How do you manage to have such a lush garden while working 5 days a week? I admire your talent. It sounds so lovely, Cheryl, and I know it is a joy for you to just sit and look when you can find the time.

Wow sounds like you've got one beautiful garden. Where's the pictures????

Barb

To Carrie, lots of perinneals and self-sowing annuals. To Barb, I've never had any luck posting pics, the computer is way over my head already. If I ever figure it out I'll that'll be a great day for my brain. Cheryl

seamommy, I was drooling over the lists of plants in your garden. I quickly looked at your zone and it is the same as where I will be moving. I do realize now though that just the zone alone doesn't mean much in Tx. and that you have to concider heat and humidity too. May I ask which part of Tx. do you live in?

All those roses blooming must smell heavenly! Sounds like you have beautiful gardens. You must live for Saturday to come so that you can enjoy them.

Sam

Cheryl, can you send me pictures by email? I'd love to see your gardens and if you don't mind I can even post them only here for you.

Barb

Great idea, Barb. She posts for me, Cheryl as I am technically challenged --- oh yeah!!!

I don't love you anymore. You're growing all the stuff I want to & can't!! I would almost move to zone 7 just to grow bearded iris.
Tally HO!

Barb, I will try that. I forgot to mention the foxgloves, hostas, scented geraniums, scabiosa, blue mistflower, mints, angel trumpets, ruellia, clematis, mallow, bugloss, lavenders, gladiolas, delphiniums, cleome, obedient plant, daylilies, rock rose, Mexican petunias and four o'clocks. Most of the ones in this list are not blooming yet except two of the foxgloves which I got from the botanic garden sale last weekend and were already in bloom. And the cleome I got from the Ft. Worth swap are still tiny seedlings, but I have high hopes for them.

I have four angel trumpets, not named types and not blooming yet, but I have two white ones, a yellow and a pink, all of which I got from swaps. They are deceptivley hardy in zone 7 and bloomed in my garage all through the winter. I took cuttings from them and just stuck them in the ground and all of them rooted.

The four o'clocks have multiplied like rabbits from two that I got from Sylvia three years ago, and I have about a zillion of them. I hate to do it, but I'm going to have to pull the ones out of the driveway and just toss them in the compost. DH is mowing around the ones that came up in the grass, so I'm going to have to pull them out too.

Strange thing is, I have sun plants in shade and shade plants in sun and they all seem to be doing ok, except for those columbines that are kinda moldy in the shade. I'm going to see if I can e-mail you those pics, Barb, and then it will be fun to see how they look here. Cheryl

Ok, I'll be waiting for the mail and post ASAP.
I see Sylvia got you when the 4 o'clocks too. This is only my second year and at first I thought I'd lost mine and no babies. Boy was I silly. I have more babies than you can shake a stick at and mama plants came up.

Barb

Well you know when we watch tv - Food Network to be specific - and you wish you had "smell-a-vision?" Well, while reading Cheryl's original post, I wish I had "smell-a-puter" so I could smell the roses and the iris and all the other wonderful plants she described.

Cheryl - Your garden sounds beautiful. If you go to the gallery, there is a post at the top that tells how to post pictures. Most people use Photobucket.com to help with this. Once you upload a photo to Photobucket, you just copy the html code under it (all you have to do is click on it and it automatically copies it for you) and paste it into where you type the message then post the message.

Cheryl, where do you live??? You must have a magical spell on your garden! It sounds lovely. :) Pictures.

I'm a'movin' in with Cheryl!

(Don't go to any trouble; I'll bring my own pillow.)

Four o'clocks are prime freecycle or craigslist items;
just post that you have them, & meet the recipients at your house or at a McDonalds or somewhere, as freecycle is now warning people not to allow anyone to just come pick up stuff from the porch;
posters have had people take *everything* including lawn furniture!

Sylvia, with your green thumb you are welcome at my house anytime. Just bring your jammies, we have plenty of extra pillows, two empty bedrooms and I might even have a new toothbrush still in the box. You should get a big part of the credit for much of my garden, since very many of the plants came from the swaps that you have organized.

I went out to take pictures yesterday, but it was so windy everything was laying over and so cloudy I didn't get any nice, bright clear shots. It was still dark out when I left this morning, so I will try to get some nice clear pictures this weekend and I will get them to Barb as soon as I can. This is exciting. Cheryl