Some reason I like spring at Harvey's House Texas
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Re: Some reason I like spring at Harvey\'s House Texas
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Is pic 2 an English dogwood (some around here call them a mock orange for some reason)? I just transplanted a bunch of these. They are really pretty.
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Is pic 2 an English dogwood (some around here call them a mock orange for some reason)? I just transplanted a bunch of these. They are really pretty.
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Re: Some reason I like spring at Harvey\'s House Texas
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Two orange trees we've had for over ten years, a lemon one )</font>
Harv, I've got two questions: (1) do they produce fruit, and (2) do you take them inside or otherwise protect them in cold weather?
My granddad raised both a lemon and an orange tree in Ardmore, OK, years ago in the basement of his house, then later transplanted them into the ground beside the house. They both lived 3 or 4 years, the lemon tree made fair lemons and the orange tree made what looked like good oranges, but if you peeled one, it had no color inside, and to eat the orange was like eating water; no color, no flavor. Then after 3 or 4 years, one cold winter, they both died.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Two orange trees we've had for over ten years, a lemon one )</font>
Harv, I've got two questions: (1) do they produce fruit, and (2) do you take them inside or otherwise protect them in cold weather?
My granddad raised both a lemon and an orange tree in Ardmore, OK, years ago in the basement of his house, then later transplanted them into the ground beside the house. They both lived 3 or 4 years, the lemon tree made fair lemons and the orange tree made what looked like good oranges, but if you peeled one, it had no color inside, and to eat the orange was like eating water; no color, no flavor. Then after 3 or 4 years, one cold winter, they both died.
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Re: Some reason I like spring at Harvey\'s House Texas
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Is pic 2 an English dogwood (some around here call them a mock orange for some reason)? I just transplanted a bunch of these. They are really pretty. )</font>
Yes. You are lucky. Yes.
My wife was at a nursery and the person waiting on her knew nothing about the bush that looked rather sorry. There was no tag about species or price. They agreed on a couple of bucks and my wife planted it with a whatever where ever attitude. It seems to bloom forever and is spectacular. The butterflies and bees just love it.
Bird the orange trees are Satsumi (sp?). They don't like getting below twenty eight degrees so we pull them in if it gets real cold and cover them when it's just cold. Some years we get four or five oranges per tree and more than once we've only gotten a couple. But they are sweet and delicious. The rind is rather ugly, smallpox looking I guess you could say. We usually make a big deal about eating them, sorta like when we eat our own pecans.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Is pic 2 an English dogwood (some around here call them a mock orange for some reason)? I just transplanted a bunch of these. They are really pretty. )</font>
Yes. You are lucky. Yes.
My wife was at a nursery and the person waiting on her knew nothing about the bush that looked rather sorry. There was no tag about species or price. They agreed on a couple of bucks and my wife planted it with a whatever where ever attitude. It seems to bloom forever and is spectacular. The butterflies and bees just love it.
Bird the orange trees are Satsumi (sp?). They don't like getting below twenty eight degrees so we pull them in if it gets real cold and cover them when it's just cold. Some years we get four or five oranges per tree and more than once we've only gotten a couple. But they are sweet and delicious. The rind is rather ugly, smallpox looking I guess you could say. We usually make a big deal about eating them, sorta like when we eat our own pecans.
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Re: Some reason I like spring at Harvey\'s House Texas
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( This one only gives me about six blooms a year. But each one is so special. )</font>
Harv, you might not want to let the missus see this website if she likes irises. There's a place in Argyle, Texas that has about every kind of iris you can imagine. Here's a link:
Argyle Acres Iris Farm
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( This one only gives me about six blooms a year. But each one is so special. )</font>
Harv, you might not want to let the missus see this website if she likes irises. There's a place in Argyle, Texas that has about every kind of iris you can imagine. Here's a link:
Argyle Acres Iris Farm