Ah well, from the time we bought the house I wanted this spot for my garden. That's my bedroom window, I wanted to smell the roses when the window is open. My husband neglected to tell my that's the north side of the house! They only get 4 to 6 hours of sun there. They all did ok last fall but this spring the roses in the middle and back half just aren't getting enough sun:( So instead of happily buying all the other roses that I had spent all winter making lists of, I'm finding where I can move all these minis to that will fit in with the plants I've already got in.... I'm majorly bummed about this because then I've got to figure out what to plant in here. I think I'm going to move my azaleas in here and figure out what shade plants that would like it there also and that I'd like it. Thing is I don't have any enthusiasm for it. I hate doing something twice, I sweated buckets last Sept to create this garden rototilling up the clay and amending it and then planting the roses in 100 degree heat and babying them though all that heat. It's just killing me to do this and my mini garden is a total disaster now. All the roses were budded out and so far I haven't lost any. I had 25 bushes in there, those were what I was freaking out on the freeze with. That frosted in the 3 week freeze and the frost built there like snow and never melted. I covered the whole bed with the frost sheets and it worked like a green house. I didn't loose any roses, a couple broke some stems because one of my cats walked on it though. I've still got 10 roses to move. So, I'm open to suggestions what you'd put in there.... Pat, I got the dragon at a nursery, it's really heavy made out of concrete or stone. It'd cost an arm and a leg to ship that. I've seen something similar made out of resin though. Most of what I found in nurseries were alligators. I put a link to one I did find in a catalog that isn't too expensive. This particular catalog has all kinds of dragons. They've got a dragon gazing ball I'd like but it's $125. Can't do that anytime soon. Need too many plants still:) However this lawn dragon similar to mine is only 39.95. Mine cost a little over $100 and was a late birthday/Christmas gift:) If I had found this one first I probably would have gotten it. By the way, the alyssum is spreading nice all around the dragon:) I love calla lillies, I have two dwarf ones. I can't keep the cats from peeing on them and so they don't look very nice, they're a little ragged but they keep blooming:) Thanks for the complements though on the mini bed, not any longer there like that! Here is a link that might be useful: dragon

I'm glad you guy's are enjoying these....:) I can't attest for Watership down as far as full hot sun goes....sorry....I have it in a neat protected, dappled shade, ideal location...LOL AS far as the other's, they get it and all that Mother Nature deals them. Poor Ida's Magic gets it from sun-up to sun-down, I thnk she handles it real well...what can ya say...except that it's a Munson...LOL Course Watership Down is a Moldovan, and that says a lot too! Oh well, gotta go shovel some more pocono river stone...so much for this break...:0) Spacecoast Royal Ransom Spacecoast Fantasy Flight Spacecoast Mulberry Motif Captivating Smile Back Later....Rick

Sweet! Isn't it funny that every once in a while while looking at your hostas that one in particular stands out. Every year there are about two or three that grab my attention and make me slow down while watering and caress a leaf or two. What a nice feel good time. -Babka

"Don't do peanuts - mostly not peanut butter. I had scarlett feaver and a relapse as a child. The Ranger Hal show was giving away Schwinn bikes for Schindler's peanut butter labels. They kept talking about it and that really made me sick." Gneegirl, can you explain a little more? I had Scarlet Fever when I was 5 years old, and I know that Scarlet Fever has nothing whatsoever to do with peanuts or peanut butter. Is it just that you had Scarlet Fever and because you were sick and didn't feel well the constant commercials for the bike and talk of peanut butter labels "got to you" and now peanut butter brings back bad memories?