Brugmansia Tester

 I asked a gardener friend in the midwest

early this year if he would mind testing my 3

2024 seedlings.  I also treated him to a

rooted B. Shorty's Variegated for his 

helping me out.

This past week he sent me photos of

what he was testing.  

B. Shorty's Variegated:

This is a new seedling:

Isn't She So Breath Taking?

 

This is off one of our variegated

Hydrangeas.  

Brugmansia Are Blooming

 In the green and brug houses.

They are sure happy now that they are protected!

Hoop House

 

Here is where we store the potted plants

that can stay outside but we give them

protection.

Rose of Sharon

 

Our double pink.

Our Variegated.

The above one was found on one of our solid

green shrubs several year ago and not purchased.

There is one the market now from what I have 

learned.

I have noted several seedpods on this one

this year.  So I'm excited to see if the variegation

carries on.

We have several others from white to rose but

since I cut them back last fall to the ground

they won't bloom this year. 

Fall is the time of year to get cuttings.

That Time Of Year!

 

More Red!

 

This tree will be the last to come inside.

Just enjoying seeing it bloom.

2025 Set Goal

 This year we set a goal of Oct. 1 

to get all the plants put away.  It's

usually Oct. 15 but this year we 

up it to the first. 

I can say we are a little behind!

As of today I have 2 Clematis,

1 Perennial Hibiscus and 70%

of the roses to strip.

With the Yard Debris Bins

full!

Fall fertilizer was put down

last week so we can just coast.

Lots of dry dead spots in the 

lawn as the heat was terrible

this year.  

As of this evening I only have

one clematis that is in the ground

to cut back before starting on the 

roses.  Everything is put away, 

now to rearrange some things so

I will be able to get into the back 

areas.

Some of the Brugmansia are starting

to bloom again!  Photos on another 

post!

10/2/2025

The last Clematis is now gone and 

in the yard recycle bin.   Rain delay!

This afternoon I started to strip the 

leaves off the roses.  I knew the white

flies would be bad by now.  Just taking 

their food away from them instead of 

spraying chemicals.

It's official I have the yard 99% cut back

in the front, now to work on the back.

2025 --- October ----

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The Growing Season Ends

 Our Gardens are open May

1st to Oct. 1st by appointment

only!  So as we close the season

down, we hope you have enjoyed

what we do here.

This season has been the hardest

season to keep the garden going.

The higher temps than normal,

critters/insects, and all the dandelions

and thistle.

Current Photo:

Early Fall:

Oh The Color Red!!

 

That Time Of Year!

 When you bring in pots 

with a hitchhiker in the pot!

While bring in the front 

door flowering maples I 

sat them down after bring 

them in.  To my surprise

Onyx cornered a frog by 

the front door.  She knew 

it didn't belong in her

domain! 

I had to get it out of the 

house fast and give it a

good home in the greenhouse.

The minute it was placed in

a pot it just took off!  The 

door is wide open for now

out there so we will watch

the front area to see if it 

returns.

The same frog was found

over a week ago in some

hanging pots and had to 

be removed when they

were cut back and put away.

The Yard Is Disappearing

 Today I started cutting back plants to

get ready for the junk we deal with in 

the fall from neighboring trees.  

Sorry you missed it!  There is next 

year.

9/21/2025

Today was my day to take cuttings and cut 

the Flowering Maples back before putting 

them in the greenhouse.

9/22/2025

Today it was getting some of the 

Perennial Hibiscus cutting taken

before they are cut back.  I had

already taken most of the PH Luna

white with red center ones down.

9/23/2025

It is also time to put down the

fall grass fertilizer and do the

last of the weeding.

What A Nice Man

 While at Home Depo yesterday a

man asked if he could help me 

load what I had purchased.  He 

saw it was a load and I had my 

hands full with Onyx.

It was so nice of him to offer and I

told him "no, I have it."  I said a

prayer as he walked away.  There

are people out there that offer 

to help.

What A Wind Storm!

 The yard is a total mess!  With

plant needing to be set back up

right several times today.

