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My poppies are blooming! They are my first big flowers in the back yard. These are the ones I brought to the swap. (The 2 orange pots. Someone else had brought some also.) |
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I don't know why I can't figure out how to post more than one pic at a time. I did the photobucket thing... Anyway- here is my new strawberry cage. I already have a ripe strawberry! Those bird are just out of luck this year. Mayberry, every one of those strawberry plants that you gave me is taking off. I even separated several that were clumped together! Thanks so much. ~Cat |
This post was edited by catnohat on Wed, May 22, 13 at 11:50
And here is my green bean T-pee and a lot of weeds! I planted 2 morning glorys at each side of the entrance and green beans the rest of the way around. I have a 7 year old daughter, and I hope this will turn into a great hideout for her and her friends. I sure do love that Pinterest, so full of good ideas! |
I don't see any problem with posting 1 picture with each post, Cat'. Gives you a chance to write interesting captions. I seem to be able to do multiple pictures with copying & pasting the photobucket "HTML (for ebay, Craiglist, blogs, websites)" but if you are wanting to use just any .jpg URL address you can paste it between the quotation marks of this: [img src="http://graphics.gardenweb.com/graphics/images/heirloom.jpg"/] (not Steve) Then replace the brackets [ ] with < >. Steve |
- Posted by LizinElizabeth 5 (email@example.com) on Wed, May 22, 13 at 22:08
Nice to have flowers already! I have some strawberries blooming but no berries yet, think I'm a week or 2 behind out here. I hope to be posting pics of peonies in the next week or so! Your poppies are very pretty and I'm sure your daughter will enjoy the bean teepee, saw something similar with tall sunflowers and morning glories in the newspaper several years ago.... |
Lookin' good, cat! That bean teepee is cool. Um, you don't have many weeds. I have lots of weeds, one of my projects for this coming weekend. Here, the deciduous trees finally started leafing out in the last week. I've been anxiously awaiting that to see what survived the drought last year. It's so nice to have green around again after the last couple of months of snow, wind and mud. I think a lot of veggies will be going in this weekend. Thanks for the pics! |
- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Fri, May 24, 13 at 20:57
Beautiful poppies!!! If you happen to save seeds from them, Cat, I would love to have some! I have one called Double Tangerine Gem, but it is not as deep of an orange as yours, and they are not blooming yet. They got hit by one of the late frosts, and it really set them back this year. Here's what's blooming at my house now: Alyssum 'Golden Queen' Kerria japonica Golden delicious apple ... and strawberries There's a lot of stuff budding up, so I'll have more pics in a week or so! |
- Posted by sugaralice 5b (My Page) on Mon, May 27, 13 at 23:13
The poppies and alyssums are stunning! Are the alyssum perennial? I realized that I mostly have white blooms. Even more if the ornamental pear had bloomed. I have to think about adding in some colour for spring! Candytuft wintersowed last year Anemone sylvestris from Skybird - So pretty this year! Ajuga also from Skybird |
Thanks everyone, I do love my poppies. I would really like some pink ones. Does anyone have any? I will collect seed from mine this year. I am going to try to make the fall swap this year and can bring some there. I could always mail you some, highalttransplant, if we don't get together at the swap. That Golden Queen is great. I also really like the candytuft and the Anemone sylvestris. I might have to hit up Skybird, when she returns to the forum, for a start of that Anemone sylvestris! I'm putting in a lot of white and light pink this year. Barb, I have heard you talk lots about your property and trees, I would love to see some pics sometime. |
Hi cat! Your poppies are so cheery and summery! Just gorgeous. You're so right about Pinterest. I've seen those darling green bean teepees with little girls inside! Can't wait to see yours when it's growing. Transplant, your yellow Alyssum is so gorgeous! The only thing I have blooming right now is my lavender colored irises...better get out there with the camera today. |
Ooh, irises look kinda sad after all the wind. The catmint is straggly too. They still smell nice, though |
Alicia, you peony is huge! I just got a white one at the swap. I can't wait until it gets big! |
Oh, thank you cat! I guess it was planted in 1996 when the house was first built. When I moved in during October 2006, I had no idea what would come up the following spring. When it bloomed, it took my breath away! I had to look it up..I had never seen one before. |
