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LoverIan
    
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3/28/2010 | |
This is a topic for the discussion of plants, gardening, etc.
Personally, I love gardening, and I'm quite successful at it!
My cosmos have already produced around 5-10+ seeds the current population, and they're perennials, so they'll flower year round, and live for another 1-2 years or more.
I still have a lot of flowers that haven't been pollinated yet, which will need to be harvested.
So, if you're a gardener, or you need help with gardening, or you need help starting, need to ask questions, etc., this is the place!
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C-Rex
    

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3/28/2010 | |
The furthest I've ever got to gardening was planting a Connifer tree in my back garden when I was only young. It's still there now, and it's huge! We also have two trees that constantly need cutting because they grow so fast! |

LoverIan
    
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3/28/2010 | |
Lucky, I live in arizona, where it's a bit harder to grow trees.
I wish I could grow some apple trees, I hear they grow fastest.
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rainbowcat1
    
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3/28/2010 | |
I have a crepe myrtle tree that we trimmed today because it is taller than the house and was starting to mess with the roof. I also have a frangipani or Plumeria tree, that is beautiful! It makes gorgeous pink and yellow flowers. I also have a collection of rose bushes in the back yard, my favorite being the one that blooms lavender. And my mom grows a variety of herbs and vegetables, tomatoes and brussels sprouts right now, along with a very prolific fig tree and a few citrus trees.
"Everything you can imagine is real" ~Pablo Picasso

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LoverIan
    
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3/28/2010 | |
*Hugs rainbow*
Awesome, just awesome.
Today I discovered my family has around 2-3 hoes, 4-6 shovels, 2 cultivators, 1 transplanter, 1 spinny diggy thingy, 3-4 rakes, and a pick axe 0.o
Well, I guess I'm prepared for the event of a zombie apocalypse....
Home depo would be like a giant armory, with tractors, weapons, cieling fans, a bunch of stuff.
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Gumbo
    
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4/3/2010 | |
i am so bad at gardening, i left a cactus on the porch through winter, now it looks like a dead spider scorpion. D:
in the spring you gotta let the flowers fully blossom
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LoverIan
    
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4/7/2010 | |
Yeah, Cacti don't do well up north.
See, Arizonan cacti, do quite well here, because they stock pile on rainy seasons, winter and summer, the previous having a good deal of frost, but most survive it.
You just forgot to protect your cactus.
It does need watering in large doses, and to be covered, if young.
If your cactus is in a northern region, where it's quite cold, it wouldn't have lasted no matter what.
Cacti are meant for dry areas with rainy seasons, not harsh frost and snow...
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scoota94
    
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4/24/2010 | |
I live in northern Scotland and (I know this may sound stereotypical) the weather isn't exactly great! That doesn't deter me though! I am currently getting into gardening and I'm growing a sunflower. Where I live you can usually (in summer) get a good 5 to 6 hours of direct sunlight onto my window sill so I hope thats enough? 
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LoverIan
    
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4/27/2010 | |
Now, scoota, with gardening, you should try to adapt to your enviroment.
Now, with me, I live in an area where you can grow most anything.
My mom has a hibiscus bush that we've had grown successfully since I was in 5th grade or so (It's a tropical plant*).
I'm currently growing a christmas tree.
You can grow any plant in any enviroment**.
*Tropical meaning it's 90F year round. In my area, the temp can go from around 30F to 120F, it also need a lot of water. We barely water it, the temperature can fluctuate greatly in a year, and it survives.
**Side effects may occur. Example, my christmas tree, is looking more bonsai since it's a bit small, as it's only been growing for a short while. It hasn't grown any needles yet, I don't think that happens for a while. (I think christmas trees go through a dramatic change, like butterflies).
You can grow anything anywhere, but there are consequences. It may mutate. It may become carnivorous (or it's off spring can become carnivorous). It may drastically change.
Now, in my area, we haven't had a serious drought in a few years. We have intense rain all winter, and all summer. It rains a good deal during spring too.
Most rain occurs winter (Nov. through Mar.).
Occasional rain during spring. It's more like a drizzle or light rain. (Apr. through the 1st half of may XD)
Summer, is the only time it can rival the amount it rains in the winter. It's monsoon season at this time, intense thunder and rain. The rain is mainly at 9PM to 4-5 AM, usually, we can get an extremely heavy rain fall, in an hour. (Summer is 2nd half of May through 1st half of Aug.)
Autumn. Well, same with summer, yet 99% of rain is late night. I'm meaning, LATE. (It rains most for the rest of Aug, then it stops at sept. and oct.)
You'd think this means we have an extremely high deal of rain, but I may be exaggerating it a bit/forgetting to mention how many inches of rain we get.
Monsoon season is summer. Summer is the most dangerous season. Thunder comes with most all rain at night. It rains so much, that it floods a lot. Also, we have adapted with these little dips in roads called 'wash outs', the road dips down to go with the flow of water.
If it rains, you cannot cross that area. (The wash out becomes a river).
We actually have a law called something like 'the idiot law', in which:
1. If you attempt to drive through a wash out, you will be fined.
a. Even if you succeed or fail, you still get fined.
2. If ANYONE, has to rescue you, you are fined more I think.
It's called such, because you have to be an idiot to think your car can cross 6-10 foot deep dip, that is around the same width to more.
Surface water flows 1/3rd the speed of the water an inch below it. Meaning slow top flowing water, and the depth is pretty great, it means you'll be swept away in a second at the bottom.
Funny thing is, our entire state is pretty much a desert (excluding cities).
I know I went on a lot, but I could go into better detail.
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