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[Majombaszo]

Okay, here are a couple of pictures of my useless plants for offering. If you see anything in the photo that you want, let me know. If there's something that you are in search of that you know grows on the east side of the Olympic peninsula, chances are it's somewhere on our property so let me know what it is and I'll see if I can find it.

Moss:


Short fuzzy moss like the kind that grows on roofs.


A deeper nap moss than the roof-ey one.


A leafey looking moss. Almost like miniature evergreen tree boughs.


A close-up of the moss in the photo above.

 

[JennS]

Hooray, the pen floor is finally done! My little "helper" helped me spread out sand and gravel in the bottom.



Now I need to get my butt in gear, drag the old monitor cage out of storage, and set it up as an outdoor brooder.

What temp should I aim for inside the brooder? A hot spot of 80? The chicks are about 5-7 weeks old.

Jennifer

 

[justbugged]

Quote:
Our back yard had a beautiful red bud tree in the back yard when we moved in 8 years ago. Last winter, it split in a storm. It turned out to be rotten all the way down to the ground. I don't think they hold up to winds very well.

Jennifer
Then that is not a tree for Enumclaw. lol Anything out here needs to hold up to 90 to 120 mile per hours winds. We haven't gotten winds that high for awhile now. I really think that it has to do with the logging that was done up in the Chinook Pass area about 30 years ago. That would mean that sometime in the nest 20 years, that they will be logging that area again.

Those trees all should survive in the PNW, but the ice storms are not normal for the area, and I don't think that there is any consideration taken for such storms. We are getting more ice storms though now, so such trees would need some protection from the ice storms. I do know that I was out last winter trying to know off the heavy layers of ice on some of my trees. I may try the hair dryer in future storms. The Ginkgo tree, is one that I don't want damaged, It has a beautiful shape to it. The maple in front of the house is another one that I would rather not have messed up either.

I am about half way caught up today, but DH is out in the veggie garden and I should go supervise, and help him before anything happens that would make me unhappy. It helps that the drugs have kicked in and I am feeling much less pain at the moment so I am going to go play in the garden.

 

[justbugged]

Hooray, the pen floor is finally done! My little "helper" helped me spread out sand and gravel in the bottom.



Now I need to get my butt in gear, drag the old monitor cage out of storage, and set it up as an outdoor brooder.

What temp should I aim for inside the brooder? A hot spot of 80? The chicks are about 5-7 weeks old.

Jennifer

Any where between 70 and 80 should be fine. 80 would be on the high side at this point. As long as they have a fairly warm spot, and you keep an eye on they, they should be fine.

 

[Majombaszo]

Other plants we have for offering. I didn't range too far from the house - it's raining, I'm still in my pajamas (one good thing about living in BFE), and I didn't feel like juggling the camera and the rifle. Again, if you see something you want, let me know.


Sampling of the Charlie Brown Christmas Trees. The one in the foreground is about 3.5 feet tall, the one in the background is about 4.5 feet tall.


Baby evergreen huckleberry in the foreground and a much older one in the background. They grow in all kinds of shapes - some are low and bushy, some are tall and leggy (like the one in the background) and some are huge and bushy. We have some well over 7 feet tall and wide.


Huckleberry berries. (Sorry for the over exposure but there's a load of fog on the water today.)


I have no idea what these ugly things are but they're everywhere. We cleared out an area that was overgrown with blackberry, thimbleberry, and salal and these sprouted up all over. They're like miniature trees. They looked quite a bit nicer before the wind storm the other day made the leaves all raggedy.

 

[justbugged]

Quote: I was grouching about it back along, it's this flower: which, in seedlings, may or may not be skunky (the scent does not breed true, and is not a simple SS/ss/Ss thing) the leaves and wood are alspice scented, and I planted it for use in potpourri, back when I did that as a Farmer's Market vendor.. It's a nice understory shrub, with bright yellow fall color.

Also, looking out the window, avilable for the digging: Pineapple quince (root suckers, but this is not a grafted plant), at least one or two Hamamellis mollis (Yellow Witchhazel), species Siberian Iris, and two thuggish shrub honeysuckles, Lonicera fragrantissma and Lonisera amurensis, both of which would be grand parts of a mixed barrier hedge and have edible berries that the tweety birds like. And oregano, God save us all, I can contribute oregano to feed all the bees there are in August. Several very nice if prone to root- running geraniums which I can share but am not actively trying to get shed of, and one horribe thug which I'd only recommend if you're trying to green up a traffic calming circle (Claridge Druce). Speaking of horrible thugs: Summer Wood, an insect-discouraging artemesia, and Motherwort, a nice friendly calmer and encourager of milk flow and bearer of beastly seed-burs. I'm encouraging mints and lemon-balm for the chickens, so that's what's going into any holes I can encourage.

