OT........what are you other pleasures ?
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OT:What other seeds have you started?
Comments (9)OK, I grabbed my notebook of seeds I started so far, and here goes.. Brug seeds: Rabahana x ? (Karyn) Karyn, is that name spelled right? Inspiration x Rubirosa (Hyb C.Mayer from Kylie) Dr D x Fleming Island Spider (Hyb C.Mayer from Kylie) Not Estella x ? (Hyb C.Mayer from Kylie) Inspiration x Earth Angel (Hyb C.Mayer from Kylie) Abutilon Agastache Asclepias Tuberosa Asian Bellflower Baby Blue Eyes Blackberry Lily Beauty Berry Bush Butterfly Bush Calla Lilies Cardinal Climber Castor Bean (Zanzibar) Castor Bean (Red Stem) Chocolate Daisy Coral Vine Coral Nymph Salvia Cruel Vine Datura (Double White) Datura (Double Cream) Datura (Tatula) Datura (Single White) Datura (Triple Yellow) Datura (Double Yellow) Four O'Clock's Fuchsia Boliviana Alba Fuchsia Magellanica Gas Plant Godetia Guava Guinea Hen Hairy Balls Hibiscus (hardy) Hibiscus (Turk's Cap) Impatiens Balfourii Iochoma Australe Jewels Of Opar Joe Pye Weed Lily Of The Nile Lion's Tail Love In A Puff Marigolds Mexican Petunia Moonflower (Giant White) Moonflower (Lavender) Nicotiana (Marshmallow) Nicotiana (White) Petunias (mixed) Phlox Pink Bush Clover Plumbago Pomegranite (Dwarf) Purple Perilla Spirea, Blue Mist Sword Bean Toad Lilies Torenia Tweedia Verbena Yellow Canna Yvonne's Giant Salvia and some other seeds that I have no clue what they are, lol. I still have a bunch more that I wanna do, but they can wait to be started outside. I'm out of room....See MoreFor business or for pleasure?
Comments (0)So I personally do not do any sort of professional gardening. However, I do have three nurseries within a few miles from each other that are so different that it makes me wonder whether most nursery owners tend to lean one way or another - is it business or is it pleasure? Nursery #1 - Owned by a landscape company. Does none of its own growing. Advertisements online, updated website, and the place is very well presented when you are there. Have a niche in the wholesale market with a person dedicated specifically for it, special hours for wholesalers, and special promotions for them. All the plants are lined up in rows with very informative tags, you watch workers move plants around to make sure the blooming ones are in front constantly. However, no one through phone, email, or in person really knows about the plants, growing habits, or can make suggestions. Simply put, the place looks great, knows their market, well run, but is not employed by who I would consider to be gardeners. Hence I see it as a nursery run for business, not necessarily out of the pleasure for gardening. Nursery #2 - Nursery two is kind of a mix of business and pleasure. They grow some of their own plants. Small little place but always well stocked and plants are identified. If you catch the owner there, they can tell you about the plants but a majority of their workers don't know too much. Their website is never updated and it is impossible to reach them by email. From talking to a few people it appears as if it's a low scale operation with not too much emphasis put on tons of business success (workers are not aware of what has been selling, what is being ordered, what needs moved, etc), but besides a few workers, not everyone there seems to be big on gardening. Nursery #3 - This one is clear on the other side. Most of the place is gardens in which they seem to grow everything. I frequent often and there are always workers digging up divisions from their plants and putting them in nursery pots for sale and then placing them back in the ground in the fall for the winter. All of the workers seem to be able to answer any and all questions about any random plant you pick up. However, it is close to impossible to find a worker that is not working in a flower bed and then getting them to help you is like pulling teeth. They have plants scattered around everywhere with no rhyme or reason and a lot of them don't even have tags, for example, they will have just "daylily Chicago Apache" scribbled in silver sharpie on the pot. Their prices for mulch, soil, delivery are significantly higher than any of the other nurseries as if they weren't even worried about being competitive. It almost feels to me as someone just wanted a very large garden and decided to sell plants from it with not a lot of business desire. Hence for pleasure and not for business. Is this common throughout other places - do you feel as some people definitely do it for different reasons and thus it becomes apparent in their business? If you own a nursery, do you feel like you struggle with one aspect or the other? Do you try to correct it?...See MoreOT......what 'old ways' have you kept?
Comments (49)ladyrose your thing on 'children eat first' to me as someone from the UK (England) is interesting because I come from an old ways time. When I was young children very much came last. Not at mealtimes, when we always had to wait for everyone to be served, but in just about everything else, when we were frequently reminded by our parents and our father in particular that we were the lowest forms of life, our views were never taken into consideration (in fact it would have been unwise to express a view) and in no way would we have been considered a Priority. Being seen and not heard was the order of the day. I expect this sounds harsh to modern parents but I sometimes wonder if children of 'these days' are given too much say in matters best left to adults to decide. A small eg. On a recent UK TV prog. on the theme of property buying, a couple were being shown round a very expensive place which seemed to tick all the right boxes . . . except whether their three-year old would be happy there, so, to the amazement of the presenters the child was consulted before the couple could make a decision to part with several hundred thousands pounds. The times they are a'changing....See MoreOT....What do you enjoy when you're not reading ?
Comments (20)I gave up my car when I moved to downtown Charleston, so I spend a lot of time just walking and riding my bicycle to get around the city. I used to do yoga and ballet, but thus far have not found any classes here that I can afford. I do enjoy cooking, but do not like to bake, as I seem to have no "sweet tooth." I love to try new dishes. I am in a lively French conversation group that meets weekly; our "leader" is a French native. I also enroll each semester in history classes at the nearby college, which is only 7 minutes away by bicycle. That enables me to utilize the wonderful college library. I enjoy being on campus and talking to the students. When I have free time, I also like to explore on foot the historic neighborhoods of Charleston, and take in the gardens. Day-trips with friends to visit the plantations are also enjoyable. I used to dabble a bit in genealogy, but seem to have gotten away from that. I do like to "surf" the Internet and am in a few "chatrooms" (forums)....See Morekathy_t
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