#209907 - 05/19/08 07:39 AM
Kenny's Garden
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kennyso
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I'm not sure if I can do a 'blog' here, I just figured it would be easier here because I come here everyday, instead of opening an actual blog.
May 19:
It's Victoria Day today, national holiday and everything's closed except the rare few...including walmart garden center. I don't like walmart, but I still went to their garden center for their deals. They advertised in the flyers, floribunda roses for $4.97. It opened at 7am, and I got there at 9:20 (first bus was at 8:55). I didn't expect any left, or not much selection left, and I was partially right. Lots of single pink medium blooming roses and a few ratty looking floribunda roses. I picked up a floribunda, and one of those single pink roses. They were in 2 gallon pots, and even if they die, for $4.97 i've got to admit, it was pretty cheap. I'll find out the names later. I also bough a fuschia (one of my favourite flowers) and (after much coveting of Diane's) my own Osteospermum. I'll get pics later. My left arm's sore from carrying the rose bush...and I just got back. I might go back later, for another one, but I'm just thinking, will I complain when I run out of space and will I take the time to bother digging another hole or bed for the rose? I think two bushes are enough, besides I already have a yellow one from my uncle last fall. Today's purchases totaled just under $16
I tried out the new hose I bought yesterday, not too bad, but a bit too rigid. I'm thinking I shoudl have bought a higher quality heavy duty hose instead of a medium duty cheap brandless hose...but the difference is twice the amount for the branded!
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#209908 - 05/19/08 07:44 AM
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plants 'n pots
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Kenny - I enjoyed reading what you've been up to today. I wish you great luck with your rose bushes. I can't grow them here, because the deer eat them down to the quick, thorns and all, silly animals!
What color osteospermum did you get?
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#209972 - 05/19/08 04:27 PM
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tamara
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Sounds good Kenny...we'll be waiting for pics soon 
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#210048 - 05/20/08 04:21 AM
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tamara
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Kenny~I haven't gotten a chance to get to town yet. Have you found a white bleeding heart yet?
I'll try find you one when I finally get there, last year they had them in bags as a root division. It'll be easy to ship that way.
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#210144 - 05/20/08 02:18 PM
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kennyso
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No pics yet, I'm going out for birthday dinner with my family in ten minutes (even though my birthday's Sunday, its a bit cheaper on the weekdays)
Tamara, no white bleeding heart to be found, not even in pots (which is usually about 3X as expensive as bagged plants) I have found some pretty expensive fern leaf bleeding hearts, but had to let them go, my budget doesn't allow for them. Tamara, if they do have bagged root divisions, for less than say $5-6, if you can, could you get me one and I'll pay you back + shipping? If not, don't worry; thanks for helping me look.
Today, I went across the street to the little garden center of the supermarket and picked out a few annuals, $12 not too bad methinks:
2X 4 pack orange marigolds
2X 4 pack white impatiens
2X 4 pack salvia 'Victoria Blue'
1X 4 pack Petunia Dreams Salmon
1X 4 pack Petunia Dreams Rose Picotee
Edited by kennyso (05/20/08 02:19 PM)
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#211293 - 05/25/08 10:17 AM
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Got a few things done this weekend:
Friday May 23:
I bought another fuschia (red sepals and white 'collar'), semi double blooming, and also a miniature yellow rose. It says its supposed to be hardy to zone 5, so i guess we'll just have to see...
Saturday May 24:
Planted two containers and a hanging basket (I'll get pics soon I promise)
Container #1: Red and white fuchsia surrounded by white impatiens
Container #2: Single fuchsia (white sepals and single magenta collar)
Hanging Basket: White impatiens in the middle, surrounded by three dark blue lobelia.
I ended up planting 4 dahlias into the ground, and also the two cell packs of petunias in front, with the osteospermum in the middle.
Sunday May 25:
Since its my birthday, I treated myself to two brugmansias, both double whites though both are noids (nameless). I've planted one by itself in a 2 gallon pot, and have yet to plant the second one (in the ground most likely). Its a nice and shiny 22*C today (72*F). I still have lots of things to plant, my brugs and some elephant's ears (eddo).
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#211388 - 05/25/08 05:30 PM
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Welllllllll good for you Kenny,, I can't believe you found dble whites brugs there  ,,
Njoynit sent me Monika - dbl pink- I believe but it didn't make it,, it was a very thin piece about the size of a pencil, I did my best to get it to root,,  it just wouldn't ,, 
Much success with them Kenny,, and again Happy Birthday! 
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#211425 - 05/25/08 06:17 PM
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#211426 - 05/25/08 06:22 PM
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kennyso
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Well, to end the day, I planted the other white brug into the ground, as well as two canna lilies (bronze leaves, and orange flowers I think, 'Durban') The marigolds went into the ground. It's going to reach 25*C/77*F tomorrow and fell like 30*C/86*C I water them in well, and will water them again tomorrow morning.
