I am glad to see people alive on this forum again. I mostly have hedychium, but also have the common pinecone, a few curcumas and the green shell ginger.I purchased many from gingersrus in Tallahassee Florida this past year. Really did well expecting all of them to flower this year some are already a foot tall. They really fill out the beds for summer. most are planted between young camellias and azaleas for right now. in a few years I will have to move them but by then I will have new beds done for them. Glad to hear from you. James Maloy

Hahaaa . . . Mocc you make me smile :) Yes, my OCD does not allow me to not have things a 'certain' way. I have a small obsession with parallels and symmetry. It is subconscious and never made aware to me until someone else points it out. It makes me curious to see how others will view my first garden design this year with the bed I cleared last year. Those pots have only been tipped for about a week now. They didn't end up freezing until mid January when we had a week of temps in the teens, followed by a week of 40+ degree weather. Global warming much ? That picture was snapped today from my phone as I was walking in from work. It was a high of 25F today so they are probably all frozen again. I knew from the advice on this forum to tip them once the first freeze thaw happened. Funny part is, when I went to go tip them after they started to thaw the bottoms were all frozen solid to the porch. For the life of me I could not dislodge some of them and I had to keep going out everyday to see if any more had thawed enough to allow me to tip them. I ended up cracking one of the smaller gallon nursery pots half way down the middle . . . oops. They will stay on their sides until I know that we are out of freezing temps. Then I'll right 'em back up and wait . . . and wait . . . and wait. A watched pot never boils I suppose. Paula - never lived in snow ??? Girl you haven't lived . . . frigid temps biting at your finger tips . . . never feeling quite warm even wrapped up in a blanket . . . scraping solid ice off your car every morning for a month . . . shoveling pounds of sopping wet snow for hours breaking your back so you can get your iced over car out of your snowed in driveway only to slide off the road on your way to work because you were out before the salt trucks . . . how could you not yearn for cold weather . . . the sarcasm is thick . . . can you tell :) Cheers to warmer weather ! Ludi This post was edited by Ludisia on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 0:00

Very nice! We still haven't been there on our winter stays. But we were lucky enough to see manatees over near Cape Canaveral. JoanMN

Hi blutayle, Is that gardenia? If it is I bet your room smells wonderful! Savy4