Connect
← Return to Let's Talk about Gardens
Discussion
Comment receiving replies
@fiesty76 What a great message. So newsy and you....I love hearing about your activities....you got your scan!
Hope all is ok.
You and I are both trouble makers, I think. The younger generations don't understand about me and my cell relationship. I enjoy it now that I spent hours, days working to set it up and learn how to use it. Sort of....But, it's not attached to my hip, don't keep it with me all day, mostly when I go out. I still have a land-line. That phone I answer. not the cell. although, the scam calls are a very real problem. my blocked calls in the phone is full! can't block anymore, so now have to learn how to clear it out to add new ones....I want those folks to leave me alone!
I love the thought of a climbing aloe! Never heard of it. Wish we were neighbors...I'd take it right now.
Those squirrels are nasty buggers. I'd be a wild woman if they ate my bulbs! Wild!!!! I love watching them eat all my wild bird seed, hanging upside down by their toes on the side of the feeders. But, I got the seed w/ground chili peppers. They hate it! it burns their mouths. So, squirrels are eating the seed with nuts and fruits the cardinals and woodpeckers and others all love. I don't have a feeder they can navigate anymore. They have to feed on the ground, dropped seed. I want to help them out, but can't afford to keep them happy, so, they eat dropped.
I just now, about a week from when I put it out, am seeing birds eating the spicy seed so I'm happy...they like it. I also got a feeder designed to drop down and cover the seed openings if anything heavier than my birds lands on the perch. I actually saw it work. No squirrels there now & I put out peanut suet balls thanks to John Bishop. Took them a few days, but now the birds are loving it! And, have seed/suet cakes and wire holder for my woodpeckers. Have a hummingbird feeder up now...can't wait to watch them find it and have fun! Used to have a hummingbird bush, yesterday/today/tomorrow......birds covered it every dusk. It died and I haven't done much for the tiny babes since. This will be a good addition.....
Now, I think I'm through adding feeders and bird stuff. I'm focusing on plants....need to repot, plant and clean-up now, more. My 'boys' are coming over in a few days to help. Goody!!!!!
I'm loving this, my friends. It's so fun, invigorating and satisfying to have the birds feed at the window feeder, all the others . They are full of energy and joy and give me great joy! And, of course, the beauty or the garden....It makes life so better, doesn't it? Such a good thing for us! I rarely think about health issues now. Love it! But, at the same time, I'm remembering my father's favorite reminder, from the Bible.....'everything in moderation'. So right. Then we have a more even life. our bodies learn to relax a bit, to live w/o the pain, as much. Getting there, friends.
Happy day and many blessings. elizabeth
Replies to "@fiesty76 What a great message. So newsy and you....I love hearing about your activities....you got your..."
Connect
@ess77, Just read your response to @Erinmfs and have to say that Lowes is my first stop favorite for plants and all-to do with gardening supplies. With their credit card, not only do I appreciate the discount on any purchase there but so often can find their discounted plant racks a real boon whenever needing some additional fillers for almost nothing!
Like you, I'm drawn to unusual plants for a spark of uniqueness and some work better than others. My bottle bush lasted for several yrs as well but I've not tried a shrimp plant nor crown of thorns. Maybe next yr?
Luckily, because of multiple bird feeders, squirrels can't access the feeders and are left with scrambling for the spilled seeds. I've tried several diff types of hummingbird feeders but none too successfully. They readily feed on late blooming Turkscap and other bright flowers but although I've placed the feeders in diff locations and changed and cleaned the feeders every few days, they seem to "wait" for summer bloomers like my butterfly bush which also attracts, moths, butterflies and bees.
Yes, Elizabeth, I, too, have had a long love/hate relationship with phones. I've had both my landline and 1st flip and now "smarty" cell phones with the same numbers for yrs. I just use the cell for car and travel; don't even know that number and have been pleased with rare scam calls.
If ever there was a yr for needing a team of garden helpers, this has been it. I am still removing leaves from beds and for some, this is the 3rd big effort accumulations coming from winds carried from other neighbor yards. Weeds are a diff story entirely. This is the 1st in 20 yrs of gardening, that these little devils have sprung up in flower beds.
With the Connect changes, my messages are going once more to my Spam folder and not reaching either the special filter site or reg. Yahoo mail. Hoping my help req. to @colleen young will rectify the problem. Until that happens, I'm struggling with the format changes and finding what I want to follow. Doesn't help that I am cyber deficient regardless. Sigh.
Your dad's reminder of "everything in moderation" was a favorite of my parents' as well. Alas and although I heard it frequently growing up, I've yet to master it. Smiles
It is beginning to dawn on me that all of my plant splurges this spring will require maintenance care and water...and more water. If last yr was one for our record books for extreme heat and drought, I can only imagine what my water bill will be this season with forecasts for an even hotter, drier summer. Good at justifying though, at my age, I know my active gardening years are limited and so I'm pushing my efforts and loving the time outside.
However we experience nature, seasonal changes and the surprises it never fails to inspire are true gifts for the heart. Yesterday I watched 2 Colorado Cardinals, which I'd fed all winter, doing the courtship flirt which may produce more offspring...How exciting is that?