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Thu, 11/13/2008 - 19:17 — Gloria
Printer-friendly versionEvery afternoon after work I come home and have just enough time to take a leisurely stroll around the yard. Fall is coming fast and I want to take in the last that my gardens have to offer. The leaves are turning orange, brown, yellow and falling but there's still a few things blooming and I just need to see my precious blooms as long as I can. My stroll goes down my back steps, by the backside of the house and to the back of the yard. As always my rug rats (3 minature pinschers) at at my heels. Lantana is really growing wild right now, a good four foot tall. I have pinks and oranges. My yellows are missing this year. And farther down is the Marigolds and the tomato that was accidently planted.. thinking it was a Marigold. It has 4 toms on it now and the biggest is golf ball size. I may have a fresh ripe tomato on my Thankgiving table yet. Next is a double white Datura. It has given me one bloom but I see another coming. I grew it from seeds. It amazes me what I can grow from a small seed. The Confederate Rose bushes..4 of them.. are losing their leaves but a few blooms are trying to finish their stages of life. Then there's my dumpster rose, as I refer it, that hubby brought home still in it's wrapper that someone dropped off by the construction dumpster on his job a couple years ago. If the trash bearing person could see it now! It's last bloom is awesome, a huge pink and yellow combination of color and a smell that's heavenly. Two of my Tea roses are still trying to bloom, small mums are still showing themselves and huge green elephant ears are still waving with the breeze. Dahlia's still have buds, I hope I get to see them open. Last but not least..my pride and joy, my re-blooming Iris's are doing their second bow, one white and one yellow. My lovely blue/white one usually shows up in December and will be my last bloom of the season. Wasn't that a lovely stoll?? Tomarrow I'll take you around the front and tell you about a few things I have there..thanks for joining me.
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Wed, 11/19/2008 - 23:09 — momof3indiana

Gloria

I have really enjoyed the stroll around your gardens with you!! I can almost smell the air around the flowers. It makes me itch to get my seeds and plants out in the ground, when is spring again???
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Thu, 11/20/2008 - 17:16 — Gloria

Spring is too far away

Thanks Momof3, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I was the last walk around the flowers for this year so I'm glad I could take you all along. I hope next Spring you can take us for a stroll around your gardens.
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 08:34 — skbeal
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Gloria....

Now that you've had a freeze and your tomato is gone, did that freeze take out everything else that was blooming? I was hoping to do some more strolling with you. I really enjoyed it!!!!!!!
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 17:12 — Gloria

Gone!

Susan, I'm glad we took the stroll when we did cause the cold and frost wiped out about everything! I've been outside this afternoon cutting it all back and filling my compost bin with it. E ears, Brugs, Datura, Lantania, Canna's....all down and brown and now in the bin! The only thing left is a few mums planted under a tree and they look pitiful. Saturday night will be back down into the 20's again. Ohhh..but my Camelia is filled with buds!!! I want more of these bushes because they tolerate the cold and bloom in the winter. I have a pink one and a small seedling of a red. The red is not doing much yet, it's just a baby. I guess it's time for all plant life to get a good Winters nap so they can awake in the Spring all bright, fresh and ready to grow.
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 10:48 — PENNY2638
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Gloria

Thanks for sharing with us. I enjoyed the stroll around your lovely flower garden.
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 16:48 — WildIris
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Granny Gloria...you are doing

Granny Gloria...you are doing it again...;-)....thanks for the wonderful stroll...
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 18:13 — Gloria

LOL

WI, I guess I'm just a natural born Granny!!! LOL..hehehe. Ya know..the first year I transformed my back yard from empty to flowering plants, my grandson..then about 9..said to me...Nanna, your yard looks like a tropical paradise. I could actually feel my head growing big!!! Such amazing words from a young one. Last year and 3 years later he said...Nanna you got a jungle out there!!! Needless to say, I realized at that moment..things can get out of hand easily and bunches of things can sometimes begin to look cluttered instead of nice so next Spring there will be some changes.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 10:16 — WildIris
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Being a natual Granny is a

