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Flags showing their colors

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Some old people call irsis flags. My flags are starting to show their colors, along with other flowers. Many more ready to bloom. So here is a sneak peak.
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Dr,
My mom lived in Texas before moving to Florida, W Palm.

In Texas she had Armadillos, took some bulbs to Florida and they went wild.

She sent me a few bulbs and they multiply like crazy. I have to dig them up in fall and replant in spring in gravel pit. Some are blooming.

Do you want me to send you a few bulbs the Fall? They also make a good indoor plant if you have enough sun.

I like using flowers instead of a ZTR and weed wacker. Iris's work well around trees, shallow roots, ring trees with them.

More flowers means less grass to mow.
geo
 
A little corner in the back of my yard were the ferns and columbine grow. You know you can harvest these seeds if you catch the window of time just right. Three or four days at best. Don't laugh too hard.... I use a vacuum cleaner. Take my garden tractor, a cart, my little 800watt generator. Use a Bissel carpet shampoo unit. Looks like a big white box with wheels on it. You learn to either have a big salad bowl or a shallow pan under the dry flower heads. Give them a tap or rub them between your fingers and just vacuum everything up. Three years ago I was able to harvest 2 1/2 lbs. of coreopsis flower seeds. That filled up two one quart zip lock bags plus a little. Populated the corners of a couple of fields. They make beautiful flowers.
 
Those are some proud flags to show!. So Dr. where do you currently hail from in Florida? I'm currently doing five days in Orlando. CM
 
I use scissors and cut the seed pods off many flowers in fall.

I have columbine near white rock. For some reasons the seeds germinate well in the white rock.

Ferns love growing on the north side of buildings.
There are many flowers, all you need to do is break off the stem and plant it. It will grow. Mums, Russian sage, seedem, raspberries, some house plants, bend over a rose stem, put it in the dirt and it will grow roots. There are many ticks to growing flowers on the cheap.

I have to make good dirt for flowers in gravel pit. Make it out many things, all are free things others want to get rid of. Horse poo, wood chips and dirt from stump grindings, crass clippings, leafs. Blend it together, get it wet, pile it higher and deeper. Let it compost for a year. Good stuff for garden and flowers.
geo
 
George, I really like your concrete posts and split rails. I may just have to make some of those posts for out gardens.
Our Irises have a long ways to go before they bloom.
Loren
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Loren,
I made 60 concrete posts, 4 at a time. I used sand and gravel from old gravel pit. Used old cement mixer and a 97 # bag of portland cement for 4 posts. Each weigh 185#. I made forms that I could take apart with wood screws.

If you want, I'll take measurements or close up pics of posts. I used PVC pipe to make the holes. Wood to make the take apart forms. Had to wrap PVC with scrap vinyl flooring. That way I removed the vinyl before I could remove the pvc.

The split rails are hand made from locust. They are very old. The posts are above ground posts. They just sit on the ground, because there are places with too many tree roots I couldn't dig a hole.

So far, the wind hasn't blown them over, no one has stolen them. And guess how I lifted them two at a time?
Geo.
 
Yes, columbine which come in many different colors and blooms. Just harvest the seeds and plant them for next year. Or leave seeds to fall and some will germinate in wood mulch and some germinate in white rock.
 
Yes. Take a look at my picture. If I can harvest any seeds this year i can send ya some. They look like tiny black marbles.
 
jeffcat,
Thanks. I do have access to your colors at work.

I've just never seen the dark red/wine colored ones like George has. Going to check it out when I go to to the greenhouse to buy maters (when it warms up... maybe by July).
 
SweetFeet........BLUE columbine is state flower of Colorado. When you transplant them to mile high Denver, they turn orange. Used to pick'em and bite the ends and suck the nectar out. yum-yum. Now why am I drooling?.......Dell
 
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