My Lottie/Garden

28 May '06 9:20 pm

Thank you for sharing the lottie's news! It looks really great already, although the weather --- the same with the Belgian one --- doesn't help at all...

Your Oriental RED Poppies are super, and your orange poppies story is exactly the same with mine...Only I was so discouraged, that I didn't go on searching for the beloved real reds any more...Oh, how I love these bright red poppies! They have exactly the same tone of bright red with the wild -- much smaller -- poppies of the Greek prairies, or those, thriving under the olive trees in the island of Corfu , mixed harmoniously with golden yellow wild daisies... What a spectacle under a bright sun and a clear blue sky...

29 May '06 2:55 am

Thank you Sjoerd and Jacqueline - I did some catching up today and realised 1) that I don't know much about citrus 2) that one can have a great pasion for broccoli Surprised

3)that I think I want to explore much more of the world than I ever realised. Thanks: there is so much that we all have in common, and then so many new fields we can share!

29 May '06 4:06 am

heh heh heh... Jack,,,I have to say, it's not really a "Passion" for broccoli- rather it's the way we HAVE to do it if we want to grow it, because of the sickness in the ground. Man...I would'nt go to this trouble for veggies of my own free will. hahahaha.
I would for flowers though. Wink

29 May '06 5:28 am

I know and have some of those smaller red poppies that are so prevelant in the fields and along the roads in Greece and other European countries. I really like poppies...all varieties, pity that they don't last longer...oh well to combat that i sow tthem at different times so that I can usually have some somewhere in the garden at any given time of the flowering season.

The Red Poppie search was such an irritating experience, but it makes the final sucess just that much sweeter when at last I have a couple. The two giant poppies are actually two different shades of red: the bright "Chinese" red and the other, a much darker tint.
Both are gorgeous to me.I am going to try and get some seed from them this year and see what happens with planting them next year.

BTW Liza...could you tell me more about these "golden yellow wild daisies"? This sounds interesting.

29 May '06 6:01 am

A few messages ago in this forum thread there was mention of Broccoli. Well I remember the extreme pride with with I harvested my first heads of broccoli. They were so beautiful! Until I looked more closely and noticed that all the floury little things on the head were in fact moving - they were hosts of little green caterpillars! Aargh! Sad to say, I have never grown any since. I tried to tell my family that a wash in hot water would do the trick, but they refused to eat any.

29 May '06 10:26 am

Heh heh...a little extra protein never hurt anybody...chuckle. What a funny story. my wife is the same when it comes to worm-like critters on fruit and veggies. We had to get rid of our Loganberry bushes cos the little worms kept infrsting them in remarkable numbers.

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