Being a natual Granny is a great thing my dear...We could start a club....when you were talking abotu your back yard and your grandson...It brought a wonderful memory back ...When I was ...gosh very young...Iwas with my granny for a bit of time...one of many times...any who...she had a friend that I would go overand visit ...Iloved to go into her back yard...it was not huge to say...but you could actualy get lost in it...she had planted the whole yard and put in pths...it was like a secret garden...I would go out there and just sit ...and run and play ...I oved that yard...she too would say .."it has over grown"...but I thought it was just right...
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 20:21 — randy cobb

Beauty is in the eye of the

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Miss WI. I never saw beauty in a desert until somebody wiser than me pointed out things that were there that I never saw.
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 09:40 — WildIris
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have to say I never liked the

have to say I never liked the desert myself until mike and I went through when we first got married....it is one of his fav. places...and when I looked thorugh his excitment ...it became so wonderful
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 14:02 — skbeal
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Thanks, Gloria!

That was a really lovely stroll! I can just visualize it now. Are you close enough to the water to be able to smell the salty air? I can really feel the autumn air in your garden..........some things already dormant and sleeping for the winter, others giving you one last glorious show! How fun it would be to be able to actually walk through your garden WITH you!!!!!!!!! Once we can post photos properly again, I'd sure love to get a glimpse of your gardens in all of their blooming glory! Thank you for the invite and for sharing with us! What a fun and generous thing to do!
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 18:33 — Gloria

No salty air

I'm not that close to the coast Susan but I do have a pond!!! Hehe. The autumn air is definitely here, it's been breezy all afternoon. I've swept the leaves from my back porch twice today! Speaking of pond..does anyone know how to rid a pond of Water Hycinth??? I detest the day I allowed hubby to put that stuff in my pond. It has taken over and now I can't see the water! It multiplies at the blink of an eye. Our mild winters doesn't hurt it! I wonder how I could freeze the pond to kill this mess??? Does anyone have geese or geese eggs to hatch??? Please send them my way if you do!
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 07:43 — Gloria

Morning stroll

I'm not working today as I have an appointment in town later so I can stroll early this morning. Going down my front steps to my left I have a Rose of Sharon. It has white blooms with a red eye. It's all finished for this season and seed pods are hanging. To the right of the porch there's a blue Hydrangia, also finished with blooms. Looking straight forward is my big garden. It has trees as well as flowers. I planted a Mimosa tree spring before last and it's limbs are reaching out a good 12 foot now. I hope to see the pink balls of blooms next summer. Thanks to my friends at GH I have an assortment of beautiful flowers in this garden. Some are finished for the season, some are not. My white and yellow Brugs are making a wonderful show thanks to Deedee. She also sent me pink cuttings but I wasn't forunate enough to have those live. The white Dogwood has red leaves now and the Weeping Willow is flowing with it's hanging greenery. My purple and yellow Butterfly bushes are still casting their wonderful aroma through the air. Huge giant Mums are making a fantastic show. I didn't know they would grow so big and fall all around making a huge circle of color, I like the bright yellows the best. They're so bright and cheery. I have loads of Canna's in this garden. Grannyrose helped with that. It's about time to cut them back for the winter. The purple Datura has shed it's last bloom but I don't see a seed pod. I hope I have more seeds in my seed basket. The Black Swirl Datura made a spectical of it's self and has left loads of seed pods. I still have blooms on the Dahlias..can you tell..I love Dahlias..thanks Dizzy... for the seeds, bulbs and my new addiction to Dahlias. Stella D'ora's still have a bloom or two and has given me loads of seeds.Then there's the big bare spot. Last week I had the Azalea bush cut back to the ground. I planted this bush in 1979. Needless to say..it was a grown bush!! Now I have to figure a way to get the root ball removed. Our tractor would not budge it! I suppose I can get the brother to bring over the bull dozier. Sure hate to do that because it's hard on the grass and yard! I plan to use that 12 foot section for new plants next Spring so those roots have to go. There's so many things that are beginning to take a winter nap, daylillies, irises, lillies, e-ears, amaryllis, red hot pokers..I'll sure miss them till the warm sun of Spring brings them back again. Well guess I need to go, hope you'll all join me for another walk later and I'd sure like to join you in your gradens for a stroll too.
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 07:54 — grannyrose
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Gloria

