nobleheart: I couldn't get the pics but i know you only post great stuff.:)

I just thought I'd point out that in Dallas at 9:32 p.m., it is 89 F outside!!!!!

Eriisa: lol...i might hate You if it wasn't 74°F here at 10:36 pm...super-ultra-comfy!

plaintiger: its 11:27 pm here in Virginia and its 71 f after a lovely day for my moms 60th b day surrounded by my gorgeous flowers

Eriisa: Were going into the high 80's tomorrow,bout time.

spicieangel: wow - that *does* sound lovely! =)

ajtgirl:
http://www.zadorspain.org/Ingles/Excursion_to_Elche_organised_by_Zador_Alicante_School_of_Spanish.html
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nobleheart:The last site was hard to read but some terriffic plants. :o)

But I wonder what else is there in this jungle.

I am a simple grower of annuals and perennials.
That type of flora bogles my mind

We finally got our garden all in,just in time for rain tonite and tomorrow.

skipinnz: what part of "ƒJƒj ‚Ì ’Ü ‚̂悤‚È Œ` ‚ð
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plaintiger: Actually all of it but I was able to identify a lot of the plants.

plaintiger: I don't

Foxy Lady: You go, Ma'am!

hoo boy...rain scheduled for the third too...and i'm supposed to go shooting with one of my photography groups that day!

skipinnz: well then you're that far ahead of me!

Foxy Lady:

plaintiger: It's raining now

Foxy Lady: is it! i shall have to go see that myself. i love rain. :)

plaintiger: Where i live anyways.

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am. understood.

i shall go look now.

Foxy Lady: not here yet, Ma'am. but it's lovely out there. beautiful temperature, and almost completely still...the breeze, if you can call it that, is so slight that i wouldn't know it was there if i didn't see leaves and the clapper thingy on the wind chimes moving just the teensiest bit.

it's weather that portends rain, alright.

plaintiger: Well i'm glad we got the garden in perfect timing.

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am. that's great. :)

i only just called to have the sprinkler company come and de-winterize our sprinkler system for the season. they're probably going to be working in the rain!

plaintiger: Did ya have to mention Winter.Were just starting to warm up so we could plant.

Foxy Lady: i'm sorry, Ma'am - i *did* put "de-" in front of it!

plaintiger: ok but were getting

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am! forgive me??

plaintiger: help out a Florida girl here. What's done to winterize a sprinkler system?

Eriisa: well i'm glad You asked, Ma'am, because i've long wondered myself but i guess i wasn't quite curious enough to actually go look it up. now i have.

evidently the simplest way to describe sprinkler system winterization is to say it's the process of removing all the water from the system's pipes so that the water doesn't freeze, expand, and crack them. and evidently there are three ways to do it, which are described in detail here.

i hope this answers Your question, Lady. it answered it better than *my* curiosity demanded it be answered...

ok enough rain here..maybe I should be planting wild rice & lotus.

nobleheart:

Wherever there are flowers there is romance.
Thanks for the pic of the cute parrots
Reminds me of my grandparents

We've been expecting a fairly large storm that may last through Saturday.

It shouldn't be a problem to any of the gardens unless we get hail, which is not unusual for this time of year. Hail can rip through everything like a machete and plants cannot recover from that damage.

GL to all in the northeast tonight.

There's heavy thunder and lightening at my house right now.

ajtgirl: You can say that again it's rained since last nite.Right now it's stopped but expecting thunderstorms during the nite.

ajtgirl: we've got a nice steady rain falling on long island right now. lighter than it was an hour or two ago, and the thunder and lightning seem to have abated. but our lawn and planty-plant-plants can sure use the rain.

ajtgirl:
http://www.littlefunny.com/Images/Cartoons/107.jpg
PS
this also is off topic,but some really incredible photos:
http://www.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=lightning
ok,back on topic:
http://www.leespencerphoto.com/graphics/nature/flower%20in%20rain.jpg
http://photoblog.jonread.com/images/flower.jpg
http://www.talkingtree.com/gallery/USA/Massachusetts/Lincoln/20051009/codman_community_garden001_purple.jpg

nobleheart: good lad, veering back on-topic so quickly.

plaintiger:

Foxy Lady: i know my job, Ma'am!

plaintiger: Now thats a good joke Got ya

Foxy Lady:

plaintiger:

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am!

plaintiger: lol

Foxy Lady:

In my area a couple of yards have a flower Ive never seen before, I will describe it best as I can. It is orange and yellow and its shape looks like candy corn. Its leaves and stems are similar to a day lillies. Does anyone know what kind of flower this may be?? I wish I had a photo of it. They are really neat and do look like candy corn.

My tomato and pepper plants were doing good and then all of a sudden the blooms just started falling off. Does anyone have an answer for my problem?

Dolittle: have you checked closely to see if there are little tiny ants? really minute they are and are hard to see ....I had that problem last year and had to get some powder to put around the plants :(

BerniceC:Thanks girl, I did check them for bugs and have sprayed them. The stems behind the bloom just broke off..looked like it was cut. The blooms on the pepper plants dried up. It is strange but I will keep trying to remedy the problem.

Dolittle: Sounds like something we had a few years back.We never did find out what it was but started to plant garlic in the fall so it was up in the Spring.We put our pepper and tomato plants in that area of the garlic,got rid of whatever was cuting the buds off.I did the same around my rose bush and got rid of those green worms i had.

Foxy Lady:Thanks girl, maybe I need to plant some garlic there! Anything is worth a try.