Hello all, Velvet Sparrow I have read your name in another group but can't remember where (silkies?). How is every one doing? I haven't posted in about a year it seems but I do lurk. When I first joined the gardenweb I was living in a rental with my DH and had a porch with plants. I joined for the plants, you know... the container plants. Ok I now own 4.63 acres (lots of work for it here in CA), 6 goats, 1 meat pig, 30+ chickens (I am learning to show them), chickens eggs in an incubator, turkeys, quail, dog, three ducks, rabbits; one pregnant, a very small pond with fish and pheasant eggs in the incubator. I work full time and come home to massive amount of feeding chores. The funny thing is my plants are half dead. I can't keep the animals out of them and I don't have time to plant/cultivate. We do have a small veg. garden in a small grean house but its not much. I envy all those with experience in balancing the farm life with outside work life. I'm a wreck but I wouldn't give it up for the world. Oh and we will be getting babydoll sheep and mini cows in the summer. Lisa

Hi, Kate - Yes, the catalog is a snapshot of roses that we had in quantities of three or more, plus the silent auction roses. We have other "onesie and twosie" varieties - and we also found a few more to throw into the mix as we went through our gardens and decided what was coming for the cemetery sale. I just got home after setting up all day, and couldn't figure out what was wrong with my driveway. OH! The sale roses are gone! Anita

Hello, everyone. I live in Buford, near Harmony Elementary. I'm fairly new to gardening, very new to this forum; having tried sporadically over the nearly 20 years DH and I have been married. In the last few years I've been researching landscape designs and plantings that should do well in the areas where I want to plant. I use the books, "Creative Homeowner Complete Home Landscaping," Readers Digest Perennials: Designing, Choosing, and Maintaining Easy-care Plantings," "Guide to Georgia Vegetable Gardening," and "Georgia Gardening" Magazine for reference as well as whatever I can find online when looking for more info on specific plants. One of the biggest problems I face (besides the expense of all this landscape gloriousness) is FINDING the plants I'm most interested in. I don't find that I greatly enjoy the "big box" store offerings because they're just so common. WHERE does everyone get these plants?? Internet orders? These books & magazines are filled with beautiful plants and they are HARD.TO.FIND. Secondly, I am a bargain shopper and have a REALLY hard time forking over $7 and much more PER PLANT when I do find the kinds I like in a nursery or wherever. It really pains me to go to any store and pay "full retail price" for ANYTHING. I have been able to purchase discounted less-than-happy looking plants and nursed them back to life at times, and been thrilled with those results but don't always happen on the deeply discounted items so that's sketchy, not a dependable way to find plants, and not always stuff I'm really interested in. Several years ago I ripped out everything around our house, in all the landscape beds: 6 HUUUUUGELY overgrown horrid pampas grass monstrosities (death to pampas grass, I tell you, death), lots of juniper (snakes love juniper and I hate snakes so bye-bye juniper), some shrubs that were far too large to have been planted so close to the house, and so on. Great. All cleaned out. Installed a retaining wall and then in a large sloped bed I put in landscape mix soil, some plantings (three crape myrtles- I know, I know they're common but I like them anyway and they were free), a few azaleas, spike plants, and a couple Rainbow Leucothoe I think. Erosion cloth where needed, then landscape cloth and mulch. This year I added some Blue Boy Phlox to the bed and a few more rocks, then several coleus for a little more color. Everything in that bed seems to be happy and I have VERY little maintenance there, which is good because it's large and quite steep. My most perplexing area is a TEENY space between our driveway and one of the front walls of our house. It faces the street and looks just awful. It is almost 20' long but there is only 18-24" width between driveway concrete and the wall in this area and I haven't a CLUE what to put in there! The area gets full on, brutal sun all morning and until well into afternoon. I need a few somethings to go in there with a little height (up to 3'), but then need some small things to fill in (thrill, fill, spill?). There is a garden hose on that wall, also, so it tends to be a little more moist than other areas when I'm out watering. I am focusing primarily on perennials right now, "investing" in the longer-term plantings, and then I can add little bits of annuals here & there later. I like flowering shrubs and prefer some evergreens when possible (but not holly or anything prickly), but as I said, I haven't a CLUE what to do with this long and extremely narrow, nicely mulched emptiness. My preferred colors are in the red family- reds, oranges, and pinks, and for foliage I stick mostly to chartreuse mixed with a little bit of very deep greens. I would welcome any suggestions. Sorry this is so long!

I have shaker cabinets too (white) and went with the Amerock Mulholland pulls for drawers, knobs for cabinet doors. I went with 96mm pulls on the 15 & 18" drawers, 128mm pulls on the 24" and larger drawers. The 96mm ones looked too small on the bigger drawers, and the 128mm pulls looked a little crowded on the smaller drawers (especially because of the shaker stile/rails all around the drawer fronts).