your description makes your garden so real. I can just see it. It sounds so becautiful. While I was reading I was thinking how I was going making changing in mine. I having been able to go out in my yard this week because of all the rain but you brought a smile to my face. Thanks for letting me walk in your garden.
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 06:42 — disgett (not verified)

Gloria what a lovely walk.

Gloria what a lovely walk. So tranquil, I know that helps you relax after a hard days work.
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 02:13 — hmsladyredhead
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Afternoon Walk

Gloria, that was the most wonderful walk. Don't you just love the strolls around the Gardens, and see whats blooming and what has now gone to sleep for the winter. Can't wait until we take that walk around your front gardens.
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 01:33 — DizzyDaffodil
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Great views & lovely company!

Gloria, that WAS a lovely stroll! Thanks for taking me with you!
Thu, 11/13/2008 - 23:16 — randy cobb

There are still some peppers

There are still some peppers and Hubbard Squash out in our garden, but that is all. I have been cooking squash all day and still have the last piece in the oven now. I have put 6 quarts into the freezer so far today and will have 2 or 3 more by the time I am finished this evening. There are still plenty of squashes in the garden, but I will only use 3 or 4 more of them and give the rest of them away.
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 18:25 — Gloria

Envie

Randy I envie you! I'd sure like to have some squash and peppers still growing..I already miss my vegetable garden....wish I had planted a late one. I do have mustards and the turnips are trying to grow. Not sure they'll make it but maybe my brother's will. He doesn't mind if I raid his garden now and then. He and hubby were making Venison sausage and hamburger today. They packaged 40 pounds to freeze. For those that don't know about Venison..to make sausage it's mixed half and half with pork. A large pork loin or boston butt works well. It's all ground up together adding seasonings such as sage, pepper, etc. to make breakfast sausage. With hamburger, it's mixed with beef fat and you can add onions, peppers and any sesoning you like for hamburger. In our neck of the woods Venison is just as good as beef.
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 22:02 — randy cobb

The venison is probably

The venison is probably better and better for you. It's pretty hard to chase down a deer to inject them with growth hormones. I didn't do any squash today. I still have 6 of them in the garden though. They weigh about 15 pounds each. I looked up recipes today for pumpkin pie and I'm going to use some squash to make some. I figure I'll take them over to the college and find some hungry college kids. My granddaughters can surely round up a bunch of them.
Thu, 11/13/2008 - 19:26 — skbeal
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Wow, Gloria!

You've still got so much still blooming! It's been warm here, and there's still a lot that hasn't gone to sleep here, too! I have cosmos blooming up a storm...It's the orange color, and it seems perfectly well suited to fall. I also have red portulaca, and some gazania that are about to open....and I also have some Calendula which now have big buds as well........I love seeing all the flowers open, and I feel sad when they close or go dormant. This weekend, we may get some very cold temperatures. I'll bring things in, but the things I can bring in may actually go dormant.............I'd hate to see that happen to my Russian Red Cannas. They're about 10+ feet tall.....and if they decided to shrivel up and go to sleep, not only would I lose my privacy veil, I'd lose the shade I've been cherishing for some of my shade loving plants (Brazilian Fireworks.) I can move things to other places......but the end of the growing season is always very sad for me. I just hate winter beyond words! Thanks for inviting us along for the stroll..........I'm picturing everything in my mind's eye, but would love nothing more than to see everything in real live - - especially that dumpster rose in all its blooming glory!