I have to bring in the last Brug

as it lost a bloom and cut the 

last of the A. Red Dragon down.

While in the garage and finding the leaves

had turned upward it was time to trim them

off.

I noticed that there is another flush coming on 

after these blooms.

So much for the clean street as the leaves 

from the east that have come down are not 

on our end of the circle.

9/17/2025

What a morning!  4 bags taken off the 

yard and another off the road in front 

of our property, that is all I'm doing!

When I was finishing a lady pulled up

and said I had a nice garden!  I was

tired as I just spent 4 hours cleaning up 

the yard, I was putting stuff  away and

had a headache with a bloody nose

again.

Again Please make an appt if you

want to see my yard.  But remember

this is a private garden and if we 

had a storm the next day I'll be out

cleaning up the storm damage.

It was nice to stand in my shower

as the dirt ran off me!  Nice day 

for a spa treatment.

Please make an appointment!

Newest Cross Perennial Hibiscus

 

Pure white with just a hint of pink.

We did a cross prior to this which end

in a pure white Perennial Hibiscus.

We have had her for 5 years now and shared

with a friend back east.   We are currently 

seeing on offered and they are calling theirs

PH Marshmallow.

The same time we did this cross we also 

did another which we call Our Pink.

It is huge and this year was loaded 

with blooms.

 

Sometimes we are seeing more white 

in some of the blooms.

9/14/2025

 As of today I can proudly state I 

have put away 90% of the plants

that need protection.  Now I can

take cutting for next spring.

The yard is minus the Tropicals

but there is still plenty to see.

Our Clematises that were cut 

back in July are in full bloom!

These will be put away Oct. 1

in there protective hoop house.

Yes that is the third house we

have here as the winter months

they could use some protection

instead of leaving them out all

winter.

Enjoy your day!!  

9/21/2025

I can now state I'm 98% done!

Just have to start cuttings in the

next couple days.  

Glorious Rain

 Finally rain that we badly need

and I am enjoying the birds out

in the rain gathering food.

Not enough to get us out of the

drought!  Remember July was 

the start of the burn ban here!

Who Would Of Known??

 My blog would be so popular all

over the world??  Here are the counts

this morning at 9:00 am

Singapore                    1.79k

United States               1.16k

Hong Kong                   884

Mexico                          397

China                            296

Germany                         65 

United Kingdom             31

Austria                            27 

India                                21

Japan                               18

Brazil                                7

Russia                               4 

Iraq                                   3 

Philippines                       3 

Poland                              3

Turkiye                             3 

Venezuela                         3

Canada                             2

Other                            147

With only 96 actual views.

9/13/2025 Sat. Morning Fog

 It's Fall, morning fog already! 

Time To Load The Greenhouses

 With the fall crocuses up it's time

to start getting the plants ready for 

their winter home.

First I needed to remove the Voo Doo

plants so I could clean out the Greenhouse

so other plants could go in.

Stripping the leaves off is the first

task.  

Cutting the Brugmansias down so they

will fit in into the greenhouse.

The 3 B. Shorty's variegated were the first

to get cut.

After the huge B. Shorty's is pulled 

from the big cement pot, it was time

for Bones to take his place.

The next few days will be stripping

the A. Red Dragon then cutting 

them down so they will fit the 

greenhouse.

Got to love this plant &

it's blooms!

I got an email this am, why do 

you strip and cut back so drastically?  

It's about the space we have in the 

greenhouses we keep.  If you look

at the leaves you will notice the 

difference in the leaves.  Outside 

are much thicker compared to inside

which is much thinner.  Leaves will

grow back, trust me!   

Working hard on getting plants

ready to go inside.  

Still working on this tall 

one as the wind kicked up

and it wasn't fun holding

onto the ladder too.

Please do not copy us if you

don't understand the process 

or you can damage your plant.

Look at the reason you are 

seeing damage from your 

neglect.

More later. 

Seeing Red

 

9/7/2025 Before

 8:00 am / All cleaned and ready to

fill due to the smoke coming from a

local firepit.  Yes, there is a burn ban

since July, but who cares.

