Thank goodness for Carrier and his air conditioning invention! I don't know how people coped in the past in tropical areas or even northern states when a heat wave descended on them. I like heat as well when it is freezing outdoors (and even when it gets down in the 50's). We've had a few camping trips in tents. The first night is awful - noise, heat/cold, bugs, etc. The second night is good because you are so tired from the first night.

I think lawn service people notice taller plants and say to themselves, "This is not grass." Anything that creeps along the ground is either a weed or some kind of grass? Oh well. I mowed, edged, and blew the clippings back into the lawn yesterday. Normally it would be in May before our first mowing, but since a lot of our neighbors mowed or had it mowed (mostly weeds), then I figured I would make ours a little neater.

That is the first time I saw those fox pictures. Maybe you posted them on other threads. It looks like you have a pet there! What is funny on the color of your last fox photo? It looks okay to me. A bit fuzzy, but shooing out of a window is not the ideal situation.

No problem on "The Green Inferno". It is a horror movie and some folks might have a hard time watching it.

Digital makes it easy to take multiple pictures of the same subject, then delete the ones you don't like. If it is a moving subject, take a bunch and hope there is a keeper. If it is static, then you can review and delete and try again.

I thought that was Creeping Jenny. Thanks for confirming.

I used my concrete planter boxers in the past to hold some lightweight plastic pots. They are so heavy to move about though. GRRR!

You should start seeing the dark leaf, orange blossom begonias at your Walmart soon. Every store I've visited has them there. We went to a different Walmart this morning after dropping Rufus off at the vet's office for a bath and nail trimming. We haven't visited this store in a number of years. There was an older woman who worked the outdoor garden section when we used to visit frequently. I hope she is still alive and doing well.

It is difficult to kill a crepe myrtle. You can dig out the entire plant with most of the roots and the roots left behind will send up new shoots and grow into big bushes/small trees in a number of years.

I think the dark leaf begonias posted by Houseplant Club might be fake. The first photo of the tall calathea by Botanic Bliss looks fake to me as well. The second one by them looks like it may be real. Hard to tell at times.

I know a lot of folks who buy Dusty Miller for the silver foliage. I never did. I did have some kind of Artemesia 'Powis Castle' (a bit of silver looking foliage) at the old place for a few years.

No, I do not have P. stenolobum, but if I ever find one, it might hop into my basket (or online cart). I bought P. billietiae in TN last month that looks similar.

Yeah, I could be pushing it if I started a nursery upstairs. I'd probably have to change the carpet to linoleum for spills. So, it will probably never happen.

Moss polls themselves aren't anything to look at, but the plants using them are.

After we got home from our Walmart visit, a USPS van pulled into the driveway across the street. We were getting our buys out of the hatch area when the mail van pulled into our driveway. This has to be my last purchase from Etsy. I haven't opened it yet. I am supposed to get my Amazon order today as well.

My Amazon lily under the dappled shade of a redbud tree survived the cold of the last two mornings. This was taken yesterday afternoon. Almost every plant came through very well from the cold mornings. I decided not to crop out my shadow holding my phone in this photo.

I staked this extra tall cane begonia when I took it out last week. Some of the top leaves were wilted. I will know if it had any cold or sun damage this week.

These 2 pothos came out fine - I will be cutting these for my moss poles soon.

I tried to find out what this aroid was using Google Lens. The best solution they came up with is some kind of Anthurium. Maybe it is, since I bought 3 different ones long ago from Brian's Botanicals. I know one died shortly after I got it and the other one took 3 years before it succumbed to whatever (probably keeping it too wet). Anyway, memory is often lost over a period of years on lesser things (such as this). I thought it was some kind of Alocasia.

The mighty beech tree has some extra long limbs for shade.

B. Chumash is blooming again (it did it a few weeks ago). I should find an appropriate pot, but it does so well in a low pan (cheap aluminum tray). The volunteer impatiens are doing good too!

I still have 50% left in this room, 10% in the other big room, and maybe 40% in the two utility rooms to move outside. Too many chores!

This pan is feeling lonely since all the big plants under the light bridge are moved outside.

Another very tall cane that needs a stake if I plan on keeping it this summer.

My previous Etsy plants are coming along. The worst one so far is the bottom right corner - it is Philodendron Giganteum 'Blizzard'. It was/is a plug and it has grown a little. The Xanthosoma 'Mickey Mouse' could be moved outside the domed tray. The four plants I just got need another tray to live in for a while.

Another tray of cuttings that need to be potted into 4 inch pots ASAP

I love your observation about sleeping better on day two of camping Lol..

you accepted the damage from the lawn service better than I would..

my neighbor called..she saw the fox today..the pic of the fox looking at me seems faded..it was taken with my old phone..

I wouldn’t mind some garden center shopping soon..I want a dark leaf/orange blooms begonia..

you never bought Dusty Miller?..that’s surprising..

I meant plants growing on moss poles are pretty..

I’ll add pics now..finish the chat later..

viburnum is pretty..

‘Empress Wu’ looks better since the rain..the leaves have ”relaxed”..they were cupped in earlier photos..

can’t stop taking pics of ’Fire Island’ while they’re yellow..

wild geranium..

I moved the high maintenance mac into the garage last night..again..

an unusual lily of the valley..

planted some of the free daffodils..used rocks to stop the squirrels from digging..(bottom of photo)..

‘Musa Basjoo’ has a leaf..

back this morning to finish..

aren’t the cold nights tiresome?..I‘ve had pots in the garage for days..moved just the macrophylla out but then back in last night..

I don’t have your energy to maintain so many pots!..I was in the living room listening to a free webinar about native plants..turns out it didn’t live up to the hype..

I noticed a peace lily was slightly droopy..went to the kitchen to grab the watering can that I keep filled and watered it..easy to let a plant slip by and get too dry is isn’t it?..

my variegated peace lily has a bloom..there’s so much dust on the leaves it made me gag..I didn’t post the pic with the others..but then decided what the heck..

I’m so ready for these plants to go out!!!..

Sounds like a lot of folks need some (new) glasses or cataract surgery? Yikes!

Years ago I had this resin pot of an Easter Island moai and put an air plant on top. I called it/him the rad dude.

Love that pot, perfect combo with that plant. Definitely a rad dude!

At least my husband didn't think that this was my head...