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haha!! super cool!!
@sobetion Lol hahaha
Great shot, great laugh!
@istionojr @noe_arteaga thanks hahaha :D


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Heading out of town for the weekend tomorrow. So posting this now. Will work on trying to get links to work when I get back. This is the honor system. Do not post here until Monday! *********************************** This is a place to post photos, and to discuss, what is in your garden. This is the thread for July 2013. All garden photos are welcome. As we enter summer, the emphasis will be on blossoms. However, all landscape and garden photos are welcome. If it is a photo taken in your garden or your yard, it is fair game to post it here. Even though links still seem not to work, I am posting them here in the hopes that they will soon work again! Here is the link for the July 2012 part 2thread and the July 2012 part 1 thread. For previous 2013 threads: To see all of the 2012 threads, please click on the December 2012 link. The first post will have links to all previous months. I am (still) in process of moving all the 2011 threads over to the FWIW - if we have 50 posts in this thread by 15 July, then I will make a July Part II thread. |
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- Posted by spedigrees z4VT (email@example.com) on Mon, Jul 1, 13 at 17:12
Most of my plants are seriously behind schedule thanks to the past rainy month, but I found this surprise bloom today on my hen and chicks. I actually had no idea hen & chicks bloomed at all! I bought this plant last spring and wintered it over in the basement, then placed it in the garden last month. And now a pink flower! Who knew!? |
This post was edited by claire on Tue, Jul 2, 13 at 10:40
spedigrees posted while I was laboring over my long post. That's a very pretty little flower! I hope you get more. Claire |
- Posted by bill_ri_z6b (My Page) on Tue, Jul 2, 13 at 7:21
Spedigrees, yes as you have seen, Sempervivums ("Hens and chicks") do bloom. The blooming rosette (the "Hen") will die after flowering, but the offshoots ("chicks") will continue to grow and spread. I have several varieties and they seem to find their own happy places over time. I can remember ages ago in my grandmother's garden where she had them it seemed forever. You said that you overwintered indoors, but if you find a sunny spot with good drainage, they should survive in your area. What kills most succulents isn't the cold, but standing in wetness in winter, so site them where the water won't collect. You might want to plant them on a small mound, which needn't be too obvious, so a gentle slope with plant at the top would suffice. Of course if your garden has a natural look (as mine does) then you can even place a large rock, build soil behind it to make it look like it belongs there anyway, and plant the sempervivum above/behind the rock. They do need sun but it doesn't have to be full sun all day. I added a link to a place that sells them and other hardy succulents as well, but I haven't ordered from here (yet!) because several local nurseries have a great variety of these plants. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Simply Succulents
- Posted by spedigrees z4VT (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Tue, Jul 2, 13 at 14:35
Thank you for the wealth of info about succulents, Bill. I actually have two upward growing "hens," one of which is flowering in the photo and the larger original "hen" to the left of it, that is about to flower. Interesting that these are fated to die off after flowering, but there are many "chicks surrounding them to carry on. With all this rain I am amazed that the plant is still viable. I did mix gravel with the dirt in the pot, so I guess the drainage it provides is saving it. Also the overhanging branches of a shrub may be sheltering it somewhat from the downpours we've had recently. Unfortunately the bush is also shading it from the sun it probably wishes it had. Perhaps it would be happier if I moved the pot back to the front porch where it would be out of the rain and have more sun? It spent the early part of spring, up until memorial day, there. |
- Posted by spedigrees z4VT (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Tue, Jul 2, 13 at 15:07
I just love your roses, Claire, and that window is a beautiful artistic setting, on both sides of the glass. I remember your rose arbor and how charming it looked. It is too bad it fell victim to the winds. I am glad that the animals around here haven't developed a taste for phlox, and have spared me from having to set up my own phlox protection zone! |
Names, Claire, names! We all KNOW that's a hydrangea! What we want to know is, what is the name of it? It's gorgeous! Beautiful pics and a beautiful garden! Spedigrees, 15+ years ago I bought this house, a house that had no appearance of any gardening on the part of the previous owner, apart from some way-too-big shrubs in front of the house that I'm still dealing with. However, out in a little outcropping of stone ledge, we came across a small planting of hens and chicks. To this day I often muse on who in the house planted it and why. But I remember the first time, about 12 years ago, that I saw it bloom. I too hadn't realized they threw these tall blooms out! They don't bloom every year (I think they've bloomed only twice in the time I've been here, but they take a lot of abuse (foot traffic, weedwhacking - yes, they are in a bad spot!) and now the encroaching shade. I often think I should move them but then despite all the setbacks they really do well in this spot, even if they don't bloom. Dee |
Dee - Blue Billow hydrangea. I agree that Claire's garden is stunning. |
Aha! I thought that was a Blue Billow, (hoped it was!) but since I just got one at our last swap and it hasn't quite colored up yet, I wasn't sure. Wow, can't wait! I'm very much looking forward to this one. Thank you Marty! :) |
Thanks, spedigrees, nhbabs and Dee, for the compliments. This is a nice time of year in my garden. Dee, the Blue Billow hydrangea has been troublefree for me and just keeps expanding. It's in shade a lot of the day which they say is necessary for it and it's never wilted. Any more sun would probably be a problem. The Hosta 'Blue Angel' next to it should be blooming soon - I'm hoping the hydrangea waits for the hosta. Claire |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Wed, Jul 3, 13 at 12:44
Boy, your garden is certainly hitting it's stride, Claire! Gor-geous!! Love that phlox, it's native isn't it? And the Itea and the Hydrangea make a great pair. |
- Posted by bill_ri_z6b (My Page) on Fri, Jul 5, 13 at 10:54
Pixie lou, Very nice combinations. |
Bill - I thought that was a Japanese beetle. It was the only one I saw on the plant. So I pulled it off and crushed it. I haven't seen Japanese beetles in years. And I hadn't gotten around to running an image search yet. I did notice a brown patch of grass in the lawn. And I'm thinking grubs. But with this heat, I haven't gotten around to grabbing a shovel and looking for the buggers. This echinacea is in the middle of a patch of bee balm, which attracts lots of bees, so I'm hesitant to try insecticides. |
- Posted by bill_ri_z6b (My Page) on Sat, Jul 6, 13 at 13:11
I think hand picking will be effective unless the numbers really increase, which would make it impossible. I hope that's the only one in your garden, and for that matter, all of New England! |
What lovely photos! Love the combination of Blue Billow Hydrangea and the hostas. Love Claire's walkway. Pink roses against weathered shingles are gorgeous! Great close-up of Rosie Returns. Phlox aren't blooming yet here in my neck of NH. Echinacae is just starting. One perennial bed looks great from the road because some of the plants have spread to big patches of color. But the spreaders are choking out other more docile things. There's an open garden day in Chichester NH on July 13 that sounds like my kind of place. Love Fortnam Gardens but Deanne's choices are too tropical for me. She's an amazing gardener and well worth the trip. |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 9:04
Claire, that new bluestone pathway was well worth the effort, it looks spectacular! Pixie Lou, I love your Easter Lilies. I can imagine how fragrant they are and they look good there. Did you plant a pot from Easter? I see the first three blooms are open on 'Orania' Lily this morning but I'll wait to post a photo until more are open. The summer garden is starting to bloom. Echinaceas are suddenly full of open blossoms, next to Heliopsis 'Midwest Dreams'. I'll get a photo of those this week when the lilies bloom. Here are a few things that are blooming right now.... Butterfly Bush... |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 9:05
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 9:06
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 9:08
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 9:09
- Posted by Tina_n_Sam CT-Z6 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 9:36
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 11:32
Tina, did you notice any earwigs when you go out at night? I had awful damage to echinaceas, basil, and lots of other plants and during the day I would see nothing. With a flashlight at night, I found lots of earwigs and used a cup of soapy water to knock them into. I skipped a couple of years of having them because it's been dry, but this year with all the rain, I am seeing a little more of them. And today I noticed what I think are Asian beetles on marigolds, and roses in the morning. I don't usually get many Japanese Beetles, but I get a few of these.... |