By 6:00 pm The Brug House was filling up 

fast.  Now you know why I'm so busy!

Sorry if you were looking for blooms this year

but I have to protect the collection!

Just 36 more to go!

Fall Crocus - 9/6/2025

 

Are coming up!  

Time To Start Fall Cleaning!

 This weekend was time to clean

both greenhouses and start getting 

them both ready for plants.  Stop

fertilizing plants!  If you were 

thinking of putting in a new lawn

ya best do it this week.  Same for

putting more grass seed out.

The leaves are already falling and

if you have trees you are responsible

for their cleanup and that goes for the 

street in front of your home.  We don't 

live in Portland where they request

their residents to dump them in the 

streets so they can be picked up.

If you use the Recycle for your leaves

they don't want pine needles for the

past few years.  

10/4/2025

Yesterday was cleanup day for the yard.

In which I took 1 bag of vac leaves

off the front yard.

Then went to do the north back yard 

where all the maple leaves were down

and took 1 1/2 bags off.  I have been 

picking up leaves daily after sweeping

our deck off daily for the past month.

Not only leaves but seedpods and 

evergreen trigs that have been 

dropping for the past year as the 

tree isn't getting proper care and 

browning. We have seen two of

these tree drop onto their house in

the past years.  These are the roots

that come close to our house.  Besides

the maple roots that lace the north 

side of our gardens.  It's to the point

we are loosing the plants in some

of our beds as the roots search for

water.

Fall leaves are just getting started.

We want to thank one of our neighbors

whom took out a tree this past week.

Why do we vac up our yard?  Is a 

question we get often.  Well it's simple

less bugs and critters is you keep your

yard clean.  We don't allow our leaves

to fly all over the neighborhood for 

others to pickup!

Many of you know I used to blow out 

the circle but do not do so anymore.

Just the roadway in front of our property

is all that is done.

The last time the street sweeper came 

though, there was such a huge cloud 

of dirt blowing across the circle.  I 

really felt sorry for the driver.  They 

know I'm not cleaning up anymore.

We kept the video of the cleaner and

all the dirt that went flying!

2025 -- September ---- 536

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9/1/2025   ------  107,058

15   ----      7:50 pm

366 / 3.06k

 43 actual views

15 - autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

(same spam as gostarmedia.com/godaddy.com)

1 - dmelora.com

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9/2/2025  ---     108,618

42 ----    8:30 pm

414 / 3.41k

52 actual views

41 - autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

(same spam as gostarmedia.com/godaddy.com

and now using no address name but it shows 

the above email address.)

1-whatudonin@hotmail.com

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9/3/2025    -----    109,689

61  -------     8:40 pm

1851  /  4.21k

68 actual views

18 -  autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

( Same as above.)

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9/4/2025    ----   110,147

78 ---------   8:30 pm

531  / 4.62 k

54 actual views

17 - autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

(Same as above)

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9/5/2025  -----   111,076

114  -------    8:50 pm

965  /  5.48 k

68 - actual visits

36 - autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

(Same as a above)

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9/6/2025  ----     111,466

142   ----     8:45 pm

351 / 4.73k

69  actual visits

28 -  autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

( Same as above)

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9/7/2025     ----    112,073

600   ----    8:45 pm

383 / 4.96k

69 actual visits

18 - autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

(Same as above) harassment

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9/8/2025  ---   112,508

124   ------      7:40 am

262 / 4.94 k

83  actual visits

28 -  autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

(Same as above) harassment

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9/9/2025     -----   112,973

605   -----     9:00 pm

419 / 4.98 k

78  actual visits

32 -  autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

(Same as above) harassment

1-nwzdfjgf@libsuvidhanart.in

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9/10/2025   ---------113.600

248   -----   8:50 pm

76 actual visits

28 -  autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

(Same as above)  harassment

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9/11/2025   -----    114,074

