Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

On Sat, 17 May 2008 22:05:12 -0700, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary
Shafer)" <reunite.gondwana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Sat, 10 May 2008 18:12:38 -0400, Boron Elgar
><boron_elgar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>

>> Dang...my jasmine has to be grown in pots and spends the winter in the
>> kitchen where I do battle with spider mites or scale.
>
>We have two kinds of jasmine, one being Carolina jessamine and the
>other being Arabian jasmine.  The only thing they have in common is
>fragrant white flowers.  I think star jasmine is the "real" jasmine
>horticulturally, but the name is used for a lot of plants.

Something got to a jasmine yesterday. About 15-20 leaves were in the
pot. No leaf damage, no insects. It is as if something bit them off or
snipped them off. More investigating today.,

>The Carolina jessamine blooms first and it's a vine that doesn't get
>cut back very often.  The Arabian jasmine, which is in full bloom
>right now, gets whacked off regularly with a small chain saw except
>when it's budding or blooming.

I envy you the plants you can grow outside year round, but I also love
the seasons here.
>
>I just got a beautiful yellow crown of thorns plant.  It's in a pot
>right now, but when it gets a little bigger it's going out to replace
>a langui****ng lavender lantana. 

I have three different colors of crown of thorn plants, red, white and
orange.. I love them. 

Can't keep lantana in these parts over the summer. They attract every
white fly for miles around.

I keep them inside in the winter and summer them outdoors. 


> I also got a nice maternity plant and
>two mother-of-thousands plants.  They go into clay bowls, not regular
>pots, so that the babies land on dirt and grow.

Plants like that can get crazy. I only grow mint in pots.
>
>Mary "The chainsaw is the gardeners' favorite tool"

Don't forget the chipper....and eye and ear protection.

I emailed you a few days ago, did you get it?

Boron