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Better your kind of idiots tilting at windmills (tilling at flowerbeds?) than the run of the (wind)mill kind.
My grandmother’s azaleas have always been awesome, and lack of green thumb and all, I’m thinking of getting one or two red/hot-pink like hers for the back yard. Also need to see if her orange day lilies made it through the winter, (I just haven’t been on that side of the house, silly, I know) and if so, to transplant one.
Best of luck with the chiropractor; hope y’all know a good one. It really helped me back in junior high and a few times since.
I am still in the last half or third of The Pride of Chanur, rereading. (Faha have gone home via Tahar’s ship and the Pride is still in dock under repairs.) Hoping to start reading Foreigner and Regenesis, and then try one of Jane’s or Lynn’s books.
This week there’s a hefty font editor purchase. Ouch, but if I can recoup the cost quickly enough, profit afterward. Yes, I will sell my art for money!
Ah, capitalism and the free market economy! 
All the best to you ladies. Hope Jane’s feeling better soon.
Most soil west of the Mississippi is alkaline…..get a soil acidifier to mix with the soil in your azaleas and water with a good acidifier…..miracle gro makes a very good one…..or perhaps plant some oak trees?….oak leaf mulch? Get those of us who live in the east to send you bags of oak leaves? That is probably a little weird and I’m not sure how the post office would take to the notion!
Hope you get a good chiropractor and perhaps a massage therapist?
Sounds like you need a strong body to do some grunt work…..virtual help is all I can give.
oak lvs & pine needls & I think sulfur in the ground, and rain not tap water
i think we’re going with Rhodendron food on just about everything, plus ammonium sulphate; but alas, we’re on the ‘dry’ side of Washington, meaning the rainfall here is less than in Oklahoma. We have PLENTY of needles, from 4 50 foot hemlocks, but I think they must be the one exception to acid-loving evergreens. They thrive on car exhaust, asphalt, and live in glacial moraine. No wonder hemlock survived from the Eocene.
Hope Dr. Mike can fit Jane in….
Yep, it’ll be Dr. Shane, now, since Dr. Mike has mostly retired, but we haven’t gotten a call-back. I think the office must be closed on Mondays.
I spent my own morning at the lab, getting a blood test for the endocrinologist, since I’m out of pills and he needs to test before renewing. I tell you, these little 25 mg Levothyroxine things are wonderful, and I am determined to have these renewed! If double the dose would give me double the energy these things gave me, I’d go for it—but I somehow don’t think it works that way! I just get the bitty dose. But I needs it bad, with all this yard work!
My grandparents in Seattle had ginormous rhodies all around their property–my grandfather loved them. Flat site, good drainage, watered them when the weather was hot. Also: at least one mature pine tree beside every bush; I suspect that the needle-fall was sufficient to keep the acid levels up.
I tried bonsai-ing an azalea once upon a time, and did all right until the spider mites attacked and conquered. (I hates me them leetle b…s) Rhodies and azaleas both have shallow, dense, slow-growing root systems, and they can dry out fast. But because of the dense rootball, they may not absorb water from the surrounding soil very well. Water ‘em close to the trunk.
And that’s everything I know about them, except for fond memories practicing photography on flowers in my grandparents’ yard. Le sigh…
Is water a problem? Could you arrange your washing machine to drain into a barrel? With a portable sump pump and acidifying fert you could keep your soil levels balanced….also you may be ahead of me on this but a good home soil testing kit can save time and energy.
Good luck…
I didn’t think we needed one, because with a 6″ layer of volcanic ash on our lawn, I sorta thought we’d be acidic. Wrong! So getting one would be a good idea.
Water is electricity here, (Grand Coulee), so we’re careful with it, but not water-short. Jane wanted to pump our ro/di (reverse osmosis) filter waste water up to the garden, and we may yet, when we get the system going: our filtration system for the marine tank wastes 3 gallons of every four, when on fill (we fill 32 gallons about every month). Which is one of the most water-wasteful thing we do. When we run the coffeemaker, the leakage from the sink spray-head comes out the faucet, and we catch that in Brita filter pitchers, etc. So we think about it—but we can get all we need. The main thing is—trees are thirsty creatures, and those giant hemlocks suck up all they can get. So I’m sure they’ll grab any nutrient we throw on.
