It had to happen someday, I got ORGANIZED!!!

flowerchild59 · Post by **flowerchild59** » Apr 30, 2008 4:15 pm

It was a cold and rainy monday a couple of days ago and I was motivated by well, boredom, and general laziness to clean the house. So I sat down and started typing my hostas out into Theme beds.
They have been organized into theme beds for several years but my masterlist on paper was several years old and looking mighty shabby and was just in general alphbetical order with my chicken scratches off to the sides when I added a plant.
I now have the beds all typed out individually and verified by finding the plants and id'ing them with their metal paw paw marker (love those things). So the beds done so far are:
People's name........with elvis lives, sara, robert frost, etc
Royalty......with majesty, queen josephine, regal splendor, etc
Naughty.......with Mr. Big, fan dance, stripetease, etc
Species and oriental theme names.......with gracimilla, pycnophylla, ogon amagi, hakayu, etc
Sun, Moon and Stars......with sundance, moon lily, blue moon, thunderbolt, galaxy,etc
Locations Bed....with manhattan, mississippi delta, sweet home Chicago, etc.
Food......with guacamole, ice cream, purple lady fingers, etc
Lakeside bed........with surf rider, meter maid, looking glass,
etc
Religious......with holy mole, stained glass, hope, st. Paul, etc
Heucheras also got typed out offically too.

Then of course, there is the miscellaneous bed for the ones that resist themes of any sort and that is by my front door and also includes a few older ones I can't ID and I am just too darn old to dig them up and give them away, just based on principal that I can't id them.

It was also kind of interesting to find out how many I didn't really have or couldn't find, but I had to have them at one time or another since they were on my master list.
I still officially have over 350 plants. Verified. For now

thy · Post by **thy** » Apr 30, 2008 4:59 pm

Sounds great, now you just need a back up... a gmail or something..

So what is

...id'ing them with their metal paw paw marker (love those things).

And what sort of food is Purple lady finger

Pia

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Apr 30, 2008 6:04 pm

Well, it's a Lady Finger that's Purple, bug of course!

Wow! Cheryl! It's amazing what one can accomplish when it means getting out of housework! Can you come do mine next monday?

GREAT JOB! 350 is awesome!

flowerchild59 · Post by **flowerchild59** » Apr 30, 2008 9:22 pm

I have to say many of my themes, especially in the food category, are far stretches, like:
reptillian.......you can eat one if you have to.
alligator shoes.......well, deep fried alligator is considered a delicacy down south. Shoe or not.
sea octopus.........yes, it is eaten somewhere. Ugh.
snow flakes..........yes, I have eaten a few. White. Not yellow.
wolverine.......well, yes you could if you had to.
and so on.

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Apr 30, 2008 10:15 pm

Yes, I would have to say your mind works a little different!

Cute ideas though!

newtohosta-no more · Post by **newtohosta-no more** » May 01, 2008 6:21 am

Congrats on getting yourself all organized, Cheryl!
I really need to redo all my lists and such this year too. I updated a bit last year, but sort of in a haphazard way.
It sure gives you a sense of satisfaction, doesn't it? And so much more fun than housework.

flowerchild59 · Post by **flowerchild59** » May 01, 2008 8:12 am

Pia,
I mark my hostas with metal markers from Paw Paw and place on them strips that I print out from my brother PT label maker, and I use the heavy duty strips so they last for years outdoors.
I splurged a few years ago and now all of my hostas and heucheras are marked with a label.
You can see all sorts of markers at the hosta library web sit under the tab...labels:
http://www.hostalibrary.org/let/labels.html

Cathgreen · Post by **Cathgreen** » May 01, 2008 8:37 am

I recently found a photo album I started a couple years ago, with nice big photos, neatly labeled, of some of my beds (after reading on here that that is a good way to track)

I went through the album muttering, "moved that, divided that... moved those, moved those..."

Gah! Why can't I just leave them alone?

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » May 01, 2008 11:30 am

Sounds like you had a busy Monday for not wanting to do anything, Cheryl.

