Oh, I checked on my tree every month or so, in the cold cellar, giving it about a cup of water a month. I ate lots of fig tarts, and pies. .... made my own with honey.....I gotta have my honey every day. LOL Waited until April and started taking it out on sunny days. This year, I do believe I will start some cuttings. I only have so much room though, as I am really "into" raising brugmansia and also dahlia plants.

I think I got something from Rebecca - that I didn't see on her list so I am not sure, but it was with the HUGE strawberries she brought me (Grace says thank you, she loved them!). Anywho - it is a cactus looking thing of some type - very long and kinda soft prickles on it. Inside or outside plant - what does it need? I am planting out a strawberry jar with the little sedums from Heather - and I would like to put this on the top - if it will go there. And Heather - we had an accident this morning. A storm blew up rather quickly and knocked my planting table over...in the middle of planting my little sedum treasures from you. I lost my little cactus (small green button looking one with long prickles on it). Can you save me one for the fall swap...I was kinda getting attached to it, it was the smallest plant I brought home from the swap. Also - I got a birch from someone...in a blue? minivan with several children - hubby appeared to be packing up everything. Anyway - I don't know what kind of birch it is... Anyone have a clue? I will be starting my blog soon and filling it with pictures. If some of you can chime in with names on the ones that had no names, or the tape as faded and I can't see them...please, by all means, enlighten me. Pretty green things in my beds are wonderful - but I like having a name for them in my garden journal so I know where to look for them next spring. :D Happy planting to all of you! I have already started turning new ground on new beds since the swap - you have inspired my gardening creativity again. Tiffany PS - Connie I adopted one of your little plants that was orphaned when you left - a very cool little forsythia with varigated leaves - how quickly does it grow? I am worried about planting it in the beds now and think it may need to stay in the nursery bed this year. Help?

That's a wonderful story, mamapinky. I've become quite cynical about giving people cash after being scammed more than once and one time at a gas station after a sob story about needing gas to visit a sick child in the hospital. Your post really warms my heart!

That's what I wanted to see! Gorgeous gardens. It looks like we both had a great spring. My favorite time of year. You have a lot of good color going on, and I always enjoy seeing your delphiniums. We've had some weird weather, getting very hot, then cooling down right when I needed it. End of May I pot up lots of annuals for the deck and finally get my vegetable garden planted the beginning of June. I was late but was lucky when it got cool and overcast long enough for my vegetables to settle in without burning. Tomatoes are growing fast. No peppers for me this year, but I'm hoping to get enough tomatillos to make lots of salsa verde. I only grow herbs in pots on the deck now. One of my early gardening mistakes was planting lemon balm into my garden, and then I let it go to seed. Twenty years later I am still pulling that stuff out, but at least it smells good when I do, lol. The hostas are still surprising me with how big they're growing. I've been moving some around, and adding more where I can. Good thing I have a lot of shade! Let's cross our fingers summer isn't too bad this year. Your gardens are so pretty, it would be nice if they could last a while longer. Good luck with your vegetables and herbs this year!