Every year I get different colored snapdragons popping up. This is one of my favorites this year! I love the mostly white with the purple tops. |
They're so pretty! I thought snapdragons were annuals though! But yours are coming up from last year? That's good to know. |
- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Wed, Jun 5, 13 at 22:50
Yeah, I used to think that snapdragons were annuals, and they do reseed, but I've had them come back too. Here's one that I've had for 3 or 4 years: A couple more things blooming now: Geum 'Mrs. Bradshaw' Verbascum 'Southern Charm' Dianthus (either 'Sooty' or 'Black Magic' not sure which) ... and Delosperma kelaidis 'Mesa Verde' More to come ... |
Pretty sure I'm in love with that Anemone sylvestris. I don't have one of those. I wonder why not? *sees trip to garden center in near future* |
- Posted by margaretmontana 4-5MT (My Page) on Thu, Jun 6, 13 at 0:46
Here they call them Japanese Anemone and my husband calls them the enemy! They have a tough mass of a root system and the seed heads are like dandelions and the seed blows as well as spreads from the roots. Use them in an area where you don't care if they take over. |
Mama, if you think you might be able to come to one of the swaps don't spend any money on the Anemone sylvestris! A year or so ago I managed to kill virtually all of mine (long story) and it'll be at least another year before mine spreads enough to be giving it away again, but at past swaps I've given away DOZENS of them and there must be several people around by now with fairly large patches of it, so if you sign up to come to one of the swaps and ask if anyone could bring some for you I suspect you'll be able to get a free start of it--and it spreads pretty quickly so it doesn't take much to get you started! I wasn't able to make it to the Spring Swap but possibly other people are starting to bring starts of it even without being asked for it. Bonnie, your Mesa Verde is looking great! Almost all of mine died off this past winter and I'm not at all sure at this point but I think there are still a couple little bits on one side that might make it! Have my fingers crossed! Love the black-red Dianthus too! That's my color!!! Skybird |
Yep, everyone of the snapdragons in my pictures are from 1 to 4 years old. The babies that are popping up from seed are only 4 or 5 inches tall. They will bloom eventually! |
- Posted by polygonum_tinctorium 10 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 6, 13 at 10:13
No photos from me yet, but I wanted to thank everyone who has given me starts of various plants. My irises are blooming this year. They are fabulous! Some of the ice plants are blooming -- white nugget is so covered in flowers at midday that I can't even see the vegetation beneath. The Fire Spinner ice plant and the hardy yellow ice plants are also blooming nicely. The ajugas are a solid mass of little blue and purple flower spikes. The salvia and penstemons are putting out buds. The sedums are doing very well, and ditto for most of the sempervivums The yellow columbine also looks like it might bloom this year. A mystery plant is setting buds -- I wonder what it is and who I got it from? I'm glad I didn't weed it out when it sprouted this spring! I can't recognize it from the vegetation. Hopefully it will be more obvious when it blooms. My snapdragons also survived the winter. I hope they reseed! They aren't blooming yet. I started them last spring from seed shared at a plant swap. The pinks I have also survived, but I already knew that even the ones sold as annual pinks are really very hardy perennials that will return for at least a few years. Many other things are greening up but of course won't bloom until later in the season. Anyway, even without photos, I just wanted to say thank you again for all the beautiful things you have shared. I'm glad I'm finally able to start sharing, too. I still have a ton of work to do to get my yard looking good. But it looks cheerful with all the blooming plants. And it makes me smile to see them blooming, and to think about the people who are responsible for it being in my yard. |
