tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post5873906755679141786..comments2024-03-19T07:05:39.186-05:00Comments on In the Garden: Yuccastinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17415302577518111227noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-74706487764705903242007-12-01T07:30:00.000-06:002007-12-01T07:30:00.000-06:00Hi Nina and Good morning!You will have to come by ...Hi Nina and Good morning!<BR/>You will have to come by sometime and visit my garden and see what you like. I love hydrangeas too. Especially the oakleafs and peegees. I don't have a deer problems-thank goodness. I do have some deer "resistant" plants though. Artemesia 'Powis Castle' is deer resistant. I can save you one as I bring in cuttings each fall to use in my garden and share them with tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415302577518111227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-54380401713425148262007-12-01T06:26:00.000-06:002007-12-01T06:26:00.000-06:00Good Morning Tina, I would love to share plants. I...Good Morning Tina, I would love to share plants. I am always happy to share any plant that I have and even happier to receive a new one from someone's garden.<BR/><BR/>I can't say I have a favorite. I started out with several hydrangea, but found the deer to like them as well as I did. So now I try to look for "deer resistant" plants. <BR/><BR/>I retired from the accounting field, my husband is Ninahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06844563083948984664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-52385105773300199602007-11-30T07:50:00.000-06:002007-11-30T07:50:00.000-06:00Hi Nina,I am so glad you said you heard gardens ta...Hi Nina,<BR/>I am so glad you said you heard gardens take seven years to grow in. I really didn't know and have been waiting 4-5 years and my gardens are still not full. I was thinking it was me but maybe I just need some more of that elusive time! You see, I have learned something from you!<BR/><BR/>Your dad sounds like a great man and I hope he knows how special you are to care for him (and tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415302577518111227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-56771539070056923902007-11-29T21:31:00.000-06:002007-11-29T21:31:00.000-06:00Hello Tina, The main crops were corn and tobacco. ...Hello Tina, The main crops were corn and tobacco. We always had a large garden. He worked hard to rear six children. He gives God the credit for a good long life.<BR/><BR/>I don't do vegetable gardens. Just flowers and only started that about five year ago when I retired. My gardens aren't well established yet. I have been told it takes about seven years, but I have decided they will always be Ninahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06844563083948984664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-90085553893717660812007-11-29T06:45:00.000-06:002007-11-29T06:45:00.000-06:00Hi Nina,I am glad you got the leaves raked and eve...Hi Nina,<BR/>I am glad you got the leaves raked and everything put up. Now you can sit back and relax until spring. I always get that nesting feeling this time of year so I feel safe when things are put away.<BR/><BR/>Paul James has a silhouette of a rusty metal girl he actually made in a foundry. He also has birdhouses. I too have birdhouses, concrete statues and a bed frame in my garden. Some tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415302577518111227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-54775875947760802252007-11-28T18:27:00.000-06:002007-11-28T18:27:00.000-06:00Well chores are finished, furniture stored and lea...Well chores are finished, furniture stored and leaves raked with the help of a good family friend.<BR/><BR/>I know who Paul James is, but I don't know what kind of yard art he does. I have what I call trellis (for lack of knowing what to call them) made from wall sculpture's that my husband has welded a rod on them for sticking them down in the dirt. I have two twin size steel headboards that my Ninahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06844563083948984664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-54316689861551080462007-11-28T08:56:00.000-06:002007-11-28T08:56:00.000-06:00What kind of yard art? I want some metal scultures...What kind of yard art? I want some metal scultures in my yard. The kind Paul James has on his show which he personally made. Do you have some like that?tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415302577518111227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-14353770269771272542007-11-28T08:55:00.000-06:002007-11-28T08:55:00.000-06:00Good morning Nina. There is no problem about doubl...Good morning Nina. There is no problem about double posts at all. I love getting comments-even double ones! It happens to me sometimes too. