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:o) Psssstttt.... Don't look now but we're back at Monday! Did you get everything accomplished that you wanted over the weekend? Yup, Same for me! Can we get a do-over?
Damn now I have to go back to work....
Good thing it's a short week for me. I have Friday off. Quilt show time again:)
Have a great day
We are getting some much needed rain today. Looks like nice showers and will soak in and not run off.
Got yard work done yesterday. One of the chores I really don't like to do is snap off the spent Rhoddie blossoms. We have 3 bushes, 2 are still fairly small but the other is an old bush and quite large (I do trim it a little every other year). I don't 'dead head' that one until July as it blooms a little later. One really doesn't have to do this dead-heading, but it does improve the bloom for the next year (if done properly).
We get another day today that is sunny and just beautiful, they back to showers tomorrow. Guess the porch will have to wait till next month..we need 2 or 3 days of nice weather IN A ROW for the work to be done. sigh.
I don't think I can find any complaints with the weather we've got going here in the swamp today. It's in the mid 60s already & not even noon yet. It's going to be a fun drive to lunch today.
Mariposa - You'll be shopping for quilting ideas and material at this upcoming show? When are you going to dazzle them with some of your work?
Carol - Three nice days IN A ROW???? Ya gotta be kidding! This is Oregon, after all. You might get that after Oregon's "traditional" start of summer on July 5th.
Dead-heading the Rhodies is a "sticky & gummy" job & I don't have any secrets on how to make it easier. I consider myself lucky if I don't go too deep & take off the new growth with the spent blossom. If you really want to improve next year's bloom, sock the water to the plant in July and August. They have a very small & shallow root system and any stress from "thirst" will cause them to cut back on next year's buds they're putting on right then.
Mariposa - Enjoy your gentle showers & be glad it's not a tornado maker!
When are you going to dazzle them with some of your work?
Never I don't even come close to the quality of workmanship
shown at the shows. I just dabble..
Carl, I know all about Rhodies...been with them all my life, my Dad love them and Azaleas so I grew up with them.
I always fertilize in spring and then after they bloom. Our sprinkling system takes care of their water needs, so glad I don't have to haul the hose around anymore.
Off to buy some grass plants for my new pots, return some sheets that didn't work out for us....toooooo slick and a stop at the library will then complete my errands for today.
Long, beautiful bike ride by the Columbia this morning...I said I wasn't going to do that ride anymore after doing it again a week or so ago, (getting a bit long in the tooth for that kind of grind) but I did it anyway. Gasp. It's great by the river, but it's the hills coming and going that do me in...they are not only fairly steep, but then the route continues gradually uphill for a few miles. Gasp. Total mileage: 15.4
Carol - That sounds like a real gooooodddd workout.
I always wonder how the WILD Rhodys and Azaleas do so well without human intervention. They never get fertilized, they get whatever water mother nature gives them, they never get pruned or shaped and they grow where the luck-of-the-draw caused them to land yet they always seem to have BEAUTIFUL blooms every year.
Carl, I hear you about the wild 'ones'...I know that you don't HAVE to 'prune' them or anything else, but when you don't want them to grow to gigantic proportions, it's what you do. There are Rhodys around our neighborhood that are almost as high as the roofs on the houses and very healthy. If that is the way you want them, hey...great by me! I just prefer to 'tame' them a bit :)
Carol - I'm with you on keeping them under some kind of control. They really get "leggy" if left unpruned. My comment was about the wild ones that are everywhere on Mt. Hood and surrounding area. Nothing gets done to them yet most of them look pretty good despite the lack of care.
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