We once had a rose garden, in OKC—Jane was having surgery, and instead of a bouquet in the hospital, I surprised her with a 20×12′ rose garden with a Chinese key pattern brick walk through it (which let us access every rosebush independently)in front of the house. People would slow their cars to look at that garden when it was in full bloom. We’d use one of those Miracle Grow hose sprays, and never mind the instructions: we put a full packet on those roses once a week, and they bloomed their heads off and thrived. I don’t think you can easily overdo Miracle Grow!
But the roses up here and especially over here in Spokane suffer greatly from the winters: we excel at iris (grown commercially over in St John WA), and tulips (grown commercially in Satsop) and of course apples and cherries. Rhodies are more for Seattle: lilacs are the thing here (Spokane is officially the Lilac City)—but I’m not so fond of them after having one. So…we’re going to try to swim upstream and figure out how to care for rhodies here. There is a pretty one up the street, so it can be done. Jane knows something about them: her mother grew them beautifully. And I don’t. So I listen to Jane about where to put them and how to put them. Right now the answer is compost, good soil, manure, rhody food, and coffee grounds. Todd Lockwood, over on the wet side, who did the last Foreigner cover, has a brilliant idea: apparently all these coffee stands have to dispose of their grounds: you make nice with one and carry home buckets of coffee grounds.
Be careful if you use washing machine water on a rhododendron. I killed one once when (during a drought) I used washing machine water to water it — clothing detergent is usually highly alkaline and I guess it was too much for the poor thing. And this is in the acid-soiled east coast.
I used miracle-gro acidifier every time I watered and kept an azalea alive for 20 yrs. through some bad droughts and a huge gypsy moth invasion…..sold the house but could not take it with me.
Jane was feeling LOTS better when I was there. What happened??? Do I need to come over again??
Heh. It was the Captain Morgan. She’s been in pain. And she’s been bad. She’s limping while shopping and still buying ‘one more azalea’…
We’ve got an appointment with Dr. Shane today at 1, so we’ll be doing that and having a Cougar Burger (beef, I assure you) and huckleberry shake afterward. She’ll be much happier after a session of heat, traction and a crunch. We used to do this once every 2 weeks, but it just got too expensive; then down to once a month; and now we haven’t been back since, oh, last summer. So it’s time. I’ll be all right. But Jane has got a major kink going.
Hope Jane is feeling much better! No fun when your brain is go-go-go and your body is no-no-ow. When it comes to gardening I’m pretty hopeless — got my mother’s black thumb — the woman managed to kill off a thriving terrarium, which takes a unique talent. And living in desert regions hasn’t helped much. But boy have I fallen in love with the rhodies! No hope of ever getting any to survive here, but we just got back from a long vacation which included a week in the Vancouver BC area and a large chunk of one day at the Butchart Gardens! Never guessed that rhodies came in so many colors — the same for tulips and I’ve been to the Netherlands [well, 35 years ago, so they've probably had lots of time to make new versions]. Glorious place! Definitely should be on anyone’s to do list.
So, when you two are done there, you want to come down to Nebraska and work on what I jokingly call a yard? (grin)
Hope Jane feels better soon.
Holding my thumbs for Jane’s quick recovery.
Aren’t azaleas and rhododendron practically the same? Or am I misinformed? Anyway I hope for their survival, too
Rhododendrons are evergreen, with broad, magnolia-like leaves, although they come dwarf, too, with leaves almost like rosemary. Their truly distinguishing characteristic is their flowering, which happens in a cluster. They also tend to be larger, up to 10′x10′ in size, and I have seen bigger than that in really old arboretums. Azaleas come in deciduous and evergreen, and more commonly deciduous. They flower about one flower to a branchlet, as opposed to a cluster, and their leaves may be ribbed—or not. They are more sun-tolerant than rhodies—rhodies need to be planted in shade, but need 6 hours of not too strong sunlight: filtered sunlight (through a taller tree’s leaves) is ideal. An azalea may survive direct sun for a longer time. Both are acid-loving, and grow wild in Washington at the edge of woods, like dogwood.
