FaceBook

Also today I walked away from FaceBook, let's just say I'm not a FB type of person.  Social media, well leaves much to desire in my book.  All this sharing of information ??   For those of you that love your privacy I totally understand as in the past few years I was there I learned way to much and there just isn't enough room on one's head for all that information.   I deleted information on a daily based and it still wasn't enough.
I loved playing those games with family and friends but life was just getting in the way and I need to find a
difference way to relax.  Now with both greenhouses up and running I'll relax out there.  So goodbye FaceBook and you can reach me here or by email.  Those that have the cell can text me anytime, but remember my phone keeps my desk company more than my pocket! : )

Our Dad

What a difference a few days make.  On Monday 10/28/2013, our Dad passed away after a brief fight with lung cancer.   I do thank those family and friends whom keep popping in to visit him in his final days and for those of you that posted photos of him on FB.  My niece Stacey posted the last photo she took and it's the best we have see Dad look in months.  I dearly thank her for the photo she shared.  Keep him in your hearts until we see him again.  I know he is with brother Marc.  Rest in Peace Dad!

So sorry I have not been keeping this up, lots have been going on here and it's time to start keeping
the blog updated.

The big news is I have gotten DH on the same page, it's time to sell the house!  I have talked to a Realtor
and the next step is to start looking for a different place to live.  It all came to head when we found that
one of our neighbors hung their kill all day Monday in the front tree. The hunting gear is all over the front yard and who cares?  Then the other neighbor had a trailer of mill end dropped at the curb and did nothing with it.  Yes it's still laying where it was dropped, one opens the door in the morning to this view.

We have worked hard to make our property what it is today and look at our home as an investment.  Sorry others in the neighborhood don't share this idea.  It is time to find a new place!!

Loving Big Brother!!

Try out the Google maps, photos from 2011!   You can sit in the comforts of your home and
take a look around the hood.

  Got to love big brother!!


Another view!!

Love being green!!

You now need our address to find these site.  Email me for the address.

Time to go Under Ground!!

Sad to say this am I walked away from yet another garden site.  I was upset to find some of my work in their
registry and I had not put it there.  My research is just that and after seeing what I read I have asked that my
B. Sang. 'Karma' be removed from the registry, due to I was gifted seeds from a friend that was in Mexico and they thought I would love this plant.  After being told some of my Brugmansia have questionable history, I about fainted.  I have been told if you purchase a plant that you can ID it, you can give it a working name but it had to include the place you purchased it from.  They gave up the rights to the plant when you paid for it and if it had no name then it was okay to give it a working name.   So many times folks will just put a name on it to sell.  My early purchase of B. Jutner Orange was in reality B. Charles Grimaldi and later found out that, that name came from Europe due to a nursery couldn't sell it so they just changed the name.  Hence my B. Shorty's Variegated as I felt it needed more than just the name of the place purchased and to me it's more than just a NOID!!  So should I use it to hybridize?  To some no as it has no quality at all.  Wow, then all one has to do is look at a registry and see all the NOID crosses that were allowed to be registered?   At least I know the history of my Brugmansias.  Which now brings me to this point. If someone does a tissue culture of a plant someone thinks is worth creating do they get to register it with a name?   See how much this is confusing?
I have nothing to hide here and if my Hort/MG friends have led me down a path that is wrong, sorry but I would listen to them first!!

Beading Projects

One of the projects that I started this winter was some beading and thought I'd teach myself some
French beading.  I started out on spiders and worked on some roses.

I noticed that folks were checking out this post and
saw that the photos were from an old site I used to
use.  I added photos of  what I has left from this project.

Ludger's Aurea Seeds Research Project

 January 22, 2013 I received some exciting new seeds from Ludger whom lives in Germany and soaked them on our karma cocktail for the next 24 hours.  On the 23 they were all planted and moved to the spare
bedroom under lights due to it was to cold to move them to the greenhouse.  On the first of February I was able to get them to the greenhouse and place them on the heat bed, noting they were starting to break ground.  I'm just so excited to get these seeds!

Bottle #1   la  X  Yellow, 10 seeds,  hard to peel -thick cork
Bottle #2   Schlossburg  X  Pink Aurea, 10 seeds, soft cork and easy to peel, 2 found empty
Bottle #3   deep red sang. hybrid  X  SV, 64 seeds, very slimy and was not able to peel due to the small nature in size and couldn't grip.
Bottle #4    la  X  2, 10 seeds, hard cork with one tiny seed out of the 10
Bottle # 5  Yellow  X   2,  2 seeds, soft slimy cork but easy to peel.
Bottle # 6   2  X  Yellow,  3 seeds, easy to peel.
Bottle # 7   Yellow  X  pla,   10 seeds, these were the greatest to peel, seeds were starting to open.
Bottle # 8   2  X  la,  20 seeds, largest of the seeds received and easy to peel.

I will try to take photos on a weekly bases as these grow in the greenhouse if weather permits.  Now for the photos and allowing them to grow!!  We have also put all photos at our PhotoBucket site under Ludger project:

http://s13.beta.photobucket.com/user/karmaHappyToes/library/Ludgers%20Project?postlogin=true

Recieved 1/22/2013

Soaking seeds

                                                                        Doc all the information

Seed photos

Bottle #1

Bottle #2

Bottle # 3  Sad to say I forgot to take a photo of the seeds..

Bottle #3 planted.

 Bottle #4

Bottle #5

Bottle #6

Bottle # 7

Bottle #8

All the cork removed!

Ready to plant!!

Planted and marked.

All recorded

February 4th, 2 days after moving to the greenhouse.



February 14th

February 22nd

Had to remove the cork on some of the seeds, just hope they
keep growing.

February 28, 2013

Just watchin' them grow!!

 March 5th, 2013, time to rotate the tray!!

March 13, 2013 outside after the roof is off, noticing some slowing in growth.

March 23, 2013 experiencing much cooler weather.

March 31, 2013......still much colder than normal.

April 16, 3013, frost a couple times and I'm getting worried that they maybe getting to cold due to the color some of them are turning.  We are to hit 70s by this weekend so hopefully the cold is past us.  I need one more set of leaves before moving them to the bottles.  I have sent off a email to the hybridzer letting him know I have left the garden site where these were to be tested, so it's his call if I cull or continue this project this year.

I have been working hard on bumping all those seedlings up that now have their second set of leaves.  I now have room in the older greenhouse for them so they aren't getting to much sun as they were in the Brug House with the roof plastic removed.  They seem happier in there now and will be moving them back when I can get some of the eppies moved upward to cut the sun.

May 1, 2013 before the move and being bumped up.

As you can see they are still popping up so the larger ones will get bumped into the cups behind.

As you can see I didn't give them much room to sprout in and it really made for a better plant, when trans planting most had roots our of the bottom.

 A happy seedling!!

First ones done!!  Cups were labeled and these will rest a week before the first fertilizer will be given.

Some really happy seedlings!!  Loving all the light and some added warmth.  I also have some other seedlings that needed to be bumped up so these aren't all Ludger's Aurea Project.

Still have some that need to grow more and seeds are still sprouting.








5/8/2013, today the ones in the cups got their first feeding of Kelp water. : )

5/16/2013Just watchin' them grow!!

Seedlings are still popping up!!  Front are small cuttings of a Sanguinea done this week.