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Post by vraev on Dec 4, 2006 20:47:19 GMT -5
oh man! those cephs look freakin awsome. nice growing there buddy. In the meanwhile....first official snowing in hamilton...and I am out there getting some snow for my plants....only the sphag mind ya ...I am letting it melt to water before using it for other main plants.
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Post by brian on Dec 5, 2006 17:10:02 GMT -5
ok, greenlight outside the box trial balloon concept: Design a dream outdoor bog garden. So many square meters, dig it out, pond liner, weeping tile feed, buried water leveling storage tank, overflow safety weir, stone base and sphagnum + silica media, rainfall collection tank fed by the roof of (here it comes) the NPC School of Horticulture, populate with CPs and surround with chain link skunk fencing. Come up with capital cost, including pine needle mulch for winter. Present proposal that they pay for materials and we will build it. Five year agreement, OCPS/CCPE/Whatever has rights to all seeds and propagation and puts up a sign on This Is Who We Are. NPC can advertise for tourists to visit the Amazing Savage Demonstration Garden. Problem is, I suspect no one would have the time to volunteer to maintain the darn thing tho!
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Post by jay on Dec 5, 2006 19:32:30 GMT -5
I have been trying to get cp into the parks, two things happen 1. the staff dispite lableling and requirements DON"T LISTEN and kill the plant by giveing the plant fert or tap water. 2 locals steal the plants inquestion . For some odd reason a few of the locals view the niagara parks as one large free for all garden center , (some body , went out into chest deep water dyed black to steal a pot flavas and water lilies ) I believe i know who ..... The school of hort had a bog garden at one time but the water killed off the plants in question . Plus it would have to make 4 times the amount it cost to build in the first year to even consider building . But im trying
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Post by brian on Dec 6, 2006 6:43:40 GMT -5
OK it sounds like you tried Jay. People actually steal the plants? Did I mention the chain link fencing to keep the skunks out?
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Post by lloyd on Dec 6, 2006 9:52:46 GMT -5
The area in front of my house fronts the street and has zillions of bluebells, little blue flowers in the early spring. We really enjoy them. Each year we catch rich people with fancy cars digging up our plants. They aren't even embarassed when we tell them to get lost. One woman said it was Ok because it was on the road allowance owned by the city. I told her I was going to trace her license and come to her house and dig up her road allowance! Then she scampered off.
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Post by mabudon on Dec 6, 2006 10:18:35 GMT -5
Someone stole a "money tree" off our front porch this past summer- I had been growing the thing for a couple years and really liked it, and I never even relaized it was gone til I saw some for sale at the farmers market and it just hit me- I rooted about the front beds thiking it may have been knocked off by wind, but no dice, he was gone, the villains!! On another CP forum, someone posted about someone stealing D.capensis off his front porch, which I also find funny in a way, but stealing plain ol common plants is just low- the money tree I bought as a "baby trop" and it only cost me a dollar- whoever took it could have asked me where to get one, and I would have thrown in some growing tips for free, but no- some people just suck I guess And Jay- I hope whoever stole them flavas and lilies was wearing some nice new tommy hilfigure clothes
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Post by jay on Dec 6, 2006 16:25:35 GMT -5
no he's and old dutch guy ,
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Post by Syble on Dec 6, 2006 20:24:18 GMT -5
jay, your images aren't working for me? Sib
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Post by insectivore on Dec 6, 2006 20:49:20 GMT -5
People that steel plants on private property just gotta get a life!!! Cya
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Post by vraev on Dec 8, 2006 21:25:12 GMT -5
see this is just another reason why I would never plant or make a bog outside in front of my house open to the street colony. I am pretty sure...a kid comes by for a ball....notices the small plant...probably pulls a leaf...the whole plant comes off....and there u go....a VFT growing for yrs is gone.
I would rather put it in my backyard....but the problem is the surrounding buildings which block the sun.
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Post by brian on Dec 9, 2006 15:38:45 GMT -5
old..dutch..guy.. did he have a little garden centre on St. Paul Ave? Of course half the nurseries in Niagara are run by old dutch guys.
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