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[Armat]

My latest passion! Gardening! Next to wine and sex…flowers!!I am trying to grow these incredible sexy beasts called “red hot pokers.
Azat j, you got a cool garden, ever seen these?
You got hot flower? Share it! Uncle Armat wants to hear!

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[Armat]

another pick,Admit it,isn't this one heck of a natur's masterpiece?pure architecture and beauty.

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[Azat]

Wellllll. I love flowers and I enjoy gardening alot(though have lots of time restrictions now) but I do not have any "sexy" flowers.

I have many varieties of roses, tulips and daffodils. I have some gladiolas and narcissus and 2-3 kinds of lilies and also some hyacinths.(is that it? I think so) but really none of my flowers are exotic unfortunately. I do have few varieties of tulips(or should say use to have before the squirrels got to the bulbs) that are not common.

[Accelerated]

Admit it,isn't this one heck of a natur's masterpiece?pure architecture and beauty.

Yes.........but the underlying question is: can you smoke it?

[Armat]

Wellllll. I love flowers and I enjoy gardening alot(though have lots of time restrictions now) but I do not have any "sexy" flowers.

I have many varieties of roses, tulips and daffodils. I have some gladiolas and narcissus and 2-3 kinds of lilies and also some hyacinths.(is that it? I think so) but really none of my flowers are exotic unfortunately. I do have few varieties of tulips(or should say use to have before the squirrels got to the bulbs) that are not common.

Azat J,you got lot more then I(just starting) but I am the flower above red hot poker grows 6-9 zone which inclues CA but not MA.
Here is another interesting flower.
Kirengoshoma palmata

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[vava]

My mother had the green thumb in my family. Everything I try to grow, fails miserably (except my herbs - which is not surprising, as they're food-related). I think gardening is more convenient and fun when you have a backyard - and not just a mere balcony

[Azat]

yes, but balcony is better excuse than a backyard when you want to throw a bottle of wine on someones head.

[Azat]

Armat jan, the flowers I love(tulips) are best grown in your hood and what you like grows best in mine.

I also have many grape hyacinths also known as Armenian Hyacints






and this is what a dream garden would be like

[vava]

yes, but balcony is better excuse than a backyard when you want to throw a bottle of wine on someones head.

Don't laugh Azat!! It' nearly happened. Our building is quite old (circa 1905) and the balcony tilts ever so slightly outward towards the street - I suppose it was designed this way for water drainage (?) Not sure, though. In anycase, I had an unopeped bottle of wine, chilled and waiting to be drunk, set out on the patio table with a couple of glasses. I went back into to get a cloth to wipe down the furniture (so we could bring out the food and eat of course) - and well, here's the chain of events very quickly:

-a gust of wind
-a broken spring (on the door)
-a swing of the patio door (caused by the gust)
-a falling chair (after being wacked by the swinging door)
-a slight bump of the table (by the falling chair)
-a rocking (and then tipping) of the wine bottle
-a rolling wine bottle
-a free-falling wine bottle
-three floors later....
-a SHATTERED explosion of glass and wine formerly know as a wine bottle...


And there were people down below.... <whew>

[DominO]

1905?

[Azat]

I know it did. You told us and this is why I was making a joke of the situation.

[vava]

ooops - my bad.

[vava]

Back to topic - i personally really like girbaras... do they grow in Cali? I know i can't get'em growing around here...

[vava]

1905?

yeah, approximately - maybe a few years later... 1908, or 1910. People have told me different things, depending on their background (either academic - history, or architechtural)

[Armat]

I also have many grape hyacinths also known as Armenian Hyacints

Wow Azat j,you suprise me every day.Funny I had hyacinths on my list.They do grow here as well.
This is what I planted today.Siberian irises and red Astilbe for background color.

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[Armat]

Red Astilbe

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[vava]

.......Siberian irises and red Astilbe for background color.

wow, you artist-types think of everything!

[Stormig]

It doesn't always help if you have a garden but live in a house with people you don't want to live with, because your flowers can get mown down. Then there's the other story with herbs. The other day I made myself a tuna sandwich and was about to go out and pick some fresh roquette when I was told that they had recently been plucked for "weed"...

[Azat]

what is roquette?

[THOTH]

Gardening has been a long time passion for me. It began many years ago with vegetable gardening from working in my dad's garden and branching out to digging and preparing gardens for others - I actually had a gardening business back in my teens. I have since expanded into trees, shrubs, flowers and whatnot and have even done a bit of landscape design (for others as well as for my own property). When we purchased our current home 15 years ago it had a few trees on it and some basic foundation beds all of which I have expanded quite a bit. My neighbors have even accused me of planting a forest as I (myself) have planted over 150 trees and shrubs - many speciman pieces...(several varieties of Oak, Maple, pine, spruce, fir, birch, hemlock, cypress and holly etc etc - and some real specimans - incl Dawn Redwood, Swiss Stone Pine, Blue Atlas Cedar, Deodora Cedar and Cyrptomeria.

still I am a believer in the bountry of the crops and have a dozen fruit trees (peaches, plums, apricots, apples and pears), strawberries, and 2 rasberry patches (black & red) and am planning a to put in some blueberry bushes this fall (have the ground already worked up for them). I also have planted quite a few flowering bushes and perrenial flowers (including grape hycinaths! , tulips, daffodils, astilbes (several kinds - red & white), hostas, irises, begonias, spirea, hydrangea, many roses - all different types, daylillies and and assortmant of other flowers. I have also planted many roddedendrons and azeleas as well as several varieties of ornamental mountain laurel, flowering magnolias (that smell awesome) - 2 different kinds of Japanese wisteria (purple and white that also smell great), many different viburnum as well as other flowering trees such as dogwoods, redbuds, cherry trees and Crape Myrtle. I had a Giant Sequoia growing for a few years but 2 drought years a few back did it in.

And at one point I was to put in a pretty nice sized water garden/pond...but the kids playset now sits where that was supposed to be...