Oh Bob I can just imagine what you feel like if you do not have time to take care of the one place that gives you back so much joy and relaxation. Then on top of that breaking off an inflo from your loved plumerias...sure is saddening.

But you are getting all the bruning done. Maybe not when you had planned on doing it. But like you said...come time for it all to look great again. Hopefully this sad day will be forgotten and we will have a happy Bob again.

_You know there are a lot of shoulders here to go around when needed.

and...HUGS

Lucy

Ah Bob...Chin up buddy :)

It'll all be fine...Spring is just around the corner...Gardening is great therapy!!...I got SOOO much to do outside here, but its still too cold...The dirt is really cold that I can't work with it :(

knotz

Hey Bob,
I've had inflo's fall off from just rain, so try not to take it personal, I know I probably would too though, yyyyuuuuummmmmmm plumie smell! On the bright side, this weekend it's supposed to be in the 70's. Now's a great time to focus on seeds inside the house and ignore what your yard really looks like!

Bob I think we all know how it feels when the weeds seem to have taken over but just remember its always worse than it looks, and one or tow days of pulling is all it takes to get looking great. Just console yourself with the fact that most of us don't even see any green, just white snow and mud, so seeing any plants is a plus. Sorry about the plumie flowers getting knowcked off.
Shawn

Ditto here. I am not an immaculate gardener anyway so nature always wants to reclaim it. As for roundup I will start using it again this year with a new gizmo called the weed ball. Selective rolling applicator.

I am counting the days until I can wake everything up with some fertilizer. I usually wait until March 1.

I know the feeling about the weeds taking over Bob. I just let them go until it gets warmer then attack with a vengence, lol. Sorry about your inflo. Hopefully it will put another one on soon. Sometimes the first one on mine will fall off from high wind but it will usually make another soon after. I wish I had the nerve to use roundup someplace other than the fence line, lol.

Bob,

Cheer up friend! It will get better...I dropped my fav plumie I received from carol here. I could have kicked myself. He is doing better now though...I would love to be able to get out and look at my plants. Lol they are under snow....Can you do some gardening for me too while you are out there... :)

Bob .. That sucks!!! I could always post a pic of my place and make ya feel better...LOL I have a veggie garden that has been neglected for a couple of yrs. due to surgery... that needs a new life so I am fighting that.. Your yard is so Beautiful.. It is just you looking for perfection..It doesn't exist...LOL Just do a little something and I know it will make you feel better and give the incentive to go out there and kick some weed butt!!!
Kylie

Thanks everyone. Sometimes a person just needs to feel sorry for themselves. I know I've got it good, compared to some of your winter blues... thanks for reminding me. I've been out there doing some grunt work. Don't seem to have gotten much accomplished, but a little hard work does a mind and body good. I know that what I do, over the next few weeks, will pay great dividends in the months ahead. The Plumie inflo wasn't really that horrible, just bad timing... it felt like I was being kicked while I was down. I'm well over it. Hope everyone is having a great weekend... mine is looking up!

Bob

CHEERS Bob!!!
Kylie

Its ok Bob you have the right to feel winter blues along with the rest of us, lol. Glad things look better. I need to go fix up the flower bed that Lucy Lou likes to destroy while she is feeling bad. It depresses me every time I look at it. I need to get some kind of fencing to put around it so she won't dig in it until she learns better. I guess I'm lucky she only poops in the other one and thats bad enough. For some reason she feels like life isn't complete without a new crater in the butterfly bed daily.

Cheer up bud!Its tuff right now but when spring gets here your going to be soooooooo busy with your yard.You won't even look back to this day when you had the winter blues.Matter of fact I will be out in the yard here in a little while too.