Skybird, I will try to wait until one of the next swaps. I haven't been to one in a very long time, but in the past I had been to at least two. Here are a few pics from my garden as of today. This little garden has a lot going on in it. It might even be considered haphazard. I created it after one of my first swaps. There is a hardy geranium blooming that I'm pretty sure came from a swap. There is a yellow penstemon and a pink one that have not yet bloomed, a lupine I just planted this year, a peony over on the right that has always been rather pathetic, and some wonderful purple mallow sylvestris which I love (also not in bloom yet). This garden contains a wonderful Siberian iris that I believe came from a swap also. Anyone every had one turn from purple to white? I swear this one was purple at one time. In the background is a dark purple Clematis that I say is like that plant from Little Shop of Horrors. I cut it down to the ground every year and this is what I get back. It hasn't bloomed yet, but it's very pretty when it does. It also grows up my neighbor's tree. I really want an arch for it, but have yet to purchase one. The sunflower is painted on an old satellite dish mounted to some wrought iron from an old security door. I tend to be a bit "garden junky" also. |
highalttransplant, your flowers look awesome! I'll play "Pictures! Let's see them." Fron yard looking to the northeast. Starting from the bottom right going to the left and then moving up and going to the right... Red Bulb Onions, strawberries, nasturtium, oregano, White Dutch clover around the pavers, Geraniums in containers, Russian sage that I'm letting go to seed, clover, rosemary, Winter savory, French Lavender, daisy then strawberries, Then in the back easiest things to see is sage and garlic The new sage plant is looking nice My first real attempt to grow potatoes In the foreground are bush beans, a few have been decimated by slugs. The center bed is rattlesnake pole beans, Italian Rose bush beans in the middle and the cucumbers on the left which are probably to small to see. |
Oops, not Russian Sage but Russian Kale in the first picture. |
- Posted by jaliranchr z5 EC CO (My Page) on Fri, Jun 7, 13 at 23:27
Loving all the pictures. Well done, each one of you! |
I badly need a new camera. So this is blurry, and I'm sorry. And, Fathers Day is coming up!! Here we have, year 3 after division, a bank of 20-odd Karl Rosenfield peonies who finally hit their stride, a clematis Belle of Wocking clematis I neglected to cut back last year, the standard, Four-Corners twisted cedar in lieu of pink flamingo garden decoration, and a buncha green stuff thats going to bloom later. |
And here is a bed of salvia May Night and Blue Hill, along with some rapidly browning off daffodils and some roses that are going to bloom next week. And thats a brand new, $85,000 Porche Carerra in the distance. It just looks like some 18 yr old beater Honda. |
- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Sun, Jun 9, 13 at 0:11
I keep looking for the "like" button after viewing everyone's pictures ... Connie, I really like the iceplant around the stepping stones! I have some that has migrated to the back of the flower bed where it's kind of hidden. Guess I need to dig up some pieces and move to the bed near the street where it can be seen. |
gjcore, Your sage plant has those pretty little purple flowers? I love it! |
Wow everyone's photos look great! |
I think this is Sunset Foxglove, that is blooming. I'm a beginner gardener and really had no idea what I bought when I did and planted it a few years ago. So it came back and was one of the first things to bloom in my yard. |
This chocolate Nigella is looking good. It self seeded from last year. I transplanted a few to another spot. They are not near as big as this one or blooming yet. These are easy to collect seed from if anyone is interested. Does anyone out there have any other nigella? ~Cat |
Has anyone every grown lemon cucumbers? Is this what they look like? I'm hoping that's what this plant is. It could also be a gourd. I planted a mix of gourds also, and my labeling was shady! |
- Posted by luckybottom Five in colorado (My Page) on Wed, Jun 19, 13 at 18:41
I have grown lemon cucumbers and this looks more like a gourd to me. cucumber leaves would be smaller and the blossom would not look like something to make stuffed squash blossoms with. We got some hay put up. |
Posted by catnohat (My Page) on Wed, Jun 19, 13 at 18:20 Has anyone every grown lemon cucumbers? Is this what they look like? . . . (That chocolate Nigella sure looks like something special, Cat'. Pretty.) I will say that they look a little too robust for lemon cucumber vines. Difficult for me to know beyond that. They are waaay ahead of my lemon cukes. That variety has been in my garden for about 6 years. I really like them, altho' others are earlier. Here is just my personal opinion: don't wait until they are yellow to eat them. I like them best as soon as they fill out to a round shape and are still a pale green. You know, I think all cucumbers turn yellow at maturity. It may just be that we think of round as more appealing than cylindrical. Still, they are tasty little cukes and very prolific. Steve |
- Posted by LizinElizabeth 5 (email@example.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 0:41
