Location: Lexington, N.C, just 6 miles from High Rock
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Thanks Crat...I always wondered...what it was.
I googled it..and you are dead on the money. Now can I take a cutting of this and replant it in the mountains of Virginia or just dig some root section up? I am pretty sure I dug a portion of the root up to get this one. I read where it flowers heavily in areas where there is some cold winter weather..I guess like the mountains.
It should be happy there. I think the rose family has about the best selection of plants there is...hawthorn (crataegus), serviceberry (amelanchier), apple (malus), Pear (pyrus) cotoneaster (cotoneaster), firethorn (pyracantha), uhhh, roses (rosa)...the list just keeps going! Rose family plants are best characterized by their fruit. Think of an apple or pear as a giant rose hip (also characteristicly high in vitamin C).
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Location: Lexington, N.C, just 6 miles from High Rock
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Does anyone know where I can get a replacement fuel tank guage for an above deck tank for my pontoon? Mine has yellowed and cracked...so its hard to tell how much fuel is in the tank. I have googled every which way. Does anyone know if the above deck fuel tanks all have universal threads as it relates to the cap screwing on the neck of the tank? I have found a Moeller fuel tank guage that might work..but hate to buy it unless I know it works. My tank is not a Moeller, but it was stock on a Bass Tracker 1996 Pontoon boat. This is the type I am looking for. Thanks in advance.
Does anyone know where I can get a replacement fuel tank guage for an above deck tank for my pontoon? Mine has yellowed and cracked...so its hard to tell how much fuel is in the tank. I have googled every which way. Does anyone know if the above deck fuel tanks all have universal threads as it relates to the cap screwing on the neck of the tank? I have found a Moeller fuel tank guage that might work..but hate to buy it unless I know it works. My tank is not a Moeller, but it was stock on a Bass Tracker 1996 Pontoon boat. This is the type I am looking for. Thanks in advance.
Below is an newspaper article I just finished about a great winter landscape plant. Enjoy:
The President’s December Plant Pick: Arum italicum
Ranging from USDA Cold-Hardiness Zone 4-9 (for example, Massachusetts to Georgia), Arum italicum is an outstanding cool-season garden element. Lustrous and vividly veined, clouded, or speckled, Arum foliage emerges into October’s crisp autumn air and remains striking until May. Bold “spathe and spadix” flowers (similar to the peace lily or calla lily) decorate mature colonies in the spring. Enduring long after the leaves melt away, 10” tall berry-laden spikes ripen from green to red—prevailing handsomely into June or early July.
Most arums (commonly referred to as “Lords and Ladies”) develop optimally in a light, deciduous shade—exposed to the brilliant winter sun yet protected from the warmest days of early fall and mid spring. Although somewhat drought and soil tolerant, Arum italicum benefits from moist organic soil. No serious pests or diseases afflict Arum—including deer!
Share Arum with your friends! Simply dig up the rhizomes in early summer, snap off the pea-shaped offsets, and plant the offsets 2” deep like seeds. What emerges during the subsequent autumns will be an exact duplicate, a clone, of the donor rhizome. Arum italicum is easiest to transplant as a rootless, topless tuber in the summer—but it can be planted anytime as long as the roots are kept moist through the transition. For those looking for a more complex garden adventure, collect mature seed in the early summer, and sow <¼” deep. The author suggests the use of gloves and safety glasses while handling seeds to avoid potential skin or eye irritation. Over the next few years, the seedlings will develop leaf patterns as unique as a fingerprint! Try teaming up your Arum italicum with Hostas or daffodils. Purchase Arum italicum locally!
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I took these pics on the grounds of Juniper Level Botanic Garden @ Plant Delights Nursery. This is where I spend 40 hours a week. Still I wish I could spend 20 hours a week there and 20 hours a week...no...40 hours a week crappie fishing.
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Below is a quip from my writeup of a garden tour (which, for publication reasons excluded that it was at my home).
...Ongoing garden projects including a bamboo labyrinth, cactus garden, moss garden, fern bed, tobacco stick fence garden, and more. Onlookers also enjoyed the recently completed meandering brick path with “picket fence” bench. The brick was salvaged from a demolished Holly Springs house. The pile of rubble was full of old clay bricks dusted with history, crumbling with character, and crying out for one last chance to be loved. The old mortar clinging to the bricks was chipped off--but not discarded. To salvage a maximum amount of the old Holly Springs home, the mortar chips were pulverized into sand and swept into the joints of the freshly laid bricks. Of the several shapes, sizes, and colors of bricks snaking their way though the upper shade garden, the author’s favorite are the hearth bricks “stained black from decades of warming cold toes and cooking beef stew.”
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Looks great!...nice use of material. I really like the wood/moss banking of the bench area along the old brick path. Good werk!
Also....thanks for the Arum italicum info. It's a Winter interest plant that I was not aware of. I may incorporate some in my perennial planting areas.
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