--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EDM00054 Date: 09/14/97 From: JIM VENEDAM Time: 08:35am \/To: MARIA EDELHAUSEN (Read 1 times) Subj: hibiscus On (09 Sep 97) Maria Edelhausen wrote to Jean Menten... ME> HS>> It does need a good trimming.) JM> It does NOT ME> But can be trimmed, in Hungary they use hibiscus as a hedge. I noticed a beautiful hedge while driving by a house. It had lots of red flowers in it.... ???? I drove by a little slower the next time, and saw that it was a line of hibiscus bushes. Great idea. Jimvee ... In the garden of life, expect a few fountains of drivel. ___Messenger V1.2 [Reg] --- PPoint 2.02 * Origin: Jimvee's Point. Palm Bay, Florida (1:374/46.5) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EDM00055 Date: 09/14/97 From: JIM VENEDAM Time: 08:52am \/To: JEAN MENTEN (Read 1 times) Subj: hibiscus On (06 Sep 97) Jean Menten wrote to Holly Sullivan... HS> A neighbor down the street has a hibiscus about 6 ft tall, HS> but I think it's more from neglect than anything else. HS> It does need a good trimming.) JM> It does NOT My mother trims her hibiscus way down, almost to the ground. She used to give me and my father fits, thinking she was killing them, but the buggers come back just as healthy as before. She doesn't like them to get so high that they obscure her view from the front or back porch. HS> Most are red, pink, yellow, or white, or a combination. JM> Over here, most of them are blue We have LOTS of hibiscus around here. They seem to love our climate, but I've never seen a white or blue one. Well, I have seen the white with peach center. I don't have any hibiscus around my house. I wish I did. They're cheap enough too. One garden store had them on sale last week. I think it was a one gallon pot. 2 for $4.00 I don't have any room now. I'll have to wait 'till I manage to kill the next plant. I have a lot of Lantana that I'm planning on pulling up when the weather gets cooler. Jimvee ... The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects. ___Messenger V1.2 [Reg] --- PPoint 2.02 * Origin: Jimvee's Point. Palm Bay, Florida (1:374/46.5) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EDM00056 Date: 09/14/97 From: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES Time: 08:38am \/To: SANDRA PEAKE (Read 1 times) Subj: special worms? SP> Ever squeeze a teabag? sly grin> I'm English by birth! christopher.greaves@pro-mail.com christopher.greaves@ablelink.org christopher.greaves@capcanada.com www.interlog.com/~cgreaves * 1st 2.00b #6263 * Don't Brake! --- PCBoard (R) v15.3 (OS/2) 5 * Origin: FidoNet: CAP/CANADA Support BBS : 416 287-0234 (1:250/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EDM00057 Date: 09/14/97 From: WL-SKI Time: 02:00pm \/To: BERT BURLAND (Read 1 times) Subj: Cat & House Plants? BB> How do I train the old house cat to stop chewing em? ... The old cat is BB> far more important than the plants, but I would like to keep them both. Yes, Bert... and the best thing to do is plant that sweet kitty a pot of (is't own!) grass... pick a grass that will grow in the shade (as houses seldom can supply enough sun, tho it may *seem* so), and plant seed, keeping it in a sunny spot. If you kind it's growing out, objectionable, just clip with the scissors (or edger). Otherwise, allow to grow, and allow Kitty to chew... (This, of course, is only for "chewing" (for digestive resons) and not the bitting and tearing that comes from playfulness that some kitties seek. For that, I know no remedy, save, perhaps a dose of catnip (or valerian)... cheers, wls --- * Origin: gn3.gratisnet.com (1:170/302.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EDM00058 Date: 09/14/97 From: WL-SKI Time: 02:14pm \/To: DAVE GOSTL (Read 1 times) Subj: GROWING GRASS,I'M NEW w>> It doesn't *have* to be alot of work... DG> ... watering that is the problem. Part of the problem area is graded, and tends DG> to wash away with too much water. Ok, Dave! Now we're getting somewhere... :) The watering needn't be *impossible*, either. Get something... *anything* that will allow the water through... and still allow the grass to come up through it. (In the nursery industry, before "burm covering" was made available, we used to put "gunny sacks" to this use. Now, however, most any good nursery/gardening dept. has many new products... in fact, there are many that come out each spring (and you don't *have* to go out and spend money on any of these... the onion sacks from the market willl do just fine! Split them open, laying them out, flat, to cover the area, being sure to "pin" the edges down with wire "pins" ([perhaps 4-6"]... like fence ties, or the like... just bend them into u's, and ... :) cheers, wls --- * Origin: gn3.gratisnet.com (1:170/302.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EDM00059 Date: 09/14/97 From: WL-SKI Time: 02:17pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: hibiscus JV> We have LOTS of hibiscus around here. They seem to love our JV> climate, but I've never seen a white or blue one. Well, I JV> have seen the white with peach center. The blue is actually a Blue Malva, I think you 'll find :) cheers, wls --- * Origin: gn3.gratisnet.com (1:170/302.