WhooHoo! You have a bud!!! If you are a newbie like me, you're probably tickled!!! This is a pic of a Yardsale lily(bought it for $20/she said it was pink) and I haven't got my pond made yet so this is a rubbermaid tote home...but it has had 3 pink blooms and now this fushia color is the 4th bloom!!! With 2 more coming!! Yowza!! I am making my pond 4ft deep and the plants will sit on black milk boxes, will not be having any plant shelf. I planted this lily like people have suggested here, in a round plastic wide/shallow container, put some osmocoat? and covered with kitty litter, it sits about 20inches deep right now, gets sun all afternoon on the deck. My other lily isn't doing much, just leaves so far, very different from this lily, smaller leaves and mottled, I think the gal who gave it to me said it will be a yellow lily. We shall see. This pic was taken a few days ago and all the leaves are this fusia color now!? Here is a link that might be useful:

Nice photos, Jan! That Dendrobium looks sort of like a Phal... but I love those Jewel Orchids! Those are cool! It won't be too much longer, and I'll be planting tomatoes! I just potted up 2 pink Garden Amaryllis, as they're called, last night... I was shocked to even find them, but Lowe's finally has their spring bulb selection displayed! I picked up an Agapanthus, some Acidanthera bulbs, 3 Hymenocallis bulbs, and the 2 pink Hippeastrum bulbs. All were very reasonable priced, at under $5 for each package of multiples! I scored! :-)

Micki777 - Trudi is the WS orginator & inspiration. The rest of us are enablers who learned from her and we facilitate the addiction in others as and whenever the opportunity presents itself. Since I've had such amazing success + I love to take pictures, I post them so others can see the WS technique in hopes it helps them (like you) take the leap of faith. Someone will soon post a clock that will count down the number of days until spring. I posted the number on my white board at work back in January and one morning a guy stopped to tell me I'd neglected (at 7 a.m.!!) to update the # of days!! I was trying to swallow my vitamin and nearly choked! We all pay attention to the daylight hours that grow so short in December but even this afternoon I saw there was still a faint glow in the western sky at nearly 5 o'clock. Winter sowing is wonderful because we can get our hands in dirt off-season and know the seeds we sow will sprout and grow healthier than any expensive nursery-grown plant when the time is right.

It's Erin Prairie. The flowers are 6" and when you see a large grouping, it really draws your eye to it. Her planting was about 3' wide by 5' long. She also told me it was a strong grower, my type of flower! Marg