Good seeing you here RiverNymph...impressive list, hope we can trade, if you'd check my list and let me know. Btw, very first post in Seed Exchange : Sticky:Read before Posting by GWTamara has links to basics such as where to edit Members Page and Seed Exchange list, besides these are among other helpful sites at the bottom of the page. Happy trades, Bea

Stupendous Celeste!! The tour was amazing, we all very much appreciate you sharing your gardens with us. Hum... maybe I need to take Gardening 101 all over again. lol So very inspiring, gorgeous, breathtaking... A hammock is on my to get list also. We'll see how many band- aids get used with my kids flipping it over. lol Rena'

Avedon, thanks for explaining about the naming of foxgloves. Your version makes more sense. Also I think we are all guilty of zone-pushing at least once. I have tried to grow roses that are only hardy down to zone 6 and regretted it because just to keep them alive I had to dig them up, tip them over and bury them in the ground like a corpse every winter, then resurrect them in the spring. Too much work and not worth it! Kay, the pretty pink rose in the last picture is an older of David Austins called Pretty Jessica...and she is indeed! mantis....the red rose you like is the same one you liked on my other thread, and one that is one of my most popular with visitors. It is just so RED that it cannot be ignored. It's the hardy Explorer rose 'Champlain' and is an excellent rose in all respects. The dark purple clematis on the arch is 'Perle d'Azur'. Last summer a mother robin made a nest in it and we watched the babies hatch and then fly away. Celeste

The first day it was pretty heavy and looked more like snow, albeit snow with those little white pellets. It looked like someone had split open a bean bag chair and scattered those little white styrofoam pellets everywhere. The last two days there wasn't much, but it shocked me there was any at all. kfrinkle, I was wondering if Durant got anything, and had assumed y'all got more than we did as the heavier band was just east of us. On KXII, the tower cam this morning showed a lot of snow on the ground in Sherman. I understand Graysonn County had a lot of people sliding off the roadways. I am glad we didn't have that here today. oldokie, It is pretty dang cold here but not as cold as it is further north. At our house, we only made it up to 37 degrees for a high, but our low was 24. The sun stayed behind the clouds all day so far, and I think that kept us from warming up more here. I bought three varieties of seed potatoes today and they are sitting in the back corner if the unheated pantry where they'll stay until planting time rolls around. We've had a little over 3.5" of precipitation in the last month, so our soil is too wet to work. I hope it is dry when onion and potato planting time rolls around. Dawn