Hi Vera!! So nice to hear from you. I was wondering where you had gone but I see you were busy with a year like I had last year. I must say that this year has been altogether different here and we had a summer like we have not seen in a long time - perfect!!

Let's put it this way... Next year has got to be better for you. All the best!

Hey girlfriend! Good to hear from you.

I also had my worst ever results from wintersowing. I did get a few nice plants. And my tomatoes (wintersown) have done well. We're getting sick of tomatoes!

We had a cool, wet spring, followed by a hot summer with what is probably our worst drought ever. And it was so HOT!
Almost everything in my yard is fried. Even my lavender bit the dust. Yvonne's salvia is pathetic... I could go on and on, but I'll spare you. The only part of my yard that did really well was my cutting-grown coleus in my shady front yard.
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Don't be a stranger, Vera.

Karen

Your bed is so super gorgeous! Such beautiful varieties

I quite agree! It's super super gorgeous! I would like to plant that kind of setup. If you have an extra time, please name each for me. :)

Thanks for sharing Karen! I really love it!!!

I actually know the name of almost every one of those babies.

Karen

Hi Vera, nice to see a post from you. I don't know if you realize it but someone posted on the Conversation side looking for you awhile back. Sorry to hear about the growing season you've had. We had one like that about 3 years ago. It was like a lost summer. This year we've had the opposite, 23 days of temps over 90 degrees instead of our usual 14. Very little rain. I have quite a bit of burned up foliage. I was looking around this weekend, thinking I wish we'd have an early hard frost and the poor garden could just go to sleep for the year and try again next year. [g] There's always next year!

Vera, welcome back, may you be here more often, and hopefully you find the cord before your order another one, instead of right afterwards ;-O

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Vera,

FYI, I lost the cord to my camera too. What I use now is a memory stick/USB stick. Works great and you can store photos on it. I actually use it a lot for Garden Club meetings and tomorrow night I'm doing a presentation on raising Monarchs and creating butterfly habitats at another local garden club. All my info is on the 'stick' which makes things really easy. I also have a bit of info on there stored for winter sowing presentations. :O) Easily transferred to Photobucket or other photo sites.

Hey, Vera! So good to see you!
Been missing you.
FYI: You can use any cord with a UB port. My son uses mine with his camera all the time.

Karen....that is absolutely beautiful. Man, oh man...why do you have to live so far? When I saw that picture, I thought, hot dikerdy..I want cuttings of those coleus!
I am hoping to catch the gardeners when they come pull the plants next door to my work. There are a bunch of coleus and potato vines that I want. :-P

Hi ya'll!

First...I do have another camera cord, but the end that plugs in is a different shape and size.
Karen...That bed is gorgeous!! I've always loved Coleus and mine do lots better grown as houseplants. I even get seeds from indoor grown plants LOL! I know they have a "sun series" but haven't bothered trying. Sorry you lost your Lavender...not sure why they didn't live through the drought and heat, unless they weren't established. Mine laugh at drought and heat! If you want me to send your some seed(or babies next spring) let me know...

Mmmm just finished filling leftover commercial pickle juice with sliced up cucumbers from the garden. In a week or two, we'll have some yummy refrigerator pickles :)) My cuck's actually did really well for a change....I grew Cucumber 'Homemade Pickle' this year.

Vera, I tried the versa coleus seeds, supposed to be sun tolerant. Well, they didn't tolerate my hot sun at all. Probably won't grow them again.

My lavenders were well established, 3 or 4 years old. They were pretty in spring - early summer
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...then they just died.

Karen

Nice to hear about your gardening year, Vera. I understand about camera issues as mine hasn't been working and hate to ask DH to take photos with his very nice camera too often. Here's to a better photo year for both of us next year.

Karen, those lavender look so beautiful, so sad that they dried up. Any chance they might still come back next spring?