While I was digging, I found a long nail. Looks like an old fashioned square nail with a round head. Freaked me out, I thought it was a coffin nail, and still do. I'm freaking out, haven't told anyone yet.
I moved out two more dahlias I sprouted outside, and two brugs. I'm hoping they live through...
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#211486 - 05/25/08 09:43 PM
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I have more than enough space for flowers.Your yard must be PACKED full of flowers!
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#211599 - 05/26/08 03:03 PM
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kennyso
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Enrique, not that I don't have room, just don't want to dig anymore beds. I have a small one and hope this will limit my spending on plants.
Talk about good feelings! It was supposed to rain and storm today, but it was also going to reach 'high' temps (well for spring at least). So this morning, I got up extra early to water well because they said the storm was going to come in the afternoon. knowing sometimes these predictions are a bit off, I figured I'd water just to make it safe, and guess what? It didn't rain or storm, but got up to a high of 82*F or so (27*C). Had I not watered, my plants would be wilted now, a sixth sense?
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#211603 - 05/26/08 03:18 PM
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tamara
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Wow, you are sure getting warm temps Kenny.
....oh by the way Kenny, those nails were used in everything, i'm sure it waw from an old building.
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#211631 - 05/26/08 06:58 PM
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#211633 - 05/26/08 07:03 PM
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#211636 - 05/26/08 07:13 PM
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#211640 - 05/26/08 07:44 PM
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#211773 - 05/27/08 11:18 AM
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tamara
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I grow my scarlet beans on fishing twine lines Kenny. Just wrap the line on plastic stakes(dollar store) and hammer in the ground and attach the fishing line to something else and leave them run up.
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#212958 - 06/01/08 06:47 PM
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kennyso
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Good idea Tamara! I went to walmart (the superstore up in the middle of nowhere instead of the one in the mall, the supercenter had an actual garden center with people who know what they're doing whereas the people from the store at the mall have no clue what they're doing). There was a person at the garden center (the walmart in the mall) looking for organic cow manure. The kid showed her and tried to sell her regular manure. When she told the kid she was looking for organic manure, he just cursed her and told her to stop being a b**** and buy what other people instead of the organic s****. He said it was cow s*** one way or another. Makes me wonder why those kids aren't helping cart stuff into customer's cars instead of going around trying to act like they know what they're doing cuz clearly they don't. Just sad. And today, I went to the walmart at the mall and strolled around their garden center, and they left a wooden pallet in the middle of the aisle. This poor old lady tripped over the corner of the pallet and the associates didn't do anything. They just looked over to see what the racket was, and then turned away. I helped the old lady up an dsaw if she was alright, and she said she was fine. And she said something which I tough was quite right (in chinese): you live for flowers you'll die for flowers. I really hope the lady is fine. So I went to the garden center of the supercenter to finish spending the rest of the gift card (I would have preferred cash over a gift card but its a gift so I'm not complaining) and bought a few things:
from the last purchase:
50' garden hose
grass seed
miniature rose
2 double white brugs
osteospermum
2 roses (all the plants seem to be doing surprisingly well, even the brugs. the mini rose is blooming, I bough it in bud and planted it in the ground)
from yesterday's purchase:
2 bags of potting soil (which IMO is c**p, had I known I wouldn't have bought it, but I needed to use up the balance on the card. It felt/looked like and is probably just topsoil and sand.)
2 6-packs of red salvia
1 6-pack dusty miller slverdust
1 6-pack super parfait raspberry dianthus
1 6-pack wizard jade coleus
I ran to the garden center of the supermarket (sorta community owned small business) and bough another bag of potting soil from them because I ran out and now what they sold was potting soil. It was crumbly with lots of organic material inside, and some perlite for drainage, and was all loose had no clumps in it (unlike the walmart stuff). The annuals they sell are a bit smaller than the walmart ones, but cheaper and took off better and faster than any other annual transplants I've ever bought.
I finished planting some more containers, and in all here are the combos:
single double white brugmansia (the container may be a bit small, I think its just a 2 gallon container)
single fuchsia white and fushcia
white impatiens with red and white fuchsia (in the middle)
(hanging) white impatiens (in the middle) and dark blue lobelia
chocolate mint, lemon balm, rue, and rosemary (can you believe they printed tender perennial on the tag for french lavender, but just perennial on the rosemary? I'm thinking of bringing the tag and dead plant back to them next year  )
2 containers of scarlet sage and dusty miller (in the middle)
coleus and elephant's ears (in the middle)
dusty miller, coleus, and scarlet runner beans
scarlet runner beans and sedum (might not work because the beans need water and the sedum and stay drier, but I guess the beans will soak up all the water first..or rather I'm hope)
scarlet sage, dusty miller, and pinks
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#212988 - 06/01/08 07:46 PM
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#213010 - 06/02/08 03:57 AM
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tamara
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Wow kenny...you certainly went all out this year. Can't wait to see more pics.
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beautiful and an inspiration, maybe i'll get motivated...
