posted February 18, 2014 11:09 PM            

Especially in the winter.

Yum!

No, these guys were cool, Violets. They were totally in tune with the Nature Spirits. This whole place was built around that original Experience.

Really, you have to read about them.

It's exactly as you guys were discussing.

I have to say that the more I hear you speak, the more I wonder at our similarities.

posted February 19, 2014 02:10 PM            

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Originally posted by Ellynlvx:
I love Corned Beef & Cabbage.

Especially in the winter.

Yum!

No, these guys were cool, Violets. They were totally in tune with the Nature Spirits. This whole place was built around that original Experience.

Really, you have to read about them.

It's exactly as you guys were discussing.

I have to say that the more I hear you speak, the more I wonder at our similarities.

I can't prune, either...

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Well I am going to read about them, then! That sounds amazing...

posted February 19, 2014 02:12 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Corned beef sandwiches with mustard!

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posted February 20, 2014 01:46 AM            

Trying to figure if that is a Dogwood?

posted February 20, 2014 05:06 AM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Corned beef sandwiches with mustard!

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Ohh...

To die for!

posted February 20, 2014 10:39 AM            

Yeah, I took the picture with my cell phone, so it didn't capture the sun's rays coming through the trees as nicely as I would have liked, but I thought it was a cool picture anyway.

posted February 20, 2014 11:27 AM            

Here, I'll find one for you.

Leaf:

Lovely Autumn Colour

Should they deign to bloom

Lone Red Seed

posted February 20, 2014 01:08 PM            

I always think of the pretty trees at the park and arboretum when I think of dogwood trees, haha. Like this:

But I suppose they could be dogwoods, just growing in a ton of shade...
Too cold and windy to go look right now (and no leaves, ha), but I'll have a look when Spring comes around.

Our poor cherry trees... I just realized why they don't look like normal orchard cherry trees. They never pruned them properly, and they're really close together.

So the middle is really tall, when it's supposed to be short, and the branches are all tangly. I suppose I'll have to get in there and actually cut the main trunk down...but I have no idea how to do that without hurting the trees.

posted February 20, 2014 08:40 PM            

The Cherry Trees need to be relatively close, you have to have two to pollinate.

Dogwoods thrive in shade and with water, they are a Riparian Native. This is the Cornus nutalli, the wild Native one. They love the waterbanks.

The ones you posted are probably Cornus florida, they have some really beautiful cultivars.

I like the red tipped white petal with the dark centres, forget what cultivar it was, but it was nice.

They are one of the best lawn trees, because they have the same cultural requirements, lots and lots of water, mainly.

They don't always bloom young (don't always bloom at all) they have a very wild nature. They really don't like to be messed with at all.

You will often see them in the wild with those heavenly smelling wild Azaleas. Or the wild red Columbine.

posted February 20, 2014 09:13 PM            

Here is the wild Columbine

Some other fragrant Natives are:

Shasta Lily

and everyone's responsibility to plant

Milkweed:

for the Butterfly.

I tell you, my memory is going "Notebook" on me. Maybe I'm here at LindaLand to see to it that the knowledge doesn't die with it.

posted February 20, 2014 09:36 PM            

I have all sorts of things that grew by themselves when the wind sent seeds flying.

I have a cute little head of romaine lettuce that just grew by itself.

I have tons of tomato plants that just grew by themselves.

God's system is multiplication of everything. With Monsanto, you get ONE plant ( which is poisonous, too) and it can never reproduce.

Hence, people cannot grow their own food. I can grow my own food from my original garden now because EACH fruit or veggie has 100 new seeds in it.

If anyone wanted to fly in the face of God, it would be Monsanto's treatment of seeds

It breaks my hearts, my Friends.

I think Monsanto will create famine.

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posted February 20, 2014 11:18 PM            

I love our garden. We're only going on our second year, but they're heirloom seeds that haven't been messed with.

I'm glad to hear that cherry trees need to be planted close together, but these are *really* close, and I'm afraid they're crowding each other. :/

Although they did leave us with a lovely, raised flower garden with a stone wall, and an arc of some sort of leafy plant that grows between the cherry trees over a little stone pathway.

It's neat that your garden is reproducing so nicely, Ami! We might expand ours, and maybe it will do the same.

posted February 21, 2014 07:44 AM            

Randall just talked about the dying bees, too. Monsanto did this.

I wish I could figure out how to use my phone to take pics but my garden is so beautiful.

I want to die out there lol

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posted February 21, 2014 11:06 AM            

My son was outside with me the other day, and I was weeding my herb garden where the bees like to hang out in the summertime (I leave the tips of the herbs to flower for them, and there's tons of it for them).

I've always loved bees, so I've taught him that they're really nice, but you shouldn't bother them too much. I don't use the Diatomaceous Earth around the herb garden or too close to the vegetables, to make sure they don't come in contact with it.

Anyway, he was looking around and calling for them, going "Beeeeees! Beeeeees, where ARE YOU?"

posted February 21, 2014 01:12 PM            

I was hoping to work in my flower garden this weekend for my birthday weekend (that's really all I wanted to do, and spend time with my family lol), but Mother Nature seems to have thought better of that idea, so we're getting a small dusting of snow.

Oh well. There could be much bigger problems. I'm actually thankful for my petty grievances, life could be a lot harder.

(I feel like I need to add that last part whenever I gripe about something petty...so many others have it much, much worse.)

posted February 21, 2014 04:36 PM            

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