I love this! It’s the right time, too, for this reminder.
You really are the sun-power guru, aren’t you!
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Five summers ago, a friend gave me a packet full of holly hock seeds from her mother’s estate. I prepped the ground and planted them carefully one by one. What bloomed? Nothing but mustard–weeds–so disappointing. I pulled them all and threw them away. I was so very surprised last week when weeding again in that area to discover one lovely, lone holly hock bloom raising its head above the mess! Here she is, at last!
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One by one, our beautiful, big, lush 15-year-old Hollywood junipers, planted in a row along the south side of our property, have turned brown and died. We tried everything, including beneficial nematodes, recommended by our county’s agriculture department, to no avail. We will turn our backs on those beautiful evergreens on this property. In place of the first to die off, we have introduced a sweet little monkey puzzle tree that my neighbor calls Curious George. Long may he reign and tall may he grow! 60 feet high is the goal!
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Hi my friend, almost 2 year’s since planting, how’s that Curious George doing?
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How lovely of you to ask! I will take a photo in the morning and post it here. I’d say it’s doubled in size. 
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Fantastic glad t hear, we need to keep anything growing alive and Thriving!!!
Very Nice, agree at least doubled maybe a little more. By the way the wife planted hollie hock seeds 4 years ago and they all came up this year. Happy Gardening and GL at the tables my friend!
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Bad day for our hopeful, banana tree cutting & planting. Will try again soon, I hope.
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Coffee grounds and banana peels for my Roses 
. Blooms as big as your head 
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They are great food for our roses as well.
Does anyone have any picture’s of there Roses ? If so would love to see them 
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Very Nice
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Thank you
The weather ( heat and smoke ) are slowing the buds down
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That is a Big concern for us as well, even in Alabama last 2 days rarely see the sun our crops, plants and trees must have due to the incoming haze/smoke or whatever it is.
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It’s going to be a really bad 2 weeks in Rhode Island. N95 masks all over again.
My Asiatic Lilies finally came up ( around my lamppost ) after three years. Unbelievable. The bulbs should have rotted in the wet soil years ago. Waiting for the other colors to open up. So happy about this but don’t know what to make of it after 3 years. Just keep plugging along with my soil amendments. YAY !!!
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Mark your spring bulbs.
The reason why, when you’re planting your spring bulbs you mark them, is so you know where they are, so that come the spring or early spring before they come up, you don’t dig down trying to plant something else, and dig up your bulbs and destroy them, okay?
So now here’s something you can do that’s really simple. You can put little tags with the names of the bulbs, the variety: daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, whatever.