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Photo Album / Re: Blooms today includes Midnight Embers
« on: June 27, 2007, 02:59:51 PM »
Tattoo of a water lily.. Hmmmm.. Nah, my commitment issues would probably prohibit it...  ;)

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Photo Album / Re: A few new lilies in Bloom
« on: June 27, 2007, 01:31:52 PM »
I really like the Pink Flamingo- very unusual!  Even though I've fallen hard for the blue lillies, pink technically IS my favorite color.

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Photo Album / Re: Blooms today includes Midnight Embers
« on: June 27, 2007, 01:28:08 PM »
I've been waiting for new pics of your lillies! (what took so long?  ;D ) Beautiful!!!  o(:-)

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Pond Chat / Re: The Frogs were loud tonight! Caught in the act!
« on: June 27, 2007, 04:05:12 AM »
Very nice shots!
 I enjoy the tree frog calls at night here- I hope your varieties in Fl sound just as good.  o(:-)

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Pond Chat / Re: Help! Nasty, slimy pea soup lily pond water
« on: June 23, 2007, 09:29:33 AM »
Okay, okay... I will not add anymore algae remover. :redface: Patience has never been a strong point for me.
Both of my ponds have beautiful, clear water, so the pool was irritating me pretty bad. The fish were for skeeters (which can get bad here), but I only saw one (a rosie) today in that mess. I'm not sure if I can catch him, but I'll try. I do have some skeeter tabs, so I'll just drop one of those in there. I put some floating plants from the other ponds in, and added plenty of oxygenators when I set it up. Also put in a small solar powered fountain which circulates for about 5 hours a day. I think I still have some of the powder-type beneficial bacteria left, I will go look for it.

Thanks for the insight, I will try to be more patient!  :angel:

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Pond Chat / Re: New blooms and new water gardens
« on: June 23, 2007, 07:40:09 AM »
You did a fantastic job with your new planters, everything looks awesome!  :D

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Pond Chat / Re: Shots taken just now! The Lotus leaves are going APE!
« on: June 23, 2007, 07:34:47 AM »
Nice shot Jerry! The pond looks great with all that lush foliage.  o(:-)

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Hose underfoot? Look at this from Costco.
« on: June 23, 2007, 07:06:46 AM »
That's a pretty snazzy contraption!  :2thumbs:

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Pond Chat / Re: Woohoo! I'm so excited!
« on: June 23, 2007, 07:03:40 AM »
Quote
I've considered buying a turtle (or two or ten).


 :teehee:

(A gal after my own heart- When you want something, why not just get two. Or ten. Etc.  {:-P;; )

I hope the new resident decides to stick around!

Amanda :D


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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Anyone wanna do a little hosta trading????
« on: June 23, 2007, 06:52:43 AM »
Ha Ha, that's why I have so much, huh? I love it though- it smells so sweet and does so well in the shade. I thank you for your offer to share your hostas.  :) See if anyone has hosta trades for you first; I wouldn't want to be greedy.  ;D If you get no traders, I'd be glad to send you postage, plus a bit for handling.

Amanda


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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Anyone wanna do a little hosta trading????
« on: June 23, 2007, 06:26:11 AM »
I don't have hostas to trade, but I noticed on your site you were looking for white flowered perennials, especially good smelling ones. I have lots of very hardy Lily of The Valley for trade. I'm interested in any hostas at all, or any perennials really. I have a list of other hardy items listed here: http://www.americanponders.com/forum/index.php?topic=3193.0

I'm in the frozen tundra (Michigan) so I would imagine most of this would be hardy for you too.

Let me know if you see anything you would like to trade for.  :)

Amanda

PS. I read your member page on Garden Web, and we've alot in common!  O0 We also live in an old farm house (constantly renovating- ugh), love fishing and our doggies, and my day job is also in the healthcare industry.

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Pond Chat / Help! Nasty, slimy pea soup lily pond water
« on: June 22, 2007, 03:00:27 PM »
 :cry: I did (I think) everything I was supposed too with my kiddie pool lily pond. I put it together maybe a week or so ago (?), and I just can't keep the algae at bay. (I put in the oxygenator plants and a few feeder fish, and planted the lillies as Timgod suggested.) I even resorted to a chemical algae remover a few days ago, but it's as slimy as ever. Today I finally couldn't take it anymore and stuck the hose in there to flush it out. It looks a little better, and I added more algae remover. Any suggestions to helping keep the water clearer would be GREATLY appreciated......



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Pond Chat / Re: Bob Trickett
« on: June 21, 2007, 07:06:11 PM »
It's beautiful.  o(:-) Thank you for posting a pic! Can't wait to get them.  :thumbup:

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Anyone ever purchase from Hirts?
« on: June 21, 2007, 04:02:48 PM »
Ugh, I don't like those asian beetles either. They come in droves every now and then. I remember when I first started seeing them about 5 or 6 years ago; I picked one up and said "look at the pretty orange ladybug!". Then it bit me.  >:(- How UN-ladylike!

