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Just a thought, but has anyone spoken to Herm about this? The firemen are always looking to do good deeds, perhaps each ward would volunteer time to help with this wonderful project.

Beautiful pictures Bon, thanks for sharing! My beds are looking great, I am so glad that I got into perrenials a few years ago and I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who have helped me out, answering questions, giving opinions, etc. It has been so worth it. Our neighbors are always telling us how beautiful our flowere beds are. Without everyone's help and advice, I don't know what I would have ended up with!

Thank you, thank you! Are you having another sale? I haven't been on, I wish I had known about the sale, darn it.

Does anyone know where I can find some locally? Thanks so much.

I don't have a clue, but I like it!

LOL! If you want to get rid of some next year, count me in, I'd love to try them! Thanks!

Even though no garden this year :'( , I'd love to know where to get the Super Marzano for next year. I've been going with San Marzano for the last few years.

Me too, especially after today! My grandson asked, "When are we going to see the grass again?" Soon, I hope. That rodent in Punxy better be right, lol!

Lol, I appreciate any of your advice! When I got it, it was only about 8" high, it's grown so big and every year is just so beautiful. I really hate the thought of trying to move it, but the darned bees are terrible.

Yes, that's it. I've always called it Helena's Mardi Gras, because the lady that I got it from called it that.

Ahhh, so pretty, makes me dream of spring, thanks!

I'll look forward to it Gilb, thanks! These pictures make me think SPRING!!!!

Thanks Gilb, it's just beautiful! I love people to post pictures of their plants, flowers, gardens or anything for that matter!

I plant the Blue Lake too and always have a great crop. I try to keep them picked every day because I like them tender. But, on a few occasions that I couldn't get to them right away, I've used the larger ones too. (not humongous ones) I just blanch them, then into ice water and then I french them and freeze them.

Mine has grown so big and it flowers beautifully. My problem is that it's so filled with bees every year in late summer, we can't go near that part of the deck. Hubby wants to move it, but I'm so afraid that moving it will kill it. Has anyone ever moved one before and if so, any suggestions on how to do it and when? TIA

Oh thank you so much Lavender!!! Without my veggie garden this year, my flower beds are going to be spoiled rotten, they'll have all of my time this year. I'm trying my best to talk hubby into one more flower bed, wish me luck!

I pretty much follow the same guidelines, but it's all about the type of spring that we have. I am going to be missing it so much this year. :'(

Petee, where did you get this? We're going to let the garden go dormant this year, woe is me already. I know that there is no way that I can go a year without growing some veggies. So I've been looking into having some type of patio garden. The problem here is all of the critters! We have to have an electric fence, there just is no way that we could have a garden without it. The deer munch everything down to the ground. And of course, the groundhogs, squirrel, chippies, voles, etc. But hey, that's country living and I wouldn't change it for anything. I'd like to try the motion light, it's worth a shot. TYIA

I would love to have more of your cactus. I couldn't believe that the deer ripped it out of the ground? Wouldn't you think that it would be painful for them? I kept replanting it every time they ripped it out, but unfortunately it never took. But I do have a spot near the house that they may leave alone. I planted the first batch up by the barn on a bank and sprayed it with the stinky stuff, but it was a no go. Now sedum, I probably could give some away this year too, lol! I just can't wait to see all of the plants in bloom, I know it's terrible to wish your life away, but I want spring NOW!!!

We bought blueberry bushes from them two years ago, our problem is the deer and birds. I'm thinking of trying putting some kind of netting over them this year.

Homemade soup always tastes better the next day! I try to make soup the day before we'll have it because of that.

I am sooo dreaming of spring, I know once the SuperBowl is over, I'm done. I hate the month of February, it's the shortest month for a reason, it lasts forever!!! I've been getting the seed catalogs too, I just sit and drool and think of how I can talk hubby into another flower bed this year....wish me luck!

I hope and pray they don't come any farther north. I can't stand the Asian lady bugs, crunchy little so and so's. They're bad enough to put up with, I don't want the stink bugs, too.

Yes, that was me! It was doing so great, I kept spraying it with the stinky stuff to keep the deer away. Hubby said that I was crazy, because deer wouldn't touch it. Yeah right! I stopped spraying it around the end of September thinking that it was safe. Wrong! It's amazing that they would actually try to eat it! Well, it looks like I need to dig up all of my newbies, ugh! Thanks to all! Has anyone else done this? Like, do I dig them up and keep them in the root cellar or do they need warmer temps? I hate to think of losing them, they're so beautiful.

I need help yet again. I love cactus and I was so very fortunate to have a fellow poster give me some last year. Unfortunately the deer, for some reason pulled them out of the ground mid-winter. We managed to save a small piece, though. Last month at Lowe's on the reduced rack, I bought a bunch more of all different types and planted them. So far, so good, since I spray them twice a week with the stinky stuff. Question is, do I have to do something over the winter for them? A few people that I've talked to say that they'll never survive! Does anyone know it this is true? We made such a beautiful little cactus and rock garden and I don't want them to die. As always, any help is appreciated, thanks!