Oh my goodness another one to enable...lol I hope you know what your getting into Kym. These people are not only very friendly but they are all ENABLERS. You will have more brugs than you know what to do with shortly. I'm sure some of them will help you out with your other addiction too. Want you Karyn?.....LOL Please make yourself at home with the greatest group of people on the garden web, nah, on any of the Garden Sites on the web. These people are WONDERFUL, kind of like one big family here. If you have something to share we all want a start of it. If you have something your looking for most of the time someone here has it and you will have one shortly thereafter. I guess I shouldn't be bragging about that too much because before you know it everyone will be hanging out in the Brugmansia forum. LOL Ok, everyones secret is safe with me. Happy Gardening, Marian

Thank you girls. Losing Loli was hard and our pain only increased ten-fold this morning as we lost our beloved little Remi pug of 7 yrs. :-( He had lost a tooth and had a loose one so he went in for a dental and while under anesthesia, his heart rate dropped and they couldn't tube him. They done an emergency tracheotomy and still couldn't intubate so he slipped away. The vet found he had a large tumor that we were completely unaware of at the very back of his throat. It was in an inoperable location so we would had to have made a decision soon reguardless. My heart is shattered to pieces now so it'll take some time to really regroup and come to accept things.

Jen. Seems that there is a glitch in the system thinking our names have been taken. Go to the upper right hand side of the page. See ' your houzz' click on that. Go to ' your profile' Then you will see a place for you first name. ( profile information) Type in your old username and zone. Under last name I used my city and state. This is what wil a opera it the main page like before. Just use your other user name for singing in and out. My name was taken too like others. This way you can change it back!! Hope this helps! Be back later.. So happy to see you all I can't tell you all how happy I am to see you guys!! Love ' sister' Maverick! They are so beautiful!! I can't wait to see your other blooms , Jen ! Nicole. We need to catch up too!! Metallica is a great price at FC now!! Half of what I paid for a cutting and it's grafted.. Just saying!! ( enabling at its finest)

I'm 72 and have a really bad back (DDD at multiple vertebrae sites) that allows only very brief bending. Have broken both femur heads (below knees) in an inside fall, and although both are healed, it is painful to get on my knees for more than 5-10 minutes at a time, even using foam pads. Just this past year, I've decided mulch, fabric, newspaper and cardboard are all short term and I'm always right back to the messy, weedy beds that are even harder and more time-consuming to weed because of the items just listed. My decision this year is I'm done with ALL OF THE ABOVE methods for controlling weeds. I've ripped up the fabric from the one bed I had it in under a primrose jasmine that roots wherever it touches the ground (since dug up & removed). Last year I pulled up the newspaper & cardboard in one small bed. From here on out, I'm using the weedeater exclusively. I'm not a flower gardener and the few varieties I can keep alive are in pots off the ground so I can weedeat around the pots easily. I stick to flowering shrubs and trees instead. Unfortunately my father did NOT pass on his green thumb to me. Rose bushes and flowering shrubs are just easier to weedeat around. I just hold the whacker close to the ground and let it rip up what it will down to bare soil. I prefer the soil look to mulch or rock. I hand pull weeds that get closer to trunks if need be. I go through a lot of WW twine, and that adds up, but spending $$$ on twine is worth it to save me the resulting back & knee pain. Every spring my husband is always whining we need to mulch all the beds, but he just a 'spread it and forget it' kind of guy. It's me that ends up with the aftermath of his decisions. It has been a areal bone of contentions this year in particular. So I'm DONE WITH IT! Need to get out and weedeat it tomorrow, in fact, but it'll be done in an hour or less, as our yard (and beds) are small. :)