| | Do YOU have spring fever yet?Page 1 of 2 (1, 2) | Are you out there buying plants for your garden?
Have you spent time walking in the park?
Or do you still have your fireplace on?
What do you do to celebrate the start of spring?
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Posted: 4/26/2009 1:41:57 PM | these horsetail thingys (weeds?) are kinda cute but hear horror stories about them, need to find what plants go good for this area before I get my black thumbs dirty 
walking to the docks has been great, regatta was nice to see yesterday
who needs a fireplace when you have a red dragon as a heat source
yank down the blinds, shower them, mow, yearn for grilled foods, mow, clean windows, get high on the smell of fresh sheets dried outdoors, mow, hang out at hardware store more and did I mention mow?
great thread, hope it last....  | |
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Posted: 4/26/2009 2:27:01 PM | Ripped apart half of the deck, making a larger patio to go with it, mowed the lawns, weedwhacked, cut down three big trees, trimmed many, "blew" the driveway, ..yard looks darn near park-like now,... booked the campground for the upcoming POF Vancouver Island camping trip,.. spent the last hour and a half cleaning the outdoor hot tub, am presently eyeballing my window boxes and pondering what to fill them with this year....roto-tilling the garden is next. Also using the glass from the deck to make a greenhouse.... have to reuse and recycle! Compost bin is ready. I think I want a pond and fountain too,.... decisions, decisions. Now knowing I HATE gardening I'd say I have really been bitten!
oooooh got me a tad of a sunburn too! zoiks! | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 10:58:25 AM | Oh yeah! 
Started working on our garden (we have an enclosed air-conditioned balcony in our new digs), 2 weekends ago. The green onions, corn & cucmbers have already sprouted, we bought
a strawberry plant & a huge tomato plant & one of the rhubarb plants seems to still be alive. So we're doing ood so far! | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 12:15:12 PM | Help! What indigenous plants should I be planting to attract humming birds? I would appreciate some help on this.
I would also like some directions towards good local bird identification books; I am looking for books that give I.D, habitat, location and food sources. I am also looking for one on flowering indigenous plants? What are you using? I would appreciate some advice. I feel a little lost because your flora and fauna are so totally different in the Northern Hemisphere. | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 12:34:11 PM | ^^^
There is a "Hummingbird bush".
I have a copy of the Audubon Society's "Field Guide to North American Birds" and "An Audubon Handbook How to Identify Birds" and I think you would find both to very useful.
http://www.audubon.org/
Petersen's Field Guides cover many topics, including Birds of North America and Wild Plants.
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/peterson/petersonhome.cfm
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Posted: 4/28/2009 2:54:12 PM |
I am also looking for one on flowering indigenous plants? What are you using? Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Jim Pojar and Andy McKinnon is an excellent identification resource and also provides many interesting ethnobotanical uses for local plants.
In this book you will find the native Orange honeysuckle, Lonicera ciliosa, which might be useful to cultivate to attract hummingbirds.
Do YOU have spring fever yet? I don't seem to have any fever yet, just the regular old garden-variety flu. | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 4:24:37 PM | YES!!!
THANK GOD!!
(I am so sick and tired of winter and the blues and grays!)
I feel like horsing around...
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| Do YOU have spring fever yet?
Posted: 4/28/2009 4:30:07 PM | ^^^
I hear it from a good source that Mountain Lion (or snagglepuss as I like to call him) has a horse... | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 4:31:52 PM | Yeah hah. Hummer attracters = Fushias, beabalm, foxglove,bleeding hearts(not the whiners) , or anything that flowers, blues,oranges,and reds. Yellows seem to attract the butterflies better.
Spring fever I have had since the start of March. You don't want to know how much I spent last weekend on my first round to the nursery...let alone what I will spend the next couple of weekends.
I am starting to have a harder time driving around during the day due to the lack of apparel some are not wearing. Not complaining thou. | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 6:51:34 PM | spring fever. sure i have it.
on the other hand i'm horny all year long so it's nice of you to join me. | |
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Posted: 4/28/2009 6:57:44 PM |
(or snagglepuss as I like to call him)
puurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr,
someone been recruited as matchmaker????
you oughta be busy making hot lemmon grog for that barking sealion
and put that French maid outfit on will ya, looks good on you, even when you're out in hte garden playing with the petals of yer tulips | |
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Posted: 4/29/2009 1:20:52 AM | I guess so. I planted a raspberry bush today. The grass I mowed a week ago needs another cut already.
As for hummingbirds, there's a red flowering currant (something like that) and the little critters are all over it.
The bird feeders are still up, but I stuffed the last of the beef fat into the "suet log" (18" piece of branch with holes drilled in it) a couple days ago. The "log" attracts chickadees, downy woodpeckers, flickers, sapsuckers, and the occasional nuthatch. | |
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Posted: 4/29/2009 6:50:25 AM | Mine will officially start today when I slap that sticker on the plate of my motorcycle and roar off like Dennis Hopper in Easy Riders.... and NO I will not be wearing one of those helmets... lol
Doesn't hurt that this "bikers" garden looks great and everything is in bloom. (did I just say that?) | |
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Posted: 5/19/2009 7:12:56 PM | I planted my flowers this weekend and was not very pleased to wake up to snow this morning. Hope they make it through the chilly temps
I am seriously lacking vit D...hope the sun comes out soon to stay for more than 1 day | |
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Posted: 5/19/2009 7:51:54 PM | | No, I have the flu. I don't think it is swine, but I am losing my voice and developing Pink Eye. My nose bleeds, too. So no I have a different type of fever. | |
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Posted: 5/20/2009 11:51:43 AM |
No, I have the flu. I don't think it is swine, but I am losing my voice and developing Pink Eye. My nose bleeds, too. So no I have a different type of fever.
You are are sick and yet you signed up to go camping this weekend.
I guess everyone else will have to wear respiratory masks.  | |
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Posted: 5/20/2009 11:57:27 AM | | Well, I am slowly recovering . . . I think. I have a lot of medicine in my system, so it is hard to tell. I am drinking fluids and sleeping a lot. I cannot tell if the medication is masking my symptoms . . . pretty sure it is not Swine flu though, could be avian so birds of a feather beware. JOKE | |
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Posted: 5/20/2009 1:34:40 PM | I can't help but have spring fever when I'm woken up by 5:30-6 a.m. to the sound of baby birdies hungrily chirping away for their brekkie. I love sitting out on my patio with my coffee in the mornings with the sun shining on my face through the trees, seeing & hearing the rustling of the leaves & branches as the birds & squirrels play in the trees while eyeballing my stash of birdseed & peanuts.
I usually plant all my flowers & veggies by mid-May, but springtime is also moving time for many & having just moved this month, along with many other Poffers, I'm still unpacking boxes. My new back patio, fence & garden are still under construction so I'm not sure where I can plant them yet. I have some potted perennials & might have to stick to 'pot planting' for this year. | |
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