Hallson Gardens

Thank you, Chris!! Will give it a try!

Arlene

I'd like to move several hellebores to a new location. I'm in z6, about 20 miles south of Nashville. I assume by the fact that growers are still shipping hellebores, it would be okay to move them now, mid-October. What's your opinion?

I guess I'm one of the "all of them" anticipators . . . two weeks ago we moved all the pots from my daughter's house to our new one, because they've started to sprout and I wanted to get them moved before they leafed out. I'm sort of holding my breath about how they've fared in pots all winter, in t...

DH and I were out at the new house we're building -- I was taking open-wall photos and he was helping the electrician finish up his work. As we left, these guys crossed the lane ahead of us, and since I had my camera on my lap, I couldn't resist taking some pictures! They're actually one family of t...

My house plants are on the little porch of the apartment we're in this summer . . . when I noticed hummers at the red tree hibiscus flowers, I quickly put up a feeder, which they found within 5 minutes. I've been thrilled that when I'm on the porch using my cell phone (poor signal inside) they're wi...

As I've been doing all summer, once a week I drive to my daughter's house and water all my pots of hosta -- it takes about 90 minutes to get them all soaked. We've actually had rain this week, but I've noticed that the leaves seem to shelter the soil in the pots, so even when it rains, the soil is o...

It drizzled all day today! I can't imagine we got all that much, but it's supposed to continue tomorrow . . . would LOVE a nice steady rain for several days! We'd hoped to get some tail-end benefit from Fay but didn't seem to happen.

Many years ago, a nursery owner told me that the most effective time to spray poison ivy is in the fall, when it's pulling nutrients down to the roots for winter dormancy. I battled PI at the lake house and sprayed it whenever I noticed it, but I always made sure to make a special trip around the ya...

Been there, done that! In my early gardening years, I carefully tended a pokeweed clear through the growing season . . . I'd put in several new perennials the previous fall and assumed this was just a very successful one! When it outgrew everything else, I finally did some checking . . . my green th...

Charla, great to hear that your efforts met with some success! Congratulations!

I'm curious, too, about the conditions Thunderbolt likes. Ed's fabulous plant is in Wisconsin; Carol's is in central Illinois. The two people who reported losses are in Oklahoma and Alabama . . . This is probably not a big enough sample from which to make generalizations . . . so maybe more people c...

Sounds like a wonderful trip, Jim . . . hope it's all you expect and then some! I'll really miss your NPODs, and hope you'll consider doing at least NPOWs when you return. It's been obvious that you put a lot of time in on them and they've been entirely enjoyable and greatly appreciated from this en...

Welcome, Carrie . . .

Your gardens look great! Your addiction is off to a good start . . . -

Oh, my, Jim . . . red convertibles and cruisin' in the same post!! In our small northern Indiana town, cruisin' meant up 3rd street, down Main Street and out to Bowers' drive in . . . a circuit of Bowers' and back downtown . . . to do it again . . . there was a time in the 60s that cruisin' caused s...

Claudia asked exactly what I was going to ask!!

Lynn, I like Lean on Me, too . . . and the hosta looks like it has great promise!

Sooo, one of you hybridizers who turns up a nice tall hosta that shows "her" legs nicely should name her Can Can Dancer . . . maybe one with red stockings. Shocking! I spent a nice hour at my daughters' house this afternoon watering my pots and it struck me again how much I like Sagae and all the Sa...

A: I've been trying to decide which one I like best . . . I love the grace of the daylily coiled basket, but the elderberry one is so perfect because it utilized two parts of the plant! I wish I were close enough to take your class! Congratulations for making lemonade out of a lemon-situation for yo...

Indiana dentist named Dr. Toothaker? Yup.
Former neighbor: Dr. Nourse? Yup again.

I suspect there won't be a book . . . although I think it's a great idea . . . so I'm just saving them in a file of their own and can print out my own little notebook full of NPODs . . . again, thanks, Jim, for an interesting essay. I've only had PH for a couple years, but I enjoy the contrast it pr...