- Posted by spedigrees z4VT (email@example.com) on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 14:49
I agree that your bluestone walkway is absolutely beautiful, Claire. Prairiemoon, I'm envious of your vegetable garden. Mine is stunted and unhappy from lack of sun. I also love the hot papaya echinacea, Pixie. For some reason I have zero luck growing echinacea. Love the double daylily too, Tina. Those things in my gardens that are growing and blooming are choked with weeds due to the lack of non-rainy days suitable for weeding. The only thing that seems to be liking the current growing conditions is my little kitchen herb garden. (I reconfigure this cement block wall to hold a sheet of plexiglass to form a sort of mini greenhouse for my started plants from seed early in the spring.) The chives on the far left in the metal pot have been heavenly on baked potatoes with sour cream, and the basil and thyme in the wooden box in the center have also been wonderful, but the parsley in the terracotta pot is some sort of bland flavorless variety. I guess next year I should buy parsley seeds from an organic heirloom seed catalog instead of picking them out of a rack at the hardware store! I'm hoping to save seeds from the thyme and basil, and winter over the chives in the cellar. The marigolds are 8th or 9th generation that I grow each year from saved seeds. The rest of the marigold plants are in the orange garden. I'm crossing my fingers that the Japanese beetles do not decimate them as they did last year. |
- Posted by Tina_n_Sam CT-Z6 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 17:33
PM2, that beetle sure does look comfy in your pretty marigold....like a luxurious feather bed. Yes, I am seeing a lot of the Asian beetles. I saw on the internet they are also referred to as Oriental beetles or chafer beetles. I'm seeing less of the Japanese beetles. Now that you mentioned earwigs...I saw one on my Monarda. I found black salt grain size poop on the Monarda leaves. Could be the earwigs. speedigrees, I am now hungry for a baked potato with sour cream and chives! The basil also looks very good. Now, I will bug my mom this weekend for one of her famous Lao dishes. Also, who's the cute Shetland back there? -Tina |
- Posted by spedigrees z4VT (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 19:30
Thanks Tina! The wild sheltie would be Mabel, running in circles around the tree! LOL |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 20:23
Spedigrees, the photo of my vegetable bed is the bed that had peppers with string beans behind them and onions behind those. The string beans are ready to harvest. But I'm in similar position with having had little sun and my tomatoes and peppers are way behind where they normally would be by now, with the exception of one paste tomato variety, 'Principe Borghese' which seems to be growing very well, and one pepper variety out of six, that is also just humming along, 'Gypsy', which already has three good size peppers on it. My first time growing both, so I haven't tasted them yet to recommend them entirely. I'm hoping that if we finally do get some sun soon, that they will pick up speed. Even my squash plants have barely grown. I direct sowed and they had three leaves on them for a month. Those are very pretty marigolds and I love all your creative containers! At least I can see your grass is really green from all the rain. (g) Tina, I've been very pleased with these marigolds. I bought them as six packs in the spring and I've always had a fondness for white marigolds. These were called 'Sweet Cream' and they took off as soon as they hit the ground and have amazed me with the amount of blooms they've pushed out in a short time. |
Everyone's gardens look wonderful--- lush and really weed-free. How is that possible? Here along the CT coast the weeds have won. I'm not too keen on posting "long shots" of my gardens, which are lush with weeds. It has been hot, Hot, HOT and muggy, which has mostly kept me out of the garden. Here a few pictures. First, a long shot of one of my two lily clumps. No RLB this year! But notice all the low-growing "greenery"? A close up of one lily. This is an unnamed extra bonus that came with a bulb order a few years back. Here's another clump that grew from three bulbs I bought several years ago. Last year these were RLB magnets, this year they're glorious. Closeup of these lily plants--- And following are just a few other photos. Lysmachia 'Firecracker' that I took home from the CT GW Plant Swap. It looks great in front of the greenery of my Phlox 'David'! A beautiful weed that I couldn't bear to pull out, tucked in among some roses, Portulaca, Oenothera 'Siskiyou' Don't know what it's called. I named it "King of the Weeds" Maybe it's an "old age thing", but I left quite a few funky weeds alone in the garden this year--- my specimen plants. Molie |
FWIW, oriental beetles and asian beetles are two different (but some would say equally devilish) scoundrels. Unfortunately, I am all too intimately familiar with the orientals, which are the bane of my daisies, echinacea, and to a lesser extent, daylilies. Only lesser on the daylilies because they bloom only for the day, and for some reason for which I am thankful, the orientals only go after the opened blooms, not the buds, on this plant. I rank orientals up with voles, I detest them so much and they cause so much damage in my garden. Molie, I'm loving your portulaca! I was just mentioning on another thread somewhere that I need to throw some seeds down this year, as my reseeders seem to have pooped out and I only see a few new plants. And your lilies are gorgeous - so pristine! I'm still dealing with the RLL beetle, although damage doesn't seem to be as severe this year. Of course, now I have something eating my lilies and daylilies, so that's new. Just ate the buds off all the plants! Honestly, I'd rather have beetle--chewed lilies than none at all! Just drove home in a drenching downpour, complete with thunder, lightening, and downed trees across roads. But so glad it finally rained! Dee |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Tue, Jul 9, 13 at 17:44
Molie, your lilies are very pretty and I love photo #3 with such a gorgeous backdrop behind them! You must love getting to look at that scenery every day. My lilies just started opening too and they look a lot like yours. I have 'Orania'. I can't tell the difference between the oriental and the asian beetles, but they have showed up here and I'm seeing sudden damage on echinaceas and something is eating the lily petals. Thankfully, I don't get a huge population at this point, but I need to get out there and reduce the numbers so they don't get a foothold. No rain here all day, just gray. There's a little brown beetle in one of the 'Julia Child' roses. |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Tue, Jul 9, 13 at 17:56
Gee, Prairiemoon --- your lilies DO look like mine. I'll have to look 'Orania' up and see if that's what I have. Mine were planted many years ago, long before I thought of tagging what I have. I love your Julia Child Rose; in what kind of conditions is she growing? I had a beautiful yellow rose that I lost and would love to replace. Flooding + winds = tough conditions for some rose plants though my Queen Elizabeth Rose has never suffered from salt water flooding. She's one tough plant-----here she is just a few days ago. She always comes back for me. Dee, the rain you drove home in just missed us, sadly. The gardens could use it. Hopefully we'll get rain next week. |
To the left of the walk into the kitchen door Annabelle has started her long riot of bloom. This fall I'll whack her back since I didn't realize how much she suckers when I planted her and she is overwhelming some of the nearby plants. |
To the right of the same entry walk is a rather overgrown cottage garden. We've had so much rain that I haven't been able to get in there to trim back the roses or anything else. This is the first year the hollyhocks haven't been destroyed by rust, so I am enjoying their dark red blooms. |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Tue, Jul 9, 13 at 20:30
Babs, I have 'Annabelle' in my front foundation and I've been resisting giving it support and it is just a mess right now. I'm considering replacing it with 'Incrediball' which is supposed to stay upright without support. Do you have support under yours? Molie, I've always liked that 'Queen Elizabeth' rose. I always hear good things about it. Very pretty! I am happiest with 'Julia Child' than the other four roses I have. It is a real performer, and pushes out a lot of blooms. They are a medium to small size, which you can't tell from the photo. But they are that beautiful butter color, which I understand is why they named it after Julia Child because she was so in love with butter. (g) I grow organically, so any rose has to be pretty disease resistant, which this seems to be. I do still get the usual rose insects and have to deal with those by hand picking, but after I trim it back after the first flush of bloom, the foliage comes in very clean. It is growing in loamy clay in a bed that is slightly bermed and in full sun. Here is a little better photo of it from last year..... |
This post was edited by prairiemoon2 on Tue, Jul 9, 13 at 20:35
I've got two clematis that are climbing into opposite sides of this Hydrangea paniculata. I think this is the most successful shrub I've tried to grow clematis into due to its stiff, relatively short branches that go to the ground and so provide a great ladder for the clematis to climb. Little Bas is in its third year.
It was too wet to rummage around for the tag of this one, but it was planted last season and is already reaching into the hydrangea.
