don't worry Spindrift,I know all the different plants,and potions, that can paralyze,you name it,any would be concreters.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2010 21:00:59 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 24, 2010 21:20:55 GMT
So beautiful -- I can almost feel and smell the Spring air. The last photo is a particular delight.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2010 21:32:16 GMT
Yes!! Springtime in Paris ! Love it!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2010 10:09:14 GMT
The whole lemon grove is in bud now,any day now, the grove will be full of lemon blossoms,just in time for the bees (I hope!!!) I did a very severe prune of the citrus last year,and initially, regretted it, as my yield last year was ok,this year it will be tremendous and the trees are much,much healthier as a result. It does pay to make the sacrifice of a smaller yield one year. The blood orange is also very, very happy right now. I will take pics once the blooms are a tiny bit further along to get the full effect. What a joy to go out there and see,smell...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2010 0:56:49 GMT
Meyer Lemon buds. 50 percent of the buds on these branches shown will be lemons,maybe more...
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Post by spindrift on Mar 30, 2010 14:12:27 GMT
My poor sodden camellias...
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