New show on PBS, P. Allen Smith?

[Vox Humana]

I suppose the PBS could run one episode for their entire two week pledge marathon!

[Jim Lewis]

tacky decoration and crafts shows.

We tacky s'uthuners resemble that! ;-)

Jim Lewis - [e-mail] - Tallahassee, FL - Apples and Oranges: A Demonstration -- Welcome to Hooterville! Population:

2000. Elevation: 3000. Established: 1850. TOTAL = 6850 -- Bob Lilienfield

[animaux]

In my experience both professionally and personally, planting anything in the fall can almost completely eliminate any and all problems of transplant shock. All perennials have some part of their structure growing all winter. Trees develop roots all year, especially in winter, in the south.

In my case, I have a greenhouse. It's big enough to have a little misting area set up for cuttings. I'm fortunate to have a wide array of local garden centers who love native plants and some exotic specimens like brugmansia, so I have a source to sell them to. I normally trade for the most excellently produced compost in America. The Natural Gardener in Austin makes their compost the way Dr. Elaine Ingham prescribes on her website,

[D Kat]

[D Kat]

[B & J]

The probable reason many people go for the "big" plants is because they want instant gratification. I was at a local garden center this week and watched a woman load her cart with a half dozen big plants in full bloom, passing over the ones that were in bud and just beginning to open. I was about to say something but resisted because it was obvious she could afford her purchases. Many people treat purchased plants in the same manner they treat cut flowers. When the blossoms fade, they are discarded. That's definitely a plus for growers!

I agree with you about the magic of cuttings. I start many cuttings from shrubs that are sold at a fund raiser for our garden club, concentrating on those that do well in our area. I start them one spring and they are sold that fall or the following spring. The only cuttings I've had survival problems with are viburnums that I started in the spring and planted in the fall. If they are held until the following spring or fall, they generally survive in their new homes.

Once the cuttings root, I really baby them, which means I usually have 90% survival rate. Occasionally I have a healthy, rooted cutting die, which really irritates me. I contacted a friend who teaches propagation classes at an area university to ask why they failed. The gist of her reply was "s**t happens!

John

[mmarteen]

I love the Gardener's journal, but for a show on canada, Kathy never seems to make it lower than zone 5 and seems to spend a lot of show in places like niagra on the lake or places that are even warmer. Just once I would have liked to see the show profile gardening in Alberta or Manitoba.

There was a Minnesota based show sponsored by the horticultural society and the U of MN but it doesn't seem to be on any more, probably axed by budget cuts. The Great Lakes Gardener is a joke. I watched a couple of episodes and when the host spent a whole show at a hardware store trying out different chainsaws I gave up watching.

Gardening by the Yard on HGTV is done in Oklahoma and amid all the jokes, the guy seems to highlight plants that are good for hot arid climates.

mm

[animaux]

Yes, a greenhouse is a delightful thing! Mine is 10'x20' and I wish it was bigger. This year I built shelves which gives me much more space than I had. Living in a southern state makes it easier to heat in winter to keep frost out of there. Last night I put the heater on just in case. We have a light frost this morning.

My greenhouse was relatively inexpensive at about 700 dollars. They have more expensive hard sided houses made of polycarbonate, but I love mine.

V

[John Catron]

are ye sayin' sir that I tend to ramble on a bit?? I'm startin' to worry that it's getting WORSE as I gets older. Lord help us all........I wasn't raised a rude child........

Are ye implyin' sir that I needs to muzzel me mouth better? (sitting here waiting for Cereoid to swoop down and take the opportunity to hit me with a "zinger" ;)

madgardener, having to use Squire's computer- since during the daytime the ISDN line doesn't want to work for my computer thru the networking set up. I suspect it might be the pulsing electrical surges of the electrified wire that's a bit close to the phone box in the pasture my neighbor's BIL is using for his cows. :(

[John Catron]

alright, ya'll are ganging up on me........no fair.......ZHANNNNNN?? They're picking on me!

[John Catron]

My garden flamingo's that Zhan has brought me agree!! (then add the fairies that perch on or near the BBQ pit fountain, the stakes that look like frogs made of metal and large green glass shooter marbles for eyes stuck into pots of perennials out front and the rainbow wind thing that turns and moves with the rudder, and tacky Southern is one of my many identifiable markings! The only thing I DON'T have is the painted, turned inside out of cut tire for a planter............which actually works quite well as it's raised, insulated by the rubber and doesn't have to be painted white. I'd personally love to have one of them as an instant bed..............

madgardener who has quite a flock of flamingo's growing up on the ridge, back in fairy holler in Eastern Tennessee

[John Catron]

if you want a PERFECT example of Southern tacky........and a GREAT book-----hunt down Passalong Plants co-written by Steven Bender and Felder Rushing. Hilarious, informative and worth adding to your garden book collection. It's printed thru Chapel Hill Press. They've devoted a whole chapter to Southern tacky yard art.............. maddie

[Vox Humana]

Nothing wrong with that, but sometimes my eyes glaze over when I see how much is written. I guess my attention span has decreased due to the sound-bite mentality of the media.

[Cheryl Isaak]

I'll second the recommendation! What a fun, fun book! I hope to add a dragon egg to my yard soon and maybe a CD tree in back where only I and children get to look at it! Cheryl

[Salty Thumb]

"John Catron" wrote in news:400ea96a$1 [e-mail]:

hey now, I'm not saying anything you haven't already admitted to yourself! See here:

Mental note: If going Outside Lawn and Garden at MG's Lowe's, don't forget to have getaway plan ready.

Anyway, it's not a bad thing ... unless you've got a bunch of fairies flitting about your garden without any ears ("that MG, she'll talk yer ear off") ... well then, just then I will just have to report you to PETF.

[zhanataya]

Don't holler for me. I read what she wrote as a compliment for you. But Squire's right about detail. Might I add I'd like a period once in a while.

zhan

[zhanataya]

But there is only four days out of the year that the snow cover is gone and it is hard to shoot a show in four days. ;-)

zhan

[D Kat]

But I LIKE your postings! I wouldn't call them ramblings.... for ramblings you would have to go off on tangents that have absolutely nothing to do with what you initially began with or the topic on hand ... I mean if you started talking basketball and such then I might get a tad bored but then again given that the Knicks may be coming back to life it might not be terrible... but I really don't care for sports all that much.. or cars.... though my son REALLY likes cars and is trying to talk us into getting some X5Z12 something or other of that like for our next car and I've informed him that we keep our cars for at least ten years which means that he probably doesn't want a car that old when we get it... AND I don't think I'll be up to driving a X500Y80Z200 at that age....

DKat