tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post7295328341525162374..comments2024-03-28T15:15:32.175+01:00Comments on Living the life in Saint-Aignan: Venerable plantsKen Broadhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-54070646392549840122016-07-02T22:47:16.772+02:002016-07-02T22:47:16.772+02:00Lovely post and comments.Lovely post and comments.C in Californiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11797701714608179842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-34395682717142676342016-06-28T06:33:23.338+02:002016-06-28T06:33:23.338+02:00Thanks for all your stories about plants. I figure...Thanks for all your stories about plants. I figured I wasn't the only one who enjoyed having plants with all sorts of good memories attached to them.Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-43466148472393030592016-06-28T06:28:13.348+02:002016-06-28T06:28:13.348+02:00It's the difference between U.S. and French re...It's the difference between U.S. and French regulations about importing plants, vegetables, meats, etc. France lets it all in. The U.S. is kind of paranoid about such things. Or at least overly cautious, in my opinion. So you can bring plant cuttings into France but you are not supposed to take them into the U.S.Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-31722919200165329632016-06-28T02:51:31.073+02:002016-06-28T02:51:31.073+02:00I have a small but thriving jade plant, grown from...I have a small but thriving jade plant, grown from a single leaf from my sister-in-law's plant several years ago. I love jade plants but have terrible luck with them.<br />But how did you get cuttings past customs? I came back via Atlanta several years ago, with a plum I'd planned to eat between flights, and got busted by the sniffer dogs. Then a stern lecture from the Department of Agriculture functionary. Quite alarming, as if Delta had planned singlehandedly to sabotage the entire US agricultural sector.Emmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17365143273404503659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-17533833470643875982016-06-27T16:14:10.038+02:002016-06-27T16:14:10.038+02:00Fun post, thanks. We have a Christmas cactus from ...Fun post, thanks. We have a Christmas cactus from Tony's grandmother (given to us circa 1972), two potted jade plants that I remember from my childhood, and three cymbidiums that a friend gave me in 1987 when she moved to Oregon. The orchids were grown by her father, and one of them bloomed enthusiastically this year, despite my leaving it by the side of the house and forgetting about it.chrissouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00398602853402174732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-48233705817275166632016-06-27T16:02:26.688+02:002016-06-27T16:02:26.688+02:00Love your idea of "growing nostalgia", ...Love your idea of "growing nostalgia", Diogenes. I have lots of that in my yard like Ken. Peonies from my parents' yard and a rose from my grandfather's. Plus lots of passalong plants from friends. The best gardens are those with memories. When my brother died I started a bed of tulips which give me comfort every spring. <br /><br />I bet MA appreciates these lovely sedum photo's.Evelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824964122794535252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-45163675125215453982016-06-27T14:06:58.969+02:002016-06-27T14:06:58.969+02:00I have just moved to a new home in a new state, le...I have just moved to a new home in a new state, leaving behind the acre of gardens in NY.<br />I decided to do a container garden here for all kinds of reasons .. right now there are just flowers of all sorts but there will be cherry tomatoes this week and basil. From there we will see how it goes ( in other words ) we will see if the cats don't eat everything.Notes From ABroadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12202279303962539035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-68954261154239557702016-06-27T13:22:36.357+02:002016-06-27T13:22:36.357+02:00And there's your Christmas cactus, which surel...And there's your Christmas cactus, which surely would enjoy that greenhouse you're contemplating.Sheilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04335063080532127542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-36640886422180071762016-06-27T12:48:38.330+02:002016-06-27T12:48:38.330+02:00People who love plants often do this, I think....S...People who love plants often do this, I think....Still, I have been more successful with plants in the garden outside than with house plants, alas.I especially love the snowball bush from my grandfather's and the holly that was a shoot from my mother's holly. And the wild Turk's Head lily from my friend Rosalie's farm in Ashtabula county.I have a number of plants collected from that wilderness near the Grand River, especially ferns...<br /><br />None of the people who gave me these are still living and I treasure them for the memories. But I am sorry about the Herman's Pride given me in a plant exchange, by someone I didn't really like all that much. It is taking over a lot of space and has killed several Pulmonaria before I realized what was going on! Thickethouse.wordpresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17187303460677067276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-25078074050864782632016-06-27T09:24:44.184+02:002016-06-27T09:24:44.184+02:00Unfortunately, this year an Ailanthus altissima su...Unfortunately, this year an <i>Ailanthus altissima</i> sucker is growing next to it and I hope it won't kill it. Ailanthus - an invasive tree from China - has colonized my garden from a female tree next door. If I'm still alive next year I will have to have the many suckers sprouting all over the place removed. What was done last year wasn't enough. This tree is really a pest.chmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17765675930520613520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-22719716752901312632016-06-27T08:31:15.807+02:002016-06-27T08:31:15.807+02:00Here we have a low growing Campanula....
currentl...Here we have a low growing Campanula.... <br />currently in full bloom and now split into six plants... <br />and a true Geranium, also in flower, accidently split last year...<br />which both came from my Mother's...<br />and also a Jade Plant that she gave us a cutting of in '95...<br />that is also a mother... having needed a trim...each trimming took!<br />We kept one... and gave the others away...<br />We have a variegated Fuchsia that was part of Pauline's Dad's...<br />and another that was in our front garden when Pauline bought her house in '84...<br />and, on the fern front, a lovely Maidenhair Spleenwort....<br />that I rescued from the house next door in Leeds as they were demolishing their outside toilet.<br />That came out with the entire layer of mortar that it was growing in and has been in a pot with added soil and crumbled mortar, now, for ten years and seems to love it!<br />Finally, we brought our bay tree with us... cut back almost to a bare stem...<br />and planted here outside the "front" door... a promotion from the back garden in Leeds!!<br />Doesn't everyone who likes plants, have a collection of "keepers" and the memories that they bring with them?<br />Would gratefully appreciate blagging a couple of offsets of your Sedum, please Ken....<br />we have five rather attractive pots...three troughs and two pots... <br />that nothing but exceptionally drought tolerant plants seem to thrive in... <br />so we are planting these out as dry gardens...<br />and your Sedum is a lovely bright green.Le Pré de la Forgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02396822372095610004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-21487962756142543672016-06-27T08:20:08.467+02:002016-06-27T08:20:08.467+02:00I thought my mother might especially enjoy seeing ...I thought my mother might especially enjoy seeing this plant.Ken Broadhursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430899802705818716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-39600347914487572922016-06-27T07:57:30.851+02:002016-06-27T07:57:30.851+02:00I had to Google that chm. It looks very much like...I had to Google that chm. It looks very much like an Australian tree fern. Lovely.<br /><br />Ken, you are growing nostalgia. I think that is wonderful. We have a Java Plum (Syzygium cumini)in a pot here in LA. It started from the fruit of a giant tree at our Phoenix home. It is patiently awaiting the time when it will be set free in the ground to become a tree.Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18071407.post-59960749398997576472016-06-27T07:37:16.844+02:002016-06-27T07:37:16.844+02:00In my small yard in Paris there is thriving a male...In my small yard in Paris there is thriving a male fern <i>Dryopteris filix-mas</i> that I brought back from the countryside about seventy years ago! It comes back every spring. Now I have at least two other little ones that were transplanted last year.chmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17765675930520613520noreply@blogger.com