Comments on: Yellow Heaven http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:45:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Clifford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10736 Clifford Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:58:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10736 Hello Alisa! Welcome to the blogosphere (assuming you're the Alisa I think you are). Yeah... I'm about to tackle the bougainvillea now.... where are my thick gloves. I wonder? -cvj Hello Alisa! Welcome to the blogosphere (assuming you’re the Alisa I think you are). Yeah… I’m about to tackle the bougainvillea now…. where are my thick gloves. I wonder?

-cvj

]]> By: spyder http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10735 spyder Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:57:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10735 "What in the world do the skunks do? We actually don't have them here in the middle of the valley." You used to, back in the day. Lots of wildlife actually, and i suspect more than you imagine now even. A great identification website i have used (there is a huge summer rose garden in the local park near me) is: http://www.justourpictures.com/roses/yellowroses.html “What in the world do the skunks do? We actually don’t have them here in the middle of the valley.”

You used to, back in the day. Lots of wildlife actually, and i suspect more than you imagine now even.

A great identification website i have used (there is a huge summer rose garden in the local park near me) is:
http://www.justourpictures.com/roses/yellowroses.html

]]> By: alisa http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10730 alisa Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:16:01 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10730 hullo! i have given up on 2 things- A) telling folks back east how lovely the roses are in december B) pruning the roses as if we lived back east and we seem to be happier for it-the roses don't need to put so much energy in regaining their height requirement for bloom production and hence give forth ridiculous amounts of flowers(to keep secret!) i do a moderate pruning-the thin stickly branches-the brown leaves-the branches growing at odds w the rest of the bush-bringing the bush to about 2/3rds its height- all the while remembering they are thorn bushes w/ flowers! and how lucky we are for it!!! as for the bouganvilla-they seem to love to get, what they dish out- don't they! and for me, they work as a security fence. and PS-yellow is the color that says hello-the first color we see-the color of the sun that says good morning etc..... and if your looking for a wonderful yellow that smells great, try the graham thomas from david austin-it takes a couple of years to settle in, but then- watch out! hullo!
i have given up on 2 things-

A) telling folks back east how lovely the roses are in december
B) pruning the roses as if we lived back east

and we seem to be happier for it-the roses don’t need to put so much energy in regaining their height requirement for bloom production and hence give forth ridiculous amounts of flowers(to keep secret!)

i do a moderate pruning-the thin stickly branches-the brown leaves-the branches growing at odds w the rest of the bush-bringing the bush to about 2/3rds its height-
all the while remembering they are thorn bushes w/ flowers!

and how lucky we are for it!!!

as for the bouganvilla-they seem to love to get, what they dish out- don’t they!
and for me, they work as a security fence.

and PS-yellow is the color that says hello-the first color we see-the color of the sun that says good morning etc…..
and if your looking for a wonderful yellow that smells great, try the graham thomas from david austin-it takes a couple of years to settle in, but then- watch out!

]]> By: Plato http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10731 Plato Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:43:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10731 <a href="http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2006/01/earth-bound-solutions-to-all-possible.html" rel="nofollow"><blockquote>Then you might have said what color indeed are the emphemeral qualities to our [<i>mathematical</i>] decisive minds that we would choose such abstract colors as yellow in our mental appreciations of what nature hides in the color of flowers around us?</blockquote></a>
Then you might have said what color indeed are the emphemeral qualities to our [mathematical] decisive minds that we would choose such abstract colors as yellow in our mental appreciations of what nature hides in the color of flowers around us?

]]> By: Ruth Ellen http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10732 Ruth Ellen Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:47:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10732 What in the world do the skunks do? We actually don't have them here in the middle of the valley. What in the world do the skunks do? We actually don’t have them here in the middle of the valley.

]]> By: Clifford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10734 Clifford Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:15:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10734 Hi, No, I've no idea what type those are. I inherited them from the previous owner and have since trnasplanted them.... I'll look. These are so fragrrant that I'm tempted to turn some of the clippingsi into new plants, alhough I really don't want to have more high-water use plants in a Southern California garden..... but they are so nice.... The anvil clippers are fine if the blade is razor sharp, which is how I keep it. I know what you mean, though. Yes, I did whack them quite a bit down.... They seem to like it a lot, they grow a huge amount in the year and so I've cut them way back to restart....and it gives me a lot of room to work on some other things in their vicinity.... rebuilding the ground around them (skunk attacks) and turning an adjoining bit into a gravel garden. I've yet to do the fight with the Bougainvillea....thick gloves for that. I might pop a bit of sugar in after 24 hours. Thanks for the thoughts and advice, -cvj Hi,

No, I’ve no idea what type those are. I inherited them from the previous owner and have since trnasplanted them…. I’ll look. These are so fragrrant that I’m tempted to turn some of the clippingsi into new plants, alhough I really don’t want to have more high-water use plants in a Southern California garden….. but they are so nice…. The anvil clippers are fine if the blade is razor sharp, which is how I keep it. I know what you mean, though. Yes, I did whack them quite a bit down…. They seem to like it a lot, they grow a huge amount in the year and so I’ve cut them way back to restart….and it gives me a lot of room to work on some other things in their vicinity…. rebuilding the ground around them (skunk attacks) and turning an adjoining bit into a gravel garden. I’ve yet to do the fight with the Bougainvillea….thick gloves for that. I might pop a bit of sugar in after 24 hours.

Thanks for the thoughts and advice,

-cvj

]]> By: Ruth Ellen http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10733 Ruth Ellen Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:32:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10733 Is there still a tag on those roses? Do you know what they are? I'm always on the lookout for fragrant ones, and those are a lovely color. I've heard that you should add a teaspoon full of sugar, as well as the bleach. Supposed to feed them. Don't know if it's true. Aaaggghhh... are those ANVIL clippers? They crunch the stems. Please, for the sake of your roses (which, by the way, in Southern California need pruning only for shape - I hope you didn't whack them down to a foot high) go invest in a pair of bypass pruners. Hope you're not too damaged from pruning the bougainvillea - I finally got rid of mine because pruning it was so brutal. Is there still a tag on those roses? Do you know what they are? I’m always on the lookout for fragrant ones, and those are a lovely color. I’ve heard that you should add a teaspoon full of sugar, as well as the bleach. Supposed to feed them. Don’t know if it’s true.

Aaaggghhh… are those ANVIL clippers? They crunch the stems. Please, for the sake of your roses (which, by the way, in Southern California need pruning only for shape - I hope you didn’t whack them down to a foot high) go invest in a pair of bypass pruners.

Hope you’re not too damaged from pruning the bougainvillea - I finally got rid of mine because pruning it was so brutal.

]]> By: Clifford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10728 Clifford Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:45:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10728 Thanks! A pleasant surprise when I went outside today....... -cvj Thanks! A pleasant surprise when I went outside today…….

-cvj

]]> By: Arun http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10729 Arun Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:03:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/01/21/yellow-heaven/#comment-10729 Lovely roses! Lovely roses!

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