| | Japanese maple trees | | I want to start a Japanese maple tree from the one I have growing. How do I go about doing it? Thanks!! | |
| | Photographing Nature - Do you Like this Picture? | | I love to observe nature and capture some still moments in my camera. I loved to watch the way these bananas grew. I have teaken a series of pictures over a period of time, showing its steady and wonderful growth. This is one picture I liked in that series. There is another one that shows a squirrel opening the banana flower. Do you like photography? Does nature inspire you? | |
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| Japanese Maple | | Today was finally a nice day where I had a few extra minutes! My mother-in-law has a couple of beautiful Japanese maple trees growing in her yard. I think the red leaves of the trees are absolutely beautiful. I always wanted my own, but they are quite expensive to buy.I just might be able to have my own anyway! I stopped at my mother-in-laws after work today. I dug up about 18 seedlings that were growing all over the yard! I wanted to do this last week before she mowed them over, but it rained and rained and rained. She had to mow the grass this weekend before it got too out of control, so some of the bigger ones were already mowed down. I did manage to get quite a few, though!I have potted several of them and am giving a few to my sister. I am hoping that a few of them will survive. I would love to have my own trees to plant in my yard some day. Right now they are still too small. But in a year or two, I could have my own Japanese Maple tree!Do you like Japanese Maples? Would you consider planting them in your yard? Have you ever grown a tree from a seedling? | |
| | Ever Grown A Tree From Seed? | | Last fall I was going through our yard looking for anything that might need to be done in the yard before winter set in. While looking I came across two Maple trees that had just started to grow. They both had two leaves each and were less than 8 inches tall.I wasn't sure they would make it through the winter or that I would forget where they were so I dug them up and moved them to one of our raised bed gardens where they slept through the winter.We had snow then we didn't have snow. Then we had ice and freezing cold for a few months so I wasn't sure they would survive as I could see them from my office window most of the winter. The top two inches always seemed to be sticking out of the snow.Thinking back I may have been smarter if I had left them where I found them as they would have been lower to the ground and most likely covered with snow all winter.Well I have been checking them out for the past few days and it looks like the tops got frost bite but I can see 4 buds that look like they are going to open, so they may just live. It would be so cool to have them survive and to watch them grow over the coming years.Have you ever grown a tree from a seed?... | |
| | Finally Some Nice Gardening Weather | | Well maybe not quite gardening weather yet but it's nice enough to get into our backyard without drowning now as the water levels have dropped and most of the yard is now dry.I walked around the yard and looked at the things that are poking their noses out of Mother Earth and was pleased to see some Crocus growing and also some little blue bells, not sure of their name yet.Next I started looking at a few things I planted last fall, hoping they weren't dead and to my surprise I see that my Strawberries, Raspberries and even a couple of tiny maple trees seem to have made it through the winter.I don't see anything happening with the grape vines I planted along our property fence but like I said it's still early here in New Brunswick.How is your garden doing so far this spring? | |
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| My Dog Won................... | | Today was a red letter day in my little town.
The abandoned house and shed next door finally came down.
At 6am this morning a huge John Deere watchamacallit, with a big toothy bucket on a huge bendy arm thingy, came rolling in from the back alley and began demolition.
It woke up my dog.
The dog woke up me..............
Between the 'reverse alarm', hydraulic hissing, breaking glass, snapping of broken walls, collapsing of roofs, screeching of metal on metal, the pounding of the earth when the bucket hit and the dogs frantic barking..........
Well you can imagine that my lovely dream of bananas and cream was rudely interrupted!
It took all day for the house and shed to get cleared, the lilac bushes and willow trees to come out and the dog to calm down. She ran back and forth inside her dog run barking up a storm. I know loud noises bother her, but she was downright frantic.
Especially when the bucket began pulling the lilac bushes away from the long side of her dog run.
I stood in my side door and took pictures of the demo, but finally the dog's distress had me putting on my shoes and going out into the back yard.
Spunky came right over to me and nearly scaled her fence to... | |
| | Lawn Prep | | Well seeing it was a decent day Tuesday, (for a couple hours anyhow), I decided to do a little more yard work. I have a mole problem and needed to spread out the pesticde for this control over their food source. I got the spreader out and spread the Mole control all over the front and back yard. this is harmless to the lawn and b=veggies and flowers etc as it only controls ants, grubs and a few other select bugs/insects. it does a good job as well. I also plan on fertilizing soon maybe this weekend. I also hava a couple bare spots that need some seeding as well. Do you use pesticides to control insects on your lawn? Do you fertilize your lawn a couple times each year?
[b]HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~[/b] | |
| | cool picture of a leaf i found today | | i was outside this morning just enjoying the nice fresh air and i saw this leaf,it was huge and in shape of a heart.i thought it was very neat.and wow what a huge leaf,very pretty.its amazing how the shapes of the leafs do this.have you ever found a leaf that was shaped different and what was it shaped liked?pattie | |
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| Replacing The Thorny Bushes of Death with Grape Vines | | My wife and I have talked about having our own garden since we were married more than 25 years ago but only in the past couple of years have we had the opportunity to have that dream garden.Learning to be a gardener is fun, and a bit challenging but we are loving it. We are not doing a whole lot at one time so we don't get discourages.This year we started ripping, literally, the thorny and dangerous bushes growing on the entire property fence on three sides of our property. I removed about 10 feet of bushes along the fence and then planted grape vines. They have already grown to the top of the fence and will soon start moving along the fence making for a bit more privacy.I planted the grape vines about 6 feet apart so I could later add maple trees between them.We are lovin' this gardening thing so much. | |
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