I have these metal things I bought at Lowes. I can't think of what they are called. It's like a metal pole with branches at the top. It sticks in the ground. None of my trees are big enough to hang anything from yet. They really do work well. I use finch socks. The best bird feeders I've found are the red ones that are recycled plastic. They are the cheapest ones and they seem to work better than the expensive ones.

I call them Shepard's hooks. I agree about the finch socks. Easy to use and the finches love them. I, too, buy the red feeders made from recycled materials. I got them at Walmart. I just replaced a couple of feeders that the squirrels loved to jump on. I have baffles but they sometimes outsmart them.

This is year before last.

Yes. I got it at Wal-Mart. They are awesome feeders! I can't believe I couldn't think of Shephard's hook. LOL. I've been sick so I have an excuse.

I hope you are much better.

Whoa, it's very windy here this morning. I'm glad the trees haven't leafed out yet or we'd probably have limbs down and be without power.

I do not know if this post will show up or not. I am not sure how I got to this page. I am trying to upload some pictures to see if they will show or not. Repeat can anyone help me by telling me how to post and where do I go to post things. What do I press? Thanks for any help.

pam883 said:I'm here !! I'm just not a big poster.

pam883 said: I do not know if this post will show up or not. I am not sure how I got to this page. I am trying to upload some pictures to see if they will show or not. Repeat can anyone help me by telling me how to post and where do I go to post things. What do I press? Thanks for any help.

pam883 said:

lol. Well your post worked. Seems like you are getting the hang of it.

I am just joining from Clarksville. It's all new here to me, so glad to have found this forum. I feel like I will have to relearn the way things are done down here!

Welcome. Neat place here with lots of great folks. Join in the fun.

Thank you.

Hi GypsyLady. I'm in the Clarksville area. What sort of gardening do you do?

Starting over in the front yard.
Don't know if any of you recall my pictures from last year when I had the old black plastic pond. It leaked, drew mosquitoes, and had become an all-out mess!

We tore out the whole landscape last fall and -bit-by-bit- added new (small, young) plants in starting over.
It made me sad to see some of the beautiful plants go but little by little we'll have a better landscape, I believe.
I keep telling myself it'll be fun. Right?

And -as far as my daylilies? Well, the winter kicked my butt on daylilies, folks!

At first, I thought I'd sneaked by with little damage or loss -but I guess God didn't see fit to spare me.

I lost -after checking many many times this spring- and I have lost well over 20 daylilies.

I must add this, tho...the ones I wound up losing were very small fans of newly planted ones. Plus, they were planted extremely late in the fall (late as November) so they didn't have time to get settled and establish roots to feed off of.

Totally my fault.

The others I lost -about 6 of them- were in pots I had carelessly left out in the open. They froze and turned to mush.
I'm doing the best I can to nurse the remaining garden to health.

Seems to me -and maybe some of you are experiencing this, yourself- the season is either late in blooming or they plants are stunted from the winter's freeze.

I'm just not seeing many blooms.

However, on a light note -maybe, this is all good for the daylily biz. Maybe, the growers can sell more daylilies this year with everyone replacing their daylily losses.

Maybe, we can all be nudged (forced) to try new varieties of daylilies.
I'm ambivalent about the season....miss the blooms.....looked forward to the blooms and they're not here like I hoped.

Man, things just have to get better!

Well...here are the pictures......






One of the roses I raised from a cutting...it's some kind of old-fashioned-looking hybrid..it's really fragrant.



An iris I transplanted last fall. Dang thing bloomed! Happily surprised.


Clear Mountain Morning. Just got it a few days ago. Like it, a lot! It already had buds on it upon arrival.


Parrot Jungle (at least it didn't freeze and die....and it was even able to produce a bloom ...which I'm grateful for).


Another shot from the road at the position of the new fountain we installed. Just glad the pond is gone! Love the new fountain. I think it was a good decision.

Rough shot of one end of my scrappy little daylily garden....what's left of it.


Thankful for even the raggediest little blooms! This one is Great Goodness Gracious which seems stunted from her rough winter.


...and this picture says it all...typical in my garden, at least....the fans are there but the blooms are a little shy!

(and -yep- in case you've never seen them -those are w-e-e-d-s in my garden!)

lol


another pretty hybrid iris in my front flower bed a few weeks ago.


Some scrappy little seedlings in my backyard.







Found an old picture of what the front of the house used to look like when the pond was there.

Before


After


My family last Saturday at daughter's graduation from Dobyns Bennett HS. Proud day!

Looking good, MissMimie. I have had no daylily blooms yet. The ditch lilies are finally starting to bud. With the hot weather we've been having, I think maybe some blooms soon. I have other things blooming, but I agree that so far it has been a strange year for the flowers.

Sweet family photo. Graduation is a special time.

Dobyns Bennett, eh? Trish and I graduated from Sullivan South which was the big DB rival.

dave said:Dobyns Bennett, eh? Trish and I graduated from Sullivan South which was the big DB rival.

Hybridized Tennessee twang with Texas drawl.......and Voila! -the All Things Plants website.

Not too shabby, Dave & Trish!

;)