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Guff
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 08:15 pm EST : |   |
Well i'm sure there are lots of gardeners here that plant flowers around their mail box. I thought maybe by showing yours we could get some ideas for next years project.
Heres what I have going this year. Just seedling, so still some time to add, here and there.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Guff
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 07:30 pm EST : | |
Thought I would update. Everything is growing fast now. In the back I have 5 Grey Stripe Sunflowers. I have one lone Cosmos flower, it's weird that I have a flower this early. Can't wait till I have hundreds of flowers.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Marciam
My Favorite Photo
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 07:56 pm EST : | |
I need a mailbox garden, so I'm interested in seeing some, too.
Marcia, Pennsylvania Zone 5 |
Kimberlynns
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 08:11 pm EST : | |
Me too. Right now we just have a wood post with a rusty white mailbox on it. It's in that area between the sidewalk and the curb...guess I have to go with a square bed? I like the pot at the base of your mailbox post! I wonder if I could put a clay pot around the base of mine, somehow?
Kim
Kimberlynns
- TN,
Zone "7"
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Guff
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 09:42 pm EST : | |
It's a old milk jug, that I painted red. You can find them pretty easy at flea markets and such. Heres last years attempt, I had just bought a can of wild flower mix and sprinkled the seeds around.
I put a lot of thought into it this year. I purchased the seeds throughout the winter. The Cosmos are, pink/red in color. Candy Stripe, Gloria, Day Dream, and Picotee. There may be one or two of the orange(they selfed germed) I didn't plant those. I think my lone flower is a Candy Stripe. Heres a web link that show the different Cosmos.If you click on the pictures, you get a high res picture. I really like Cosmos. From the orange Cosmos I grew last year, I bet I have 5k+ seeds. I have a patch of 7 different Cosmos that I started 2 weeks ago, maybe 15-25 of each. Hopefully their getting enough full sun. I want many seeds.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/flowers/cosmos/cosmos.html
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Gardenshowlady
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 11:48 pm EST : | |
I love your style, Guff! My mailbox garden is what I describe as 'bulletproof'. Since I rarely ever get out there with water, whatever survives there, has to be tough.
The colors are mostly vibrant red, oranges & yellow. There is coral honeysuckle vine, daylilies, crocosmia, four o'clocks, asclepias, and brown-eyed susan vine. It is screamin right now!
When I get my camera, I will post a pic or 2.
I would love to see more mailbox gardens...
Gardenshowlady
- SC Lowcountry,
Zone "8B"
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Bruce
My Weather
My Time
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 07:59 am EST : | |
Kim, welcome to GB. You can cut a terra cotta pot with an abrasive blade on a skill saw or a wet diamond tile blade would work really well. A plastic pot is easily cut with a fine toothed saw. I would think you would want to cut the bottom off and place your box post through the pot?
Nice planting Guff, looks like a hot and dry spot.
I do not have my mail box planted...it is an old mail box...not really up to postal specks, they changed the road and then wanted me to change my mail box...well, it's not broke..so I could not see why after 40 years it needed to be changed. We finally got a new postal delivery person, he said the box was fine with him.
Maybe it's time to plant my mail box.
Bruce
- New Hampshire,
Zone "USDA zone 5"
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Kimberlynns
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 10:30 am EST : | |
Hi Bruce, thanks for the welcome :) Yes it would need the bottom cut out too I would think. I am glad you got a more agreable postman, btw! :)
Kim
Kimberlynns
- TN,
Zone "7"
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Guff
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 10:53 pm EST : | |
Heres a better picture of my lone Cosmos flower, sure looks to be a Candy Stripe to me.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Guff
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 09:23 pm EST : | |
Update time.
I have a couple Babies Breath flowers now, soon I will have thousands. Everything is growing very fast. Another couple days and I will have my first Bachelor Button flowers.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Kniceone
My Garden Journal
My Weather
| | Posted on Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 01:55 pm EST : | |
Hi Guff - I can't show you my mailbox garden because I don't have a mailbox. Wish I did. I keep coming back to this thread to watch the progress. Nice grouping.
Jodi, ONT, Z4, Great White North
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Guff
| | Posted on Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 04:45 pm EST : | |
I will keep updating every week or so. I think by the end of July everything should be flowering like crazy.
Thought I would post a better picture and a picture of my Cosmos patch, with Black Eye Susan, and Candytuft. These I am growing so I have seeds to trade.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Guff
| | Posted on Monday, July 18, 2005 - 04:41 pm EST : | |
Update
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Gardenshowlady
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 03:44 pm EST : | |
  
My mailbox garden is all yellows red & orange. The coral honeysuckle vine is really showing off this year. I have crocosmia, daylilies, four o'clocks, dune sunflowers, brown-eyed susan vine growing in the area. It gets full sun & I rarely water out that far.
What a fun thread~ Our civic club has considered having a mailbox garden contest.
I think that would be neat~~~
Gardenshowlady
- SC Lowcountry,
Zone "8B"
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Galanthophile
My Favorite Photo
My Garden
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 05:36 pm EST : | |
Nice idea. We don't have mailboxes like this in the UK!
Galanthophile
- Ann (Northern England),
Zone "8"
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