Rigo

It's almost spring, it's almost spring.
We're just starting to really see recovery from Ike. Hurricane season is always rough but this one! The three worst storms to hit the us: 1) 1900 storm-Galveston
2)Katrina
3)Ike-Galveston.
My neighborhood flooded for the first time in 108 years. Almost the entire island was underwater, Everything, everything is dead, some stuff is still dying. The stuff we put down to save got flooded, the stuff we put inside died because the city wouldn't let us home for 2 weeks. THEN we had S-N-O-W!! Snow! In Galveston, in early December/late November, I can't even rememer now.

On the bright side, there are bulbs coming up, Home Depot had great prices on palms so we put in a bunch of those. We are digging the big pond we always wanted. There is plenty of sun in the yard now. There are plant trades just around the corner, plant sales, nurseries are starting to restock. Lots of opportunities to spend money on plants, my own economic stimulus package! Too bad the insurance didn't cover the plants.
Tally ho!

Your bananas might come up from the base. I have a couple that I left in the ground here and it got down to 19 a few nights. The tops and most of the stems are toast but the very bottoms are firm and green so I know they will come back.
You should see my yard: all most everything except for the mature citrus, camelias, and some other hardy shrubs is frozen to the ground! Most of my stuff I had in pots and put it in the garage and some I dug up at the last minute (about 30 brugs plus some other stuff) LOL!
Even though everything is a mess I had to go buy a few new plants the other day lol. A new Yesterday Today and Tomorrow that is blooming and smells heavenly and a carolina jessamine in full bloom! So at least I have some flowers to look at now amid the mayhem!

Sorry you all got hit with the cold weather and not be prepared. Snow and cold for you guys if unreal. I am so glad you mentioned the yesterday today tomorrow. Now I think I know what that cutting is I planted and was growing all winter and barely got frost burn during the 20's. Maybe its that since I don't remember seeing it in the garage and I know it rooted. I had something rooting I planted out there and couldn't remember what it was. Hmmmmm. I hope thats it. I love that plant. I guess I need more name tags for Valentines Day, lol.

Bob...
Glad to see you're looking at the sunny side!

Tally...
It snowed on the evening of December 10th last year!

Yes, that was amazing--but my plants, covered in snow, did amazingly well!!!

I live in Clear Lake...near Seabrook. Slowly, things are coming back---Went to Kemah the other day and was amazed at the recovery--it took a HUGE hit! The trees still have that slight nod to the east as IKE made it's exit and headed north. My Mexican plum trees & redbuds aren't budding--they are all screwed up with the crazy weather the last 6 months!

~MJ

I guess we all have our moments. I don't know how I would handle the total destruction of something like Ike. Your positive attitude is an inspiration, Beachplant. I'm working on a stimulus package on Ebay, right now. Looking at some new Palms that will be unusual for this area.

The Bananes will certainly be fine. I just cut most to the ground, but soon there will be pups-a-plenty, and by summer, a whole new Banana garden!

Bob

Thats funny Bob, a stimulus package, lol. I guess me, Lucy and Patty are keeping the Lowes here in business.

Glad to see you looking on the bright side now Bob. Sorry you had that all happen. Sux about your plumie, I'm sorry.
Hopefully the nanners will come up from their bases nice and big and strong! When it rains it pours, but the storm is over and soon your yard will be gorgeous again..and all that new land you have to play with!!! :)
ROFLMFAO tho...you wanna see depressing???? come look at MY yard! friggin crappy jersey, man. Have I mentioned I HATE winter? 3 dead fish stuck in the ice of the pond, very interesting to look at. It would be hysterical if they thawed and came back to life, lmao.
Everything is brown and ucky and muddy. So many 'sticks' I have to prune back in a few weeks. I only have a couple evergreen plants, and they are still small, hopefully will be blooming soon though. Sheesh, I still have fall leaves covering half of my beds. gonna be in the 60's tomorrow so hopefully I can get those leaves outta there! Can't even see my mulch..I can't believe I spent all that money on mulch, and then gave up on keeping the leaves off when Dec rolled around. hmmm...maybe I'll just throw down some new mulch on top of the leaves, lazy way I know..lol. let em break down.
sorry...rambling again...