What's blooming in your yard?

[Tbites]

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The multi colored circles... are they mini windmills ? What are they for ? To scare away birds ? Does it work ?

[itsmewhoelse]

The multi colored circles... are they mini windmills ? What are they for ? To scare away birds ? Does it work ?

I bought them from dollarama last year, they were supposed to go one in front of the other and were on a plastic stick, which broke right away of course. I kept the circles and then, cause I have waay too much time on my hands I thought these will spin if I put a nail through ghem and thought the trellis was a ggod place to put them.
I did it more for decoration for the gd, so not sure if they keep the birds away.

[Tbites]

I bought them from dollarama last year, they were supposed to go one in front of the other and were on a plastic stick, which broke right away of course. I kept the circles and then, cause I have waay too much time on my hands I thought these will spin if I put a nail through ghem and thought the trellis was a ggod place to put them.
I did it more for decoration for the gd, so not sure if they keep the birds away.

Thanks, now I may rest lol

[itsmewhoelse]

I know im so happy my hubby saved it from the scrap heap! I have two others, one a small bathroom sink, and the other a larger perhpas kitchen sink or another laundry sink. My hubby brings me home all sorts of wonderful stuff from auctions or garage sales. I still have tons of projects to do, but only some may get done. Last sumer we found 24x36 patio stones in the garbage! Just enough to widen our back sidewalk, which may get done this year. Ill post pics of his finds too.

You know people who renovate older homes would kill to have that double cast iron sink it's amazing.

[thriftygranny]

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I would kill for that cast iron sink.It is gorgeous.

[GatineauGirl]

A wasp's nest is what is blooming my yard. Going to cost $150 to have it removed.

[GoJays]

How far along is the nest? DH took care of one last week by spraying it with WD40 - kills them instantly. Mind you, our nest was still very small, perhaps only three wasps working on it. They had some chambers built but no eggs had been laid yet.

[Ciel]

I'm surprised at the interest in cast iron sinks (heavy and who has the back muscles to move it?). The laundry room used to have heavy double sinks (not cast iron but stone-like appearance with washboard lines in one sink and a very rusty stand under the sinks-I miss the washboard for pants but don't miss wondering when the metal stand was going to show "metal fatigue". The faucet/tap deck-think there have been four different tap handles on the deck.
It was an adjustment having a plastic deep sink in the laundry room but it works and won't rust! No worries about metal thieves either!

[theo44]

Patty, that's great that you have such big basil plants already. I had just about given up on mine and I saw about 10 little seedlings yesterday - woo hoo!

My Canterbury bells have started. Most are purple but some light pink are coming out. There are loads of buds on the scarlet carnation which will be coming out in the next few days.

I have some zinnia seedlings that I will move into this bed once after it rains tonight and tomorrow so that I will have something in this bed for late summer.

[Patty Smyth]

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I had to remove my rain barrel this year because we are getting work done on the house , I miss it . Rainwater is so much better for the plants.

Also regarding cast iron sinks, the beauty is they can be refinished and last forever, not like the $20 crap plastic laundry sinks they sell now.

[theo44]

This was two or three weeks ago.

Yellow leopard's bane, false indigo in the corner, columbines, irises, and the start of the peonies. There is a row of Robinson daisy in the yard that I will be moving this year - it was an experiment.

[theo44]

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I had to remove my rain barrel this year because we are getting work done on the house , I miss it . Rainwater is so much better for the plants.

I can't afford the luxury of using the hose this year so I am relying on these 4 barrels.

[theo44]

Here are most of the foxgloves in the far right corner of the backyard. They ended up quite nice but I wish there were more of them and planted closer together. I'll remember to keep them closer next year.

[Patty Smyth]

Gorgeous!!! Do you have to stake them, how are they in a heavy rain?

[theo44]

Gorgeous!!! Do you have to stake them, how are they in a heavy rain?

Thanks! I have never needed to stake them and I have grown them 3 or 4 times now. I've never noticed them get damaged by rains and we get pretty strong downpours.