Hi Maureen,
Welcome! I live in Deerfield Beach and am just starting my butterfly garden. Will post pictures when the birds nd butterflies arrive. All the best!
Mae,
Hello. I will graciously accept some silky red and sily gold milkweek seeds. You can contact me at: campbellbwc@hotmail.com. Thanks for sharing!
Regards,
Brent Campbell
Nice cymbidium, GydaMarie. Unfortunately, here in South Florida (Zone 10) the weather usually does not get cold enough for cymbidiums to grow.
Regards,
Brent
Love the Owl...what type of owl is it (Burrowing?) He/she is beautiful! My neice had a pair of Great Horned Owls nesting in her yard (Ft Myers, FL) & we had Burrowing Owls nesting in town near a baseball field (Ft Myers) Does this owl live near you? Beautiful picture indeed! My pix were never that close!
Check and make sure that the root ball is geting wet. I am assuming that you built a berm around the ball and you are filling that berm every other day. If not the ball may drying out and causing the wilt. Or it may be staying to wet depending on how much rain that you have been getting. If you can push you index finger into the rootball and it is either wet or dry you will have a better idea if the plant needs more water or not. Also it is normal for plants to wilt in the heat of the day and if the leaves look fine in the morning this may be the case also.
A couple of questions on the magnolia. How long has it been replanted? Is it in direct sun? How often are you watering and are you checking the soil first to see if it is still wet? The zone you live in maybe to hot for the pink magnolia. Is it the decidious variety sometimes called a japenese magnolia. The is a book called "Heat Zone Gardening" that might answer rather it is to hot for your magnolis. Don't know if any of this helps. Like your orchids.
I used to live in Pompano Beach about a block from Deerfield Beach next to the grade school where my kids went to school. LOVE the owl! I'm an owl person...have collected about 50-60 of them over the years.
I, especially, remember the soap bubbles the kids would make appear in the fountain in Deerfield!
Hi Brent,
How close were you to the owl...what kind of camera and lens. It's beautiful. I grew up in Clearwater, FL...also lived in Miami for 15 years. Now in Massachusetts...gardening is very different. I joined gardnersindex yesterday and am really enjoying it.
Thank you so much for your friendship Brent....:) Your Owl photo is fantastic! I am a photographer as well as a gardener- I just love all nature! It's very nice to meet you.
What kind of owl is it. We have owls that I hear in the woods behind our hours. The only ones we've seen were a Mama and baby Great Horned. That was fun and we got some good photos. The baby actually got lost down the street and our daughter rescued it, she called the nature center. They reoriented it to its Mama.
Well I have several sources of water, 3 bird baths and our waterfall in our pond. Never had this problem before. I have always had hummers. Just wondering if the winter weather we had messed them up. Oh well maybe next year.
Clare, your Pinky Winky is beautiful - love the blooms and the pink coloring of the branches too. My paniculatas Pee Gee and Limelight are already blooming too, about a month ahead of schedule! Now I am wondering whether I should have done reshaping…
Diane, sorry for not making my message more clear - my reminder was about those shrubs that need to be scaled down and in my region (zones 5 & 6) the buds for the next season form on new growth in August so cutting the brunches after July would have…
Crazy rainstorm last night, ripped down half the ivy on the wall. Had to cut it down, so I figured what the heck I'll collect snails in my garden. Armed with chopsticks (they make it way easy to gather up tiny guys under plants if you are profficent…
Sheryl, that shouldn't be a problem, I have a seed feeder in close proximity and the humming birds seem happy enough to share. They just seem to perch on the tiny twigs where the big guys cant get to. Chech the surronding territory, perhaps someone…
What housework-What cooking-I am delegating so that I can go out in my gardens.Besides my gardens I am on my computer watching the lovely new photos come up on "latest activity" HELP I am soo hooked. Don't want to change. Don't want to give it up ei…