She was a little but I think I kind of turned her off from plants. Early on I contradicted everything she wanted to do in the yard. She always wanted to put things where they would be most asthetically pleasing and I always wanted to put things where I thought they would thrive. I want to spend all my money on plants and cutting down trees and she wants me to do crazy stuff with it, like fix the house :) I've since seen the er in my ways but recovery has been a slow process. I'm trying to get her back into it. I spend alot of time out in the yard and I would like to be able to enjoy that with her. That's a shame about Artie. I remember when I was a boy, my Grandpa ran over a massive bullfrog with his tractor. As soon as I found it I was obsessed with catching one that big. Every weekend I would spend all day crawling through the 16 inch corogated drain pipe under his driveway but they were way too quick for me. Ah, the good ole days. Thanks Lucy, I think she's pretty understanding. She just likes to give me hell. I do need to spend a little less time on here though. She has brought it to my attention that because I am a man, I am incapable of multi tasking. If my mind is elsewhere I literally cant hear her. Ladies, go easy on your men in these situations. I swear we cant even help it. Ya'll cant just start up idle conversation. You must first snap us out of our trance :) Apparently, while women are more adept to multi tasking due to evolving to clean house/ hut/ tee pee, taking care of youngins, preparing dinner, men evolved to focus extremely well on one thing, catching dinner. According to some book she read. Makes since

Pictures are fixed. Now I can share a few. Better late than never I guess. I've enjoyed all the above pictures. I can not wait to plant lobelia in a pot and put it on a pedestal and place it somewhere. Here is maybe the most unique planter I have. It is an rusty upside down lamp given to me by a neighbor. I love rusty things around in the garden and have quite a collection from him. It is right by the front door so quite a feature. By the way HH, The mosaics in your garden are great. I like mosaic too and now want to do more as planters. Robert Frost hosta is raised up on rusty wheel rims from trucks. I learned by mistake not to actually plant in them. There isn't much of an opening in some of them and the roots eventually got very tangled and hard to get out but I do like to put another pot inside of them.

Tally, I have water plants and might be able to get you some tad poles. I have a massive bull frog that I might hire a gang to catch if you want him.:-) Here is my list of haves and wants. I'm headed out to look for more stuff. Copperleaf- Alternanthera reineckii Four leaf Clover Variegated-Marsilea quadrifola variegate Hardy Frog Bit- Limbonium spongeanum Parrots Feather- Myriopyllum aquatica Variegated Water Celery Oenanthe Javanica "Flamingo", Water Hyacinth- Eichornia crassipies White Snowflake Arrowhead- Sagittaria latifolia Bog Lily-Crinium americanum Canna 'Bengal Tiger' Canna Wyoming Pink and White Mexican Bluebell Chocolate Mint Creeping Jenny Fairy lilys pink Forget-Me-Not- Myosotis palustris 'Gold Strike Rush' Juncus effuses Horsetail Rush- Equisetum hyemale Pickerel Rush Blue Sensitive plant-Aeschynomene fluitan Star Grass Dichromena colorata Sweet Flag Dwarf Variegated Taro Green - Colocasia esculenta Taro Violet stem Thalia- Thalia dealbata Umbrella Palm Variegated Dwarf Bamboo Widows tears spiderwort Musa Zebrina Blood Banana Coral Honeysuckle Lonicera sempervirens Caster bean seedlings Taro Green Taro Black Taro Violet stem. Artemesia 'Lime Light' Creeping Fig Green Plectranthus amboinicus Variegated Cuban Oregano Vinca major-Greater Periwinkle 'Variegata' 'Firepower' Agave americana Variegata Century plant Agave Blue Jazz Aristolochia fimbriata White Veined Hardy Dutchman's Pipe Nandina domestica 'Firepower' Bulbine Frutescens Kalanchoe -Bryophyllum daigremontianum Mother of Thousands Kalanchoe Fedtschenkoi Variegata "Creamed Scallops" Kalanchoe "Gastonis Bonnieri"- Donkey Ears plant Opuntia microdasys Bunny Ears Cactus Opuntia Prickly Pear Clematis 'Sweet Autumn' Nephrolepis exaltata `Bostoniensis' Boston fern Arundo donax 'Variegata' (Variegated giant reed) Liriope Green Hibiscus Confederate Rose Lantana, Gold lantana Lantana montevidensis (sellowiana)Purple Trailing Lantana Cycas revolute Sago Palm Philodendron Monstera Oblique Leichtlinii 'Swiss Cheese' Philodendron Radiatum Dubia Special Trade Philodendron Scandens Heart Leaf Philodendron Philodendron Scandens Medio Pictum - "Flame Leaved Heart Plant" Philodendron Xanado Ruellia squarrosa Creeping ruellia 'Blue Shade' Tradescantia minima Callisia repens Bolivian Jew Salix cinerea 'Tricolor' Japanese Dappled Willow Lonicera japonica Japanese , Purpleleaf Honeysuckle Lonicera sempervirens (Coral Honeysuckle) Passiflora Vitifolia Senecio confusus (Mexican Flame Vine) Wisteria Beaucarnea recurvata Pony Tail Palm Plants I want Thunbergia Blue Sky Vine Thunbergia mysorensis Strongylodon macrobotrys "Jade Vine" Oxalis deppei 'Iron Cross' Musa I dont have Gingers I dont have Rose Joseph's Coat Palms I dont have Hoyas I dont have Texas Star Hibiscus Pink and White Ferns I dont have that will live outside during our Winters Clematis I dont have Butterfly bushes Alocasia I dont have. Lost several over the winter

Had a crazy friend once. He and a buddy were going to go frog gigging one night. But they stopped by the local watering hole (which was attached to an upscale restaurant) before they set out through the sloughs and bayous. The two had too many tasty adult beverages and decided not to go gigging. My friend asked the restauranteur for some uncooked frog legs to take home, so DW wouldn't know where he had spent the evening. The restaurant owner gave him a package of frog legs wrapped in white freezer paper. When my friend got home, he threw the package in the freezer. The next morning he told his wife that he had already cleaned the frog legs, wrapped then and put them in the freezer. She got them out to have for dinner several days later. She thawed them and unwrapped them to cook for dinner. Imagine the look on her face ... and his...when they saw the legs were not only cleaned, they were already breaded! BUSTED!