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Deanneart
My Favorite Photo
My Weather
My Garden
| | Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 07:17 pm EST : |   
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Hi everyone, your mailbox gardens are all so beautiful! Here is ours from July.
It seems that every year I make this garden a little bit larger. I told my DH that I'd like to add another couple feet to this next year. LOL
Here is the garden from another angle.
Deanne New Hampshire Zone 5 |
Guff
| | Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 08:14 pm EST : |
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Very pretty.
Does everything come up every year.
I have been thinking about planting only perennials around my mailbox next year. I don't have much room to do a lot, since the box is on the neighbors land, but then again maybe the town really does own it.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Deanneart
My Favorite Photo
My Weather
My Garden
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 07:16 am EST : |
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The roses, clematis, pansies, ajuga and wegiela are perennial. I have to dig up and store the dahlia tubers over winter and replant in the spring. I also take cuttings of the fuchsia and coleus and winter them over that way. The cleome I grew from seed from last years' plant and the sweet potato vine grew from a tuber I saved.
Lots of work but I enjoy a challenge LOL!
Deanne New Hampshire Zone 5 |
Missgarden
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 10:42 am EST : |
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Deanne, your mailbox garden is just beautiful...so many blooms. The light rose looks like the Fairy. What is the darker one behind it?
Missgarden
- Ontario,
Zone "5b"
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Deanneart
My Favorite Photo
My Weather
My Garden
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 11:30 am EST : |
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Luiza, you are exactly correct. That is a Fairy rose. The darker one behind it is the original pink 'Flower Carpet Rose'. I train it up a trellis on the mailbox and it has been there for years. A real winner.
Deanne New Hampshire Zone 5 |
Guff
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - 10:18 pm EST : |
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Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Guff
| | Posted on Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 12:26 pm EST : |
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The Cosmos are really starting to flower nicely, next week there should be many more flowers open at the same time.
The sunflowers are doing great, nice huge seeds are forming.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Whis4ey
My Garden
| | Posted on Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 01:21 pm EST : |
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My mailbox is merely an ornament ...... I had to agree not to use it as a mailbox before the PostOffice would sell it to me :)
Whis4ey
- Antrim,
Zone "6/7"
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Guff
| | Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 02:26 pm EST : |
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I was hoping the pink babies breath, front and center would flower,looks like it's not going too.I wanted some seeds, so I could add more plants next spring.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Guff
| | Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2005 - 05:16 pm EST : |
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Looks like fall is here, I took this picture the other day, today very windy and cold. The wind has blown a lot of the cosmos over, even though I had them all staked. Hopefully the weather rebounds and have an Indian Summer, I was hoping for many seeds.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Guff
| | Posted on Friday, November 25, 2005 - 11:29 am EST : |
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I have been thinking about what I will grow next year. I really like Cosmos, but when it rains, and then when cars drive by 45-50 mph, it reeks havoc. Cosmos gets very top heavy when wet, even with staking they still fall over. So I may just put some sunflowers in the back again, babies breath white and pink, and maybe some snap dragon. I had a little patch of those, and they are very pretty, so many different color combos.
I plan on putting lily's there in the coming years that I am growing from scales(scale thread in bulbs forum). I already put around 150 old fashion Tiger Lily's baby bulbs in this past summer, 75 on each side of the milk jug.
I also will add some Blazing Star, growing a bunch from seed as well.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Terryk
My Weather
My Garden
My Time
| | Posted on Friday, November 25, 2005 - 11:43 am EST : |
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You must make your mail carrier very happy when delivering to your mailbox, Guff. Your Tiger Lilies will look so pretty.
Terryk
- NY,
Zone "6"
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Guff
| | Posted on Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 02:49 pm EST : |
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TerryK, yes in the coming years, I will continue to add to my mailbox garden. I want this to be all free, no cost, just time well spent.
I could just buy the bulbs, and have it done and over with, but that would be too easy.
TerryK if you want, next summer, when I collect the baby bulbs if you want some, just ask.
I have also been wondering, if after collecting the bulbs, could you stick them into the frig for about a month, then stick them into the ground, so a grow tip would grow. It would save six months on the progress.
As it is now, when I plant the bulb in the summer, the grow tip comes up in the spring.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Terryk
My Weather
My Garden
My Time
| | Posted on Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 04:13 pm EST : |
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Thanks Guff for your offer. I'll e-mail you or post again next summer. I am not sure about the bulbs in the fridge, I am too new at this. I guess it would not hurt to experiment with some of them and see what your results are.
Terryk
- NY,
Zone "6"
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Gardenbug
| | Posted on Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 07:57 pm EST : |
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When I have worked with things that require cool temperatures they have said to keep them for 2 months in the refrigerator. Sure annoys DH when he's prowling for food!;-)
Gardenbug
- Ontario,
Zone "4/5"
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Guff
| | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 01:10 pm EST : |
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Well, I didn't do anything different this year. Cosmos and Sunflowers in the back. The pink baby breath did flower. It was very pretty, but it doesn't grow short like the white. The pink was up to the mail box in height. The Cosmos has flowered sooner this year also. I hardly collected any seed last year. This year I have collected a bunch.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Terryk
My Weather
My Garden
My Time
| | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 06:38 pm EST : |
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Your mail carrier must be happy to drop off your mail. Looks good Guff, nice and lacey.
Terryk
- NY,
Zone "6"
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Guff
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 11:35 am EST : |
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TerryK, thanks
This year I didn't water with MGrow as much. I think that is why they seem to have flowered earlier. I think I read, that Cosmos, doesn't/shouldn't have ferts. They just grow big and bushy, become top heavy and hardly have any flowers.
The sunflowers, are not as big as compared to last year. I suppose they need lots of ferts, to grow big.
I didn't plant as many plants(Cosmos) as last year. Last year it was a jungle. Any wind or rain, would knock them over. I had to stake and tie all the plants. I haven't had to do any staking this year.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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