I couldn't remember either. Hm. I fooled around with it some more yesterday. There's some guy on there who calls himself TechDawg. My jaw hit the desk. His are amazing. Here's my favorite. Amazing.

My roses are leafing out beautifully, in spite of many leaves on new shoots all dried up from frostburn, but the warm stable spring seems to be here. The roses sure loves temps between 60 and 70 degrees F and it rained all night and day and we are going to get more during the week. and then it is going to be warmer and sunnier again. I can litterally hear everything grow ... everything is getting greener every day. Of course I shop like crazy these days. I have almost run out of space, but I am potting all the new roses I buy. The new Meilland roses roses arrived from France in the usually very poor condition (all roots chopped off). I potted them in big pots with 3-5 roses in each and hope that they grow better roots during the season so I can plant them in the fall. Also some new Tantau roses are being potted I just want to see the flowers and smell them before I decide whether I like them or not. I have bought a lot more companian plants (Perennials and herbs) and have planted most of them this saturday. The Iris I planted this spring are shooting new leaves and I look forward getting more during the summer and again in the fall. I have also gotten some ornamental grasses I look forward seeing this year. I sowed more foxgloves, salvias and real opium poppies this weekend. I constantly need many foxglowes seedlings since they do not flower the first year. I have also gotten a few more clematis. Some of the climbers really surprises me by the impressive new growth they put out, they are going to look great in 5 or 6 weeks from now when they start blooming. Tomorrow I have to go buy a lot of plants for my clients gardens and plenty of containers. Off course I am buying lots of roses (for one big garden I need many white roses) and they also need to have the presummer pots arranged. I also got a new client today ... he has a neglected garden with bad weeds that needs spraying with herbicides. I hate that! But in this case it is called for, because of very obnoxius perenial weeds. His wife had a stroke and he has not had time to do any gardening since she needs so much care, so he has hired me to improve and replant, and maintain their garden. I can not take any more clients since I have all the work I can handle ... but I made an exception in his case. I will have to hire another gardener to help out if I am going to expand my business more. So I just have to fertilize the roses in 2 weeks from now and then wait and hope we are going to have very good first flush of roses with warm dry conditions for some weeks. Oh and Btw one of my roses have canker really bad ... I am not quite sure If I must cut the infected parts away or if I shall wait until the first flush. And one rose against a wall (Gruss an Teplitz) has the worst case of BS I have ever seen this early in the season. Strange since no other roses have it and I did spray it once already. Every season is so unique and have different challenges.

It is all based on heat for plants and predators. I don't know about the bird migrations though. We are going to prune the apple trees after we see them but out. This way we don't cut off any potential apple blossoms. Otherwise, just prune them before they start growing agian. Dormancy is affected by the heat. Look at the growing degree days, if you know what those are. If you don't, look into them, as they come in handy. Degree days relate to insect populations and development as well. That is all the information I can provide though off hand.

momo3... thanks for checking in! just so happens that lots has been going on in the last two weeks, but it's still very incomplete. For starters, we had lots more digging while the pb's landscaping crew came in and buried some downspouts and dug out the patio and planting boxes, etc....but still no sign of the actual pavers that will make up both patio and pool deck....so PB does a total 180, sends the plaster crew out and lo and behold we were pebbleteched on Thursday and water was added Friday. PB will complete the patio and decks within the next 10 days...NOW HERE'S THE KICKER...the whole family left town for 10 days at the Jersey shore on Thursday, and we won't see the pool until the 6th! It's sitting in the backyard all ready for us and we're not there!!! PB is minding the pool while we're away, brushing and balancing, etc...esp. since he's building the patio all week anyway. Murphy's Law or what? I'll post pics next week when I return....have to check the log to see if you've updated your pics too...hope you're all swimming now!