ok, I'm in too! :) I've been reading alot about this topic for years when it's time to go out and buy those expensive looking planters. I just went to my local (high end) garden supply and found that a big bale of peat moss was around $15 and a small bag of vermiculite was around $6. I thought I'd just go to Walmart and check it out. The weather is looking good for this weekend (finally!) and I'm gonna go 'tufa'.

Love this idea and your purse! Since we all know mosaics is great therapy, you've just creatively extended that idea by naming it. Right now, for me, I can see a WIP, "my teenager is driving me insane" - ear muffs would be good . Let's see, lots of black for his moods, yellow for that all too rare sunny smile aimed at me....

I'm glad you were able to get out there and get started. Didn't it feel so good???? There's nothing wrong with being late. It is better than not ever getting the planting done at all, and most years, a late planting of most things still will produce a nice harvest. The horrific heat/drought of 2011 was not a year when late planting paid off, but most years are not like 2011. The older and stiffer I get, the more I find that I have to pace myself and not overdo things too much in one day, but I just work along at it as steadily as possible and try to stay on task and on track. We're not spring chickens any more, but that doesn't mean we have to give up gardening---we just garden at a different pace now. Some years, the weather makes it impossible for even the most schedule-driven gardener to get everything done "on time", so I've learned to settle for just getting things done eventually. Eventually also is better than never. I hope to spend more time in the garden today despite all the mud and standing water. With all the rain this week, it has been hard to do anything more than just harvesting.

Congrats! Being an avid gardener and photographer of butterflies myself I had gotten fed up with hoping that every time I would go to Botanical Gardens and other places getting hit or miss sightings of butterflies. So I decided to plant my own Butterfly Garden. One plant I knew that I had to have in my garden was Milkweed. Plants are expensive and honestly the seeds are expensive. I found one website that actually sold Milkweed seeds by weight instead of count. I was getting 75-100 seeds per packet. I also ordered a ton of other seeds from them but here is link to there Milkweed.