Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Lil Go Peep]

my mother is the same way...she has a black thumb...she killed an air plant!

I have an air plant I'm trying to keep alive - lol

 

[torrelee]

I think my 2 week old brahma is getting too big for the tote that I turned into a brooder so have to go pick up a kiddy pool for her and 2 silkie buddies. I have 4 BR and two more silkies due to hatch next weekend, so a 3.5 week age difference. Does anyone have recommendations or experience with putting both age groups in the same brooder? Should I keep them seperate for the first week or so, or divide pool with chicken wire? I plan on selling the two silkie babies I have, just hatched them to keep the brahma company, so can do that sooner if the brahma runs with the younger chicks. She's so big though, I'm worried it would be like a godzilla movie in there!

 

[sphinxface]

Sigh- my youngest hunter hard at work torturing his catch, looks like maybe my 3 rd corpse for the day- course I can't interfere as he's still learning and that looks like a mouse- but I step in with the baby bunnies if he brings it home alive-

Our adult cat feels she needs to support the family with her shrews or what ever else she finds and my youngest feels he needs to bring them home too- broke down and have to keep a lil garden shovel handy for the corses that pile up- tree area has become a rodentmenary----- sigh

Wish they'd quit bringing them home

Kitties don't bother chickens?

 

[sphinxface]

So I was sitting here looking at the bare stump in the middle of my lawn and since its decomposing anyway from the vines - I think it'd look really cute with a draping plant in the stump, then the dirt area smaller plants with a pretty rock ground cover- thoughts?

My problem is I don't know plants and what would work - the stump I think had gotten some morning sun, afternoon shade and now evening sun- course that as of this time of season- since the sun drop during winter there's not much sun do to all the trees as you can see in photo

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I always see red huckleberries growing out of stumps in the wild?

 

[OverEggstended]

LOL Overeggstended! BTW- your Zephrine wins the OGR (old garden rose) class alot. It's beautiful in a spray and smells great. Rugosa's smell the best of any rose, ever. You really picked good ones!
Glad to hear the babies are happy- so fun to watch. I never get tired of it. Give them a worm for me, or a potato bug 

Thank you for the compliment... But, I picked ones you could throw in a closet and they would still pro ably grow. Let's admit it. Lol

The rugosas were totally planned. I have a cottage garden full of medicinal and herbal plants. I likerose hips. You can't beat rugosas for hips! The Zeph was an afterthought for a shady corner. Now I just need to find an old wooden ladder for it to climb!

 

[OverEggstended]

That whole stump was taken over by ivy- where the dirt is, that how far it went and it was level with the stump itself- our hired hand had to use metal cord and his truck to yank it out- that's how much there was and how long it's been there- previous owner let over grow to cover stump, but she never thought about how it would at some point take over lawn- I found legs popping up out of the lawn now -sigh -

I thought spider plant and just trim legs off to plant in hanging planters - I'd like something cute that can handle small to medium amount of sun- moss did grow on stump so come winter loses sun - with little care. I really don't want to go flowers (very bad allergies) but I'm think it may need color to make it cute and attractive

Ferns would LOVE it, and few allergies. Look at painted varieties!

 

[OverEggstended]

Kitties don't bother chickens?

IME (YMMV) - few cats will tangle with a full grown large fowl. Or even most banties. Chicks are often a different matter.

 

[CowboysAngel]

Speaking of plants would anyone be interested in some Yucca?

this is a picture I found on Google...
When I moved in here 4 years ago They were terribly over grown...I'd ask my dh to do something about them but he hates them and would just take a chainsaw to them! They're that over grown! You can't tell where one plant starts and the other ends...I'd love to see them go to someone who wants them...
Free...you dig...or chop...or whatever needs to happen...they just need thinned badly!

 

[sphinxface]

Speaking of plants would anyone be interested in some Yucca?

this is a picture I found on Google...
When I moved in here 4 years ago They were terribly over grown...I'd ask my dh to do something about them but he hates them and would just take a chainsaw to them! They're that over grown! You can't tell where one plant starts and the other ends...I'd love to see them go to someone who wants them...
Free...you dig...or chop...or whatever needs to happen...they just need thinned badly!
I've contemplated getting some yucca because the flowers and fruits are edible

 

[CowboysAngel]

They are VERY prolific! Even if dh dug them all up, if he left a piece of root it would regrow...or so I've read!