Cool on the Rhody collection...must be tough to keep that watered. I have usually been able to stop watering our gardens by now, but even watered the native gardens we planted a while ago last week...
Good luck. Hope they all pull through for you.
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Cool on the Rhody collection...must be tough to keep that watered. I have usually been able to stop watering our gardens by now, but even watered the native gardens we planted a while ago last week...
Good luck. Hope they all pull through for you.
brownheron
corvus ossifragus
Probably should shift the the garden thread... The previous owners built the collection so I'm just trying to keep it going. They are spread across 3 acres of our total 5 (away from the river portion) and are in the woods in a natural setting. If you've even been to the Weyerhauser rhodie garden, it's like a very rough version of that.
I've been trying to get to them once a week or so. It takes about 300' of garden hose run from the pump house and 3+ hours. Some of them are going to have to just make it on their own going forward. There are a few that I really like that'll I make the extra effort to keep alive. Most of them are natural species from various parts of Asia. As such, they often do not have showy flowers like the common hybrids we see in nurseries, although we have some of those too.
There are at least 13 different ones in this photo. Some of the name plates are visible.
Unusual ones are like this R. Dendrocharis which fits the same ecological niche as epiphitic orchids, just in the temperate rain forests of the Himalaya. There's one in the middle of the nurse log.
Species Rhodies are cool, but then again, I am in the horticulture field.
Thats a bit of work for sure, but if you can keep them alive and pass it on when you move, it would be very cool.
Private collections like that are getting less common as time goes by.
Thats a bit of work for sure, but if you can keep them alive and pass it on when you move, it would be very cool.
Private collections like that are getting less common as time goes by.
Looks like the rain dances are working????
singlehandjay
Life of the Party
Supposed to start raining on my birthday! Thank you jesus
How Far into the Future Can We Forecast Skillfully? And the Big Weather Change Ahead.
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Here's the GFS model map which runs out to 16 days. It's updated twice daily and it's been maddening to watch as the big rain events keep coming and going on the forecast horizon. Most of my meteorologist buddies admit that forecasts beyond 7 or 8 days are wild-ass guesses.
http://wxmaps.org/pix/prec1
http://wxmaps.org/pix/prec1
Still looking promising for later this week.
SF
SF
TicTokCroc
Sunkist and Sudafed
Smoke just cleared out here in Portland about a few hours ago.
Thanks for posting, I've spent a lot of days fishing off that dock and in that area, good times. Air looks icky though.
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Gyrfalcon22
Life of the Party
Coast is clear tonight. A little rain earlier today. Ready for some real rain now.
