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Topic: Got a new book on magic gardens, lets plant!
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skywych Knowflake Posts: 64 From: The beautiful farm land of N. MO Registered: Apr 2004
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posted April 27, 2004 04:45 PM
Hi plant lovers,I got a great new book by the name of Earth Mother Magic: Ancient Spells for Modern Bells by Judika Illes. It's full of different gardens to plant, like a fairy garden, money gardens, healing gardens, all sorts of gardens. Even some herbal spells and dream pillows for using the garden once planted. This should be fun! skywych IP: Logged |
Harpyr Moderator Posts: 1467 From: sleepy Rocky Mountain village Registered: Dec 2002
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posted April 27, 2004 07:45 PM
sounds awesome! BTW, I haven't said hello to you yet skywych. Welcome! It's great to have another gardener around! I'm kinda weird.. more book knowledge than anything else.. don't have my own garden yet. I took a permaculture design course that's really gotten me on this kick but I have yet to be settled anywhere long enough yet. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I really appreciate what you bring to the forum! Thanks! IP: Logged |
skywych Knowflake Posts: 64 From: The beautiful farm land of N. MO Registered: Apr 2004
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posted April 27, 2004 08:49 PM
Hi Harpyr,Thank you for the welcome. I love gardening and anything connected with it. I've studied permaculture and it's very interesting. Trying to recreate nature is a work of the soul. I fully understand what you mean. I cleaned out my rose garden today. Only got stabbed by thorns once. That was pretty good. One of my favorite climbing roses bit the dust though. I guess the winter was too much for. I have a good idea that when you do get your permanment home base, that you will only have paths wide enough to walk down, because the whole yard will be plants. I've tried to do that some what with my yard. Lots of raised beds, large islands of lilies that naturalize and just grow bigger each year. Since I got the Earth Mother book, I think I am going to add some of the gardens from it. Most of the plants are annuals and are affordable. When I get one done I'll let you know what I planted and the other cool things that go with it. Thank you once more, skywych IP: Logged |
juniperb Moderator Posts: 5223 From: www.Heaven.Home Registered: Mar 2002
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posted April 28, 2004 09:29 AM
I started my Faery garden a couple of years age I found I prefered the vibration of the coreopsis and day lilly combo.. So, last fall I planted the coreopsis perenials, Moonbeam, Rosea and Zagreb (short & ferny), Sweet Dreams (mediums)Baby Sun and the Red Eye (medium w/corser leaves). Them I collected all the varieties of annual correopsis of all colors and textures and started them on Imbolc. They all will be tall (up to 4 ft.). My greenhouse is filled to the rafters and I`m so anxious to get them transplanted. I used dwarf and standard day lillies of pink, yellow and white shades. I should have a whole summer of Faery delights juniperb ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
skywych Knowflake Posts: 64 From: The beautiful farm land of N. MO Registered: Apr 2004
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posted April 28, 2004 07:17 PM
Hey Juniperb,Do you have extra butterflies come to it? My greenhouse is full too, but with my husbands things. Ugh. I've got a yard full of orange day lilies. And trees. I do have some hesperis growing, sweet rocket I think the other name is. One year I tried to do an English cottage garden and most of it died. I forgot the one important thing, it doesn't get to 103 degrees in England. They wilted before my crying eyes. It sounds like you keep very busy in the garden most of the time too. This spring warmth makes me want to grab a bale of straw and start planting. waiting for the soil to get warm, skywych IP: Logged |
juniperb Moderator Posts: 5223 From: www.Heaven.Home Registered: Mar 2002
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posted April 28, 2004 11:09 PM
skywych, I have three acres of gardens; flowers and edibles I have one for about every purpose. My butterfly garden is one of my favorites My challenge this season is to have a moonglow garden. I would love some suggestions if you have any for zone 4. All in all, the English cottage garden is my love. So free and casual. I use a lot of wild flowers in mine: queen annes lace, yarrow, dames rocket, wild mustard and the like. Of course, coreopsis in it`s truest form. Wild native flowers make it much easier to create any garden as they will thrive in your climate. Don`t give up, just use compatable flowers to create the effect. After all, the modern hybrids came from our wild beauties. Orange daylillies; are they the native also called tiger lilys? I have them mixed in with many gardens and they shine in their own right. What is hubby growing? juniperb ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