I like the clematis with longer length of stem between the leaves for growing into shrubs since they don't overwhelm the shrub and allow both plants to shine. |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Tue, Jul 9, 13 at 20:37
Which hydrangea paniculata is that Babs? Very pretty! |
PM2 - I like Julia C's color and nice to know that she doesn't require fussing to keep looking nice. She'll most likely be hardy for me, and best of all, I read that she's scented! I think I need to find a spot for her. I think that H. paniculata is 'Pink Diamond', though it might be 'Quick Fire'. I'll see if I can find a tag. My 'Annabelle' is wedged between two other shrubs, a spirea and a huge rhodie, so doesn't have a whole lot of flopping opportunity. She does flop a bit forward. I have read in one of the forums that the hype about the strong stems of 'Incrediball' are just that, hype. The extra size/weight of the flowers more than counteracts any stem strength and it flops at least as much as 'Annabelle'. I think if I were worried about flopping, I'd probably put several bamboo stakes around her and a ring of string, early enough in the season so that the leaves and blossoms would cover the support. Alternatively, if you have a slope or wall, her flopping becomes an asset as she drapes gracefully over the top. However, I don't find that she ever actually lands on the ground, and the long profusion of blooms more than justifies her presence in the garden. I often cut some stems for booth decoration at a craft fair we go to in August, and always get asked about what the plant is. The other thing I like about having her here is that it's a site that's hard on woody plants, between the voles eating the winter bark under the snow and snow load getting raked off the roof onto garden, and so I need plants that don't mind being cut to the ground after a difficult winter. 'Annabelle' takes to that without blinking, so for me it's a perfect plant for the spot. |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Wed, Jul 10, 13 at 8:48
Babs, yes, I forgot to add, that JC is scented. I would not say it is strongly scented but noticeably so. To me a rose without fragrance is just not worth the real estate, because that is at least 60% of what I love about it. I have a feeling your Hydrangea is 'Quick Fire' because I have 'Pink Diamond' and it is just starting to develop buds and won't be ready to bloom for awhile, and I am in zone 6. I'm captivated by your combination. I have a trellis growing behind 'Pink Diamond' with Clematis on it but they have already gone by. I may get a new one and train it into the Hydrangea for a later bloom too. The whole area is meant to be a screen and is still filling in, but the more the merrier. 'Annabelle' is definitely on the ground for me three years in a row. I inserted black milk crates under the branches for support, after the fact, but next year I am going to have to use something more. Especially if 'Incrediball' is not going to work out. I have tried pruning it all the way to the ground, twice, but this year I just cut off the dead flower heads and it still did the same thing. Thanks for that information. I do enjoy the plant and will figure out something. |
Babs, your clematis against the hydrangea paniculata (that variety and the lace caps are my favorites) are both striking. I love the way you've let both do their own thing and weave through the hydrangea. Do you ever prune them? PM2, thanks for the second photo of Julia C. I've only seen that rose in catalogues and was always suspicious of the color shown, but she is truly buttery. I don't mind the smaller size blossom as long as the color shows well, and yours certainly does! Molie |
Prairiemoon, my best trick for keeping Annabelle from flopping is a peony cage for the inner stems, plus stakes/string (actually that garden wire with rubber around it) for the outer stems. Works great and is invisible. Babs and Prairiemoon, my Annabelle is 3 years old and I've never cut it back. I know keeping it unpruned is supposed to improve stem strength, but what are the benefits to cutting it back? Does that keep it smaller/prevent suckering? Make a nicer, more rounded shape? Create larger blooms? Thanks! |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Wed, Jul 10, 13 at 11:33
Lalala, thanks for that suggestion. I would not have thought of putting something for the inner stems and the outer stems. Sounds like a plan. And the reason for pruning it back? I'm not sure it makes a lot of difference. I end up pruning mine all the way back because without support the stems usually bend and break and need to be pruned off the next season to start fresh. It did still sucker. I'll try to find a photo from the years I pruned it to compare and get back to you. |
PM2 and Molie, I am envying you your lilies. I had planted several each of about 5 kinds over the last three years, all oriental-trumpet hybrids, and the voles ate every single one last winter. Last year was my worst ever for the voles and they have continued into the summer. Lalala, I only prune Annabelle back when the stems are damaged by voles or heavy winter snow (usually when we have to rake the roof in the years we get more than 4'); some years she ends up a tangled mess of broken branches. It doesn't stop suckering, but in the years I prune there are fewer flower heads but they tend to be close to volleyball sized. I am just as happy having more smaller ones. |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Wed, Jul 10, 13 at 15:43
Babs, this is my second year with the lilies and they are super fragrant too. I do see I still have a few RLLBeetles that I missed and if it weren't for those buggers, I'd plant a whole lot more lilies. It is time consuming to keep after them. Do you get RLLBs? If not, and the voles are the issue, I wonder if you couldn't plant them in hardware cloth boxes that you put together? I think it would really be worth it. Voles and moles, there must be some predator for them? What about a friend who might have a terrier you could borrow? (g) Isn't that what they were bred for? OH, except I guess they would dig up your garden. Nope, that's not going to work. You have posted so many beautiful photos of your garden recently, that you must be keeping ahead of them. Glad they are not destroying everything. |
- Posted by bill_ri_z6b (My Page) on Wed, Jul 10, 13 at 16:43
I had said I would post a photo when my Gardenia "Frostproof" bloomed, and it did today. I had to take the photo with my phone, so not the best, but I was on my way in from the market and it was starting to rain, so it was that or nothing. I will try to get out and get photos of more of the garden, but it has not been a great time for me the past five or six weeks. Anyway, I hope you like it. This one has the true Gardenia fragrance! |
- Posted by spedigrees z4VT (email@example.com) on Wed, Jul 10, 13 at 16:53
Molie, if your garden is "lush with weeds" I sure can't see them! That is beautiful, as is your cottage garden, NHBabs. I'm loving everyone's lilies, but still have a full day of weeding ahead of me to uncover my own singular lily. If the rain will ever stop... I have squashed my first two Japanese beetles and I hope they are not the forerunners of a swarm similar to last year's. My vegetable patch looks pitiful enough from lack of sun. I planted a second crop of summer squash and I think those seeds, too, have rotted in the ground and will never show their heads. The only things loving this rain seem to be daylilies. My old fashioned orange daylilies are blooming, along with this red variety, whose name escapes me. They are a brighter red, but the colors were muted by condensation on the lens. |
- Posted by spedigrees z4VT (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Wed, Jul 10, 13 at 17:05
Two other pictures are my hen and chicks whose central stalk has now also risen and given birth to a cluster of tiny pink flowers. It was impossible to capture in a photo, but these teensy blooms look like a mirror image in miniature of the pink cosmo and pink poppy blooms to the left of where this pot of succulents sits, in the same garden. The second photo is my bee balm which never ceases to amaze me, considering that it came to me a few years ago as a single stalk, accidentally included in the pot with a phlox plant of the same color. The phlox is doing well, but the monarda has its sights set on world domination (which is fine with me)! |
PM2, you must be slightly ahead of me. My Oranias are JUST about to open, maybe tomorrow morning. Molie's lilies brought Orania to mind for me as well, but on second look I thought they were a tad too yellow. But they are gorgeous! As is your Julia Child, PM2. I've been toying with this one for awhile. Roses don't seem to do all that well in my garden. They start off good, but I think they don't like my neglect. I just noticed yesterday that a small climber I have does not have a single leaf on it! Completely naked! By the way, asiatic beetles are small and copper-colored. I usually only see them at night and they seem much more stationary. Orientals are bigger, kind of beige with brown markings, are around all day every day, and fly around a lot more, often getting stuck in one's hair. Yuck. Sorry, I know I seem to be harping on these things lately, but I am positively infested with them (half a dozen in each bloom!) and I'm so sick of their damage and can't seem to find a solution. LOL, maybe I should go post this on the complaint thread! :) |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Thu, Jul 11, 13 at 6:28
Hi Bill, Thanks for posting photos of your 'Frostproof'. Did you just add that this spring or did you have it over the winter? I can only imagine how fragrant it is! I had wondered where you'd been lately, sorry to hear you haven't had a good month. Hope you have not been sick? Spedigrees, Pretty Bee Balm. I have mine growing in full sun and I've been thinking it might like a little less. Yours looks to be in full sun too and looks like it's growing great. Dee, surprising if your Oranias are behind mine, since you are south of me in CT. Mine are in all day sun, are yours? Julia Child is a performer as far as roses go, but she is still a rose. (g) I think she can handle a little neglect and still do fairly well, but with just a little bit of well timed attention, she does great. I don't do that much, but I do more than with other plants. I fertilize in the spring, do bug searches before they strip my leaves early on before they bloom and hand pick, or if I forget, then I have a mess of eaten leaves that have to be trimmed off to make room for new clean foliage and I deadhead. That is about all I do. I prune them back to a good framework in the spring too. Oh and I spray fish/seaweed emulsion on them when I think of it. Dee, are you able to just hand pick the beetles? Put on some headphones and listen to your favorite music and carry around a container with soapy water in it and just knock them into it. If you have that many, maybe a 5 gallon bucket would be right. I use ours for so many things in the garden. Do that every day or a couple of times a day for a week and that will really reduce their numbers. |