After looking at your 'I could eat it if I had to' list - I think you need a new theme bed: Animals.

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » May 01, 2008 3:45 pm

Just what I was gonna say Ren

Animals or Reptiles....

Ginger

thy · Post by **thy** » May 01, 2008 6:20 pm

Thanks

.. have to get a Brother one day

Wildlife

Octopus is good
Crocodile is not interesting .. rubber sort of chicken

Small snails are great if in southern Spain... somehow I never tried with my garden ones...

Want me to send some

Sorry.. just could not stop my dirthy fingers

Mary Ann · Post by **Mary Ann** » May 02, 2008 1:57 pm

Pia, about Cheryl's Food theme bed . . . . lady fingers are a type of cookie here. Still, I marvel at how much more you know about us than we know about the Danish.

bobinfrance · Post by **bobinfrance** » May 02, 2008 6:01 pm

Hi Pia in the UK lady's Fingers are also known as OKRA a oriental vegatable often used in Indien recipies, they can be a bit gooye to eat.
Bob

thy · Post by **thy** » May 02, 2008 8:37 pm

Hej Bob... thanks I do like okra,.. if cook 'd well, never heard that name for them before ..thank you

lady fingers here are an Mediteranian speciallity..a long tiny sweet sort of bread/cake.. use´d in tiaramisu... a great desert... try it... no you can't bue it in the grosery shop.. or you can , but don't do it........ it have to be home made...it is easy ...but goooooood

But I have never seen it purple

No one want my snails....I will ad some garlic

Mary Ann..5 millions here... not even the biggest city all together.
We learn aboyt the Eastcoast, Florida -- and the southern states during your civil war... I have to crawl in for the rest..Iowa.. oh.. it is one of the settlers area and so on...Kansas... ? Pensylvania ? I ask childhood like quertions, but for me they are real

.

I understand Swedish and Norvegian and speak..Nordic

Raised with English, German and a bit of France.. had to learn Spanish, my parents moved down to Spain...
My kids talk those language too... no one speak Danish..exept us

It used to be a fairy tail country with H.C. Andersen, Niels Bohr and Sø(OE)ren Kirkegaard....sending humanity help if needed... now my goverment send soldiers with plastic guns out, to look like you---5 million people..we do not have a change

But... if you or any of you,,,ever think of a trip ...please let me know... best time is April to October.... never in
November..cold windy and rairy

I'll show you the fairytails and the other side of the dime

Pia

hostanquilts · Post by **hostanquilts** » May 02, 2008 8:49 pm

Oh Bob, we have OKRA here in the states. I cut it cross wise so they look like wagon wheels, put corn meal on them & fry them. Hmmmmm, very good.

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » May 02, 2008 9:34 pm

I'll be headed your way when I win the lottery, Pia.

You'd think you were stranded in a sea of corn & soybeans & cows if you ever make it to Iowa.

Mary Ann · Post by **Mary Ann** » May 02, 2008 9:59 pm

DH describes Iowa as "miles and miles of nothing" but he's a city boy.

flowerchild59 · Post by **flowerchild59** » May 03, 2008 5:50 am

I am stranded in a sea of apple trees, surrounded by the amish neighbors on one side, cows on the other. My daughter has horses and cows, and now that the my kids are gone, I guess we are going to be a working farm again as we need the tax write offs now.
Pia, you are always so interesting to read when you post. Wow, so many languages and adventures.

thy · Post by **thy** » May 03, 2008 9:57 pm

Ren you know I want to see a cornfield bigger than my country

You will be sooooo wellcome

Flowerchild..we have to.. no one speak Danish,, but if we want to we can understand Swedish and Norwegian

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » May 04, 2008 2:49 pm

Mary Ann - 'miles & miles of nothing' is how I describe Nebraska & Kansas.

Wheat is infinitely more boring than corn.

Guess I'd better check my Powerball ticket from last nite, Pia. When you fly over Iowa in summer you'll see that it's all just one large cornfield. LOL And definitely bigger than Denmark.

So you can understand Norwegian & Swedish when the mood strikes - huh??

I see how you Danes are!!