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EDM00060 Date: 09/14/97 From: HOLLY SULLIVAN Time: 9:43Yam \/To: JOHN ZORNES (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: HELP I think I saw John Zornes say to All on 11 Sep 97 21:29:11: > My wife has Geraniums but lately something seems to be getting into the > buds and destroying them before they can flower. We think it must be a bug > of some kind but see no traces except for some leaves that are worm > chewed. If you have any ideas that might help they will be greatly > appreciated. There's a worm related to the one that eats up tobacco leaves that likes geraniums too..(tobacco hookworm maybe?) but I don't know what the cure for it is, sorry. --- DLG2000 v1.2.3/DLGMail v2.70 * Origin: Techno-Mages Guild * ==> (619) 549-0278 <== * (1:202/720) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EDM00061 Date: 09/14/97 From: HOLLY SULLIVAN Time: 9:52Yam \/To: JEAN MENTEN (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: hibiscus I think I saw Jean Menten say to Holly Sullivan on 06 Sep 97 10:09:53: HS> Some varieties of hibiscus can get quite tall; HS> they're usually quite "shrubby", being a woody plant. > They ARE shrubs, about 2,5 meters high (smile) To me, anything over 2 meters is a tree. Or should be. ;-) HS> It does need a good trimming.) > It does NOT This one is very sad looking; it's been neglected. Lots of dead wood. :-( HS> Most are red, HS> pink, yellow, or white, or a combination. > Over here, most of them are blue Wow, that must be wonderful to see. I love blue. I've only heard of blue ones, I've not seen any. HS> The one up the HS> street is white with pink centers, something I've only seen HS> in garden catalogs. I have an ordinary red one and a double HS> yellow one. > Never seen a yellow one before. Really? They're the third most common here, after red or pink. A lovely golden yellow color. Most are the single flowers; mine is a double. Have you got web access? Next time mine blooms, I could take a photo of it and put it on my web page for you to see, if you'd like. :-) Another neighbor has a double pink one up the street that is just blooming now.. it's very pretty. I thought about you when I was walking home from the grocery store yesterday, as I passed by it. :-) --- DLG2000 v1.2.3/DLGMail v2.70 * Origin: Techno-Mages Guild * ==> (619) 549-0278 <== * (1:202/720) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EDM00062 Date: 09/14/97 From: HOLLY SULLIVAN Time: 9:59Yam \/To: DIANE BRUCK (Read 1 times) Subj: recycling (was: Re: ashes) I think I saw Diane Bruck say to Gerry Danen on 12 Sep 97 23:06:00: > I have done the ash bit just for the purpose of helping the ground. It > does help the flowers and the ground like it also. IF you also happen > to have a pencil sharpener in your home use the shavings on the house > plants they also like blood from the meat containers or fish water. Thanks for the tips! Roses love coffee grounds and eggshells. :-) --- DLG2000 v1.2.3/DLGMail v2.70 * Origin: Techno-Mages Guild * ==> (619) 549-0278 <== * (1:202/720) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EDM00063 Date: 09/06/97 From: BILL MADDUX Time: 12:16am \/To: MARILYN BOISSONEAULT (Read 1 times) Subj: sweet william On 08-16-97 MARILYN BOISSONEAULT wrote to BILL MADDUX... MB> -=> Quoting Bill Maddux to Trudy Sack <=- MB> MB> BM> Been quite awhile since I've been on here, so I haven't gotten MB> BM> to talk gardening since way back in the Spring. MB> MB> Good to see you back in the echo, I hope you stick around and MB> talk gardening some more. I guess you're talking about the MB> perennial type of dianthus. Are those the ones that smell good? i MB> understand some dianthus smells real good, but what I grow MB> doesn't have much smell. I grow the annual type of dianthus, but MB> I don't think the other type will grow well here in Florida. I MB> forget where you're from. Hi Marilyn, I live just minutes east of Tulsa, Oklahoma. My place is small and in a run down neighborhood. Any flowers around this 'hood is a blessing. Actually, I've seen some nice stuff being grown by some of the folks around here. My place has trees around it that mess up me having really nice garde I'd like to sell and relocate where I could really garden. Dianthus is a very large genus. The list of varieties is extensive. The Sweet Williams per say are most likely Dianthus barbatus. Cottage pinks is another term that some use when referring to them. My two plants are perennial. As far as fragrance goes I really haven't paid that much attention. Mine grow near my Phlox divaricata plants and those usually fill the Spring air with perfume. Although we don't have harsh Winters it still freezes. I have this one Dianthus chinensis that I bought as a filler plant and it should have died off at the end of its first season but that thing has been with me now for three years. Truth is I usually only try to go the true variety species varieties of plants and stay clear of hybrids and crossed up plants. I have this one Dianthus plant that looks like a cross of barbatus and chinensis and it had three separate colors of flowers on the one plant. Now thats odd... Until we meet again...Bill M. --- * OFFLINE 1.58 * Dandelions, dandelions! On the sandy shore, Spring opens it's eyes. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Hard Drive Cafe! (1:170/710.0)