• Terry's Yorkshire Garden, 2nd half of 2001 December 01 - 5:29 am [21]

Hope you don't mind the new thread Maggie, but the old one was getting a bit full.
Just a Crocus tommasinianus shot to get this started and to see if anyone is still around these parts.
Now if I can just remember how to do this....

Spring !!!!!! Such a pretty picture.

A new thread for your 2001 garden - perfect !!

Now that's the pic I need to illustrate the Tommies. Wow, a carpet of moss and all - what a beautiful scene. Pics from your garden will help make up for missing out on the bluebell walks this year :-) Thank you Terry oxoxox

Beautiful, Terry. I took a pic of our crocus, too, but I'm at exposure 10 out of 24 on a roll I put in the camera in late November.

Does that mean we can start a Jordy Gardens thread when you get the roll developed Susan ? yes please We would love to watch spring unfold in Washington state, here on the forum!!

Darn! Last week I uprooted one of the first signs of spring without photographing it - an unusually lush expanse of blooming "popweed." I don't know the official name of this weed, but some gardeners call it "popweed." When the seed pods are ripe, they burst open at the slightest touch. Seeds fly in all directions.

We had another mild winter, so the weeds have a head start.

You will have to invest in a digi camera Susan, we can't be waiting all year for your spring photos Sorry you had a mild one we had three in succession, it messes up the spring show with everything out of sync. Luckily for us we had a proper winter this year so everything should be bursting together and soon I hope.
I think I shall have to leave last years bluebell photos on my web this year Maggie, only way any of us Brits will get to see them. This will be the first time in 40 years that I haven't been able to watch the spring unfurl in the woods.

A digital camera would be so nice! No more trips to the developer.

I saw a story on the web this morning that paths might be opened up in some areas in a couple of weeks. Are you close to any infected areas? It's scary that the disease can be spread by the wind.

Sorry Susan I missed your post somehow. I've heard talk that they open up the paths again, seems a bit stupid to me closing them and then reopening when the disease is still in full swing. Not seen any signs of it around here so far.

Terry's latest May pages have some terrific stuff - Choisya ternata and Enkeanthus campanulatusfor heavens sake and oh that Clematis viticella Venosa Violacea!
Your digi camera captures the whites so much better than I have managed with mine, Terry, even tho I have tried cloudy days, early mornings and almost sunset, it still loses most of the detail.
Love the early lime green growth of that Acer shirasawanum Aureum and that awesome blue Ceanothus 'Blue Mound'.
Thanks again for letting us poke around your beautiful plants

I just found your new pond pages and new ponds. Are you trying to turn the entire garden into one big series of connected ponds I wish someone would come make one for me and that it would look as natural and elegant as yours Ter.
Plus, I just found the mushrooms on your art pages. they wonderful. You need to let us know when ya add new stuff other than the monthly pages. Please post it on this here thread, okey dokey? and Susan too, on your thread, pleassse oxoxox

Well Maggie, not sure how you have done it, but you seem to be viewing last years and this years monthly pages at the same time, could be that you are once again on the old site, but I thought that the Ceanothus was only on the new one. The toadstools have been hiding in there since last October, bet you thought they had just sprung up overnight.

Terry, I don't know which site I have been viewing this morning (I followed Maggies posted link above), but have discovered all sorts of interesting stuff that I didn't remember from your site before.

I didn't know there were so many pretty flowering bog plants! Are there any that would grow in a wet boggy place in the spring that dries out considerably come summer?

I have some of the double buttercups growing here. They were a complete surprise when I found them almost choked out in the grass and daylilies of the old beds that came with the house. It took me a couple of years before I discovered what they were. Of course that was pre-computer and internet. Mine are growing in a damp corner, but now that I know they will grow with a couple of inches of water, I have a new site for them next spring! Then I won't have to look at those bare puddles that last through May.

You have an extraordinary picture of your fish! And the frog pictures were amazing too. I did not realize you had such an extensive "garden" of ponds. Is it alot of work maintaining them? Your hanging fish (candle holder) is my favorite pond accessories though.

Now how did you do your artwork? You said from scratch - but did you start with a picture of a flower? I just love the rudbeckias in blue! Would you mind if I used it for a desktop?

I discovered so many "new to me" plants this morning browsing your site. The yellow hammer rhododendron was lovely!

Maggie, don't feel left out, I'll be looking at your site too. I know that will have lots of new interesting things on it too.

I can see I'm going to have my work cut out for me in making my web pages this year. You all have done a wonderful job!

I think I was on the current year Ter - I just hadn't gone to any other pages except the monthly ones in so long - I usually spend so much time in the garden ones that I think I missed some of the others for a while. I must go more often to take it all in.
No, MK, there isn't too much new besides the home pages changes that I try to update more often lately and then the twice a month Come Stoll articles and Gail's monthly organics pages. I had done a lot pieces for the paper this spring and let the site slide for a while. Altho, there might be some Virtual Stroll stuff since your where last in.
I think we first met over the buttercup subject - gosh, maybe two years ago now.

I think that's right Maggie. I couldn't identify the buttercup, until I found a good site with excellent gardeners!

Wanted to ask Terry: The lake applet enhanced pictures - they are pictures you took and then enhanced? I think I recognize the lady in the first picture.

I would love to try the lake enhanced effect with some of my pictures. And I want to try the plant labels like Susan did. Sure hope you guys don't mind me trying some of your wonderful web ideas.

mamakane, You're welcome to try any of my ideas. If you have any questions, just send me an email. I don't use an editor, though. We might have trouble communicating, but I'd be glad to try.

