Northeast Gardening: Fresh pot of coffee for 3/7/06, 1 by rcn48

rcn48 wrote:
Hey Al, nice to see someone else up early! Nice dahlias, I really like that last one! What program do you use to 'collage'? We've had some really pretty ones in years past, although I usually don't plant them because I always forget to dig them up and bring them inside :( We do have one we picked up a couple of years ago at a flower show - my husband had to get it - Jerry Garcia :) It turned out to be a beautiful deep red. We forgot to dig up "Jerry" and he actually came back the next year! We forgot again last fall but since it's been a pretty mild winter for us, I'm in hopes we can bring him back from the 'Dead' again :) Here's a few that we did get planted last year - have no idea what they are, but they were a dwarf variety that got swallowed up when all the coleus they were planted near got huge!

Andy, great job! LOL, took you an hour!! You have no idea how long it took me the first couple (hundred??) times :) I enjoyed sending you the instructions - gave me a chance to use my new program - SnagIt! http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp - a fantastic tool for capturing ANYTHING off your screen. I really like it when I'm browsing the contents of a book on Amazon and I had never been able to "grab" an image of a page in the book (not allowed), but now with this program I can "grab" anything!

Hope you NE'ers are getting some of this nice weather! It's nice to be able to get so much accomplished outside this early in the year. Seems like it's usually the end of April before I can get started on the chore of cleaning up our gardens - and usually the tulips, daffodils, etc. have grown right up through the tangled mess of last year's dead foliage :( Hopefully this weather will last so I can beat them to it! Although, everything is coming on much sooner - heck one of our Cherries is starting to bloom and this doesn't usually happen until the first of April or later!