Hi guys! I've been enjoying your pics, such pretty flowers and veggies. I've been busy creating a new garden bed for all of the (way too many) things I wintersowed this year. It's going to look crazy-probably 1/3 of the stuff I planted have completely faded tags. I'll never learn! Here's a picture from earlier this spring when the peonies out front were barely starting to bloom....there's Husker's Red Penstemon in the lower left and lots of the Elodie lily starting to get big in the background below the bathouse. |
- Posted by LizinElizabeth 5 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 0:46
And this was another bed this last week. Rocky Mountain Blue Penstemon in the foreground with several peonies behind it. |
- Posted by LizinElizabeth 5 (email@example.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 0:47
And this was another bed this last week. Rocky Mountain Blue Penstemon in the foreground with several peonies behind it. |
- Posted by LizinElizabeth 5 (email@example.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 0:55
And to those of you who got what I thought was a white double peony at the spring exchange I think I guessed wrong--there were at least 2 other varieties of peony that got lost in the wild roses that I didn't realize survived! One is a pink I'm still trying to ID, the other is a fancy cactus single called Circus Circus. I'll post of pic of the other when it opens completely and will pass on the name if/when I figure it out....I'm so disorganized....This pic is Circus Circus. At least it's unique enough that I could ID this one at a glance! |
- Posted by LizinElizabeth 5 (email@example.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 1:08
I did have an early pic of the NOID pink lost in the wild roses, not completely open yet. If you look really hard to the right of that one you'll see the tiny pink bud that turned into the Circus Circus... |
- Posted by LizinElizabeth 5 (email@example.com) on Thu, Jun 20, 13 at 1:24
Last one for tonight, this is part of the new bed I started this spring--it's the side in the foreground, ends at the path and stretches another 25 ft to the left of this pic. So far I've put down 115 feet of edging and moved in 20 yards of planter's mix. I'm still getting drip lines moved in and need a couple more yards of mulch and I'll be done. I'll post another pic when I'm done putting in all of my wintersown starts. Not everything in it is wintersown, though. I ordered a bunch of lilies and more peonies in the spring that have been planted in the new bed and have a fall order of peonies coming, too. It's going to be a crazy mish-mash for quite a while, at least most of the stuff doesn't mind being moved..... |
- Posted by sugaralice 5b (My Page) on Fri, Jun 21, 13 at 0:26
This post was edited by sugaralice on Fri, Jun 21, 13 at 15:33
- Posted by sugaralice 5b (My Page) on Fri, Jun 21, 13 at 0:41
I can't figure out why my pics aren't loading! I need to get to bed and will figure it out this weekend. Sorry everyone |
It might be the website, Alice! Half of your message is in the "beige" background and the upper half is in the white! We may have reached some kind of GW picture limit. Don't know. Steve |
Don't know what's going on here but the whole background is white for me, Digit! The only problem for me is that there's little question marks where the pics should be, and then when I try to open one of them I get this message: 404. That's an error. The requested URL /- Skybird P.S. I've posted way more pics than that in a single post so I don't think the number of pics is a problem. P.P.S. Just thought of something!!! (WOW!) With Picasa there are two different "types" of links to copy, one is for posting online and the other is for sending in emails. Is it possible, with whatever hosting site you're using, that you copied the link for emailing rather than the one for posting online? P.P.P.S.!!! If the error message I copied above is the actual link you pasted into your post, there's no "href" or "https" in it, and I know it needs that to work (the https part at least!) but can't tell you exactly how to put it in if it's not already in the link you copy! That's gets back to the Computer Challenged stuff--and Picasa already has all that stuff in the link for ya! |
- Posted by polygonum_tinctorium 10 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 21, 13 at 12:47
Sugaralice: The Red Riding Hood penstemon I got from you last year is blooming right now. It is spectacular! I have it next to the May Night salvia I got from Amester. I love the combo. Thank you so much for sharing the rooted cutting last year! The ice plants I got from skybird and others are doing well for the most part. They are blooming next to the penstemon, salvia, etc. I love the metallic red sheen of the Fire Spinner ice plant that is in front of the salvia with its deep purple/red flower spikes. The yellow and the Lavender Ice (psfave) are blooming well this week, and the Mesa Verde is starting to bloom. The white nugget is winding down -- still flowering, but not covered with blooms the way it was a few weeks ago. My Table Mountain (aka John Profitt) ice plant is pretty reasonable this year, too. One of my mystery plants bloomed this year. It is Gaillardia. thank you to whoever gave this to me! I like it, and I'm so glad i decided it wasn't a weed when it sprouted in my garden this spring. It is cute near the fading irises and the pinks and the snapdragons. The yellow columbine bloomed this year. Thank you to skybird and amester, one or both of whom were the source of my plants. So many other things are doing well, too. It is exciting to watch it happen. Of course, I'm carefully not looking at the bazillions of weeds that I'm still fighting as I slowly get the yard into shape. Or the half-dead grass that is not yet recovered from last year's sprinkler malfunction. I have actually taken a few photos of these plants, so there's some chance the evidence will get posted somewhere so that it can be admired or sneered at by others. Meanwhile, thanks for letting me write about the beauty of the plants I've received from so many of you in our plant swaps. I am delighted to be able to share new starts of anything I have that is doing well. |
- Posted by sugaralice 5b (My Page) on Fri, Jun 21, 13 at 15:41
I actually see text just no pics on both my browsers after posting but everything looked fine during preview - when I tried to edit there are a bunch of gobbledegook that planted themselves into my html image source...So I tried another way while shoveling my lunch at the office. Let's see if it shows up! I REALLY should get back to work!! I'll check back in later. |
Everything looks wonderful now! In fact, this thread looks good enough for some glossy magazine! Howsomeever . . . the background still goes from white to beige just about where Alice begins her post . . ! I have no idea why it is doing that. Fine - it doesn't look bad. The color just changes as I scroll down the page. Steve |
Sugaralice, I can see all of your pictures now. I'm especially in love with the Verbascum Southern Charm and the Penstemon Red Riding Hood. Both are just beautiful and are now on my list of "must haves" for my yard. Thanks for introducing me to them. Connie |
alice, your flowers are just beautiful! |
- Posted by polygonum_tinctorium 10 (My Page) on Sat, Jun 22, 13 at 9:18
Oh, wow, absolutely beautiful pics. sugaralice, skybird, and everyone else. drool...... |
- Posted by sugaralice 5b (My Page) on Sat, Jun 22, 13 at 23:56
I second Steve on everyone's pics, they all look so gorgeous! Poly I am so happy to hear that your garden is beginning to grow since I remember talking at the swaps about all the difficulty you have. Like Poly I am terribly grateful for all your advise and all the plant starts I have gotten from you all. Connie, I am happy to share my penstemon cuttings with you if I can get them to root. This year I had 20 going hoping to bring them to the swap which by chance I missed but somehow they all didn;t take root. I am not sure what I did differently last year. The plant doesnt' seem to spread by roots or anything of that sort or may be slow to do so therefore I am not sure how to get more because I like more of them around the rest of the garden and in case they peter out one season. The only think I can think of is maybe the long cold spring was the reason? The Verbascum is supposed to reseed according to Bluestone's description but I see no signs of that yet? I only got these last summer. Skybird, your yellow columbine is begining to put out more blooms and they are lovely. Anyway I had picked up more plants today at the Flower Bin in Longmont - everything is 20% off this weekend. Coincidently I picked up a Callirhoe and a Veronica Royal Candles which I had my heart set on for a long time and Skybird, your RC looks so good I am glad I had gotten them. I also picked up several Lychnis Chalcedonia and a couple of Coreopsis Zagreb and a Mercury Rising - reddish wine blossoms looked striking and was smitten. PS: I am not sure what the heck was going on with the image codes. I've posted with the exact same html image embedding code but somehow this time after submitting a lot of the code changed characters. Well I am glad the link version worked. Well I am pooped for the day and speaking of poop....I'll start a new post about that! Love, love, love everyone's pictures! Thanks for starting this thread Cat |
Nice flowers everyone :-) I've got a few blooming. I really like the Asiatic Lily. Usually the blooms open exactly on the solstice. A few days late this year but still pretty. Here is a Clary Sage. Had a hard time getting a good picture. Here is a feverfew plant. It's a bit leggy as it's in mostly shade. |