I also have a bunch of bearded iris in gallon and two gallon pots which need rescued and sent on to real homes, because as much as I love them they're too much work to keep weeded when I am not supposed to lean over and my knees and hips have lost their "squat" gear.

OH: and for the crazy-brave, I have a Long John Silver climber in a pot which has reached the point where next fall it will be setting off 10-20 foot long canes and getting ready to bloom its head off. Would do well on an ugly fence or outbuilding but would not put another one on a house.



(Multiply by a thousand or so, blooms from late june until August-ish)
I would love to have some starts off of your plants. I can come over and bring my spading fork with me. Let me know when a good time for you will be. I am very flexible time wise. If I time things right, I should be able to help you with a few of your projects also.

 

[Majombaszo]

I was grouching about it back along, it's this flower: which, in seedlings, may or may not be skunky (the scent does not breed true, and is not a simple SS/ss/Ss thing) the leaves and wood are alspice scented, and I planted it for use in potpourri, back when I did that as a Farmer's Market vendor.. It's a nice understory shrub, with bright yellow fall color.
Also, looking out the window, avilable for the digging: Pineapple quince (root suckers, but this is not a grafted plant), at least one or two Hamamellis mollis (Yellow Witchhazel), species Siberian Iris, and two thuggish shrub honeysuckles, Lonicera fragrantissma and Lonisera amurensis, both of which would be grand parts of a mixed barrier hedge and have edible berries that the tweety birds like. And oregano, God save us all, I can contribute oregano to feed all the bees there are in August. Several very nice if prone to root- running geraniums which I can share but am not actively trying to get shed of, and one horribe thug which I'd only recommend if you're trying to green up a traffic calming circle (Claridge Druce). Speaking of horrible thugs: Summer Wood, an insect-discouraging artemesia, and Motherwort, a nice friendly calmer and encourager of milk flow and bearer of beastly seed-burs. I'm encouraging mints and lemon-balm for the chickens, so that's what's going into any holes I can encourage.
I also have a bunch of bearded iris in gallon and two gallon pots which need rescued and sent on to real homes, because as much as I love them they're too much work to keep weeded when I am not supposed to lean over and my knees and hips have lost their "squat" gear.
OH: and for the crazy-brave, I have a Long John Silver climber in a pot which has reached the point where next fall it will be setting off 10-20 foot long canes and getting ready to bloom its head off. Would do well on an ugly fence or outbuilding but would not put another one on a house.

(Multiply by a thousand or so, blooms from late june until August-ish)

Roses. I'm all about the roses!! I've been looking for something to grow on our buttugly fence or even on the back side of the chicken coop.

 

[CarolynF]

Other plants we have for offering. I didn't range too far from the house - it's raining, I'm still in my pajamas (one good thing about living in BFE), and I didn't feel like juggling the camera and the rifle. Again, if you see something you want, let me know.


Sampling of the Charlie Brown Christmas Trees. The one in the foreground is about 3.5 feet tall, the one in the background is about 4.5 feet tall.

These are Douglas Fir and will quickly grow to be enormous. If you don't want a 150' fir tree, take it out yesterday.

 

[VelvettFog]

Hooray, the pen floor is finally done! My little "helper" helped me spread out sand and gravel in the bottom.



Now I need to get my butt in gear, drag the old monitor cage out of storage, and set it up as an outdoor brooder.

What temp should I aim for inside the brooder? A hot spot of 80? The chicks are about 5-7 weeks old.

Jennifer

Chicks start at 95 deg -- reduce 5 deg a week -- so, you want 65 or so -- if my math functions. (get it.. math; functions ... I crack my self up)

 

[VelvettFog]

Other plants we have for offering. I didn't range too far from the house - it's raining, I'm still in my pajamas (one good thing about living in BFE), and I didn't feel like juggling the camera and the rifle. Again, if you see something you want, let me know.


Sampling of the Charlie Brown Christmas Trees. The one in the foreground is about 3.5 feet tall, the one in the background is about 4.5 feet tall.


Baby evergreen huckleberry in the foreground and a much older one in the background. They grow in all kinds of shapes - some are low and bushy, some are tall and leggy (like the one in the background) and some are huge and bushy. We have some well over 7 feet tall and wide.


Huckleberry berries. (Sorry for the over exposure but there's a load of fog on the water today.)


I have no idea what these ugly things are but they're everywhere. We cleared out an area that was overgrown with blackberry, thimbleberry, and salal and these sprouted up all over. They're like miniature trees. They looked quite a bit nicer before the wind storm the other day made the leaves all raggedy.

Who said Fog ?