Friday, February 6, 2009 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 7811 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating Mother Nature's Revenge! After several year's of relatively mild winters, the dark side of mother surfaced again this month. In January we had a hard freeze that brought temperatures down to the mid 20's for a couple of days. Now, just a few weeks later we are back in Mother Nature's deep freeze. All I can say is that I hate cold weather!!!!!!!! I know this is going to be a major setback to my hybridizing program. My motto in times of crisis has always been, "deal with it and move on", and that's what I will ... Categories:BrugmansiaRandom thoughtsWeatherSeedlings Tags:BrugmansiabrugsfreezeSeedlings Read more
Thursday, January 1, 2009 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 12252 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating What a busy year! There's a reason why my garden blog has become stagnant, it's called too much nice weather! When the weather's nice outside, I spend all my free time working on my plants. Then when I'm done I'm too tired to blog. I figure I have just under 9,000 brugmansia seedlings growing now. I'm not sure why I let this number get so out of control, but every time I have a seedling bloom that is a potential keeper it makes it all worthwhile.I have lots of notes and pictures to share in the new year so ... Categories:Random thoughtsReflectionsRamblings Tags:Angel TrumpetblogBrugmansiaSeedlings Read more
Monday, November 19, 2007 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 7739 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating These fins are made for walking.... I returned from a two day road trip to find a dead catfish in my driveway. It looked to me to be about a 3-4 pounder and had most likely only been there for a half day. How on earth does a catfish end up in your driveway???? Were aliens responsible? Does this have some deep meaning behind it? I'm used to finding dead animals in my yard, but never fish. Both my dog and cat enjoy hunting. For my dog she's usually responsible for a few possum, rabbit and field rat deaths each ... Categories:Random thoughts Tags:walking catfish Read more
Monday, November 19, 2007 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 8460 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating Oh my aching back.... This weekend I continued to clean-up my brugmansia seedling collection. I decided to let the plants in one gallon pots stay in their original pots rather then up size them to larger ones. Most are rooted in the ground so they have the stability they need to stay upright. Another group of younger gallon size plants had been attacked by caterpillars so I removed the damaged leaves and spaced the plants out.For my major weekend project I opted to move my larger 3 inch potted seedlings up to 4 ... Categories:BrugmansiaRandom thoughtsSeedlings Tags:BrugmansiarepottingSeedlings Read more
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 7451 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating A cool find Saturday I trekked over to Mt. Dora for their annual plant festival. It is rare that a plant festival matches up with one of my few free weekends so I was psyched. You never know what to expect at a plant festival. Sometimes all the vendors are selling the same plants that you would typically find at your local Home Depot, while others have growers with hard to find plants. Mt. Dora had both and I came home with a few treasures. A couple of the plants I found were plants that used ... Categories:Random thoughtsGarden Tours Tags:Mt. doraplant festivalplant swap Read more