My very first web page had lake applets and other Java applets. I can point you to some tutorials.

Susan, you don't use an editor? Does that mean you are one smart lady using html code? I know just a few basics, but I think I can label the plants with the software program I use to make my pages. Thank goodness!

mamakane, There's a bit of a story behind my lack of an editor. I got interested in HTML in November of 1998. My husband found a super editor, which he downloaded for a month's free trial. Unfortunately, it required the latest version of Internet Explorer, and there wasn't enough disk space free on my computer for me to load IE. I couldn't bear to throw out any of my precious files or applications, so I had to learn to use HTML.

Couldn't get in here yesterday, got to site OK but page not found came up for forum. Now I have so many questions to deal with...hmmm where to start? Start at the beginning, that's a very good place to start...could make that into a song....been done before.....

Bog plants for dry places MK, you don't make it easy do you...lol Well you mentioned the double buttercup that is one possibility. In the boggy but not under water areas the Celandines, Rununculus fricaria, would be great, they die down pretty early so would not mind being dry in summer. The Yellow Flag Iris, that's Iris pseudocorus, should just about survive a dry spell in summer and that will tolerate growing in water up to about four inches deep.

The ponds are not difficult to maintain, just have to keep cleaning out the filter pads on the pumps and watching for overgrowth of plants, they do grow fast with unlimited water.
The cast iron fish is no trouble at all to look after and with our weather onlt eats about one candle a year.

The artwork is either from photos in books or preferably from my own photos, but it is not photo manipulation, they have all been computer painted using the original as a reference only. They start as splodges of colour which I then refine using the art tools. The lighten and darken brushes are great for adding depth.
Please feel free to use the Rudbeckias or any others, I can e-mail a larger version if you would like it.

You can find the script for the lake and other applets at the David Griffith site, just click on the link under the photos on my site. He also has simple instructions on how to apply them to your photos. You don't need to understand any code to use them.

That brings me nicely to Susan who can use html, you brave girl. I am like MK, I keep picking up a bit but would be lost without Frontpage. I keep promising myself a book to learn how to use it, but I spent a long time learning to program in basic, look how much use that is today...lol
Hope you have invested in a new hard drive now Susan, those pics soon fill em up, luckily they are very cheap these days. I remember paying £350.00 for a 20Mb hard drive and 2Mb of ram for my Amiga, and that was about 12 years ago.

How do you build your pages Maggie? The answer "Larry" is not acceptable.

Bog plant for dry places - Peltiphyllum peltatum now called Darmera peltatum. This plant is lush in a wet area. We have one growing in a dry spot under a Douglas fir, and it's still alive and looks OK. I thought it looked pretty good until I saw one growing at the edge of a pool.

Yes, Terry, I have a much better computer now than I had in 1998. It has a much faster processor, which pretty much killed my interest in Java applets. Peaceful ripples on the old computer turned into tidal waves on the new computer

Mine is a PIII 600 and they behave on mine, did you use the David Griffith applets, Susan?

Yes, I used a couple of David Griffiths' applets. I also used applets by Anfy. Those were most affected by my processor's speed.

If you'd like to see one of my applets, I uploaded it to WortHog Garden the other day. It has a series of transitions from one photo to another. The series of photos shows a lotus. Unfortunately, this applet is a bit slow to load. Lotus

Pretty neat Susan, and it loaded fast.

We had a storm last week, an after effect of the system that flooded Houston, that took down our DSL line. Unfortunately, much of the town also had phone service probs - as it has taken until now for serviceman to come repair things today.
See, Terry, I wasn't avoiding your techy question - I just haven't been on line for days and days (seems like weeks). WE (not just Lars;) currently use Net Objects Fusion to make pages, altho he (not me) does everything else beyond its capabilities. But then, he can't garden or write about it ;-)
Now that Lotus thing is just the sort of toy he likes to play with. What a beautiful way to show its cycle.
(ps Sus, my slight brush with HTML makes me pull my hair out - either that or bang head against wall)
missed yous oxoxo

Horrible to be without the Internet...but at least you had no junk phone calls!

Just a note to let everyone know that Terry's last webpages are up. I am so sad that he is discontinuing his monthly pages, but hope he will add things from time to time. He used a very cool snow applet on the front page.

Thanks Caro. I had great visit there tonight, as always.

My birds don’t care much for the crab apples either Terry, but maybe they would if there were any left in the dead of winter. I have discovered that a little mouse is very fond of them. He skarffs them up in a corner of the potting bench. I know this because he leaves a pile of tiny apple cores there – some with their stems still attached. Really!

I moved a Jasminum nudiflorum to a sort of naturalized spot this year and the lawn mowers decided it must have been a weed – they wacked down it the ground :-((((

I envy your self-sown Honesty plants – have never been able to get them established here and I adore their ‘silver dollar’ seed cases!

Your dwarf conifers, Euphorbia and Sedum grouping was great. I have been really pleased with my ‘evergreen’ Euphorbia this year. Must root up some more of it. Trying to figure out how in the world I could squeeze them in to the packed greenhouse.

Winter butterflies are such a wonder, aren’t they! There is still a painted Lady here, but I’m sure tonight’s cold will get her.

Your Magpies remind of our grackles. There weren’t any around here until 1984, and their numbers ever grow.


Caro, I too, am very sad for Terrys monthly pages to end. You MUST alert us to those promised updates Terry.