Iwill be following with great interest how the Salvia does for you. I am thinking maybe better than here since you are farther south.

Dawn, Helen sent me some, so maybe we will all be lucky with those pretty red blooms. Thanks Helen.

Woo-hoo!! Glenda sent me some too, so now I can try it both places I was thinking about for planting it. And Glenda, the others are great too, and I can't wait to try them. Thank you so much.

Gardeners may be giving the USPO a boast with all the buying and trading we are doing. It's still a little too cold for the potting shed since it is 23 degrees in the middle of the day with a wind chill of 14. We have both snow and uncovered ground right now, but are expecting snow tomorrow. I am ready to plant a few things, even if it is in milk jugs that won't germinate until spring.

Carol,

As far as I know, our very slight chance of snow (10%) has been removed from the forecast. Yippee! Still, the nights are colder than usual and the frost is so heavy that the grass crunches when you walk on it early in the morning.

I wish y'all were having the weather we're having here this weekend. Today is our second day of sunshine for the whole entire day and both yesterday and today we hit about 50 degrees. Still, we have a very small number of snowy patches remaining in shady spots that just will not melt, and all the puddles and the ponds refreeze every night.

Spring still seems so far away, although the sunshine helps make this winter weather a little more bearable.

Dawn

The highest that I saw today was 28 but the wind did settle down so it didn't feel as cold as it did this morning. I think our chance for snow is 70% tomorrow and our night temps are in the teens. It seems like we are having more cold than normal.....so much for global warming. Looks like those of us who didn't fall for all the hype were closer to right than the so called experts. I am with those that believe that global warming is "political science" not real science. LOL

El Nino is going to make this a long, miserable winter, I think.

Even here where we seldom have snow, we had measurable snowfall on at least 3 separate days in December, and just a wintery mix of rain/sleet/snow on a fourth day.

I'm hoping for a better January, and maybe it just might happen since January is my county's driest month of the year, statistically speaking.

That 70% does not sound encouraging. Maybe they are wrong and it will miss y'all.

I know all the moisture is good for the plants, but it is not so good for those of us who have yard and garden chores to accomplish.