PM2, I barely have time to just literally walk through the garden once a day (if I'm lucky lately I've gotten out for a quick once-thru three times a week) and it would be a full-time job to get every beetle. I do literally have at least three beetles in almost every bloom in my garden. This is not an exaggeration. They usually seem to go for the daises, echs, and daylilies, but this year they are in the lily blooms, the rudbeckias, and even the hydrangea and hosta blooms. And in my hair and even crawling on my neck while I'm driving in my car! I guess one of them wanted to come for a ride with me, lol. I've decided this year that I really have no business having a garden. I just don't have time for it. God only knows how I did it the last few years when I has that fourth job, lol! By the way, I saw my first open Orania bloom today, it struck me as surprisingly small. I seem to remember them being much bigger blooms, and then I also noted that the plants themselves seemed shorter than usual. Hmm, I'd think all the rain would make them grow well, but maybe lack of sun had just the opposite effect...? Dee |
Molie - I prune the clematis to near the ground each winter (one or two buds on each stem) since it's one that blooms on new wood only. I don't prune the hydrangea at all other than to remove the spent flowers some time in early spring if I have a chance. |
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- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Thu, Jul 11, 13 at 16:03
Dee, well hopefully at some point, you will have the time. Maybe you will win MegaBucks. :-) With the earwigs, I think if we have a drier year next year, it would help without you doing much about it. I also have a smaller garden then you do. I just looked up if there are predators for earwigs, and they suggest toads and birds. Also an interesting idea, chickens and ducks. Want to have fresh eggs and less earwigs? lol Now I'm sure you have time to raise chickens too Dee!! |
LOL! Actually, I have indeed considered chickens! As a matter of fact, my co-workers and I (at ONE of my jobs, lol - a non-profit that promotes organic ag and gardening) were just discussing the rather new problem of homeless chickens, and the growth of chicken sanctuaries. Seems people don't realize chickens only lay eggs for a few years, and then folks don't have the heart to slaughter the chicken for food, but don't want to keep a bunch of non-laying chickens around, and so they need to find a place for them. Hence the opening of chicken shelters. Keeping chickens certainly is a commitment! It's not earwigs that are troubling me, PM2, but oriental beetles. Or... are you saying YOU have problems with earwigs? I don't think I would ever handpick earwigs, not if I had all the time in the world, lol! Yuck! Mega Bucks.... I like that idea...... Dee |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Thu, Jul 11, 13 at 20:03
Chicken Shelters?! Now I have heard everything. But completely understandable, because I could never kill a chicken either. I didn't know they didn't lay eggs after a few years. On the other hand, isn't there anyone who wants a few chickens to have for dinner, instead of sheltering them? Such a dilemma, who knew? (g) I just looked up whether chickens eat oriental beetles and evidently they do and they eat Red Lily Leaf Beetles and Japanese Beetles too. I assume the beetles would have to be on the ground though? Some people catch them then feed them to the chickens and how is that a help? Earwigs, was the discussion on the Perennial Forum today, but I did mean the Asian beetles…. and chickens eat both. Sorry about that! And no, would not handpick an earwig, but a paper cup of soapy water, held under a leaf they are on, and flick them in or shake them off the plant into the cup works great, without touching them. Claire, I LOVE the color of that American Revolution Day lily! And that area with the Blue Billow is really pretty. I thought Clivia were difficult to get to bloom at any time of the year, so I think you are doing well. |
Ooh, Claire, that American Revolution is wonderful! I never cared much for red, except for the stunning red of lobelia cardinalis, but I'm coming round! I bought a Chicago Apache on a total impulse - at the supermarket of all places! Was walking through the lot to go in and they had plants along the front of the store, and I fell in love with the Chicago Apache. And so it begins.... :) |
- Posted by steve_mass 5b (My Page) on Thu, Jul 11, 13 at 20:22
Here is a link that might be useful: URI - Oriental Beetle control
- Posted by bill_ri_z6b (My Page) on Thu, Jul 11, 13 at 20:25
Ann, The Gardenia has been in the ground since 2009, but I had to move it in 2011. Other than it's first year it has no protection. It has about 6 flowers now and maybe another 6 buds right now. Fragrance is the real gardenia fragrance that we all know. Although I do have some health issues, it was my brother, in hospital for about a month and so I was going back and forth and all that one does for a brother. He passed away on June 21st, and I really never expected any of it. But slowly getting back to normal. Now if the heat will let up, I may be able to catch up on some gardening chores. |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Thu, Jul 11, 13 at 21:40
Bill, I'm so sorry about your brother. That sounds like such a shock. I guess many of us are at the age, where things can change so quickly. I'm sure you are glad you were able to spend that last month with him and do what you could for him. He appreciated it, too, I'm sure. I think this weekend the heat is supposed to let up and maybe getting out in the garden will help. Take care. |
My sympathy, Bill. I always appreciate your postings of zone-pushing plants, though I haven't a hope of growing any of them myself, and I wish the internet could convey scents along with the images. It looks like this is generally a good month for day lilies, true lilies, and hydrangeas. I am enjoying looking at all the lush looking plants and vibrant colors, and I haven't noticed any weeds, which is amazing considering the weather. And since there have been several comments on beetles, nematodes can be used to reduce populations while they are still grubs. They are most effective on smaller grubs and they need to have moisture to move, so best success (according to some research I read) is when the area is watered daily for the first two weeks after spreading. Unlike Milky Spore, the nematodes will work on a variety of grubs, not just Japanese beetles. |
Bill, so sorry to hear about your brother. My condolences. PM2, sorry, I was typing while you posted above. Never realized chickens ate such a variety of beetles, lol. Too bad they couldn't be trained to seek and destroy. :) Steve, great photos. Love, love, love the buds on that Cracker Crumbs! By the way, just last night I happened to read that exact article you linked to. It seemed to be more concerned with lawns and the damage the grubs do than the actual beetles and the damage they do to blooms. And honestly, I don't believe (almost) any article on oriental beetles unless there's a photo, since they seem to confuse or at least use the term loosely to mean orientals, asiatic, and Japanese. Oh, and your Anna Bella is quite nice. I had considered this hydrangea, but the color in photos never quite appealed to me, and I have yet to see one in bloom at a garden center. I like the color that yours looks to be more than the photos I've seen on-line. And your rudbeckia might be an Irish Eyes - I always get this mixed up with Prairie Sun, which I think has more rounded petals. Dee |
Geez, sorry Steve. I just realized it sounded like I was bashing the link you provided, and by extension your attempt to help, and that was not my intention at all. I apologize if it came off that way. What I meant and did not express clearly is that my general observation is that in my search for a solution to (specifically) oriental beetles, I've found both an emphasis on lawn damage by grubs, and also the loose references to all three types of beetles under the name "oriental". I was not picking on your particular article. I hope I've removed my foot from my mouth and not shoved it further in! :) |
- Posted by bill_ri_z6b (My Page) on Thu, Jul 11, 13 at 23:16
Thank you all for your words of sympathy. I do like to push the zones, for sure, although for me, that gardenia 'Frostproof' is sold as hardy to zone 6 so technically not really a push. The past several winters have been zone 7, since I've seen no temps below zero for several years right here. I do consider trying my windmill palm as zone 6 as pushing though.........but it was planted out in the ground in spring of 2012, so it spent its first winter outdoors, and it's pushed out 4 new leaves already, and that's more than it ever did in a pot and wintered indoors. Nice to have all the tried and true garden treasures, but nice to mix in a surprise here and there too! Keeps it interesting. |
Amazing photos of Lilies, Pixie, PM2, and Molie. And your roses are beautiful Claire and PM2! I don't grow either but appreciate them in others' gardens. Somehow roses just seemed too fussy and the lily leaf beetle has put a damper on them. Lots of nice hydrangea pictures. The blue hydrangeas are quite beautiful and it's nice to see the bees like them too. Tina, I think the earwigs are probably eating your Echinacea. They are all over mine! Go out with flashlight about 11 PM and check, my guess would be either earwigs or beetles. Spedigrees do you know which Monarda that is? It's a nice lavender color. Steve your butterfly is a great spangled fritillary and I think the Rudbeckia is 'Prairie Sun'. |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Fri, Jul 12, 13 at 5:28
Bill, I didn't find a 'Frostproof' Gardenia in the spring and bought non hardy varieties for pots instead. They had buds already when I bought them and bloomed once and now another round of blooms are getting ready to open. I'm sure I will never keep them alive over the winter though, so I'll make another try to find 'Frostproof'. I could probably order it from Logee's, I just haven't made a mail order this year, so far. Steve, that Hosta 'Cracker Crumbs' bloom is a delight. Such unusual coloring. and a fat flower bud. That is a mini Hosta, right? Also wonder about Bella Anna, is that pink regardless of your soil PH? Glad everyone is enjoying the lily photos. Wish there was an 'ap' for adding fragrance to the photos. :-) Terrene, you are right, roses and lilies definitely need a little more of your time. You have a lot of natives though, right? That fritillary butterfly is so pretty. I haven't seen one of those in the garden. I've been seeing a few monarchs on the echinacea this past week. Not as many numbers as other years, but maybe it's early? Gee, with all this talk of earwigs, I hate to go out and see if I have a lot of damage from them. I haven't been checking things out this week. Between that and the beetles, I guess I better get out there. |
