Showing posts with label master gardener. Show all posts
Showing posts with label master gardener. Show all posts
Monday, May 19, 2014
A productive day
Today was so beautiful in NC I decided to make a trellis for my climbing hydrangea. I gathered dead limbs and built this. It was finished in 2 hours. If you can ignore the empty pots, ladder and the black garden trailer behind the trellis, please? (sheepish grin) I chose a climbing hydrangea because it's a flowering vine that can take some shade. It will have lace cap flowers eventually. I used 12' steel rebar for the bones of the trellis and then attached dead limbs.
What are you adding to your landscape this Spring? I tend to add or change something around every year. I had a rose garden in the back for 5 years, but this year I moved all the roses to the front yard, and placed a crepe myrtle in their place.
This is what it will look like in about 10 years. Climbing hydrangea is a slow growing vine. (click the photo to see a larger view) By the time it gets this big, I'll have built a larger, stronger trellis.
Friday, June 28, 2013
Thursday, May 9, 2013
New things
I thought I'd update the photos of my rain garden. The last photo I shared with you was taken 2 years ago. Here's the photo I took today:
New plantings include Loropetalum, Verbena, butterfly bushes-both petite and normal sizes, irises, lilies, gladiolas, red hot poker, 'Secret's out' & 'Gold Medal' roses, yellow Knock-out roses, azaleas, several hostas, ajuga and acuba.
Steamy hot weather will be here next week. I love NC!
Here are some closeup photos of the Japanese iris in my rain garden:
New plantings include Loropetalum, Verbena, butterfly bushes-both petite and normal sizes, irises, lilies, gladiolas, red hot poker, 'Secret's out' & 'Gold Medal' roses, yellow Knock-out roses, azaleas, several hostas, ajuga and acuba.
Steamy hot weather will be here next week. I love NC!
Here are some closeup photos of the Japanese iris in my rain garden:
Saturday, March 24, 2012
What to look for in a sewing machine
A friend of mine has been looking for a sewing machine for several weeks. She's researching brands, trying the new ones and also looking at used machines. I found a blog that has WONDERFUL advice for anyone looking for a sewing machine.
What to look for in a sewing machine
I've had several brands of sewing machines through the years, including a Featherweight 221 and 222. Currently I use a 1951 Singer 15-61 Centennial, a Bernina 640, a Tin Lizzie 26" longarm quilting machine and a 1501 SWF embroidery machine with 15 needles.
You can see the leather in a pile on the floor and the pieces from his table can be seen in my dining room. The blue bin you see on the floor are my worms. I keep the attachments for the tank in the suitcase. I found the machine on craigslist for free!
What to look for in a sewing machine
I've had several brands of sewing machines through the years, including a Featherweight 221 and 222. Currently I use a 1951 Singer 15-61 Centennial, a Bernina 640, a Tin Lizzie 26" longarm quilting machine and a 1501 SWF embroidery machine with 15 needles.
I thought I'd share a photo of my Singer. I restored the top recently. It looks beautiful, I keep it by the front door. I call it "the tank". I'm using it this weekend to reupholster our doctor's chiropractic table. The leather he chose came from a huge, huge cow! It's gigantic! It's also very thick but the tank will handle it nicely.
You can see the leather in a pile on the floor and the pieces from his table can be seen in my dining room. The blue bin you see on the floor are my worms. I keep the attachments for the tank in the suitcase. I found the machine on craigslist for free!
Then there are the Singer Featherweights, wonderful little machines. A few years ago I bought a 222k as a doorstop. It lived outside in someone's back yard for 2 decades, and was not a pretty sight. I bought it for $40 and restored it. An automotive shop repainted it for me, and then I replaced or repaired everything else on the machine, including the decals. I used it for a year or so, and made a few quilts. I sold it for $1,200 on ebay (it had every attachment known to man, which is why it went for so much). The new owner absolutely loved it.
I need to get off the computer and sew! ... until another day my friends, may you have no thread nests.
( .....What?.... you don't keep worms in your dining room??? )
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Good ol' NC blizzard
We had ANOTHER tree fall on the house. 6 days before high school graduation too! We had super help to clean it up though and by dusk all that remained was a stump, saw dust and the ever so lovely scent of gas/oil in the air.
Our front yard used to look like this every spring, a good ol' North Carolina blizzard (flowers falling off our flowering pear trees):
Today, our front yard looked like this:
Monday, April 25, 2011
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