Thanks all, its funny about Bowie and not having his coffee yet, cause that was my dilemma!! Now that summer vacation has officially started, I sit every morning ( after feeding the cats of course) on that 'new' garden seat with my morning coffee or tea, and bowie usually will sit in my lap, but lately he has been rushing to get to it first!! I can't sit on HIS lap, and I have to plead with him to get down!!! I have to go get another chair to sit on. He does know a good seat when he sees it!!! It's too funny and he looks very funny in that pic. Sharon, the cat in the other bed across from the PINK bed never causes any mischief, cause he is cement. Here's another pic of Bowie, guarding the garden, which he does a very good job of, whenever he sees a squirrel in the bird feeder, he runs over, has never hurt a squirrel but seems to know that they have their own feeder, cause he never chases squirrels out of the squirrel feeder. In the pic of Bowie, his very shy mother, we just call her 'mommy kitty' is on the other side, They were both rescue cats. Oh well, lots of fun to have the critters and cats around. Oh, I meant to post another daylily that I was so excited about, didn't take a good pic, It was the bonus Prediction from Maryott last fall and it showed itself yesterday. The last daylily is Drop Cloth which opened a few weeks ago, on a newly planted. Cindy FFO on Prediction Drop Cloth from Daylily Manor, May 7th, FFO one month later Cindy

Hi, glad you liked the pictures! I put my beans in as seeds at the same time as I was transplanting my cucumber seedlings, which were at the 2nd true leaf stage. This seems to have worked out pretty well for timing, as both beans & cucumber vines are happily climbing the trellis provided. The only problem seems to be that one of my zucchini plants is trying to shade out the entire cucumber/bean row, but I'm just going to keep hacking those huge zucchini leaves back until the cucumbers & beans are taller than the reach of the zucchini plant. I will try to get some photos of my mixed cucumber-bean row as the season goes on. A lot of my pole beans are growing at the back of a greens & salad plot, and it certainly looks like a happy combination- the lettuce seems to love the extra nitrogen from the beans! Thanks for the tip about leaving the roots in the ground. That's what I've done in the past with my legume plants, just cut them off at ground-level and composted the top halves. I shouldn't have said I'd 'pull' the bush beans when they were done, that wasn't really what I meant at all.

Love your large, clear photos. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice. Ill be getting my first plumeria bloom ever next week and I love seeing other peoples sucess while I wait. This is my first year Ive ever attempted to grow plumerias, but now I have 3, 2 of which are setting inflos. Im not sure of the name for the one that will be blooming this week, but the other one is called "pretty princess" and probably wont bloom for another month. Good luck with your plumerias. It looks like they are very healthy and happy. Ill definately be posting pics when my plumerias bloom.