Hirt's had the mantis eggs too! I almost ordered an egg pod but hubby said they give him the creeps. lol
In hindsight, I'm thinking maybe I should have.....  {:-P;;

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Anyone ever purchase from Hirts?
« on: June 21, 2007, 12:54:35 PM »
My ladybugs arrived safe and sound yesterday (1500 for $9.99).
I released them last night; this morning I checked to find them happily muching away on the nasty amphids all around the house.  @O@
 

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Tropical waterlilies for sale
« on: June 21, 2007, 04:56:49 AM »
I received the Black Prince and Blue Beauty yesterday and they look great!  o(:-) Thanks Kat!

Amanda

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Photo of Strange Plant for Yachtlady
« on: June 21, 2007, 04:52:05 AM »
The way the colors in the leaves are described, is it possible it's in the Sedum family verses Crassula? I have a Sedum that has very pretty pinkish purple hues in the leaves.

This site has over a thousand pics of different varietys- I had no time to look through before work today....  :o
http://www.sedumphotos.net/main.php

http://www.mountaincrestgardens.com/

This flower looks like the ones my strange plant has in the fall, but it's not the right color- makes me think mine just might be a Sedum variety too though. http://www.sedumphotos.net/v/sedum-ghij/Sedum+hidakense+rubellum.jpg.html

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Chit Chat / Re: what was the hit song on the day you were born?
« on: June 20, 2007, 03:45:44 PM »
Mine was "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Have Duck weed for postage
« on: June 20, 2007, 03:40:19 PM »
 :)

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Chit Chat / Re: An angel in our family was called home today.
« on: June 20, 2007, 04:22:31 AM »
I'm so, so sorry. I know there is nothing that can be said or done that will lessen the pain. Just know prayers and thoughts are with you and your family.

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Have Duck weed for postage
« on: June 20, 2007, 04:14:11 AM »
Bonnie, would it up the postage any if you tucked a tiny bit in with my lillies?  {:-P;;


Amanda :)

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Pond Chat / Re: Misc. weekend pics
« on: June 19, 2007, 04:54:54 PM »
What a perfectly gorgeous lil' blonde terror you have there  ;D ( "dickweed"  lol )

Great new lily planters! I have some new lillies coming from kat too, and I hope I can find something creative as you to put them in...  :D

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Peony Seeding?
« on: June 19, 2007, 04:36:32 AM »
Yes- seed pods. I don't know what to do with them either. I have several large areas of Peonys, but they have never spread from the seeds left on them (to my knowledge, and the plants are 35+ years old). They seem to slowly spread out away from the roots.

Def do best in full sun here in zone 5.

Well then, none of that helped you at all, huh?  ;D

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Lily of the Vally for trade (plus some other land plants).
« on: June 19, 2007, 04:28:09 AM »
Also my yellow water iris needs dividing, and I found some purple lilac seedlings too.  :)

Anybody? Nobody? I really need to thin those lily of the Vally!  :P


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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: the 'i went shopping' thread
« on: June 19, 2007, 04:24:33 AM »
Oooohh, ahhhhh... 8-)~ I wish our HD had selection like that! Nice finds.

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Anyone ever purchase from Hirts?
« on: June 18, 2007, 05:16:13 PM »
Yikes, I hope my ladybugs arrive okay!  :o  I love the site you posted. Thanks for the link!  :)

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Pond Chat / Re: Look at my new fishy statue
« on: June 18, 2007, 04:29:27 PM »
I saw them at JoAnn's and almost bought one too.... Same 50% off sale here  :D   
After I bought the planters for my new Hen n' Chicks (and snapped up some windchimes on sale too)- I thought I better pass up the cool fishy...   {:-P;;

He looks so nice at your place, I wish I'd bought him after all! maybe next week...   8)

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Chit Chat / Re: Look what we got for FREEEEE
« on: June 18, 2007, 02:56:10 PM »
Wooh Who! "If it's free it's for me"- that's my motto!  @O@

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Chit Chat / Re: Calling all of you cooks......
« on: June 18, 2007, 04:19:45 AM »
PS, for anyone interested, I have a cute selection of red, white and blue recipes for the 4th of July saved to email. drop me a message and I'll send it to you.

 :) amanda

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Chit Chat / Re: Calling all of you cooks......
« on: June 18, 2007, 04:17:25 AM »
I see it's past your cook out- I hope it was a success!
But I had to post anyway because you hit on my second passion, cooking!!  8-)~

For future reference, here are a few of my favorite sites that I am a member at:

http://www.recipezaar.com/

http://allrecipes.com/

http://www.cooks.com/

You can find many tried and true recipes of all types and experience levels on all sites.

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