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Pond Chat / Re: outdoor electrical outlets not working

« on: April 13, 2008, 04:12:32 PM »

A GFCI looks like this .... they make them with just the buttons, no outlets or switches as well.

Unless he didn't put one in anywhere.

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Pond Chat / Re: outdoor electrical outlets not working

« on: April 13, 2008, 11:24:25 AM »

If an electrician installed them you'd think there would be at least a GFCI somewhere on the circuit. Are you sure there isn't one before the plugs somewhere?

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: star jasmine question

« on: April 12, 2008, 04:51:26 PM »

YOu live in oklahoma? I don't think that's zone 10, but I could be confused.
The star jasmine, if its in a borderline too cold place, will die back to the ground every year, but come back from the roots and low stems. Just pile mulch or compost around the base of the plant before the first freeze.

right .... I'm in zone 7

the tag said it was hardy to 10 degrees F ... I thought that maybe it'd be good here but the internet said hardy to zone 9, possibly zone 8

I was (& still am a little) because of the contradicting information out there .... it doesn't get 10F here (at least not often) but we're also not zone 8 or 9

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Everything Went Outside Today...

« on: April 12, 2008, 04:47:13 PM »

Must be nice. We were going to do that but now it's expected to frost tonight & possibly freeze tomorrow night.

Now come Monday, I may be able to actually get some things out.

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: star jasmine question

« on: April 12, 2008, 10:23:30 AM »

Well, all I can do is plant it & see if it survives this fall/winter.

Thanks

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Terrestrial Gardening / star jasmine question

« on: April 11, 2008, 06:51:21 PM »

I got a star jasmine today. The tag says hardy to 10F, that should be ok here (or so I think) but when I do a search on it the net says it's hardy to zone 9, maybe zone 8.
Which is it? Does anyone have this & if so, what is your experience with it?


Places shouldn't sell non-hardy plants unless they're blatantly marked as such.

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: chocolate vine

« on: April 11, 2008, 04:40:56 PM »

email me Missa.  john@gardenendeavors.com

ok, thanks

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: A peek inside the greenhouse

« on: April 10, 2008, 09:00:45 PM »

What is that beside the lotus tuber tubs & square black pots?

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: chocolate vine

« on: April 10, 2008, 10:35:34 AM »

Yea, I want some. I have a place back by the alley for it.

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Does anyone have Petasites?

« on: April 10, 2008, 10:34:34 AM »

I like those.

I'll have to look for some.

Looks like giant variegated pennywort ... kinda.

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: chocolate vine

« on: April 09, 2008, 09:50:28 PM »

or at least where to look for some.

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Terrestrial Gardening / chocolate vine

« on: April 09, 2008, 08:27:37 PM »

Anyone have any of this they'd be willing to share? a clipping?

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Carnivorous Plants... / Got the bright idea to make a small one by my pond

« on: April 08, 2008, 01:41:47 PM »

I got a cement mixing pan & mixed some of my clay soil, peat, sphagnum & sand in it. Put it in the ground near the pond.

I'm wanting to put CP in it. I got one of each of what Lowe's had, got home & realized a couple aren't what I was hoping they were.
The pitcher plant is a nep not a sarr ... sounds like the butterwort won't work either .... not sure about the sundew but hey the VFT should work.

I hope.

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: For Postage , Azolla

« on: April 03, 2008, 11:19:30 AM »

74023

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: For Postage , Azolla

« on: April 02, 2008, 08:42:17 PM »

Thinking about it.

I'm in Oklahoma ... how much is postage?

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Pond Chat / Re: Those interested in 4leaf clover pics

« on: March 31, 2008, 07:46:12 PM »

That is cool, I hope mine grows.

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Pond Chat / Re: Help with ID more pics updated

« on: March 31, 2008, 07:39:15 PM »

watercress?

Is it in a pot?

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Pond Chat / Re: It really is spring !!!

« on: March 31, 2008, 04:07:25 PM »

Missa, the water clover is no longer in a pot. The pot that I started with I gave a way.  What I have is growing in the rock on the side of the pond and along the bottom of the pond .  This pond is about 2' deep and I am in the process of taking most of it out.   I put it in the pond 2 to 2 1/2 years ago.  If you do not cut it back it will become invasive but it is easy to pull out.

Myra

It's growing in 2 feet of water?

Wow

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Pond Chat / Re: Help with ID

« on: March 31, 2008, 02:20:24 PM »

Maybe if a closer pic could be taken.

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Pond Chat / Re: It really is spring !!!

« on: March 30, 2008, 11:25:38 PM »

I see you have water clover .... how deep do you have it (how many inches of water over the pot)?

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Pond Chat / Re: Keeping Koi out of lilies idea

« on: February 21, 2008, 09:59:24 PM »

I heard someone say they use those wire hanging baskets that you put the coconut things in turned upside down over the lily pot & wired to the pot.

Of course, smaller fish could still get through.

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Pond Chat / Re: New Wakins!

« on: February 21, 2008, 04:50:33 PM »

Will they work for a shady pond?

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Photo Album / Re: The Greenhouse Is Doing It's Job

« on: March 01, 2007, 06:59:46 PM »

do y'all have some kind of heater in your greenhouses?