I am 60 years old so yes, i do have a lot of time to garden,ha ha.I LOVE being out side,during the summer, i spend all my time out side in my gardens,when i am not sitting on my porch watching the birds and watching my flowers grow.I do all my heavy house work during the winter,soon as spring is here, you will find me out side in one of my gardens,this year i have a greenhouse,so i hope to be out sooner than later. I know some,about hostas, i sell at garden fairs and farmers markets,been doing this with my hubby for the last couple of years,we also have a pond and garden walk all summer free,we both love people and so many have come back just to visit and sit with us on the porch. For our path way's, we use mulch and leaves,and lot's of hickory hull's.This is my first year with sun in the 'out Back',we cleared and planted some last year,so this spring will be a great surprise,hope it is pretty. I am so happy to have found out about WSing,i have lot's and lot's more room.so far in my kitchen i have a worm bin,2cubic feet of dirt"in a bag>ha ha, and a box of junk mail,now i am collecting milk cartons,ha ha ha!It won't be like this long, just to cold to do WSing in the garage.It's bad enough i am possed with hosta,now WSing,please help me,stop showing such beautiful pictures! You sound like you are as busy as the rest of us,isn't this fun! I will look for your pictures this spring and i will try to post some also, i will need help with this one. Hey,TIFFY: I was reading old posts here for more info.and seems you have been around awhile,on one of you posts you made mention of a couple of plants: 1.Fritillarias 2.Egyptian Walking Onions 3.Wafer Ash Can you tell us what these are and can we find them easily,and can we WS them?Thank you guys,please forgive me if this is to long, i am on a roll.Carol

hi Beegood There are actually many different kinds of tansy out there. The kind I have isn't the noxious weed that you are thinking about. When I purchased the seed that was a primary consideration of mine

Trades are getting slimmer. I've been weeding out the plants I don't want over the past few years and haven't got enough of the plants I like to be able to divide much. Hope that changes in a year or two! I can bring: My seed stash 1 black walnut seedling Daylilies (unknown type but definitely not ditch lilies) Mums (yellow) Black eyed susans Grape hyacinth bulbs Lycoris bulbs Small flowered coreopsis seedlings Russian sage cuttings (roots easily in water during the spring) Star of Bethlehem bulbs (can be VERY invasive and is very poisonous to dogs and cats but perhaps in a pot it wouldn't be too bad) Hyacinthoides (wood hyacinth)-white I may not get to dig all of these (time is getting short), so let me know if you want something and I'll make sure I bring it. Diana Lynn

Susan, I love your light stand and always will love it. I realize it was the best solution for you, but if I told Tim I wanted to buy one of those, he'd hand me a hammer and tell me to build my own....which is why I have the one that I have. : ) Mine is hidden away out of sight in a room where guests rarely venture, although anyone who knows me and who knows I raise my own seedlings always asks to go upstairs and see it in the spring. So much for putting it out of sight....I just should have set it up in the dining room or breakfast room or something.... I am sure you'll be deliriously happy with it and will have many wonder seed-starting adventures and I look forward to hearing all about them. I think you got a great deal considering it was Gardener's Supply. I never buy anything of theirs for full price. They have sales often enough (and especially in November when, I think, some of us gardeners are shopping for ourselves) that a person can be patient and get a good price during their periodic sales. I've noticed that prices often are not as good in December when gardeners' spouses or family members are doing what I call "panic Christmas buying" and cannot afford, time-wise, to wait for a sale. I don't think you were repetitive at all. The more we all share about what we do, how we do it and why we do it (as well as pointing out what didn't work for us!), the better for all of us to learn from one another's experiences! Carol, Our weather is just like yours. Our high was 70 degrees yesterday and it was so gorgeous outside I could hardly stand it. I wanted to jump up and down and scream "Spring Is Here!". That was exacerbated by the smell of the orange blossoms on my little orange tree. However, I controlled myself because I knew it was a false spring and that winter was returning today. It was 56 degrees around 7 a.m. here at our house and now it is 36 degrees and we have had very, very light rain but lots of thunder. Phooey on winter! I think you showed those folks at the co-op that one benefit of being a gardener is that it keeps your muscles and joints strong, healthy and fit. I'd rather "work out" in the garden any day, than walk on the treadmill or work out on the weight machine. Who wouldn't? Trees, Nope, sorry, I just haven't gotten to it. I am trying. Watch for it in a couple of hours or in the morning. I'm about to start typing mow after I close up the chicken coops, put out the deer corn for my favorite deer, refill the bird feeders (those little birdies are eating nonstop today trying to stay warm), etc. I'm kind of dreading going out into the cold wind but I need to do it now before it gets dark. I have to warn you that I don't use the same planting schemes every year because I don't want to get stuck in a rut, but I'll try to mention some of the planting schemes in my usual rotation. Dawn