Nephthys Moderator Posts: 1298 From: California Registered: Oct 2001
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posted May 03, 2004 09:25 PM
Wow! That book sounds so cool! Thanks for sharing!!! IP: Logged |
TINK Knowflake Posts: 929 From: New England Registered: Mar 2003
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posted May 03, 2004 11:02 PM
3 acres AND llamas!!?? Dear Goddess Juni, that's quite the life you've got over there. Lucky girl. I have not yet made the leap into daylillies. I like the pink ones but feel somehow that they feel better when they are yellow. Does that make sense? That a flower would prefer to be one color or another. On the other hand, if I see another Stella d'Oro I'll scream. Dunno. Maybe I mean that yellow seems to look like a daylillies most natural state. Care to suggest a good pink one? Ah, english cottage gardens. Even the name makes me happy. I have almost the right climate for it here in New England but lately it's been too humid in the summer. And no more spring really to speak of. One minute it is winter and the next it's full-blown summer. Disturbance in the global weather patterns maybe? Nah. Jwhop tells me not to worry about such foolishness. Money gardens, skywych? Now that sounds promising. Sign me up. I envy you your roses. I have no luck with them. Lose them every winter. But damn it, I keep trying. IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 18295 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted May 04, 2004 07:54 AM
------------------ "Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
skywych Knowflake Posts: 64 From: The beautiful farm land of N. MO Registered: Apr 2004
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posted May 04, 2004 12:26 PM
Hey Tink,Try putting straw or leaves over your roses in the fall and they should keep from freezing. With climbing roses, if they aren't trellised, just gently bend them over and tie them with pantyhose or something soft. Kind of make a loop. Then cover them up. I didn't make my loop because it felt like we were going to have a mild winter, I guessed wrong. I started my money garden this past weekend. That's why I'm late posting. I'm starting with the basil, then the dill, and parsley. When it warms up a bit more, I'll add the flowers in. off in the garden beds, skywych IP: Logged |
Nephthys Moderator Posts: 1298 From: California Registered: Oct 2001
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posted May 05, 2004 08:45 PM
TINK, Stella D'Oro is a flower??????????? I thought it was a brand of cookies. I swear, we buy cookies with that brand name. IP: Logged |
juniperb Moderator Posts: 5223 From: www.Heaven.Home Registered: Mar 2002
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posted May 05, 2004 10:55 PM
Nep, it`s a dwarf daylilly and the staple of many a gardens. Tink, I have 23 acres here. Three are yard & landscaped. Five are designated wetland, three pastures and the rest are hardwoods forest. It is the wildest story how we were able to buy this place There`s so many glorious pink daylilys. I will find pictures of a few of my favorites and post them here. Personally my fav. shades are purple & lavender. juniperb ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
TINK Knowflake Posts: 929 From: New England Registered: Mar 2003
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posted May 06, 2004 07:57 AM
Thanks, skywych I have tried the leaves but in hindsight I was probably a bit skimpy with them. I'll give the straw a go next time. There are a few climbing roses that I would dearly love to try but I figured I would attempt to master the bush roses first and that hasn't happened yet. Hope springs eternal.Nephthys you know, come to think about it, I believe it is a cookie too. Of course I NEVER eat cookies. Actually, it really isn't a bad plant. Quite reliable and tidy. But it is EVERYWHERE. I'd like something a little more creative. 23 acres. *sigh* A little forest of your very own? Oh Juniperb, can I come live with you? I'm afraid I am turning that ugly shade of pea-green again. Your story sounds interesting. Please share. I'm sure it will give this city-dweller hope. IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 18295 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted August 06, 2004 01:09 PM
Did someone say cookies? ------------------ "Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
juniperb Moderator Posts: 5223 From: www.Heaven.Home Registered: Mar 2002
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posted August 08, 2004 11:01 PM
You piglett ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |