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Jandals
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March 05, 2012, 12:56:58 PM »
Quote from: Tim Ingram on March 05, 2012, 05:36:56 AM
We have just put a fence around the garden to keep the dog in and the rabbits out
6 months ago I put up a rabbit fence which needed 400m of rabbit netting . I built it around a rabbit and it's still in here despite my best efforts .
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Tim Ingram
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Oh I love it! They really are pesky creatures. A few years ago I found a nest (if that's the right word) of tiny rabbits in a large pile of shreddings, so I hope you only have the one in the garden!
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Dr. Timothy John Ingram
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I garden in a relatively hot and dry region (for the UK!), with an annual rainfall of around 25", winter lows of -10°C and summer highs of 30°C.
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I find a nest in my yard most years. Fortunately, I have always discover them before the babies get too big to catch. Rabbits love witchhazel too, and the really love sassafras.
Jandals, have you tried a cut apple to bait them?
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Nice flowers, Fermi and Tim!
Still growing only snowbanks here! (
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=930.msg15658#msg15658
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Here's the mock orange/Philadelphus again.... amazing how much snow those thin branches can hold! followed by Lilac/Syringa and an apple/Malus
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Quote from: cohan on March 06, 2012, 02:12:39 AM
Nice flowers, Fermi and Tim!
Still growing only snowbanks here! (
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=930.msg15658#msg15658
)
Here's the mock orange/Philadelphus again.... amazing how much snow those thin branches can hold! followed by Lilac/Syringa and an apple/Malus
Amazing, Cohan,
reminds me of the soap suds scene from "The Party"!
cheers
fermi
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March 06, 2012, 10:30:04 AM »
I'm glad to say I have no rabbits! (The slugs are out BTW and have started destroying some of the early plants >
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At my mountain cabin we have European elks (and some stray sheep) and at my summerhouse we have deer and sheep. Small rodents are everywhere of course.
It's as you say, Cohan, the Philadelphus is never scratched by any critter nor broken by heavy snow!
Nice bulbs,
jandals
Fermi! I'm sorry I can't grow them outside here - I assume. . . . .
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Trond
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Quote from: RickR on March 05, 2012, 07:05:08 PM
Jandals, have you tried a cut apple to bait them?
Not yet Rick but I will do when all the seeds are done . Winter is the best time to try food based traps . Will keep you updated and thanks for the tip
Trond - It's Fermi who grows all the lovely bulbs but I know that you knew that
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Quote from: Jandals on March 06, 2012, 12:59:27 PM
Quote from: RickR on March 05, 2012, 07:05:08 PM
Jandals, have you tried a cut apple to bait them?
Not yet Rick but I will do when all the seeds are done . Winter is the best time to try food based traps . Will keep you updated and thanks for the tip
Trond - It's Fermi who grows all the lovely bulbs but I know that you knew that
Oh yes, of course
. . . I was a little too quick there, Steve!
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Trond
Rogaland, Norway - with cool, often rainy summers (29C max) and mild, often rainy winters (180 cm/year)!
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Quote from: Fermi on March 06, 2012, 02:40:52 AM
Quote from: cohan on March 06, 2012, 02:12:39 AM
Nice flowers, Fermi and Tim!
Still growing only snowbanks here! (
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=930.msg15658#msg15658
)
Here's the mock orange/Philadelphus again.... amazing how much snow those thin branches can hold! followed by Lilac/Syringa and an apple/Malus
Amazing, Cohan,
reminds me of the soap suds scene from "The Party"!
cheers
fermi
True! though soap suds wouldn't be as heavy! Right now I feel like I'm living on a bob-sled site...lol plus the sun is out, so quite blinding!
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Some pictures from today's walk. It is mild but cloudy as it has been for several days now. On the other "side" of the country (along Oslofjorden) they have started planting salads and other vegetables outside now but farther north they still have snowstorms!
I have planted several forms of Corydalis solida in my woodland. The earlier have bloomed for some weeks now! The very first rhododendron is Rh dauricum(??). It set off in early February but was damaged by a spell of frost. Another early is Rh moupinense. I think the flowers unfurl tomorrow! Also Hepatica transsilvanica is in flower now. Thisone has a lot of flowers but they are far apart! One plant covers about 1 sq meter!
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Trond
Rogaland, Norway - with cool, often rainy summers (29C max) and mild, often rainy winters (180 cm/year)!
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March 14, 2012, 08:24:08 AM »
Looking for signs of spring yesterday and this is what I found. Not much, but it keep my hopes up that most things have made it through this freakish winter!
1-Corydalis solida...a pale lavender one from a gardener in MA who sells divisions of her garden plants in her front yard to raise funds for local charities. Some of her plants are quite rare such as the double bloodroot, Trillium of all sorts and many others for extremely low prices! Needless to say I visit her yard every spring!
2-Cyclamen coum...From Brent & Becky's Bulbs in Virginia. Stopped by there last March on a nursery tour down the east coast. Their tubers are huge!!
3-Another C. coum from the 2010 seedex, just about in bloom!
4-The first snowdrop to bloom for me this year!!
5-Helleborus niger 'Josef Lemper' purchased at Pine Knot Farms last March. This has had buds above ground since last December.
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Nice to see flowers and shoots, Trond and Amy!
My young C solida flowered in May last year, so some time to wait yet.. all my 'spring' plantings are still one or two feet under snow...
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Today, these two flowers really caught my eye in the garden!
Pulsatilla vulgaris subsp. grandis (a seedling of the Budapest strain....the real P. vulgaris 'Budapest' doesn't exist anymore, which is a real shame)
and Scilla armena with it's intense blue flower!
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What's better than blue Scillas in spring? Except more of them
Really nice pastel colour on the Pulsatilla too..
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Wim, that Pulsatilla has a very striking colour!
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Trond
Rogaland, Norway - with cool, often rainy summers (29C max) and mild, often rainy winters (180 cm/year)!
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