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JoyBee&Ravan

JoyBee&Ravan

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JoyBee&Ravan said:
Off to Yoga.
Here's a flower from my Garden.View attachment 46613
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Oh, that hibiscus is lovely! Yours are blooming already?? That's a hardy hibiscus, right? Growing in the yard? Your weather must be kinder than ours - they aren't even thinking about blooming yet...

I'll add a pic of the one's we store in our greenhouse over winter - they're already blooming happily - but the greenhouse helps them - no winter in there :)

Thinking of you and your kitties today - hope everyone is doing a little better :)
 
AmandaE said:
What kind is it?
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Sue and Luci said:
That's a hardy hibiscus, right? Growing in the yard?
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Wild or Perennial Hibiscus. Only 3 flowers have bloomed so far. I have 5 Hibiscus in the back garden & 3 in front of my house.
Garden is not doing as good as usual. Darn Japanese Beetles destroyed my Purple Jackmanii Clematis vine.It was beautiful a few days ago & now not one flower left!:(
Those rotten beetles are just waiting for my Hibiscus ! :banghead:
 
JoyBee&Ravan said:
Wild or Perennial Hibiscus. Only 3 flowers have bloomed so far. I have 5 Hibiscus in the back garden & 3 in front of my house.
Garden is not doing as good as usual. Darn Japanese Beetles destroyed my Purple Jackmanii Clematis vine.It was beautiful a few days ago & now not one flower left!:(
Those rotten beetles are just waiting for my Hibiscus ! :banghead:
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Yes, they're a real pest - I saw two of them on my hibiscus the other day - gross, but we have to 'pinch' them off...ugh...I declined pinching until I found my gloves...shudder to do that with my bare hands... ugh...:eek::eek:
 
Sue and Luci said:
I saw two of them
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Two! I'm talking "Hundreds" They were just all over ,covering my Clematis Vine. It was GROSS!
Several years ago I had 8 beautiful rose bushes. They smelled wonderful & were in every color. I looked forward to fresh roses in my house all summer. The Japanese Beetles destroyed every one in just a few days. Ate the flowers & the Leaves!
 
JoyBee&Ravan said:
Two! I'm talking "Hundreds" They were just all over ,covering my Clematis Vine. It was GROSS!
Several years ago I had 8 beautiful rose bushes. They smelled wonderful & were in every color. I looked forward to fresh roses in my house all summer. The Japanese Beetles destroyed every one in just a few days. Ate the flowers & the Leaves!
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We used to have more - so you know how to get rid of them, right? Get a bucket of soapy water and leave it in the garden - every time you walk by you have to pick them off or knock them in if there are that many - they drown. If you let them go, they multiply by planting their little larvae in the soil - and next year you'll have even more, and more and more...you just gotta tackle them all the time...eventually their numbers do seem to get smaller - but it's a constant PITA to have to keep those buckets of soapy water around in the gardens - we used to have a lot of gardens, many rosebushes and other flowers so we were constantly picking and smushing those nasty fellows :( ugh...yuk.. it's the only safe way to rid your yard of them..and hopefully your neighbors do the same...:rolleyes:
 
Sue and Luci said:
hopefully your neighbors do the same...:rolleyes:
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I ended up pulling out was left of the Roses & planting other flowers. This is the first time they ate my Clematis & now my hibiscus! All the neighbors I knew have either died or moved away. Now no one sticks their head out the door they all have a service that does all the lawn work.
No one ,except me, has a garden :( This is what happens as you get older. You just don't fit in anymore.
 
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