Vikings:Hosta is so hardy you can hardly kill them....they can be split up at almost any time as long as they don't get tpp dry after transplanting.  Water them well and they should be fine

skipinnz: I've talked to enough people now that the plan is to split them up in another month, that way the 90 degree heat would have broke and there would be enough time for the roots to establish before hard frost

Vikings: If it's any use I split my when the flowers have died back.

Bernice: thanks

Vikings: well they are a member of the agave family, and they will grow from a leaf.....so I guess the same applies. Try a leaf and see if it roots

does anybody know if hosta's can be split up and transplanted in the summer or fall?

Finally it's warming up,snow is all gone.Flowers are peeping thru the dead grass.

It has been 8 weeks since we had a cyclone rip through our garden. I am absolutely astounded how much the garden has grown since then...Of course I had to cut everything back as it has been ripped around and was looking so straggly...now everything is looking so healthy and attractive. The garden is looking fabulous.

Bernice:  It's a pretty little thing.. although, it looks similar to one we found up at the Ranch a  few years back when we were painting the house.. I was doing the bottom section and the back side of the house where the basement windows were.. I jumped back the dang thing was huge for a spider around here.. Dan just laughed at me and said it wasn't anything to worry about.. then he came down to it and grabbed a piece of wood letting it get on the wood he moved it to another location so I could finish painting the one section.

Pedro Martínez: thank you Hun...that means I don't have to be so damned scared LOL

Bernice: The site below says:

St Andrews Cross Spiders ...low risk - non-aggressive

St Andrews Spider

Venom toxicity - the bite of the St Andrews Cross is of low risk (non-toxic) to humans. They are a non-aggressive group of spiders.

Bernice: I googled “yellow striped spider” and the first link it brought up was the USA Spider Identification Chart. And there it was easy to identify your little friend.

Pedro Martínez: I found that this afternoon in my passionfruit vines.....I cant see if it is poisonous tho...

Pedro Martínez: well I will be blowed....how did you find that so fast....that is exactly what it is....thank you so much....

Bernice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aetherea

what the name of this spider is??

Foxy Lady: it is 34C here hot and humid.

It's 38 F here in CNY.

rod03801: yes I planted from a young tree, but the lemon came on straight away with hundreds of fruit, and the orange has just sat there.................thanks anyway.

Bernice: I have read before that it can take up to 5 years for a planted young tree to bear fruit. (I assume this is what you did)
If you planted it from seedling, it can take 7 or 8 years.

I should add, I'm no expert. LOL. This is just what I had read somewhere, in the past.

ScarletRose: lol i thought of that so i planted another one.

I have a navel orange tree in my yard for the last 2 1/2 years....it has only grown slightly but has no signs of bearing any fruit....it is next to a meyer lemon that has more fruit on it than you could imagine. any suggestions as to why this has happened?

Foxy Lady:  Dan is wondering how many you have? and do you have both the Male and Female plants.. One of the species really doesn't do much but act as a polenator. I remember our neighbors had a plum tree.. we would get a good crop of plums every other year.. since there was only one plum tree around.

skipinnz: You better cover them or the rabbits help themselves also.lol

ScarletRose: I know but i have one bush thats not doing well.

Foxy Lady: They don't like frost's but the birds love them so you need to cover them

Foxy Lady:  Oh.. they grow wonderful little Blue Berries.. Can be made into Pies and Jellies.. :)

Does anyone know anything about blueberry bushes?

check out my new "baby" on my pics :)

sorry it isnt a gardening pic but it is outside ROFL........

Less seeds,less cutting next year right

Pedro Martínez: Ok thanks,got some work to do

SMART ALX: They don't. Sunflowers are annuals. If you want to have them in your front yard again next year, you have to plant some seeds.

Was wandering if anybody knows what to do with sunflowers after summer,do they grow again next year?
I have a couple 14 footers in the front yard to deal with
Ty for any help.

I have just bought myself an "upside down strawberry planter"
has anybody had anything to do with one of these?

I have to buy the seedlings and plant them, but it looks alright :)

skipinnz: saw that on the news.....real strange for this time of year.

It's supposedly spring time here but we're getting snow, it's unheard of this late in the year. Had 1 meter dumped on the road between Taupo & Napier. Temperature today was 8 derees C. Going to get down to 3 to-night

Bernice: Were in our Fall,but feels like snow.

ScarletRose: we didnt get a winter this year :( and that in itself was a forewarning of what was to come.

Bernice: As you are going into Summer.. we are headed for Winter.. Ick!

Well summer hasn't even started and already we are experiencing excessive heat. Expected today 36degC = approx 100degF. Looks as tho we are in for a bad one :(

The spa is looking even more inviting ROFL

Übergeek 바둑이: thank you so much, will check into it :)

Bernice:

You asked about a month ago about free website hosting (I just read this board today).  I recommend:

http://www.webs.com/

They seem to have good features.

Bernice: LOL

12-14 months ago I planted in my garden 3-4 pineapple tops....Lo and behold I have a pineapple growing...it is about the size of my thumb nail at the moment but what a find. That can go with the passionfruit, pawpaws, bananas,grapes etc....My own homegrown fruit salad LOL

Bernice: Good luck.

Foxy Lady: I have taken one pic and put it up in my photo album on here....I will date each pic so you can see the growth. we are nearly getting 40's as well C's that is....actually about 34degC and we had no winter at all....

Bernice: If our weather had been warmer the Topsy Turvy would be great.Were in the 40's F at night already.

rod03801: yes I have already signed up.....

Bernice: I just checked.. they are still around. And they are free. I used them a long time ago. Pretty much the same as geocities, as i recall. They have templates you can use, so you don't even need to be an HTML expert.