It's sad to hear that you lost your brother, Bill. Working in your beautiful garden should help you adjust, and maybe you'll add a special plant in his memory. Steve: I agree that hosta flowers are underrated. The hummingbirds and I always look forward to them and there's a long succession of bloom with pretty colors and sometimes fragrance. Claire |
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- Posted by bill_ri_z6b (My Page) on Fri, Jul 12, 13 at 11:02
Thanks Claire. I have been doing some gardening again, although some cooler weather would help. Ann, Dave's Garden website lists 8 vendors for "Frostproof". Fry Road nursery in Oregon has a 1 gal. for about $30 including shipping. Almost Eden in Louisiana shows a smaller size for only $9.99, but I didn't check the shipping. Logee's has it, but they are usually pretty high on prices for quite small plants. |
- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Fri, Jul 12, 13 at 12:09
Thanks Bill, that gives me some choices! :-) I have to remember to check Dave's Garden once in awhile, too. It's nice and cool here today. Expecting it to be tomorrow too at least, but then back into the heat and humidity. If we would just at least get some sun with all that heat, my tomatoes would grow. It's not going to be a good year for tomatoes and peppers. |
- Posted by spedigrees z4VT (email@example.com) on Fri, Jul 12, 13 at 12:24
I'm very sorry to hear about your brother, Bill. That is sad. Chicken shelters? I thought seriously about getting a few hens after our old pony died, and converting the little barn into a chicken coop. I wouldn't care so much if they laid eggs, and I can't kill any animal that I've had a relationship with, so meat would also be out. But I would like them around, and they are fantastic predators of all sorts of insects. They will even eat frogs and mice when they can catch them. The deal breakers are their longevity and never being able to go away. You can board a cat, dog, or horse, but not a chicken! Apparently chickens can live to be 20 and beyond, and I want to be sure not to leave any pets homeless when I go. I already have a 10 yr old pigeon that I expect to be with me for the next ten years. So the chicken fantasy will just remain one of those unrealized dreams. The Japanese beetles are back this year with a vengeance. They were completely covering the leaves of my stunted sunflowers yesterday. I wish I could unleash a flock of chickens upon them! |
- Posted by bill_ri_z6b (My Page) on Fri, Jul 12, 13 at 12:25
I only planted a single cherry tomato plant, some basil and some parsley. Returns from last year are tarragon and chives. Actually I had a large clump of chives but I had to move them and they're getting established again. I have armloads of rosemary though. Third year for R. "Barbecue", which had loads of blossoms earlier this season. The other one is R. "Arp" and it's in its fifth year. They only damage to either of them was from heavy snow loads that flattened them a bit, and broke a couple of the branches. They are both over two feet high and three feet or so across. I grow it as much for decorative reasons as well as for culinary use. |
- Posted by GreenHavenGarden none (My Page) on Fri, Jul 12, 13 at 17:51
The rudbeckia is prairie sun. My favorite :) |
Well, for once I have some photos to post! Borrowed my husband's phone to get some shots of my non-blooming monarda for another thread, and decided to take a few pics of other things. No long or wide shots here - my garden is too messy for that! First off, a daylily that survived the deer! I can't remember the name but I love this unusual color, which is unusual in itself because this isn't a color I would normally like! |
Thanks to Marty for my beautiful new Quickfire hydrangea, still living in a pot, with a few balloon flower blooms in the background. |
My Prezioso hydrangea, from George a few years ago. It has really taken off this year (about 3' x 3') and unfortunately the variegated color of the blooms doesn't really come across. I'm struck this year how on one hand my hydrangeas have done very well, but the blooms on them seem smaller than usual. Almost like with all the rain they grew too fast and bloomed before they were quite ready! |
And lastly, the widest shot I took, showing another surviving daylily with a (I think) rudbeckia. Or it might be echinacea Henry Ellers, but I don't think so....I think he is spikier and perhaps later... I'm having a terrible time with names this season! Also some dying feverfew, and you can see that damn sassafras poking up. That stuff is taking over my yard! This is my new yellow/orange/red bed, which seems to be rather distressingly yellow so far, lol. I have to work more on coordinating my bloom times! |
- Posted by Tina_n_Sam CT-Z6 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 12, 13 at 19:48
Molie, the no name lily's color is very nice. The Oenothera 'Siskiyou' smells so good. The one I got from you during the spring swap quadruple in size and smelled wonderful until some critter pulled it under ground. I found part of it sticking out of a hole. nhbabs, the clematis and the hydrangea do really complement each other. Dee, thanks on the names of the beetles. The Oriental ones are decimating my plants. I think I'll go complain in the "What can we complain about..." later. As for the chickens, I would give them homes but my dog would chase and eat them all. All my animals, past and present, are rescues. I do volunteer work by training dogs so they will be more adoptable. I'll have to wait until I have an animal friendly dog. Bill, my condolence. My sisters and I see each other at least once a week. I couldn't imagine them not being there. Your gardenia is BEAUTIFUL. How does it smell? I went to Logee's a couple of weeks ago to get one. I bought a small one in the 21/2 in pot. I didn't think to ask if they had bigger ones in the 'other' greenhouse. I was too excited. It's going to be years before this one bloom. I'm dying just thinking about it. I'm so envious of your blooms. Truthfully, part of the reason I bought one is because of your earlier posts on the 'Frost proof'. Claire, I am definitely moving some more of the dayliles to that sunny spot. And, I'm going to sound light a jealous kindergartner....hey, why is your cacti blooming now? mine aren't. ;-) Steve, your echinacea looks good. My leaves and petals are gone on most of them. In fact, my echinacea looks like globe thistle....but, not as nice as yours. I second terrene' s naming of the 'Prairie Sun'. You don't know how many nurseries I visited looking for those with the green eyes. terrene, I went out two nights ago with a flash light and beetles started to dive bomb me. Well, they were attracted to the light and flew toward me. That's all it took for me to do the heebie jeebies dance and run back into the house trying not to scream bloody murder. I have a phobia with certain beetles and bugs that remind me of roaches. I lived on my own in high school and rented an inner city project apartment....need I say anything else? -Tina |
- Posted by steve_mass 5b (My Page) on Fri, Jul 12, 13 at 20:44
Dee No worries about your review of the URI article. I was a bit put off by the lawn/imidocloprid thing myself. Usually the URI entomology articles are quite good, but that one wasn't. I did however, find a link through that article to Arbico Organics that sells a variety of different kinds of beneficial nematodes. I've been looking for Steinernema Carpocapse for some time. Not only does this nematode control grubs, it also is the only beneficial nem that will control foliar nematodes. Foliar nems are a real problem in Hostas and are hard to control. The link is below. Thanks for the Prarie Sun ID. Lost the tag on that one. H. Cracker Crumbs is a mini. I little bright gold thing. Bella Anna is always pink, regardess of pH. The only drawback is that it flops like Annabelle does. I need to get some Peony supports for it. I bought that one for $5 at Weston Nurseries in November after the pallet sale broke up. It's grown well. Enjoy the weekend. It's going to get hot next week. Remember, nothing lasts in the garden. Steve |
Here is a link that might be useful: Arbico Organics
LOL, Tina, that's why I never go in the garden at night! I always see people saying, "oh, go out with a flashlight and look for...." and I think, what, are you crazy?! LOL :) |
Everyone's pictures are great! Bill, very sorry to hear about your brother. Was he a gardener like you? I'm glad you have a garden to help you through this very rough time. |
- Posted by bill_ri_z6b (My Page) on Fri, Jul 12, 13 at 21:48
Gosh we are a chatty bunch lately. I just posted a part II thread. |
Here is a link that might be useful: July Part 2
- Posted by capecodder z6 MA (My Page) on Sat, Jul 13, 13 at 9:22
Dee, That looks like heliopsis with your daylily. |
Tina: "Christmas" cacti are induced to bloom by either long nights or cold weather. All winter they stay indoors next to houseplants that need all the light I can give them and can't stand much cold. So they don't bloom; they just sulk. The clivia and cacti are the first plants to go out on the deck when there's no danger of freezing at night, days are reasonably warm, and light is much better. This makes them happy. Me too. I've tried keeping the clivia dry all winter but it ignores it and just waits to bloom until it can go outside too. Claire |
Steve, thanks for that link and the info on Bella Anna, and most importantly, your understanding! I didn't read through the article far enough to see the link, so thanks for that. And capecodder, thanks for the heliopsis ID. I'll have to go back through my very disorganized records (or dig around the dirt at the base of the plant, lol) to confirm. Dee |
Hi All, Wonderful photos! I can hardly wait until spring bursts along next year! Steve_mass: That is Rudbeckia, Prairie Sun--- |
Hi All, Wonderful photos! I can hardly wait until spring bursts along next year! Steve_mass: That is Rudbeckia, Prairie Sun--- |
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Vida Vegan Con organizers Janessa and Michele have returned even more enamored with Austin after a week of very important meetings and venue walk-throughs and just as necessary vegan food truck hopping. They met with old VVC family, new speakers, and met some local Austin business owners, cooking up all sorts of plans for May 2015. Did you spy them around town, margarita or black coffee in hand?
