BURRRR!!!! We had a light frost a couple of nights ago..It wasn't suppose to get that cold but it was 37* when I went out and there was frost on the trucks and grass...We should be up to about 80* tomorrow.. the brugs I cut off are already starting to put on some green growth...I need to go ahead and get them mulch.. I guess..LOL..I am so excited I just joined GBI.. I can't wait to go look around at all the places I couldn't before...LOL
Kylie

Wow Karma, frost already. Time sure is flying... Hope your back is better soon.

Yeah Chena..BGI and ABADS are fun. I must admit I post more on the reg forums than over there lol. I guess just because they move faster...I have the same name on those. It is a fun place to connect and get seeds and pollen. I like reading the journals and new info they put out too.

We had a very light frost last night but it looks like it was only on the grass in the front yard. I still have a couple dozen tropicals that I haven't gotten inside so I tossed a blanket over them and they look fine today. I haven't started digging the passies or brugs out of the garden yet and they also look fine. I'm not too concerned if the above ground foliage gets killed, I just have to dig them before the ground freezes. The back's not happy but I've been living on percocet and methylprednisone for two days. Thank God for drugs.lol I like looking through the photos on BGI and ABADS but there's too much info there for me to digest. I've been tempted to join to get seeds but I just end up buying them from SS or CG. I got some new seeds from CG and really want to start them but space is a problem now. I haven't even put out my seed mats to start the plumeria cuttings.
Karyn

Which seeds did you get at Country Garden? Here's the ones I started that I bought from there so far:
Peanut x MEM
Am. Pride x Dorthea
Taylor Dawn x Rubirosa
Am. Pride x Pink Smitty
Goldfinch x Peanut
These are not including the ones I'm growing from BGI and for others lol. I need more room!!!
~SJN

We had a slight frost last nite also - never predicted. I slammed on the brakes when I saw it this morning as I was leaving.

Moved them under the eves - they're coming in tomorrow nite.

Fall is really here for good.

Today was cutting day here too. I cut back and/or dug up 12 plants. I still have 5 in the ground but they are either protected or covered with sheets.

What a bummer.

We just missed the frost last night and I'm hoping for another week frost-free, to get my brugs inside or mulched, ............in an orderly manner, not the mad dash I was considering last night! lol!

Going to miss a few of this year's seedlings blooming but the bulk have put on a nice show for me, so not too unhappy about putting everything to bed.
Then, rest for a month or so and start the brugs seeds I have received, or purchased, in late December- did this year's seedlings on January 1st! Can't believe I'm growing out more seedlings- I still have 5 sdlgs.in pots that will never know the touch of soil on their rooty toes this season- perhaps next year! ;-0

Brenda B

karyn

add 800mg 3X daily ibuprofen to the percocet for a synergistic effect

x

Xerophyte I've been taking 2400 mg's of ibuprofen prn for years. That's on top of percocet10/325, morphine sulfate, duragesic transdermal, dilaudid and the occasional medrol dose pack. lol There's not much more I can add to the mix. You'd think that I'd be walking into walls but after all these years it has very little effect anymore.
Karyn

I need a new Dr....LOL

LOL Chena. . .

Here's a DR . . . . . . . .SEUSS

LOL

LOL.. Your a NUT!!!!!

Are you sure that's not Dr. Grimaldi? He and Dr Suess look like twins!
Karyn

Ya'll are all CRAZY and the best part is I fit right in with all of you. I take 4 ibuprofen when I first get up in the morning and 4 when I go to bed. If I'm still hurting I'll take more during the day. My sister keeps complaining I'm ruining my liver. I ask her if she wants to help with some of the lifting, pulling, shoving, digging, grunt work and she declines. LOL I can't understand why.

As my DH says, I don't feel sorry for you, you do it to yourself. He's in worse shape than me. So I just make it through the day and then sleep with the heating pad on my back just so I can get out of the bed in the morning.

