*Finally, someone helped move things so I could turn on the heat. It has not been so cold in here as it has been damp to the bone. I hung up a pair of pants in a doorway, and four days later the pants were still damp. Now, it is comfortable in here. The heat is as low as it will go.
*On Thursday, I saw a tree that had turned. It was the most brilliant yellow. Since then, a few more around town have turned. Mine are still greenish.
*When Tommy was here on Tuesday, he asked me about my having caramel corn and where I got it. Since I don't have any caramel corn, I got up to see what he was talking about. It was a bag of onions to plant. We had a good laugh. I had started out the back door to plant them and went to bathroom and did not go outdoors to plant them.
*Stupid little chipmunks! They eat anything. I will have to leave all pots of flowers and Hosta on a table to keep them from have lunch on my plants. Maybe I will have to plant things in a combination of dirt and gravel.
*My reduced mums were doing fine and blooming. Then, I fell behind on the deadheading. If I did not deadhead, I would not have more flowers. I just grabbed my kitchen scissors and gave the whole thing a haircut, cutting about four inches from the whole plant. Then, I watered it. Maybe this will work. What do you think?
*I spotted a "free" box and looked into it. I had to ask what was in the box. It was just a lot of dirty looking stuff. It turned out they were iris rhizomes. The guy told me it was flowers. I got two and he told me to take more, take all I wanted. I grabbed a handful and it turned out I had six rhizomes. They are now planted and greening up on top. I just pushed them down sideways and pushed a little soil over them. It worked. I really do know iris rhizomes, but these had the tops cut off, the roots still attached, and just a bunch of trash from the yard. I did not lean over or touch the rhizomes before I asked.
*Have you ever wondered what was the difference between bulbs, roots, rhizome, and corms? I know I have, but this article will help.
rhizomes as you will soon realize sprout and grow rapidly and soon you too will be giving them away. Even the chipmunks won't touch them.
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ReplyDeleteI have had the same iris here since 1977, and they have never spread much since I don't thin them. Therefore, I have never had enough to give away. That would be a great problem to have. I should only plant things a chipmunk will not eat. They destroyed about a dozen prize-worthy hosta. Hopefully. these iris in huge pots will grow new rhizomes. I can get them out of the loose dirt but not anything that is harder. Thanks for the hope.
Officinalisinin I is extracted from the rhizomes of Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge. Officinalisinin I
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