336   ----      8:00 pm

76   actual visits

38 - autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

( Same as above)  harassment

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skillshare.com

google.com

nature.com

monster.com

paypal.com

unm.edu

americanexpress.com

pexels.com

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9/12/2025   ----    115,535

349   -------  8:40 pm

82   actual visits

31  -  autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

(same as above)  harassment

1 - wsrvwvnu@aller.habboalpha.fr

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9/13/2025   ------    116,645

387    --------   8:20 pm

96    actual visits

18 - autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

( Look above for info.) harassment

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9/14/2025   -----   117,141

409  -------     7:40 pm

95   actual visits

22  -  autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

(Look above for info)  harassment

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9/15/2025   -----    117,989

931   ---    8:40 pm

94 actual visits

 42  -  autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

(Check out the info above) harassment

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9/16/2025   ------  119,647

1649  -----     8:00 am 

151  actual visits

26 -  autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

( Check the above info)   Harassment

Don't need gummies, loans, window, nor

will I need male enhancement products 

or girls from other countries. Maybe they

have these issues??  Love how they use

trademark named products to spam.

1- loucs.jonz@gmail.com

wodegoalessn@gmail.com

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9/17/2025    ----      120,570

736   ----    8:00 pm

130 actual visits

45  -  Autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

 1 -   xixwmtlx@aller.habboalpha.fr

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9/18/2025    -----   121,280

925   ---   7:15 am

138 actual visits

31 - autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

1 - alerta@regularizaoid282309 / Brazil

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9/19/2023   ----     122,804

281  -----   4:15 pm

 

 163  actual visits

27  -  autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

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9/20/2025   ----     122,990

303     -----     6:00am

157 actual visits

15 -   autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

1 - jbtepnna@troponshoppingwithbradley.info

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9/21/2025    ----   123,412

317   ----       8:50 pm

152  actual visits

175 / 6.13k

13 - autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

1 - Realtors@roycenewmedia.com

1 - ww@ohte.alhamdagro.com

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9/22/2025   ------  123,927

337    ----     9:00 pm

153 actual visits

669 / 5.45 k

19 - autoworkscoll.com / azure / microsoft

1- Dr. Stevens@abccurate.com

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9/23/2025   ---    124,463

357   ----       8:45 pm

162 actual visits

607 / 4.84k

19 -  @autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

1 -  qikkceti@servi.habboalpha.fx

1 - alerta@regularizacaoid122461-Brazil

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9/24/2025   ----    124,973

373   ----   8:24 pm 

152 actual visits

534 / 4.62 k

14 - @autoworkscoll.com/azure/microsoft

4 - @abaaurate.com

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9/25/2025   -----    125,789

386   ----   6:15 am

151 actual visits

794  / 3.9k

7 - autoworkscool.com/azure/microsoft

2 - pvquxpius@lib.suvidhamart.in

3 freequote@mattstoolbox.com

1@handysun.com

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9/26/2025   ----    126,425

417  ---    8:00 pm

102 actual visits

248 / 3.49k

16 - autoworkscool.com/azure/microsoft

1 - kwilliams462@valuedcustomercase.info-

site wouldn't allow

2- gutter@livinglighthouse.com / not found

2 - remodel@handysun.com/doesn't exists

3 - Freequote@mattstoolbox.com /doesn't exists

3 - FidilityLine@aboagge.com /doesn't exists

1 - EBC@roycenewmedia.com / Hong Kong?

There is the appearance that a lot of the 

above are coming from the same person

as they are using alot of the same companies

to spam.  Just changing the email address, so 

tell me this isn't harassment? 

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9/27/2025    ---   127,098

435   ----  5:40 pm

109 actual visits

454 / 3.92k

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9/28/2025     ---  127,824

451    ---   8:20 pm

104 actual visits

690 / 4.39 k

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9/29/2025  ---   129,729

491   --     7:40 pm

96 actual visits

1443 / 5.27 k

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9/30/2025  ----   130,589

536  ---   8:40 pm

105  actual visits

1276 / 5.74 k

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