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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #150 on: February 19, 2019, 04:42:02 AM »
Quote from: juan on February 19, 2019, 04:21:19 AM
Eating from my first crop of radishes now.

Yum!  Good going, juan.

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« Reply #151 on: February 20, 2019, 11:25:20 PM »
The skies over EllGab Garden - Pacific Northwest have been mostly cloudy with periods of rain and light snow.  But last week I left the garden to take a walk under what I believe is called, a Buttermilk Sky.  I snapped a picture of it.

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« Reply #152 on: February 23, 2019, 08:54:52 PM »
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As the title on this postcard states, these are Blue Bonnets, the official state flower for all EllGab Gardens in the state of Texas.  They will be blooming in the springtime. 
https://www.wildflower.org/learn/how-to/grow-bluebonnets

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« Reply #153 on: February 27, 2019, 01:20:40 PM »
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I was going to post this fruit crate label in the fruit crate label thread but it seems better suited for the EllGab Garden thread, so here it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldenrod

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« Reply #154 on: February 28, 2019, 01:07:03 PM »
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Some Southern Magnolia flowers from down there in Dixie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_grandiflora

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« Reply #155 on: March 01, 2019, 05:25:36 PM »
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This postcard shows a W Atlee Burpee's Co Seeds catalog from 1818.

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« Reply #156 on: March 02, 2019, 07:11:12 PM »
The EllGab Garden is looking a bit drab of late.  We had some snow and rain and the garden is muddy and colorless.  For that reason I escaped into the house and watched a colorful Mardi Gras parade.  Here are some screen caps from last night's Krewe d'Etat parade. 

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« Reply #157 on: March 04, 2019, 10:30:18 PM »
Some scenes from the Krewe of Proteus parade at Mardi Gras.

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« Reply #158 on: March 07, 2019, 12:56:06 AM »
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An ad for garden seeds in the March 7, 1919 issue of the Grants Pass Daily Courier.  Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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« Reply #159 on: March 07, 2019, 06:58:53 PM »
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Here is a closeup picture of my Mardi Gras crocus, so named because it popped up in my front yard around about the middle of the Mardi Gras festivities.  In addition to that, purple just happens to be one of the official colors of Mardi Gras. 

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #160 on: March 07, 2019, 07:04:03 PM »
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Here is a closeup picture of my Mardi Gras crocus, so named because it popped up in my front yard around about the middle of the Mardi Gras festivities.  In addition to that, purple just happens to be one of the official colors of Mardi Gras.

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« Reply #161 on: March 13, 2019, 08:28:56 PM »
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Nice pic Rikki

Glad you liked the picture, Gravity.  Thank you.  I surprised myself with that closeup pic.  Usually when I hold the camera out without seeing what I'm aiming at, I tend to move and get a blurry picture, but I got lucky that time.  Crocus aren't all that big.  Here is a pic showing that same crocus, as I am standing over it, looking down.  That's it in the very center of the picture, and there isn't much left to see of it as it is dwindling away.  I'm hoping to see it again, next year.

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I've got some periwinkle flowers growing in the back EllGab garden.  Not many though...tons of creeping vines and leaves but only a few flowers here and there.  I wonder if the scarcity of flowers means an extra hot summer coming up, or an extra cold one?  I guess we'll see.

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Here is a closeup of one of the flowers:

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Some interesting facts about periwinkle flowers: http://www.gardeningcentral.org/periwinkle_flowers/periwinkle_flowers.html



 

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #162 on: March 14, 2019, 01:45:53 AM »
I don't know if this picture falls within the threads guidelines but in the case that it gives anybody an ideas on yard framing, it's worth it.  The mulch around our little "dinner deck" is a rubber mixture from Lowes made of recycled tires and rubber products. It's easy to walk on and comes in a few different colors. BTW the area you're looking at is the result of 35 bags...……  Man, I wish they would pack them in bigger bags.  Although!!  I did use the plastic bags as an underlayment to stop any weeds or grass from growing through.

I'm shitfaced and I have to work in the morning so you better appreciate this. Goodnight.

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« Reply #163 on: March 14, 2019, 01:54:11 AM »
Quote from: KSM32 on March 14, 2019, 01:45:53 AM
I don't know if this picture falls within the threads guidelines but in the case that it gives anybody an ideas on yard framing, it's worth it.  The mulch around our little "dinner deck" is a rubber mixture from Lowes made of recycled tires and rubber products. It's easy to walk on and comes in a few different colors. BTW the area you're looking at is the result of 35 bags...……  Man, I wish they would pack them in bigger bags.  Although!!  I did use the plastic bags as an underlayment to stop any weeds or grass from growing through.

I'm shitfaced and I have to work in the morning so you better appreciate this. Goodnight.

It fits in like Flint!  Good thinking on utilizing the plastic bags to keep weeds from growing.  Thank you, KSM.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #164 on: March 14, 2019, 01:58:18 AM »
Quote from: KSM32 on March 14, 2019, 01:45:53 AM
I don't know if this picture falls within the threads guidelines but in the case that it gives anybody an ideas on yard framing, it's worth it.  The mulch around our little "dinner deck" is a rubber mixture from Lowes made of recycled tires and rubber products. It's easy to walk on and comes in a few different colors. BTW the area you're looking at is the result of 35 bags...……  Man, I wish they would pack them in bigger bags.  Although!!  I did use the plastic bags as an underlayment to stop any weeds or grass from growing through.

I'm shitfaced and I have to work in the morning so you better appreciate this. Goodnight.

The end of that second deck board from the right doesn’t lay flush with the sideboard.

p.s. @Sofia pm’d me to say you should have used 37 bags of mulch.
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