In the same vein: When I went to What-A-Burger the other day, the landscapers were taking shrubs out of pots & putting the shrubs in the ground.... what were they going to do with the pots? so I asked. They were going to throw them away! So I got about 80 3-gallon pots! I gave half of them to a friend who's getting ready to divide her crinums (hoping this nets me a few crinums this fall, but if she forgets it's still good), & I still have about 40 nice clean big nursery pots.

That's exactly the kind of pergola I've been wanting, only square since my cement slab is. But when I got estimates on having one done it was around $1800. sigh. And unfortunately neither DH nor I can do things like this anymore ourselves. I'm flabbergasted over the SIZE of that boot. Sheesh, a family of midgets could live in it! LOL How the heck did you get that thing home? hugs, Karen

gweb email isn't the best lately .. i will presume its about watering .... with trees/conifers... infrequent DEEP watering is better than the opposite... water as you usually do .. then take a small hand trowel ... and dig under your trees.. kinda hard with motherlode ... but do it.. see if your watering protocol has gotten sufficient water to the root zone... presuming you planted potted plants... with roots throughout the medium .. you need to be sure that water is making it all the way down to the roots ... since you have multiple plants.. try differing methods on each and see how the watering works ergo .. a long deep trickle to insure water throughout the root zone.. once every week or two is better than a superficial spray every day ... it is hard to tell you more than this because i don't know your soil... and how water moves through it ... i give you variables.. you have to figure out what they need in your yard ... in fall ... even with the cool weather... we tend to forget that it can be drought ... a fall droughted plant can suffer damage in the winter ... here in my z 5 ... hoses start freezing in late October ... and one becomes inclined to roll them up and put them away .... but the ground doesn't freeze until after new year .. i have learned the hard way ... that conifers and trees benefit greatly from a last deep watering late in the fall ... again ... i have never gardened in z8 ... nor a zone that the ground doesn't freeze .... so i don't know what to tell you.. other than the above.... it seems that a lot of 'sperts' aren't around... perhaps they are on vaca ... i hope one comes along and clarifies it for your zone... good luck ken

descriptions are ABOVE the picture.. so if you are scrolling.. you read first.. ML is a carpet... never more than what.. 3 inches .. i think its trademarked.. should be available everywhere ... my records say that one is 7 years old ..... i have seen it at hidden lakes gardens.. they planted 3 in a triangle... about 5 feet apart.. simply stunning ... google IMAGES ought to have hundreds of pix ... link below .. ken Here is a link that might be useful: search engines are great .. if you know the name.. lol