Hmmm 1000+ orchids and one rose. It is the badly named Black Boy and has grown in the same spot for 35 years. One great advance has happened. A tiny wasp has been released into the environment and i haven't seen any rose aphis for a year or so. Why more orchids than roses? Roses can be grown here but because the climate is not ideal they require TLC. Be very wary of those couple of orchids they can result in a life ruining addiction.

I have been a busy bee planting my lilies. The happy part is that I had plenty of room for them. In fact I could plant more, I still have room. There are lots of extras. On the bags that had small bulbs, and I mean really small by Lily Garden standards, there were 5-7 bulbs each instead of the three that I ordered. So those should clump up fast. But I don't think those particular types make big bulbs anyway. Now I have to go dig up three rose bushes so that I can plant the rest of the lily bulbs in the spot the three were. One is deffinately getting transplanted, probably two. The third gets tosssed. This would be at the very back of my front yard rose garden that I call Floribundaville. I already have quite afew lilies planted along just alittle further in there. I want to increase the lily section as I love the way it looks with the roses in front and the lilies in back. The fact that its on an uphill slope makes it all come together and easy to see if your standing on the sidewalk.

Liannie, quit being an a**!! LOL. SO nice to see you here, I wish we'd see you more often! JoanMN

You'll be pulling those for many years to come, I planted one(from Annie's) & it loved my garden, it grew huge & elbowed aside all that stood in it's way. I loved it but it wasn't right for my small garden, I still pull seedlings from time to time. My summers are dry but not the winter & spring. Beautiful plant.