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the instructions on the tulips. I am definitely doing it in my yard next spring. I never would have thought to run the yucca leaves up then down again. That would keep it from blowing away. I may check out the picture at family crafts buttinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415302577518111227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-38842768310534299282007-11-28T06:25:00.000-06:002007-11-28T06:25:00.000-06:00Good Morning Tina, I cut out the egg carton cups l...Good Morning Tina, I cut out the egg carton cups leaving some extra around the top, then cut the tulip design. I put two slits in the bottom of each and ran the yucca blade (spike) up through one slit and down the other. I didn't have anyone stop (as far as I know) to admire my creation? There is a good picture, that looks basically like mine at familycrafts.about.com<BR/><BR/>I do not have a Ninahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06844563083948984664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-77398460398566974792007-11-27T22:07:00.000-06:002007-11-27T22:07:00.000-06:00Hi Nina!My blog email must be messing up because I...Hi Nina!<BR/>My blog email must be messing up because I usually get an email when someone posts a comment so I am so sorry I have not responded sooner.<BR/><BR/>I am going to have to pull out that Backyard Living magazine and see the article on bottle trees. Do you have a bottle tree? You sound like a good gardener and one who loves whimsy! My kind of gardener.<BR/><BR/>I learned of putting egg tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415302577518111227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-5263539596407867192007-11-25T19:50:00.001-06:002007-11-25T19:50:00.001-06:00I have three yuccas at my driveway entrance. I du...I have three yuccas at my driveway entrance. I dug them from along side the road about 15 years ago. This past spring I saw a picture and instructions in one of my gardening magazines for cutting flowers from colored egg cartons and slipping over the tips of the yucca blades (mine looked like tulips). Rather whimsical!<BR/><BR/>There was an article covering the bottle trees in the March/April Ninahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06844563083948984664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-7056573649995630242007-11-25T19:50:00.000-06:002007-11-25T19:50:00.000-06:00I have three yuccas at my driveway entrance. I du...I have three yuccas at my driveway entrance. I dug them from along side the road about 15 years ago. This past spring I saw a picture and instructions in one of my gardening magazines for cutting flowers from colored egg cartons and slipping over the tips of the yucca blades (mine looked like tulips). Rather whimsical!<BR/><BR/>There was an article covering the bottle trees in the March/April Ninahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06844563083948984664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-78772187823118114082007-11-25T17:20:00.000-06:002007-11-25T17:20:00.000-06:00Yuccas are native to Georgia. Someone probably pla...Yuccas are native to Georgia. Someone probably planted them there many years ago or maybe they seeded themselves. Hard to say. Since you have that nice hedge in front maybe you could put the yuccas out back by the boat house? Just remember, once you plant them they will be there forever!tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415302577518111227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-90841788590663127262007-11-25T16:04:00.000-06:002007-11-25T16:04:00.000-06:00I have spotted some yucca growing across the stree...I have spotted some yucca growing across the street on some county right of way. I asked the Saint a while back (2 years ago) to dig them out for me. To this day, they remain where they are. Not sure where I would plant them but I may get them one day.... <BR/><BR/>Do you know if they are native to our area of Georgia? I wonder if those are wild or not. If not, wonder how they got there???Skeeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08222522533934405029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-70928724936900377472007-11-25T10:00:00.000-06:002007-11-25T10:00:00.000-06:00I knew I did not spell Frabizios right. LOL It i...I knew I did not spell Frabizios right. LOL It is much colder up at Dawn's and they are so busy tring to get into the house she probably just stuck it in the ground and won't bother with it again till summer. The kids just left half an hour ago. Brian and Sarah and the big guy and Christy and a friend came down and I cooked doughboys, ect for all. Love you.Jean Merrimanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10135474696468199060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-48421343404062697162007-11-25T09:52:00.000-06:002007-11-25T09:52:00.000-06:00i did not know nana loved yuccas. i remember her a...i did not know nana loved yuccas. i remember her always growing peonies, brown eyes, statice and strawflowers. i will have to check out those at frabizios when next we come up to maine. how is dawn's prickly pear doing? i will do something on that soon and was wondering about hers. maybe too cold? bye now, love yatinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415302577518111227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113123529932691813.post-11300831649202436392007-11-24T23:24:00.000-06:002007-11-24T23:24:00.000-06:00Nana loved yuccas but they do not grow well here.....Nana loved yuccas but they do not grow well here...too cold. But there are a couple down by what was Frabaiso's.Jean Merrimanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10135474696468199060noreply@blogger.com