- Posted by LizinElizabeth 5 (email@example.com) on Sun, Jun 23, 13 at 14:55
Every time I come back to this thread I write down more plants to search out! Do you guys think we'll all end up with the exact same plants in everyone's garden from trading or going out to buy what looks gorgeous in the other member's pics?!! |
Skybird! Somehow I missed that gorgeous Callirhoe in your yard the first time I looked. What a beautiful flower! I love it! |
- Posted by gardenarts 5 (email@example.com) on Sun, Jul 14, 13 at 15:12
We have about 5 large cottonwood stumps in our backyard that we're trying to camouflage until they rot enough to dig out, which can take many years here on the dry Front Range of Colorado. This year we set some flagstone on top of one and built an annual flower tower on top of. We drilled holes in the bottom of an old washtub, built a wood platform in the middle of that, then set a large strawberry pot on top and filled it with assorted annuals. It's really colorful and looks a whole lot better than the stump. We dug out the center of another stump and planted rock garden plants. It's pretty tedious digging out the wood, but we' re going to do that to a couple more of the stumps over time. I don't have a pic of that one, but I'll try to take one and post it. |
I got two small little cuttings at the fall swap in 2010, and look at them now! |
Are those yellow hollyhocks on the left, B2? I love the yellow ones! Yours are looking great! You must have seedlings coming up in there by now (if you don't you WILL soon!) but since Alcea crosses I recommend starting more plants to see if you come up with some other variations of pink. (The ones you have are the most "common" pinks.) I had a couple really pretty ones a couple years--one was almost an ivory and a couple pale pink ones were real ruffly looking! And if that is a yellow Alcea in the pic, no telling what colors you might come up with. Also, hollyhocks are technically biennials, so they "should" die after the second year when they bloom--obviously they didn't/don't! But when they get older they tend to get real "woody" in the center, and if you start a couple new plants close to the old ones every couple years, you can remove the old ones when the new ones are two years old, and the new ones will give you nicer looking plants--and possibly some color variation . Here are a couple of the "more unusual" ones I had. Never got a pic of the "ivory" one! Thanks for posting the pics, and if you do ever get some really cool and/or unusual colors, post them for us! Skybird P.S. Love your "cottonwood stump," GardenArts! |
Ooh those are gorgeous, skybird. Any tricks to saving the seedlings? |
Are you asking about the seeds or the seedlings, B2? If the seedlings, just wait till they have at least a couple true leaves and dig them up and put them where you want them. Don't wait till they're too big, 'cause they're semi-taprooted and will be easier to move when they're still pretty small. (They're easy to stick in a little pot for the swaps too! When you got yours I was putting 1 or 2 seedlings in a pot and then adding a bunch of seed so hopefully people were getting nice "thick" plants when some of the seed germinated to add to the little seedlings.) If you're asking about the seed, nothing special. Just wait till the seed pods turn brown/tan and are pretty well dry--the seed comes out very easily when they're dry if you're wondering exactly when to collect it, but if you wait too long it'll be falling out all over the place. If you want to start new plants from seed instead of digging up seedlings that come up on their own, collect seed from the different plants, mix it all up and put a bunch of seed (a dozen or so!) in a small pot and plant whatever germinates as one plant. Winter sowing would work well--or they're VERY easy to start any time of the year! Most of them will probably turn out to be the colors you already have, but you never know for sure what they'll look like till they bloom. Could be real interesting adding yellow to the genome! (You might want to pick up a cheap pack of commercial mixed single Alcea seed and start a couple from that too to add "new blood" to what you have now for possible different color combinations.) Skybird |
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Three members of the Stevens family last week spent two hours touring significant Bermuda Hundred Civil War battle locations, not because they are Civil War battle buffs, but because they are descendants of Major General Benjamin F. Butler, Union Commander of the Army of the James that occupied much of the Bermuda peninsula, bounded by the James and Appomattox rivers with 35,000 soldiers. It was May 5, 1864 and the Civil War had landed in Chesterfield.
