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| westernhorse51 |
Posted - Dec 17 2006 : 3:48:14 PM
In planning my garden for this year ( I know its early, can't help it) I found a great site for cottage gardens. www.gracefulgardens.com/cottagegarden.htm. It's full of old fashioned great flowers. I spent most of my day today drawing sketches & going through my catalogs. I just can't wait to plant, prune, dig, water & watch the butterflies, bees, ladybugs & birds. I filled my birdfeeder this morning & bought another fruit & nut bell. I've got many birds & I love it. I even went to the flea market down the road to find a small black metal table to go w/ my black iron chairs, no luck yet.
she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands Prov.31:13 |
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| oceanfarmgirl |
Posted - Jan 31 2007 : 11:08:22 AM
Just another thought on caging peony's (or tomatoes) I am using old fencing. Just the regular farm fencing, that My grandma had taken down to repair. It's no good for fencing anymore, but it's great for making cages for plants! The squares on it are about 4X4, and they are perfect for cages. Plus, the stuff was FREE, and I like FREE. :)
Rachel
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| yellojewl |
Posted - Jan 21 2007 : 12:21:05 PM
Loved the website...I was just browsing the Internet for cottage garden plants when I decided to see what the farmgirls had to say about them. I'm starting fresh, so I'll have lots of work ahead of me this year. |
| shelle |
Posted - Jan 12 2007 : 7:32:07 PM
Michele,
You have made me want to look at gardening catalogues! I cant wait to plant some flowers this spring!
Shelle |
| Rosemary |
Posted - Jan 12 2007 : 07:00:42 AM
Does anyone have a good source of seeds for SINGLE blossom hollyhocks? I want to get some started along the fence this year, or maybe around one of the outbuildings. Do they need to be started indoors and then set out? OR do you sow them right in the ground? Since they're biennials, I guess it's a good idea to start seeds along with some nursery-bought plants that a ready to bloom, so you have some always rarin' to go every year. |
| elah |
Posted - Jan 09 2007 : 12:17:26 PM
I love the website and the photo! I'm really getting the spring gardening bug! |
| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Jan 02 2007 : 8:02:31 PM
Thanks for the beautiful website. I love growing hollyhocks and mallows too. I have been dreaming and planning my flowers beds too. The seed catalogs are so tempting, I want to buy one of everything.
Dawn in IL |
| Horseyrider |
Posted - Jan 02 2007 : 2:58:09 PM
Sandy, you sure don't have to stake them! I live out in a really windy prairie, and if anything would knock them down, these winds would; but they're fine. They're biennials, and they self sew. We've lived her for 24 years, and we've never planted any. They come up by themselves. They put on quite a display every July around Fair time.
If you look off to the left of them, there are some peonies. I always swear that THIS IS THE YEAR I'm going to support them, and I've forgotten to buy supports every single time. It's fun when the blooms start to fade, though; the petals come off very easily, so my grandsons and I take big fragrant handfuls and throw them at each other like pink confetti! |
| ponyexpress |
Posted - Jan 02 2007 : 2:07:33 PM
Tomato cages are a great idea. When my peonies would droop to the ground, ants would end up invading the blooms, and then I didn't want to bring them inside. I'll try that this year!
Sandy
I don't iron anymore. If I'm not wrinkle-free, why should my clothes be? |
| blueroses |
Posted - Jan 02 2007 : 11:38:18 AM
Michele,
Thank you. What a beautiful site. I've saved it as I love cottage gardens.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
| DaisyFarm |
Posted - Jan 02 2007 : 11:03:29 AM
Sandy, one of my favorite plants in my garden is my peony...but mostly because it came from my much loved Grandmother's garden. It does get droopy, so last year a bought a small-sized tomato cage and put it over the peony before it started to get too tall. It worked great and the greenery soon hid the cage.
Di |
| ponyexpress |
Posted - Jan 02 2007 : 10:57:41 AM
Mary Ann, those flowers are beautiful! Do hollyhocks require staking to stay upright? I love peonies, also, but don't like the way they can droop.
I don't iron anymore. If I'm not wrinkle-free, why should my clothes be? |
| Horseyrider |
Posted - Jan 02 2007 : 10:20:17 AM
I love hollyhocks too; they're always all over my place. This pic was taken off my deck, looking toward the woods beyond the fields where we often hike and ride. So here's to a taste of early July!
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| Duchess |
Posted - Jan 02 2007 : 10:06:51 AM
Michele, Thank you so much for that site, I enjoy so many of those flowers and now have a good place to order from. I shared it with my neighbor because she like hollyhocks and mallows also. Thanks again. |
| lilpunkin |
Posted - Dec 17 2006 : 9:58:55 PM
Thanks for the site. I don't know if I will get to plant much this year, but I love to look and dream!
lilpunkin
Life isn't measured by how many breaths you take, but by how many moments take your breath away. |
| Horseyrider |
Posted - Dec 17 2006 : 5:49:11 PM
Ohhh, I needed that! Thanks for sharing, Michele! |
| bramble |
Posted - Dec 17 2006 : 3:59:19 PM
Very nice Michele! Now if our gardens could be that full and vibrant all season! They are North of us so... if they can grow them, so can we! Thanks for the discovery! (And it was a nice surprise on a grey Sunday!)
with a happy heart |
| westernhorse51 |
Posted - Dec 17 2006 : 3:51:11 PM
Sorry, the web-site is www.gracefulgardens.com
she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands Prov.31:13 |
