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Bruce
My Weather
My Time
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 06:17 pm EST : |   |
Fabulous mailbox Carolyn, very nice.
Ann, no mailboxes!! We receive home delivery six days a week, buy stamps and send mail from the box! Yes, we are very spoiled, but a good post delivery person are very appreciated.
Bruce
- New Hampshire,
Zone "USDA zone 5"
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Galanthophile
My Favorite Photo
My Garden
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 04:38 pm EST : | |
Bruce - our mail comes direct to the door 6 days a week but is put through the letterbox rather than a box outdoors. We have to send mail from a different mailbox and go to a shop to buy stamps.
Galanthophile
- Ann (Northern England),
Zone "8"
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Greth
| | Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 11:02 am EST : | |
We have a post office box, gal, so I sympathise. Undeterred I post anyway.
My mother thought it was cute to plant 'Running Postman' around the letterbox. This is Kennedia rubicans, an Australian native. It is extremely vigorous (as mum found out in time, from memory)
I planted the black flowered species, Kennedia nigricans, into a gap in concrete filled with gravel, 2 inches wide, and never watered it after the day it was planted. For ten years I filled bins with the clippings as I pruned it back!
Both are very pretty plants, and great climbers in a hot dry climate.
Greth
- South Australia,
Zone "?"
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Rosemary
My Weather
| | Posted on Friday, July 22, 2005 - 11:41 pm EST : | |
Love seeing the pics. I need ideas too.
Rosemary
- CT,
Zone "5"
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Guff
| | Posted on Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 06:47 pm EST : | |
Update.
I have two Cosmos flowers, I think It's going to be awhile before I have hundred's. I think my last year mailbox pictures were in September. The White Babies Breath is starting to take off all around the outer ring. Not sure why the Pink Babies Breath hasn't done much, maybe they flower latter then the white?
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Ph_in_va
My Weather
| | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 12:10 am EST : | |
I'm enjoying your updates, Guff.
I'd love to have some plants around our mailbox, but I'm afraid adding some would just make it a big target for some screwball to run off the road and take out everything. (We've lived here for 10 years and have had to replace the mailbox 3 times because of people driving recklessly.  )
Ph_in_va
- Virginia,
Zone "6b/7a"
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Guff
| | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 02:04 am EST : | |
My old mailbox had been hit 3 times also. All three times happened in the winter. The winter before I had to replaced the old broken down mail box, it was hit twice in one week. It was so badly damage. I think I spent around $120 for everything. I'm happy with it, but I have to repaint the box, and the milk jug base every spring, because of the snow plowers, throwing salt/sand and whatever they mix in, it's like a sandblaster.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Bizeebee
My Garden
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 04:09 pm EST : | |
I saw this on my garden tour this last weekend. At 1st I thought they didn't use it, but they do.
Bizeebee
- WA,
Zone "8"
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Gardenshowlady
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 11:55 pm EST : | |
Wow, the succulents on the mailbox are wonderful! What a great idea~ That really has aroused my curiosity...Do you have other shots of it? Or perhaps any idea how that is made and.or mounted to the mailbox?
I have seen living wreaths made with semps, but nothing like this~
Thanks so much for sharing it with us, Bizeebee!
Gardenshowlady
- SC Lowcountry,
Zone "8B"
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Galanthophile
My Favorite Photo
My Garden
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2005 - 05:09 pm EST : | |
That's really lovely!
Galanthophile
- Ann (Northern England),
Zone "8"
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Bizeebee
My Garden
| | Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 05:21 pm EST : | |
GSL, I did look close at it and they wrapped the box with moss, chicken wire then they put the succulents in the holes. It reminded me of the moss planters I had a couple of yrs ago. Have fun!
Bizeebee
- WA,
Zone "8"
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Guff
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 02:00 pm EST : | |
Update.
The sunflowers are really starting to take off in the back. I planted over 100 of my Tiger Lily bulbils, I put half on each side of the milk jug. It will be 3-5 years before the Tiger Lily's flowers, so where I put them It really doesn't matter how long they take. I can plant around them next year, and so on.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Baseballmomof5
My Favorite Photo
My Weather
My Garden
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 07:37 pm EST : | |
Here is my mailbox!!
Alison
Baseballmomof5
- GA,
Zone "7b"
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Guff
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 03:50 pm EST : | |
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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Guff
| | Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 04:38 pm EST : | |
Update
I don't think the pink babies breath is going to flower this year. I had thought that they flower the first year from seed, their perennial so next year it should be very pretty.
The sunflowers are doing good. They are much taller then last year at this time, these are the edible grey stripped, last year I have no idea what kind it was. It didn't produce any seed, just empty seed husks.
I had lost some cosmos due to high winds, they snapped off the main stalk. Looks like it's going to be another 2-3 weeks before they really start to flower.
Guff
- NY,
Zone "?"
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