Yes, Busifer-ji, azaleas and rhodies are all rhododendrons…..supposedly azaleas are deciduous and rhodies not….mostly azaleas have smaller less leathery leaves. BTW the University of Missouri Extension has some excellent info about planting, growing maintaining azaleas/rhodies……just Google ‘azaleas/rhododendrons’.
Maybe Friends of Jane should get together and lock her in her room until she is better!
With sympathy for Jane’s aching back, this comment is really about the rhododendrons. In the UK you can buy grafted rhodos under a brand name, “inkata” I think. At a garden show a few weeks ago a rep for the plant breeder was explaining that they have a rootstock that will grow well in upto neutral soil and grafted on it is a prettier variety. I assume that something similar is available in the US, they weren’t that much more expensive. While this won’t help the one’s you already have looking into it might keep jane occupied but lying still.
Speaking of gardens, my front yard is growing in well after a long winter of sitting there not doing much that was visible. Right now I am having a bad problem with gophers. I decided to be humane and try a repellant, but it doesn’t seem to be working, so it’s back to traps as soon as I can figure out which of the multiple mounds is currently active. I need to set the traps in an active run. I would let this all slide if they were moles, since they eat insects, but gophers eat plants, and the only thing for them to be eating in my yard is the roots of all my nice new plants. I have to say, I am starting to see why farmers take such extreme measures against “vermin”. I’m not trying to make money off my plants, but still get upset at the thought of the gophers eating them!
If the gophers could be taught to eat the roots of weeds rather than bedding plants, i.e., dandelions and thistles over tulips, you might have something there…
Just a quick note–I reached the cliff-hanger ending of Deceiver on Monday. Looking forward to the next volume.
Re acidic soil, I think Miracle-Grow ought to come out with an acidifying tablet you can put in their hose-sprayer so you can water with better water between feedings. Is this rocket science? I wouldn’t think so!
CJ-ji…MiracleGro does make a product specifically for azaleas, camelias, and rhododendrons….. available in packets for their hose sprayer. My neighbor buys it at Ace Hardware so it should be widely available. She grows dwarf rhodies in planters very successfully. There may be other products around but I go with Scott’s/MiracleGro or Schultz products as they are so reliable.
@philospher77….we (thankfully) do not seem to have gophers in this area…..however when I was in California several years ago I saw tulips sink into the ground…..I thought I was watching a Bugs Bunny cartoon!
P.S. ‘Holding Thumbs’ for Trink.
Ditto!
Trink is currently back home, curled up and it sounds like she’s finally sleeping. At least resting. She was not doing at all well at the hospital… extremely nervous. She doesn’t like being confined, and she doesn’t like hearing other dogs in pain, so I can understand why that would not make a relaxing atmosphere for her. I’m rather surprised that the follow-up care on this kind of surgery is fairly minimal: no jumping up on things, she can only go outside on leash and for short times (also known as potty breaks), there’s pain-killers and antibiotics that she needs to take, and other than that, it’s pretty much “let her walk if she’ll walk”. The official line is that she will “carry” the leg for the next week or two, after which they expect to see her putting more and more weight on it. The reality is that she is already putting the toes down occasionally.
And Katie was thrilled to have her back in the house. She’s been a bit shut-down these last few days, even with my benign neglect (shy dogs get worse if they get a lot of attention when they are stressed), but went into the full gamut of play-bows and happy posturing when she saw Trink. I am going to have to watch that she is not too rambunctious, of course, but it was nice to see her perk up.
So, so glad that Trink is home. We were gone for several weeks, so this was a surprise, but so glad things sound like a good prognosis. Pets with health problems are always scary and you always feel so helpless. Had you both in our prayers.