gardening
Last post 29-04-2009 3:36 PM by mcrandi. 18 replies.
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15/02/2009 03:20 PM
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- theflowerchick
- Tonkawa Oklahoma USA
- 28 Jan 2009
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It gets quite warm here in the summer, usually in July and August we have temps in the 100's.(it's also very cold here in the winter ) We've already had tornados in the state just last week. (actually, tornadoes have happened in Oklahoma in every month) May, June, September and October are generally the most active months for that kind of activity. My husband is a storm spotter for this area of the county. I've been blessed to have one of your countrymen for a student worker. NOC recruits a lot of soccer players from your country, Ireland, and Scotland. Sam freaks out completely when there are storms brewing. He calls or send me a text every 15 minutes when the storm clouds start to build. I hooked him up with a weather site so he can track it himself. I suggested that he go with Charles on a storm spotting adventure and he resolutely declined. He heads for the fraidy hole (storm cave) pretty quick. We Oklahomans are so used to that kind of weather that when the sirens blow we go out on the front porch to see where the storm is located. Many people push the limits and video the things when they shouldn't be. In the storm last week, 8 people in a trailer park were killed because they didn't heed the warning. Last year, Sam started complaining about the heat when it was just in the low 80's. He was burning up. I really like the kids who come over here from your area. They are all quite nice and friendly. Sam loves to help me in the gardens. He doesn't know very much but he knows he likes the results of his hard work. He even had his own little garden spot on campus. I sent him pictures of it after he left for the University of Kentucky.
I love clematis. We have to shade the roots in order to grow it here. Feet in the shade, arms in the sun. I don't think I could pick just one favorite flower. It would be like picking a favorite child. You can go to my myspace page and see some of the flowers I've grown. There are also some at the Kodak gallery under Kelley Conaghan. I have a group of junior master gardeners also. We adopted a park and kicked the city out of it so we could restore it like it needs to be. I mow, weed eat and do the general grounds maintenance as a volunteer. Do you have any kind of a master gardener program? KC
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15/02/2009 08:11 PM
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- Digger
- Northern UK
- 18 Jul 2005
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Wow flowerchick you sound real busy! You are doing a good thing with the park, I'm not a professional plantsman/woman or master gardener like you are, I just do it for a hobby, I am a member of the national vegetable society and i grow lots of things for exhibition and I'm in the rhs and the british clematis society.
The twisters you have sound terrifying!!! I would be straight down the fraidy hole as well, I don't know why people go watching them? I've see them on tv and they look very dangerous indeed, we only get tiny tornado's over here it's not often anything gets damaged, where I live in lancashire it just rains a lot all year round, your summertime sounds really nice and warm just how i would like it, I've seen Arizona on the tv and that looks nice and warm, but i don't like poisonous spiders and snakes so it wouldn't really do for me, Do you have poisonous snakes in Oklahoma? i will look up Oklahoma on the map what part is it called where you live? my friend Graham Rice lives in Pennysylvania and where they live wild bears come into the garden.
digger 
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07/04/2009 05:18 PM
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- Albert77
- Albert77
- 07 Apr 2009
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I with you completely agree. When you work in a garden, the nature helps you to be restored, gain strength, inspiration. Plants give pure air, forces.
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29/04/2009 03:36 PM
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- mcrandi
- 29 Apr 2009
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gardening is spiritual indeed, it is an art and you can really have a lot of self satisfaction
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