Karyn, I got the Brugs you sent me planted and labeled and everything. I'm crossing my fingers that those little babies grow for me. Can't wait to start some of the dat seeds.

Anyone else got any Brug cuttings for postage? I've fallen helplesslee in Love with them things. LOL Anyone else know the feeling of " I just gotta get a few more starts"?

Happy Gardening, Marian

You guys are so much fun, I'm surprised no one is smoking those brugs! Who needs the drugs when you can open up a brug house and get hit with the fragrance! Wow!! Time for benadryl and bed!!

Now where is the Glucosamine and Chondroitin with MSM ??? It does work. Add a little passion flower leaf and life is pretty good. I feel for all of the up north people. This is our pretty weather for the next 2-3 months. I has been another long hot brutal summer. It is nice to go outside and not be soaking wet with sweat in 5 minuets. Winter here is a time for relaxing. My brugs really waif in the fall wind . You can see 30 miles in the winter here. In the summer about 2. I really have fallen for the brugs. Last year at this time I was just starting with them. I was a newbie. I had given up gardening for 12 years because I could not grow anything here. Now I propagate them real nicely and put them into the soil which you would think would be a good thing but they do try to die before they adjust. Every time I water I am neutralizing the saline content and adjusting the Ph and adding nutrients with a granular soil top coating mix that I put together. That is so the water will not kill the plants with its high PH and my soil is pure sand. So I dump a lot of well water. Add 115 degree heat factors and you have a lethal combination. LOL Now Mr Mite never sleeps here either. Everybody and everything is stacked against plants but mine are thriving. My neighbors ask how I am doing it I tell them and they continue doing it the way they always have. LOL

Well sometimes I drift way off topic. lol Techno, Karen and all the rest just think you will be drinking hot chocolate and I will still be cutting the grass. I would love to go ice skating or snowmobile riding again. Y'all(Texas slang)dream of warm winds and I dream of snow.

Time to go feed the sheep and go to sleep.

Happy Halloween,

jim

Jim:

Last year, in January, we had a couple 68 degree days and then 17 for a week in MARCH (Which is what killed some of my things - everything was confused.)

Think of us when you're mowing the grass and we're looking at snow drifts on the windows.

That's depressing me just thinking about it. . . .ok - I have zonal envy!

Last year we had unseasonably warm temps throughout Jan but come Feb we had record cold and a really late spring warm up. I hope this season isn't a repeat, at least not the record cold part!
Karyn

No zonal envy here, I spent 8 years in I'm sorry Jim, TX which we refer to as Hell!! Y'll is the TX way and Jim was so polite to use the Yankee's term Y'all? LOL

Was thinking about Jim yesterday as I was outside in my turtleneck, standing under my maple that has turned shock yellow. . .

Trees are turning - fall foliage is burning bright - looking up through the leaves in the sun thinking Jim is mowing his lawn - which is probably still deep green.

Then looked at the Brugs getting cold and crabby. . .grrrrrrrrr. . . .

Old man winter is coming.

Ya'll can keep your snow!!!! I was a lineman for the phone co. for 20yrs...I hate cold weather...I spent to many days standing on a pole freezing my ars off..
I will take the heat any day...Thats what they make cold beer for...LOL
Kylie

I'm with Dweeb, isn't the foliage this year just breath taking!! I stood out in a t-shirt yesterday as it was in the 60's and pulled all the tropicals that were left out inside due to the frost warning again for over night. I'm sure glad they are all in this am is white roofs!!

Chena, I think I have it great out here on the valley floor, if we get snow it doesn't last and I can mow year round. No really hot weather and I can grow Sangs which are not grown down your way? I'll pass on the beer, iced tea is better. LOL

I hate when the temps get below 60, brrrrrr! I'll take warm over cold any day. I do enjoy the fall colors and the early spring flowers though. Too bad I couldn't have that and temps in the high 70's year round.
Karyn