been awhile, had totally forgotten about this thread, thank you for the kind comments glad you enjoyed the pictures, because i sure liked taking them :) dahli22: I really like the poppies mixed in with the chervil too, and the best part about it is that i do nothing to maintain them ;), unfortunately i don't think the NoID plant is anything in the fritillaria genus. and yes i eat the sea kale and lots of it :D, i eat the flower buds, the stems and the leaves all raw, some people cook them but i haven't tried that yet. was just digging around in the computer and found some more pictures from the summer :) enjoy! more sea kale fuchsia, climbing hydrangea and clematis. again. and one last time wild roses growing along our horsepen old poplar growing a root inside itself small buttercops elderberrie in the back of our yard in bloom and one in front of the house the burial mount again later on the season with new flowers closeup with our house in the background :) and to finish off with some fall/winter pictures :) from october i think ' èfrom november

Okay, just wanted to update on this dilemma I am having cuz I don't know what to do. Now, not only do we have 6 cucumber plants growing and flowering away (one which is still in the dog dish), but we also have 8 jalapeno pepper plants, and 4 serano pepper plants. To top that all off, for Christmas he received a giftcard to Walmart, and he HAD to get a jiffy pellet indoor domed tray thingy that holds up to 72 pellets and some seeds. I tried to talk him out of it, and failed miserably when I saw that it was breaking his heart. We now have over half of the tray germinating so well that they will need to be transplanted soon. My problem....we only have the one window to keep ALL of these plants in, and it is already full. I thought if I had him do some of his own containers that would help, but it has only made things worse. I love that he loves growing things, but he is really out of control with it. My actual question is: Will Dahlias be okay if transplanted into small pots for another month and a half, and how cold can they stand? I want to get them outside as soon as possible without completely killing them.

Wow, thanks, you all! I posted again just to give the SAMA link to deedee :) liz, I had *no* visual art background in terms of actually making it -- I'm a longtime student of history of art and appreciator of art, but my talents lie more in music and words than visual art. I can't draw to save my life (my DD disagrees but she's my DD :)). I'm really happy that you say she has a cat expression (and that you noticed the ear hairs, littledog :) -- I always love those when I see them in domestic cats)-- it was a composite portrait, as I indicated, and I worked and reworked it so much. I won't feel that it's really delivered until I know whether Terri noticed her, etc...it's fine if she didn't, I just want to know one way or the other, iykwim. And I'm serious about the links; there are so many wonderful mosaic artists in this country, and they're extremely generous about sharing their knowledge and encouraging each other on, even wrt beginners. Very different from the professional worlds of music and theatre I was in, in that regard. I'm just glad that gardenweb led me, however indirectly, to find something I really love and with any luck can keep doing for a while to come (a trigger thumb operation would help, but I've got to save up for that)...

First off, Happy Anniversary Bee, I'm sure DH will come up with a better gift, but really, if he came in with a taser would you not pee yourself silly! dees_1 agreed, if a man did write it, bless him for sharing, hysterical ! And really can't you see a guy doing this?! I'm cracking up just thinking about it!