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Ready for Vida Vegan Con's Speaker Reveal #6? We've been featuring a handful of our speakers each week for VVC2015, and here is the sixth, and almost final, installment. Our speakers come from all over the world and range from cookbook author to activist to blogger to athlete. So many incredibly talented passionate and inspiration people applied to speak, and we're so so excited to share, in no particular order, this group of awesome speakers:
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Fran Costigan, Queen of Vegan Desserts
A highly regarded veteran of the culinary world, Fran Costigan is a pastry chef, author, speaker, culinary consultant, demo instructor and graduate of both the New York Restaurant School and the Natural Gourmet Institute. There is no doubt that Fran knows her chocolate, and she'll be returning to our lineup for 2015 to show us all how it's done while "demo'ing the demo" at our opening day Vida Vegan Bazaar, sharing everything you need to know for showcasing your own cooking demo, with whatever setting you've got. The Big Apple-based "Queen of Vegan Desserts" is the author of More Great Good Dairy Free Desserts Naturally and her latest hit, Vegan Chocolate.
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Vida Vegan Con News: 2015 Speaker Roundup #3
Here's the deal: We put out the call. We read the submissions. We talked. We made spreadsheets. We talked some more. We drank cup after cup of coffee and barely had time to discuss our favorite nondairy creamers of the moment. You simply cannot imagine how hard it was for us to narrow down our speaker lineup. Such amazing talent. Such fantastic voices. So much feedback to consider. Seriously, why can't Vida Vegan Con be a week long?!
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As in past years, we've curated this lineup of activists, authors, experts and other leaders in their fields to share with you their skills, their unique voices, and their ability to inspire. We'll debut the official conference agenda in early 2015.
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Whitney Lauritsen, of Eco-Vegan Gal.
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Michelle Lee, of Broadview Design.
Michelle Lee is a creative professional based out of Vancouver, B.C. with a fondness for cats and vegan food (check, check!). She's a two-time VVC attendee who's joining our lineup for the first time to share her super relevant thoughts & guidance on the importance of branding. We're talking brand development, establishment, DIY methods, voice, logo, identity and just how and when to hire a professional, and what to expect And if you run in the right vegan circles, you just may recognize her as @food_and_catz over on Instagram & Twitter (and a lot of delicious vegan food and meow-makers).
Nava Atlas, of VegKitchen.
After co-presenting one of the most popular, room-bursting classes at VVC2013 on "Monetizing Your Blog", Nava Atlas returns! Nava is a trusted culinary expert, author, and illustrator who continues on our lineup for two more engaging classes. Drawing upon her years of versatile publishing experience, she'll be presenting on the pros and cons of self-publishing and print on demand, and reuniting with Susan Voisin for new insights on the state of blogging and web monetization.
Joshua May, of Clue.
No stranger to VVC after lending a much-appreciated and much-needed helping hand to our registration table in 2014, Joshua May joins us at VVC2015 to get down to business on the technical side of things and discuss the costs, reach, ROI and expectations about building your very own app. It'll be a must for all the community managers and entrepeneurs out there, and more! He truly appreciates dolphins and just may have coined the term "scrofu" (aka scrambled tofu). You can catch up with him over on Twitter, @notjosh.
Hannah Kaminsky, of Bitter Sweet.
Hannah Kaminsky is many things: multi-cookbook author, award-winning blog writer, baker, photographer, recipe developer and food stylist, to name a quick few. She's certaimly a much-loved member of the Vida Vegan Con family and returns for two very special workshops on food styling and on-location photography. Stay tuned for signup!
With that, the epic countdown to Vida Vegan Con 2015 continues! You can check out the rest of the revealed only-at-Vida Vegan Con lineup right here and here.
Ready to register!?!!? Yeah! Put in for your vacation time, get ready to explore Austin's fantastic vegan happenings, and grab your spot today!
Vida Vegan Con III ∗ May 29-31, 2015 ∗ Austin, TX
2015 Vida Vegan Con Speaker Roundup #1
We put out the call. We read the submissions. We talked. We made spreadsheets. We talked some more. We used and abused a dry-erase board… You simply cannot imagine how hard it was for us to narrow down our speaker lineup. Such amazing talent. Such fantastic voices. Why can't Vida Vegan Con be a week long?! (Seriously, Google, how about sponsoring us?)
But we've done it, and now we can't wait to share it with you! Each week we'll feature a handful of speakers, with a teaser of what sort of expertise they'll be sharing with you (to supplement the class topics sneak peek we posted last week).
As in past years, we've curated this lineup of activists, authors, smartypantses, and other leaders in their fields to share with you their skills, their unique voices, and their ability to inspire.
So here they are, in randomly random order, your first handful of Vida Vegan Con III speakers:
Susan Voisin, of Fat Free Vegan.
An overwhelming crowd favorite from VVC2013, Susan will be teaching us post-processing for food photography—how to fix almost anything with software. She'll also be sharing teaching duties in a class on monetizing your blog.
Sasha Perry, of Strongest Hearts.
New to VVC, Sasha is a veteran filmmaker who was recently a producer and shooter (the camera kind!) on a little show called "Whale Wars" on Animal Planet. Sasha will be presenting on video and film as activism through storytelling. Get ready to get inspired!
Ginny Messina, of The Vegan RD.
Ginny's back for her third round of VVC, and we couldn't be more honored to bring you arguably the best-respected voice in vegan nutrition. This year she'll be talking about a super hot topic, preventing ex-vegans.
Tashina Combs, of Logical Harmony.
Tashina has become the go-to resource for vegan cosmetics and bodycare and we're glad to welcome her to her first time speaking at VVC. She'll be teaching us about the difference between cruelty-free and vegan cosmetics, what to look for, what questions to ask, and who you can trust.
Brian Patton, of The Sexy Vegan.
Cookbook author, podcaster, and the 2013 Vida Vegan Galarama host, Brian is presenting his first VVC class this year. He'll be breaking down social media and teaching us how to tweet like you give a damn.
There you have it, round one, with so much more to come! Ready to register? Especially as we announce speakers, these tickets are gonna go fast. Put in for your vacation time and reserve your spot today!
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Here's Your Sneak Peek at Vida Vegan Con III Classes & Topics!
Oh, goodness. With General Registration now open for Vida Vegan Con III and summer flying by in these parts, we're *so* gearing up to announce the lineup for our third conference! We know we're becoming a bit of a broken record with this, but it has to be repeated: This was a ridiculously difficult but incredibly exciting process, with many, many hours poring over more than a hundred proposed class topics and re-reading 2011 and 2013 attendee feedback. After a two-month review process, we organizers have put together another seriously only-at-Vida-Vegan-Con series of classes for ya.
While we continue to work on all the official fun stuff behind the scenes, we wanted to satiate your curiosity and share a sneak peek of the confirmed, in-development class topics for the next Vida Vegan Media & Lifestyle Conference.
Ready? Then here's a peek at what's coming at ya:
- Building a Smart Vegan Business: Creativity/planning/funding/sustaining & having a life!
