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« Reply #240 on: April 19, 2019, 08:18:09 AM »
Neighbor grows them from seed but they grow slow, at first. You need to scratch the seed (once you open the pod.) I've done some randomly when I see them and several have grown. No effort I scratched them up and put them in the holes left from Cicadas. But it worked. 

Talk about using what nature provides, and a cicado burrow is decent size too. Do you have the 17 year variety?

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« Reply #241 on: April 19, 2019, 11:32:36 PM »
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Introducing the Lady Slipper.  Official flower for the great state of Minnesota.
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« Reply #242 on: April 22, 2019, 11:54:03 PM »
The tulips have pretty much come and gone here at EllGab Garden West Coast.

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My own pitiful stand of tulips came up about two weeks ago.  It is the same group of tulips that have appeared without fail for the last 40 plus years I would guess.  Usually there is only one or possibly two tulips that show up, but this year there were seven of them.  We've had a lot of winter rain and I wonder if that is what made more of them grow?

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Here they are about a week later.

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I took a walk in the neighborhood and found some more tulips.  Here are some bright yellow ones.

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Here is a stand of some white, Alpine like flowers growing over somebodies fence.

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Here are the prize winners, in someone's yard, about a mile and a half away from EllGab Garden Central.

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« Reply #243 on: April 24, 2019, 01:31:27 PM »
Last Friday I was out working in the garden when I glanced up and saw a white, puffy elephant bellowing at a couple of contrails.  So I got my camera and took a picture of it. 

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« Reply #244 on: April 24, 2019, 05:00:56 PM »
Fun Fact:

Colorado has over 600 native bees. Most of which are ground dwelling! I didn't even know ground dwelling bees were a thing!!!
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« Reply #245 on: April 24, 2019, 05:10:20 PM »
Fun Fact:

Colorado has over 600 native bees. Most of which are ground dwelling! I didn't even know ground dwelling bees were a thing!!!

Not in Colorado but when I was a kid, I was playing in a vacant field when a large bee came out of the ground and stung my left arm.  A day or so later I watched a neighborhood kid playing in the same spot.  He started to wave his arms all around and let out a shout.  Then he started to cry as he walked home.

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« Reply #246 on: April 24, 2019, 08:58:19 PM »
Not in Colorado but when I was a kid, I was playing in a vacant field when a large bee came out of the ground and stung my left arm.  A day or so later I watched a neighborhood kid playing in the same spot.  He started to wave his arms all around and let out a shout.  Then he started to cry as he walked home.
Ug! That is a bit traumatic!
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« Reply #247 on: April 25, 2019, 07:55:24 AM »
Fun Fact:

Colorado has over 600 native bees. Most of which are ground dwelling! I didn't even know ground dwelling bees were a thing!!!

I for some time have confused them with bumblebees, which they resemnble...slightly...

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« Reply #248 on: April 25, 2019, 03:36:07 PM »
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I got my first tomato plant planted in a pot, a week ago Tuesday.  It is an heirloom called Bonny Best.

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« Reply #249 on: April 28, 2019, 09:16:33 PM »
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I got my first tomato plant planted in a pot, a week ago Tuesday.  It is an heirloom called Bonny Best.
It’s supposed to snow tomorrow. 🙁
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« Reply #250 on: April 29, 2019, 08:08:02 AM »
It’s supposed to snow tomorrow. 🙁

More global warming...for Asstrailer anyway...

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« Reply #251 on: April 29, 2019, 09:27:31 AM »
32 degrees out. I'm doing plant research to put in a wildflower garden with native grasses. It's nice to dream of gardens when it's cold.
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« Reply #252 on: April 29, 2019, 09:43:57 AM »
32 degrees out. I'm doing plant research to put in a wildflower garden with native grasses. It's nice to dream of gardens when it's cold.

You prolly already know but the Denver Water Dept. coined the term "xeric".

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I think it's darned nice to look at and less work than bluegrass carpetbagging... 8)

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« Reply #253 on: April 29, 2019, 09:44:59 AM »
You prolly already know but the Denver Water Dept. coined the term "xeric".

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I think it's darned nice to look at and less work than bluegrass carpetbagging... 8)
agreed.
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« Reply #254 on: April 29, 2019, 09:46:58 AM »
You prolly already know but the Denver Water Dept. coined the term "xeric".

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I think it's darned nice to look at and less work than bluegrass carpetbagging... 8)
This is very nicely done! Love the wooly thyme and the galardia along the path.
There was a little girl,
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Right in the middle of her forehead.
            When she was good,
            She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.