Merry christmas and a Beautiful Bountiful 2006 everyone!!
Wendey

I agree Ginny, what would we all do without gardenweb! Merry Christmas Ginny and Wendey and everyone on the New England forum. Hope Santa is good to all of you!

:-)
adam

Best wishes to all for a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, or whatever works for you! Such a great bunch of gardening enthusiasts, I'd never find so many people who share my passion for gardening anywhere else but here on the web.

Jo

Merry Christmas all! What a wonderful day it was, too! We had a very relaxed holiday (we did all our tavelling last week) with just our 2 nearly-grown sons here - took the dog for a long walk and enjoyed the mild weather.

I'm sure looking forward to spring, but the great people on the NE forum will certainly make it easier to get through winter.

You guys are so right! This place is great! It's wonderful to have a place to share, commiserate, and learn with such a great group of gardening friends. Thanks to all for another enjoyable year!

Happy Holidays to all!
:)
Dee

Happy Holidays to everyone on the New England forum! Yes, Gardenweb is the one place you can go for garden talk where eyes don't glaze over and if they did you wouldn't know it anyway.

I'm looking forward to sharing in the beauty and creativity and learning more from all of you in the upcoming season.

It's raining right now and I could have sworn I just heard thunder-must be Christmas in New England.

Sue

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanza and all other meaningful winter celebrations.

The weather is nothing less than wacky. The White Christmas we should have had, was two weeks ago, and now we have "late March" showers.

I celebrate the 12 days of Christmas, so as far as I'm concerned, the holidays just started here. Come to think of it, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are multi-day feasts too. If we drag it out long enough, maybe it will snow? Before Epiphany?

So far the only things wafting though the air have been rain drops and winter moths. A pestilence of winter moths on Christmas Eve.

Anyway, all the best wishes to everyone during the dark times. Spring WILL come.

Claire

ditto and a Happy New Year to all!

My hard packed frozen/slush/ice is only 75% gone. Keep those showers coming!!! :-) If it freezes as is, I'll be slipping and sliding for the rest of winter!

Well, I already spent my barnes and noble gift card on gardening books. B&N greeted me with a members-only early bird sale with my day after Christmas morning coffee!! Gotta love it!

Now the garden catalogs should start pouring in the mail the next couple of weeks

Merry Christmas to all! I have those lovely B&N gift cards as well to spend on gardening books. I seem to remember seeing a pricey book on Japanese maples that I'd love to have. It is pouring here, with sleet and lightening. I feel bad for the little chickadee on the birdfeeder. At least there is a slight overhang on the one he is on.

I truely am thankful of all of the friends I have made here, both on line and in person via the swaps and I wish for all of you a very joyous and green new year.

Dear Gardeners,

We enjoyed our usual disorganized Christmas. The house was full of messes, christmas cookies, and young people, thanks to my daughters.

I am grateful for the weather, As the snow has melted, I see two rakes that got left out, and I think the clay pots may not be frozen to the ground. If we get them in today, perhaps they will be saved from breakage after all.

Never did get those expensive annual bulbs out of the ground, and three little yews are sitting in their pots on the patio. I'm not worried about them, however. I suspect they'll carry on like the hostas that survived winter bare rooted a couple of years ago.

Forgiving, workhorse plants have a special place in plant heaven.

No sugarplums dancing in our heads, just plant catalogues and gardening books!

Warmly,
Marie

Merry Christmas and happy holidays Ginny and all fellow Gardenwebbers! It has been fun sharing ideas here at Gardenweb. Did anyone get any neat gardening related gifts? I got an amaryillis bulb and a Demadco 'Angel of the Gardener' figurine.

I celebrate all twelve days of Christmas and this is only the third!! Yes, I got several amaryllis bulbs and a bunch of paper-whites, and a couple of books about Japanese gardens--not my particular interest but they are full of gorgeous photos so I'm sure I'll enjoy them.

I am going to try a few amaryllis in water as an experiment. Bought some pretty but cheap vases at Marshall's to use for this. Will let you know.

I bought myself Japanese Maples book by JD Vertrees and The Bonsai Workshop with my Barnes and Noble gift cards (also Outwitting Cats to try to get my 2 to stop fighting). That was the only garden related gift that I got. The rest were clothes that I desperatly need after losing 25 pounds. I also got horseback riding lessons. I can't wait to take them! Santa had good ideas this year.

IÂm back after spending Christmas with my family in New Jersey. It was the usual combination of warm family gathering and lunatic asylum insanity that only my family can create. It was great to see everyone, again, but also great to get home. Today is recharge day.

Instead of gardening books I received several cookbooks, including Paula DeenÂs ÂKitchen Classics and (my fave) Alton BrownÂs ÂIÂm Only Here For The Food. The recipes in PaulaÂs book sound delicious, but I think a steady diet of them would probably kill me. AltonÂs book is quite a tome and reads like one of his shows. It will provide many hours of entertaining reading, in addition to some great recipes. Today went for a walk around the cornfields with Cord, The Wonder Chow to start burning off some of that ÂChristmas Cheer I consumed. All the rain put a thick crust on the snow that ALMOST held him up. It was quite a workout for Cord, but he still managed to catch up and beat me back to the barn, where he turned and gave me that big smile of his that said, "Beat ya, Dad!" Now, of course, heÂs passed out cold.

I think this year I will probably go berserk in ordering from Bluestone Perennials. I really like their catalog, because it has good descriptions and it is easy to see when things bloom. IÂve also had pretty good luck with their plants. Now, itÂs just a matter of compiling lists, adding, subtracting and multiplying, all in anticipation of that first big order.

As I said earlier, Happy Chriskkahzaa, everyone, and may you all have a happy, healthy and safe New Year.

Narcnh

p.s. HereÂs a pic of the house with what I hope is a Âtypical New England Christmas look. First time I've tried candles in the windows.

narcnh,
The house looks lovely with the candles and snow.

I got books for everyone else, and of course had to buy some for myself while shopping! Came home with Ann Lovejoy's gem on organic landscape design, and Liz Primeau's photo-rich book on front door gardens to replace lawn. It's an entertaining read, and instructive as well.

Hello, all.
I too send greetings to all of you, and thanks for your nice advice and friendship over the last several months. We are just back from visiting family in No California, where it is raining like crazy, everything is green...and some daylilies were in bloom in my SIL's garden....
At least we get a break from pulling the weeds!
Best wishes to all for a happy, healthy 2006.
Carolyn

Would this qualify for the Christmas/New Year look?

However picture was taken in MARCH of 2004.
Well, it's typical as it could be in New England with our late March snowstorms.

How's this?

LOL
narch, the miracle of PhotoShop is surpassed only by the magic of the actual holiday season.

Merry Christmas to you!

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And to you. Very lovely, both of them.

May your Holidays be filled with joy and contentment, and may Spring come just as soon as we're ready for it.

Claire

What a picture, Claire. Wish I were standing on your deck with a glass of glogg right now. Some day I'll get a digital camera....

Happy Holidays everybody! Hope your stockings are full of gardening gadgets and seed packets! My wishlist includes Michael Dirr's new book on Viburnums...fingers crossed that anybody even looked at my wishlist :-)
The Bluestone catalog and a few seed catalogs are already here so I am already thinking about next year's bounty!!

Here's a cute pic of my Connemara/Morgan pony Sneaks, during last week's snow.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!