- Science Is Awesome! Why we don't need to exaggerate health claims about veganism.
- DIY Event Organizing
- The Ethics of Vegan Dining & Boozing
- From Personal Blogger to Internet Entrepreneur
- Cookbook Writing: From concept to proposal to testing to editing to publication
- The Importance of Design & Branding!
- How to Make Kick-Ass YouTube videos
- Blogging Etiquette & Why Social Media Is Essential
- Your Guide to Cruelty-free Vegan Cosmetics & Beauty
- Avenues to a Vegan Healthcare Career
- The Legal Info You Need for Online Content
- Post Processing for Food Photography, a.k.a. How to Fix Almost Anything with Software
- Can We All Just Get Along?: Finding common ground in different forms of activism
- The Pros & Cons of Self-Publishing
- How to Monetize Your Blog or Website
That's not all, folks! More to come as we finalize speakers and classes. All class titles subject to change.
Plus, you may have noticed that's we're not just discussing blogging anymore. And we promise, all classes are conceived as informative, unique content just for Vida Vegan attendees.
Stay tuned for the speaker announcements and already-anticipated conference agenda! We've got three full days of conference happenings, starting with Friday's full-day (and first-ever!) Vida Vegan Bazaar* with vendors, samples, demos, vegan eats & Lazy Smurf's Austin Community panel.
We're also in the process of updating our FAQ Let us know if you have anything you've been wondering.
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New book out on Barack Obama and his pot smoking past. Seems he did more than just inhale, he did so with gusto.
Via Mediate:
"On its own, stories like these about a young adult are actually kind of funny, even humanizing — like something straight out of a stoner comedy. But when you realize it's about President Obama, it becomes a little less humurous.
Less humorous because President Obama has repeatedly laughed off and dismissed serious discussion about drug policy, like in that 2009 virtual town hall where the president mocked online voters for picking a question about marijuana legalization.
Less humorous because the president shuts down medical marijuana dispensaries with a frequency that would have made Richard Nixon stand up and cheer. He presides over a DOJ, IRS, and DEA that have threatened, audited, and shut down legal pot sellers in California, Colorado, Montana, and Washington. All this despite once promising to respect state laws regarding medical marijuana.
It's high time that Obama confronts his past marijuana use and extends the right to get high as a kite to all other Americans. I'm no marijuana smoker, but I'd love to have the right to choose to be one.
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Frank J. Frank of Warminster passed away Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014. He was 82.
Frank was the beloved husband of the late Elizabeth H. Frank, with whom he had shared over 52 years of marriage.
He is survived by six nieces and nephews and a sister, Helen Cave.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend his viewing after 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20 , at St. John Bosco Church, 235 East County Line Road, Hatboro, Pa. 19040, followed by his Funeral Mass at 10:30 a.m. His interment will follow in Our Lady of Grace Cemetery, Langhorne.
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Non-Proliferation Treaty
I passed to you yesterday a copy of the paper on the Non-Proliferation Treaty produced by the working group set up by the Defence Committee.1 The AAEC representative stated that his acceptance of the paper could not be regarded as committing the AAEC. The paper is not 'agreed' therefore in a policy sense. Nevertheless, considerable progress has been made in sorting out and narrowing down various arguments about the Treaty and agreeing their presentation. Dr. Wilson, the AAEC representative, told me privately that he did not consider the possible disabilities under the Treaty in regard to peaceful nuclear purposes of great significance (and in important respects these aspects are governed by other provisions, such as the American McMahon Act). The Commission's chief concern, he said, lay in the security field. It could be, therefore, that the AAEC will oppose the Treaty on these grounds in the Defence Committee and in Cabinet by casting doubt on the strategic and political arguments coming forward. I refer to this further below. I might say that I have an impression that the AAEC is to some extent using argument about possible disabilities on the civil side as a means to protect its position regarding military uses. Unfortunately General Wilton2 will not be at the Defence Committee Meeting. Sir Henry Bland's position regarding the security aspect is uncertain, but certain comments, as for example about the importance of Malik's3 remarks on a nuclear alliance against China, suggest that he might have reservations about surrendering our option to develop nuclear weapons for the indefinite future.
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'The Desirability of the Non-Proliferation Treaty'
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- The general political argument in favour of the Treaty is well stated by Hedley Bull in his article today:4
'First, in common with other nations Australia has an interest in controlling the spread of nuclear weapons, which in the long run represents a danger to international society as a whole, abstract though this may seem. The Treaty will not by itself halt proliferation; and even buttressed by other measures it may well prove insufficient-in the long view of history it is most improbable that the present five nuclear powers will preserve their monopoly. But the Treaty does register world concern about this problem; it will serve to exert some measure of control over the process of proliferation; and for the moment it will perform a holding operation.
'Secondly, Australia has a stake in the configuration of international politics which the Treaty expresses and will help to solidify. The Non-Proliferation Treaty is the chief enterprise now being pursued in common by the United States and the Soviet Union. It symbolises the hegemonial position of these two countries and their willingness to combine to preserve it against the challenge of new-comers, especially China. Australia stands to gain from the development of cooperation between America and Russia in support of the political status quo.'
We are not saying there will be no requirement for an Australian nuclear capability; we are arguing for support of a political system that would make that requirement less likely. We recognise that this system could collapse; but the political circumstances leading to this and, in formal terms, our right of withdrawal will offer sufficient opportunity to protect our interests. While the system continues, and with it United States support for Australian security, it is highly unlikely we should find ourselves in a situation in which our only hope of protecting our vital national interests was to produce nuclear weapons.
'The Treaty'
- Paragraph 18. If the interpretation of 'manufacture' allows research, development and production for peaceful purposes, even though this work could be significant also to the manufacture of nuclear weapons, then there will be significant scope for non-nuclears to catch up. The area of disadvantage would be confined to work on weapons technology. Restrictions in this field would mean that Australia would be kept at a stage of development at least three years from the final manufacture of a weapon. This would be more than India and probably Japan. The position in regard to other countries is not completely clear from the JIB note in Annex A5 but it seems likely that Australia would not be placed at an unacceptable disadvantage.
- Paragraph 22. A central point is raised here. The AAEC argues that since parties to the Treaty are obliged to enter into safeguards agreements with the IAEA they are signing a 'blank cheque'. The Safeguards Agreements are obligatory under the Treaty and are to be negotiated after ratification of the Treay. Since these Agreements are to be 'in accordance with the IAEAStatute and the Agency's safeguards system', parties will have little or no scope for negotiation on the substance of their Safeguards Agreement. Negotiations on substance will be when the New Statute and safeguards system are negotiated, with which the Parties' Safeguard Agreements are to accord. It is not clear from the Treaty if these Agency negotiations are to be before or after ratification. If before, our interests would be protected, for if dissatisfied we could refuse to ratify the Treaty; if after, we do indeed sign a 'blank cheque' for we shall be committed by the Treaty to accept the new system. We should, of course, have opportunity to protect our interests in the Agency negotiations in either case, but these would be subject to a two-thirds majority vote. As far as amendments subsequent to the conclusion of the Safeguards Agreement are concerned, a Party would appear bound to accept them or to be in breach of the Treaty.
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'The Effectiveness of the Treaty'
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- Paragraph 29. It was the firm view of the AAEC, Supply and Defence Science members of the working group that effective safeguards depend upon a complete inventory system and that this would require safeguards on mining activities. The Americans appear to disagree on this latter point and the Canadians say they will not accept safeguards on mining.
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'Practicability of Australian Independent Capability'
- Paragraphs 35-38. This section makes the most important statement that 'It would not be beyond Australian resources and knowledge to produce nuclear weapons within a 7 to 10 year period with or without external assistance and supplies' (my emphasis). The AAEC representative stated this after questioning from other members. I do not doubt his good faith, but I must say I found the statement hard to accept, at least without further qualification.
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'Australian Military Requirements in the Shorter Term'
- This section came under strong attack from the AAEC and Defence Science representatives, but Blakers defended it as deriving from the JPC6 paper and having the general endorsement of the Chiefs of Staff. In fact paras. 42 and 43, dealing with reliance on a major nuclear ally, and 47, dealing with Australia's position in the event of an Indonesian threat, are new material, as the AAEC might point out in the Defence Committee meeting. The argument in the JPC paper on these points was weak and I put forward the present text is a better statement of the position.
