Armat Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armat Posted May 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 (edited) another pick,Admit it,isn't this one heck of a natur's masterpiece?pure architecture and beauty. Edited May 18, 2004 by Armat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accelerated Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armat Posted May 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 yes, but balcony is better excuse than a backyard when you want to throw a bottle of wine on someones head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 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 http://www.theplantexpert.com/springbulbs/Muscariarmeniacum.jpg http://www.theplantexpert.com/springbulbs/Muscariazureum.jpg http://www.theplantexpert.com/springbulbs/Muscaribotryoidesalbum.jpg and this is what a dream garden would be like http://www.theplantexpert.com/springbulbs/BlueRiver-med.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 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.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 1905? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 I know it did. You told us and this is why I was making a joke of the situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 ooops - my bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 Back to topic - i personally really like girbaras... do they grow in Cali? I know i can't get'em growing around here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armat Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 (edited) 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. Edited May 19, 2004 by Armat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armat Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 Red Astilbe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 .......Siberian irises and red Astilbe for background color. wow, you artist-types think of everything! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 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"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 what is roquette? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOTH Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armat Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 (edited) Thoth,you are a master! funny you mentioned Japanese wisteria ,I planted today one plus trumpet vine in yellow.Those trumpets look beautiful.I think gardening is the best meditation. Thoth speaking of trees I want to plant Japanese maple but budget is short now.This perticular tree is expensive but a feast to the eyes. Edited May 19, 2004 by Armat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 what is roquette? http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/r/rocket16.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOTH Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 (edited) Thoth,you are a master! funny you mentioned Japanese wisteria ,I planted today one plus trumpet vine in yellow.Those trumpets look beautiful.I think gardening is the best meditation. Thoth speaking of trees I want to plant Japanese maple but budget is short now.This perticular tree is expensive but a feast to the eyes. Yeah - well thanks - I do tend to go overboard on things I get into...but yeah gardening is great (and its like art) - you get to see/experience the results of your "creation" - your labor...and it does provide nice meditation (as well as good exercise). And pretties up the place too! You should have seen my Wisteria this year - some blooms...and my white wisteria is incredibly sweetly fragrant. I love the fragrant flowers. I ussually pick my roses for fragrance as well as color (and low mainatenance - if at all possible...roses are generally a pain BTW). I have some very fragrant viburnums and magnolias (sweet bay!)... Concerning the wisteria - is it going to be trined freestanding (as a tree) or using a trelis or such? If the latter - make sure it is a very strong one! You are refering to a japanese (red) cut leaf maple no doubt..yeah usuually hundreds of dollars and grow very slowley. I don't have one - but do have a "normal" japanese maple which is pretty - but not quite as extravagant. You may want to consider looking in the fall (best time to plant generally anyway) - sometimes nurseries have overstock that they want to get rid of. I've gotten a fair percentage of my plants/trees for free or severely discounted as a close cousin of mine (full Armenian BTW) is a landscaper and he looks out for me! Edited May 19, 2004 by THOTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 I have been following this thread green with envy as it seems my thumb is colored purple. I kill plants and flowers more than one can shake a rose stem at. I either drown them or kill them of thirst, I either overfeed and poison them or I starve them to death. Once in a while I get lucky and at times my neighbors think I am a master gardner, as they may be even klutzier tan me. Come on boys and girls! Are those pictures your own creatiions or are they from catalogues? However, with all this exchange going on have we yet decided who among you is that legendary Mary? :) You know. The one in; -Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden? - With cockle shells and silver bells, And pretty ladies in a row. Btw. What are cockle shells and silver bells? And, before I forget, thank you all and congratulations you have adorned and brightened this otherwise drab medium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armat Posted May 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Arpa, my new plants are all seedlings,I can't afford full grown versions and I hope they grow and I've been reading about plants lately and try to plant the types which are best for my area and soil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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