Gardening!

[leelai]

I have quite a few orchids in flower right now that I thought I'd share

Just love seeing them all!















And even the tillandsia are coming on

 

[skimonkey]

I have quite a few orchids in flower right now that I thought I'd share

Just love seeing them all!

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And even the tillandsia are coming on



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Oh Leelai, your orchids are so beautiful. Each picture I saw, I liked better until I came to the next one. I would imagine how wonderful it is for you to walk out and see such tropical beauty! Love to see that as our plants here are starting to die off and wither. Pretty soon. I will have to trim everything back. Sad, but Fall is here.

 

[Richard Brown]

Yes, those orchids are really beautiful, Leelai.

I also like the form of the tillandsia, it's architectural.

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[Hayles66]

Beautiful! Autumn/fall is definitely coming. The flowers are starting to lessen.

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[leelai]

Why thank you all....glad you liked them!

yes I love spring with all the new growth it brings in my garden, it's nice to go out and wander around.

We have a lot of cutting to do on the old leaves and we started today, quite sore right now

I love tilliandsis Richard and they are very architectural...I have many plants like that really...my favorites!

 

[Bennettb]

Thanks Leelai. It's so neat to know that as our gardens are going down for the winter yours are coming on. The orchids are beautiful. You must do a lot of smiling every time you walk out your door.

Bobbi

 

[Hayles66]

Well, it's getting cooler in the evenings and I'm thinking it time to put all my babies to bed for the winter. Shame though. I love all the flowers. Fuchsias, chrysanthemums, chocolate cosmos(yes, it smells of chocolate), lavender etc...

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[Hayles66]

Goodness forgot about my thread. Must be getting old

I'm moving all my lavenders etc... Into the greenhouse or wherever they will be warmer.

It's freezing out there. One last rose left and also my favourite. Deep Secret.

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[skimonkey]

It's time for all my perennials to get trimmed back for me, too! The weather is dropping fairly quickly here.

Love the smell of Lavendar, Hayles! So wonderful!

 

[Richard Brown]

We still have loads of leaves to clear. Wet soggy stuff after last night's rain. Then the tender plants we want to save need to be moved under cover.

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[Hayles66]

I haven't cleared out the hanging baskets yet. I've got some pansies to go in.

Loads of jobs. I haven't put the outdoor furniture undercover yet.

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[Bennettb]

I'm listening to the wind and rain and hoping we don't get any gusts strong enough to take down trees. I think we're high enough not to get flooded if the creeks rise so the plants should be fine. Well just be losing leaves in one fell swoop. It's time anyway.

Bobbi

 

[Hayles66]

Why hello Bobbi. Haven't heard from you for a while. We don't have much wind here at the moment. It's still cold.

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[Bennettb]

Well I have a new landscape in my garden. 2 trees on the side down several very large branches in the back and a tree and trunks from another on the other side. One tree took out a cornus Kousa that was very young but I managed to save a new Cercis forest pansy. lots of the wooden fence panels are gone. The season was over for most perrenials so no problem there. only minimal damage to shrubs.
Could have been worse, we are ok and the house is in one piece. I'll be happy when the electricity comes back. They are saying 7to10 days. I hope that's an exaggeration. Spring will be fun. Will be needing to do some planting. I'll have all winter to plan.

Bobbi

 

[Hayles66]

How will you charge up your device etc...

I lost some lavenders to an unexpected frost sigh!

Thank goodness not too much damage. Bad luck with the fencing panels.

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