Thursday #204 - Makin' a Virtual Garden

[Killearn Kitties]

What a lovely idea - sunflowers round the hot tub outside. They are among my favourites. Some nice tubs by the door too, perhaps? Any nice trailing plants in your seed catalogue? I got some lovely lemon and apricot busy lizzies last year. They would tone in nicely with the sunflowers.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

I could zoom up to Lake Windermere and "borrow" some of their plastic daffodils

[gini]

Good morning everyone (well, at least it is still morning here). Your comment about some plastic flowers reminds me of a friend's neighbor.

I commented that she had such beautiful flowers all around her home - they really looked healthy and pretty. Then a few weeks later I went to visit and I noticed that all of the lovely "blue" flowers she had in her gardens, had been replaced with "pink" flowers. I couldn't understand why she would take the other ones out - they were looking so good.

Turns out all of them are plastic - and she changes them according to her mood.

Plants and flowers here at Thursdays? That's a great idea - and somehow sunflowers seem just the right type for us.

[cassiesmom]

I "overwintered" my geraniums from last year. It was a total fluke - I brought them inside on a chilly day last fall, and there they've stayed. One has grown like it was on steroids, and the other two are still alive They cost a whopping $1 apiece from the supermarket. I'll move them outside as soon as the nights are warmer. I hope the supermarket will sell them again this year because I would like one more to fill the window box. I have a balcony that faces south, so nothing thrives except plants that tolerate total sun.

I'd like a pet garden like Edwina's Secretary has, with fresh catnip for my cat. Add a pot of grass next to the catnip and I will have one very happy cat. Another pot next to that with dill and/or basil and I will be one very happy person.

[smokey the elder]

Geraniums are virtually indestructable! Caladiums do really well in hanging baskets with their colorful leaves. I have four dozen deep red glads I was supposed to plant last week, but we got a snow and sleet storm!

[Edwina's Secretary]

I have a idea! Let's plant pansies.....then after while....when it is time to replace them....we can freeze them in ice cubes and have them in our drinks this summer!

Cassiesmom...I had some geraniums for years in Chicago. Every fall I would cut them way back, cover the pot and put it in the basement AWAY from the furnace. Set them back in a sunny window about this time of year. By May they were gorgeous!

So a martini with a pansy ice cube floating...oh what to call it!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Plants start crying and run from the room if they see me comining. I am only allowed to take their pictures not care for them.

You may want a few tomato plants!!! Vine ripened tomatoes are the best!!!

[Edwina's Secretary]

You may want a few tomato plants!!! Vine ripened tomatoes are the best!!!

Planning Bloody Marys with homemade tomato juice! What a great idea MOFF!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Planning Bloody Marys with homemade tomato juice! What a great idea MOFF!

Glad I could help!!!

Oh, and some lime trees to go with the lemon ones: for lemonade and limeades, of course!!!

OH, Mario wants a cherry tree too!!!

[Karen]

Certainly planting catnip, but far away from anything more delicate ... The ground up here is still well snow-covered except for the two spots in the front that get the sun, flowers being a far-away concept at this point!

But certainly next fall we'll plant a mess of daffodils. There's nothing that says "spring" like teh smell o' daffidowndillies! And lilac bushes for May ...

And fruit trees and plants ...

[Cinder & Smoke]

You may want a few tomato plants!!!
Vine ripened tomatoes are the best!!!

Yup ...

Till your Durn Dawgs decide THEY like the taste of fresh, home-grown, 'Matoes!

[Logan]

Lilly was a master at picking tomatoes. I wish she was still right here to "pick" to her heart's content.

Logan

[Blue_Frog]

Lilly was a master at picking tomatoes. I wish she was still right here to "pick" to her heart's content.

Logan

My old dog Holly used to eat veggies from the garden too -- she was really gentle about it and would pick raspberries off the bushes without damaging them, pick and eat the beans without breaking the stems -- quality dog she was

[Blue_Frog]

I have a idea! Let's plant pansies.....then after while....when it is time to replace them....we can freeze them in ice cubes and have them in our drinks this summer!

Cassiesmom...I had some geraniums for years in Chicago. Every fall I would cut them way back, cover the pot and put it in the basement AWAY from the furnace. Set them back in a sunny window about this time of year. By May they were gorgeous!

So a martini with a pansy ice cube floating...oh what to call it!

Love that idea -- they'd look fancy in a big bowl of some kind of punch too

Hmm... we need a lemon tree too for wedges, and maybe some beans we can pickle to add to Caesars ... hmmm lots of ideas


/ hands ES a fancy Martini a la Pansy Icecube
/ refilling scotch, its going to be a long day -again- at work.


Edit: to fix some terrible bad spelling. Aparently "Huk'd on fonix werked fore me!" didn't really work...