- Paragraphs 38-40, which do derive from the JPC paper, in particular attracted criticism, even in respect of the vulnerability of Australian cities. (It was argued that only our weapon sites would be attacked). I suggest that it is important that in any paper going to the higher policy levels the statement of these principles be maintained and the considerable limitations that would apply to any independent Australian nuclear capacity be stated. You might, however, find yourself getting drawn into an argument about nuclear strategy with the AAEC. Its representative in the working group argued, for example, that even an inferior capacity would serve as a deterrent, so as it could inflict some damage, which much oversimplifies the question. He also said that large nuclear powers would increase their protection to inferior nuclear states so as to guard against a nuclear exchange in which they might be involved. (This is hardly how the United States would describe its attitude to France).
- There was considerable discussion in the working group about the possible requirement of an Australian nuclear capability to deter or deal with an invasion. (This thinking is reflected in Baxter's speech reported in this morning's Australian.) The AAEC and Defence Science representatives argued that Australia's isolation from major centres of population and its continental wastelands were features favouring the use of tactical nuclear weapons against an invader without triggering a wider nuclear exchange. This might well be argued by AAEC representative on the Defence Committee, and perhaps by Sir Henry Bland. It could be that such a view will also be argued in Cabinet.
- This argument greatly oversimplifies the complexities of any situation involving nuclear weapons, strategic or nuclear. However, short of a detailed discussion of the strategic considerations, the best response that I can suggest is along the following lines.
- In supporting the NPT we are not claiming to foresee the future or maintaining that Australia will never require nuclear weapons. We are supporting a system that offers us, and other countries, significant prospects of a world situation in which a requirement for nuclear weapons will be much more unlikely to arise. To argue Australia's isolation, its future attraction to future aggressive powers, its need to 'keep its powder dry' against some political Armageddon is politically naive and misconceives the political significance of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. This Treaty does not merely ban nuclear proliferation; it establishes, admittedly in a preliminary way as yet, a system of global political management, directed towards the peaceful settlement of political conflicts and the containment of aggression. Such a system would necessarily be concerned not only with nuclear, but with conventional aggression, however much the Treaty might be framed in the nuclear context. No system directed to global political management and the prevention of significant changes in the regional, and hence, global balance of power can be indifferent to the mounting of a threat of such size that it could seriously threaten Australia. It would threaten too many others at the same time and would unavoidably affect the Great Powers' interests. To conceive of Australia in purely bilateral confrontation with such a major threat while such a system prevailed is politically unrealistic.
- We do not say that this system is bound to work or to last; only that it must attract our support. Should a major threat to Australia develop, it would only be in the event of the collapse of the system represented by the NPT and the Tripartite Declaration.7 There would be ample warning of this and opportunity to protect our interests. The provisions of the Treaty would become increasingly irrelevant. In formal terms we could exercise our right of withdrawal in good time, and very likely without significant opposition from our friends and allies. We would be unlikely to be the first to do so.
- On an incidental point, the fact that other countries might breach the Treaty is not of itself of overriding significance. Their motives to use their weapons in a way indirectly or directly disadvantageous to us is what counts and there would be time to assess this. Political motives do not shape up and lead to action overnight. If India, for example, went nuclear in the next few years, this would not mean that Australia was threatened.
- Paragraph 47. The final sentence was added at the request of the Treasury representative. Perhaps it shows how unrealistic speculation about possible future situations could become. A further point, made by the JPC, is that acquisition of a nuclear capacity by Australia would stimulate Indonesia to acquire one, or a senior nuclear ally.
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'Amendment, Review' Etc.
- Paragraph 77. There was prolonged discussion in the group on the duration provision, with the AAEC and Defence Science representatives holding out for a limited ten year duration. Arguments pro and con are canvassed in the paper. I might repeat the point that we should not be entering a treaty on the assumption that we could predict situations arising during the 25 year period, but with the intent of supporting an arrangement that increased the prospect that we should not need nuclear weapons during that period.
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Many people today use wireless products to help them simplify their lifestyle by simultaneously connecting two or more household commodities together. Wireless products are becoming more readily available for purchase because they help to combine several tasks and products into one seamless connection that can be easily controlled from the touch of a button.
While wireless products like keyboards, laptops and headphones are convenient, when two or more products can be hooked up to work together through the same frequency, that's when the real advantages of wireless technology shines through. Products like workout exercise apps that connect your smartphone to your bicycle or security cameras that display footage in real-time to your computer make the most of wireless technology by merging several products to work through one multi-functional frequency.


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Fellow Jina Moore: "Who gets to tell rape stories from Haiti?"
Fellow Jina Moore discusses the issue of consent in journalism:
There's a debate raging about Mac McClelland's reporting for Mother Jones last fall from Haiti. If you haven't followed it, a personal essay for GOOD magazine about McClelland's struggle with PTSD after spending time in Haiti ignited strong feelings – about the relationship between journalism and essays, about neo-colonial representations of the developing world, and other things. All worthy big issues — bigger than this one article — but I'd like to focus on something else: Consent.
Jina also provides a link to the Dart Center Guide to Reporting on Sexual Violence available here. For more news and updates on Jina's work, check out her website or follow her on Twitter.


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A Christmas Carol
With a much bigger cast than the traditional fringe theatre production, Ray Shell's innovative version of A Christmas Carol immediately sets itself apart from the rest.
Its setting is explained only in the programme - a British school in Jerusalem decides to bring the Dickens classic to the stage and members of the community also join the cast.
Edward Kingham's Scrooge is at his best when he's being scathing and sarcastic. Frequently an observer of the proceedings, he plays the role with humour and frequent reserve, continually allowing the other players to take centre stage.
Mark Gillham as the young Scrooge is particularly impressive, commanding the audience's attention and equally convincing as the youthful romantic, slowly morphing into the selfish, miserly cynic.
With a sizeable cast of schoolchildren who continually take part, then withdraw from the story, the Lion and Unicorn's limited space is full to compacity and the reshuffling of chairs as props won't be to everyone's tastes.
Yet strong characters shine through the occasionally overwhelming action, with Amy Puglia as the Ghost of Christmas Present filling the room with warmth and joviality.
Barbara Lanik's decidedly female Tiny Tim is a bold move that pays off and her wonderfully silent yet expressive Ghost of Christmas Future demonstrates her versatile talents.
Essentially, an ensemble piece full of admirable multi-taskers, as long as you can handle Scrooge in an unexpected setting, this is a festive favourite worth rediscovering.


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For Christians grace is God's gift of pardon. According to William Barclay the Greek word for grace was originally a military term. When an emperor came to the throne or celebrated a birthday, he would give his troops a donatirim (donation), which was a free gift that they had not earned; it was given out of the goodness of the emperor's heart. This idea was picked up by the Christian scripture writers when they wrote about the grace of God. Grace is something that is unearned and undeserved – unmerited pardon.
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Grinding noise on CPU fan
I bought a Sony VGN-CS110D a little less than a year ago. I've been using it intensely as a development laptop and the performance is fine. What I have run into is a problem with the CPU fan. After about 6 months the CPU fan started making a really loud grinding noise.
I called Sony and they opened up a ticket to replace the fan under warranty. I took it to the authorized Sony repair centre and they said the original fans in the units were defective and they had a replacement part. However after 2 months - the replacement too is making this grinding noise!
I am more than a little annoyed at this, because the laptop will soon be out of the warranty period and I was hoping to use it at least for a few years.
Has anyone else experienced this issue and can you suggest what I can do to resolve it?


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Hi, my husband and i purchased a king Serta perfect morning Eurotop 3 weeks ago. Long story short, we didn't get the mattress we thought we were getting (the pillowtop). My husband will sleep on anything. I am 5'7" 115lbs with lumbar back herniation and MS. We had a Nature's Rest for 6 years, but all of a sudden i was aching on my pressure points. So we get the serta, and it feels too firm. I think i need something that i can float on, since i'm so lightweight. We are considering exchanging for the serta perfect morning pillowtop... or possibly something from the Stearn's & Foster "Plaza" collection... the Landmark elite is too cushy, any suggestions of what might be best? Perhaps the latex toppers you have suggested to others? thanks
Hi Laura. The latex topper will make a noticeable difference and is probably less costly than an exchange. To exchange for a softer mattress, you run the risk of it being too soft. It's your MS that requires the softer surface feel, but your herniated discs need that firm support. Quite often, there isn't one mattress that will satisfy opposing problems. You have to aproach this by address your problems from the inside out. Right now, you have the0 firm mattress your back needs. Just alter the feel of the top and you're good to go.
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