This morning

[Dav4]

Did you have any damage?

I don't think so, but still stormy out so haven't checked. Lost power for a minute and TV for 5...

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

I don't think so, but still stormy out so haven't checked. Lost power for a minute and TV for 5...

It got dark quick...storm blew through pretty fast, power flickered but stayed on. I've been lucky and I've never seen a tornado in MI. (and don't want to either) I just click my heels and go to the basement with my favorite trees. Then I grab the wife.

 

[MGTT]

Fortunately, I saw your post - previous weather reports had not noted the extreme weather! I moved stuff inside and/or under protection. We had a few minutes of high wind, and some relatively minor hail, but seem to have got off lucky for you. A friend in Pickney had a large landscape tree come down, and lost power.....

 

[Dav4]

Fortunately, I saw your post - previous weather reports had not noted the extreme weather! I moved stuff inside and/or under protection. We had a few minutes of high wind, and some relatively minor hail, but seem to have got off lucky for you. A friend in Pickney had a large landscape tree come down, and lost power.....

Glad we both made it through unscathed.

 

[queenofsheba52]

Last year around this time, we had two very bad tornadoes rip through Kalamazoo and Portage during a bad storm. There are still many trees down even yet in the worst hit areas. The storm totally destroyed many homes and businesses. My brother's shop and his pole barn were totaled. I was worried about far worse things than my bonsai, but I had not yet taken them out of winter storage so that was fortunate.

I am happy that you didn't sustain much damage, @Dav4

 

[Dav4]

Last year around this time, we had two very bad tornadoes rip through Kalamazoo and Portage during a bad storm. There are still many trees down even yet in the worst hit areas. The storm totally destroyed many homes and businesses. My brother's shop and his pole barn were totaled. I was worried about far worse things than my bonsai, but I had not yet taken them out of winter storage so that was fortunate.

I am happy that you didn't sustain much damage, @Dav4

Thanks. I guess round two tomorrow night. Hopefully, we have nothing to talk about Thursday!

 

[Dav4]

 

[Dav4]

 

[Dav4]

 

[Colorado]

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Those are beauties Dave! Is that first one some kind of dwarf iris?

 

[Dav4]

Those are beauties Dave! Is that first one some kind of dwarf iris?

Yes, it’s a dwarf crested Iris. I was gifted a few of these almost a decade ago by someone who worked for the national parks department and would routinely strip them off of hiking trails along the Georgia portion of the Appalachian Trail.

 

[Colorado]

Yes, it’s a dwarf crested Iris. I was gifted a few of these almost a decade ago by someone who worked for the national parks department and would routinely strip them off of hiking trails along the Georgia portion of the Appalachian Trail.

Nice, I love irises. I have a native Rocky Mountain iris as a little accent plant, but it has not flowered for me yet. I’ve only had it 2-3 years.

Do you do anything special to get yours to flower in a small pot?

 

[Dav4]

Nice, I love irises. I have a native Rocky Mountain iris as a little accent plant, but it has not flowered for me yet. I’ve only had it 2-3 years.

Do you do anything special to get yours to flower in a small pot?

I don't do anything special. They get watered and fed with my trees but they definitely get less fert, particularly when flowering. I do need to thin out the pots with irises regularly, as they fill up a pot quickly and don't flower well when crowded.

 

[Dav4]

Nasty storms overnight. This one spent it on the ground.

 

[Dav4]

Got to start my holiday weekend a day early . Cold and breezy but at least not raining .

 

[Dav4]

The nice thing about recently repotted jbp is that you don’t have to de-candle. Still, I’m gonna cut back some of those long ones.

This JRP was repotted last year so it’s getting a haircut next month.

 

[Dav4]

 

[rustygarden]

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Growing up in SoCal I have to laugh about the ice plant . My poor mom, all our clothes were stained brown from playing in that stuff . It’s pretty though .

 

[Dav4]

Growing up in SoCal I have to laugh about the ice plant . My poor mom, all our clothes were stained brown from playing in that stuff . It’s pretty though .

Hah! I never knew about ice plants until maybe 5 years ago when I lived in GA. I fell in love with them as they’re prolific flowerers and apparently very cold hardy…. But not in my hands. Anyway, I think they make good accents so I’ll give them some space in the cold room this winter.

 

[Dav4]

Since I watered yesterday morning, this trident maple in a nursery can was apparently blown or knocked off the back bench up near the deer fence, and the top 6 inches of those shoots ended up on the wrong side…