Thanks LeeAnne! Hi Sheepco The critters in the waterfall waterfall moved on to greener pastures. If you look in "Adventures in Woodworking and Stained Glass" you'll see the photos of the new kitchen at the bottom of the site --the new arts and crafts bathroom to match. AS soon as the kitchen was done, I designed a perfume cabinet for the bathroom, and that's how the new matching bathroom came about (the ol' perfume cabinet trick) It's both masculine and feminine, a co-mingling of spirits. It took us 15 months to build all the kitchen and bathroom cabinetry, and it's almost done...I say almost cause I don't like the way the stained glass in the medicine cabinet came out. I had dragonflies designed and it looks like lotus.:( So we'll be back in the stained glass workshop, to do it over, as soon as we get a chance...But we'll work on the deck so it will be fun... I already have the next 4 projects on the drawing table :) But now that ponding season is here, they'll take awhile! Joann

HI, I've got some flowers and veggies set out on my winter sowing table. (a few sprouts have popped up this week) I also have some Moon Flowers that I started a few weeks ago in seed trays, they are already 5 inches tall (thick stem, not leggy at all) I will put the Moon FLowers out next week. The veggies have to wait a little longer as they are going to the garden and it is located about 15 miles north of my home.

Here in the bay area, there is little to complain about. Currently blooming: rose 'honey dijon'-- interestingly, the hard frosts we had in January have put some red streaks around the edges. Unusual, but nice! lots of pansies--mine are beige-pink-terracotta and black species violets (sweet violets) brugmansia 'charles grimaldi' various snapdragons various geraniums (pelargoniums), though my favorite now is 'solstice chocolate'-- nearly black passiflora caerulea lotsa daffodils and grape hyacinth, though I'm most excited about the muscari plumosum (feather hyacinth) which is budding but not quite ready yet primroses (I hogged up all the ones with silver brushstrokes on the petal tips) and also gold laced scarlet and silver laced black primula victorianas And dammit, my brugmansia sanguinea (scarlet angels trumpet) aborted the one bud it had finally rewarded me with. Dammit to Hades. Amanda 'romando'

I want to talk about gardens. I want to know what you've planted, what's WORKED, what hasn't, and what you THINK ABOUT successes and failures. Yes Chelone you did in deed ask for folks on this forum to stand up and confirm that we have been discussing gardens and what has worked. Here is a small sampling of of just my posts over the last year I will let others speak for themselves. Winds Of Change http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0309151530324.html Lichens 101 http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg1208312016418.html 2007 Banner Year For Hydrangeas http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0719523023282.html Placement Of Art Within The Garden http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0711380532201.html Animal Vegetable Miricle http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0812105513812.html Arnoldia http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg112004007319.html This Weeks Outstanding Plant In Your Garden 9/21 http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0912173323175.html Notes From The Garden http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0318200314943.html Notes From The Garden II http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0520543527553.html This Weeks Standout Plant In Your Garden http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0709060615999.html What Lights Your Fire http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg011855044376.html This Weeks Standout Plant In Your Garden 7/16 http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0707481519564.html Juicy Little Tid Bits http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0807142426910.html Rare For A Reason http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0118313617296.html Photos Of Plant From Near And Far II http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0300394111111.html This Weeks Stand Out Plant In Your Garden 8/8/07http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0819375627586.html Ken Druse Real Dirthttp://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0517342117168.html The Dirty Secrets Of Your Successhttp://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0707452118167.html Soil Temperature http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0513592316754.html Thread That Stiches Your Garden Quilt http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0820220327472.html You are What You Growhttp://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0417224813611.html Evolution Of A Garden Design Conundrum http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0608362112234.html Backyard Utopia http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg060650336923.html Monrovia Partners With The renown Dan Hinckley http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg081756141189.html Family And The Garden http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0607504627312.html Observations From Neglected Commercial Landscape http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0709091629794.html The Dumbing Down Of Gardening In America http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg040935319659.html Using Photographs To Show Climatic Changes On Flower.. http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0607140127523.html Hairy Bittercress http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0612402328891.html Plant Challenge http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0607305227478.html Longwood Garden Photos http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0719342019285.html USDA Announces Colony Collapse Disorder http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/neweng/msg0708274115749.html