General Butler was the great grandfather of George Stevens Sr. and the great-great grandfather of George Stevens Jr. and Amy Stevens. George Fickett, Chesterfield County's official historian, led the family's excursion visiting sites such as Point of Rocks, where Clara Barton worked as a nurse.
Abraham Lincoln, his wife and entourage visited the Point shortly before being assassinated. Lincoln sat on the point where there were no trees and you could see Petersburg; a major Union target.
The Stevens entourage, which included Jim Daniels, owner of Longest and Daniels Real Estate, and Amy's friend, Joe Svetina, in addition to Fickett, also visited area batteries and the location of the signal tower the Federals captured soon after landing at Bermuda Hundred.
"My father and I were here visiting my sister Amy, who lives near Fort Pocahontas and Charles City. We thought we'd visit some of the historical sites," George Jr., said. George Jr. lives in Andover, Massachusetts and George Sr. lives in Baltimore.
George Sr. said that after the war Gen. Butler got into the textile business. "He started the U.S. Bunting Company; they made flags," he said.
"They were all made from U.S. material," George Sr. added. "The legislature said that all U.S. flags were to be made out of U.S. material."
Butler built a rather impressive granite home in Gloucester, Massachusetts where George Sr.'s sister lives today. "The estate was 67 acres," Amy said. "When he first bought the property he lived in a tent saying 'this is the most beautiful place I've ever seen.'"
Amy said she lived on the estate while growing up and remembers that the steel fence surrounding the house was actually installed by Butler.
Butler wanted to establish a residence in Gloucester so he could run for the state legislature. "He had a friend in the next district and didn't want to run against him." George Jr. said.
Butler was to study law and pass the bar practicing in Lowell, Massachusetts before entering politics. History tells us he was a colorful and controversial politician.
The three Stevens came by their name through marriage, with another Civil War hero in between.
"Lieutenant Adelbert Ames of the 5th U.S. Artillery. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for fighting at Manassas," Fisher said. "I believe he also served under General Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn."
But Adelbert Ames lived to become a scientist and sire a number of children. His daughter, Edith Ames married a Stevens and through marriage made the connection between the Union General and members of the Stevens family that stood looking over the Appomattox River from the top of Point of Rocks. Other members of Butler's descendents include his granddaughter; Blanche Ames, a women' rights activist and artist; Butler Ames and George Plimpton, famous for writing about participating in various sports, sparring with Sugar Ray Robinson and authoring Paper Lion.
While the house that stands at Point of Rocks was part of the headquarters and hospital for the Union, Fickett said it isn't known whether or not Butler stayed in the house. He did, however, use the Halfway House on Jefferson Davis Highway for his headquarters for several days as Butler's army tried to take the fort at Drewry's Bluff.
The Stevens visited the Halfway House after a tour of Point of Rocks ending with the story of how part of the actual point was blasted away so the stone could be used for a monument at City Point in Hopewell. Butler commissioned the monument project, which marks the location of Federal troops killed during the Bermuda Campaign. The dead troops were moved from simple graves at Point of Rocks to the City Point National Cemetery.
The Stevens' tour ended at the Halfway House where proprietor Rick Young explained what part the Halfway House played in the war. Butler had stayed at the house from May 14 through 16, which acted as his headquarters, hospital and medical supply depot as the Federals advanced on Drewry's.
The Stevens family absorbed the history of their ancestor who played a major part in the Civil War as it touch Chesterfield and after lunch left for home.

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In conjunction with the College of Law, the Department of Psychology offers an interdisciplinary program in law and Clinical Psychology. Students who are interested in the joint program seek admission to each individual program and consult with academic advisors in each program to plan their degree program.
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