Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Butterfly magnet, 1 by marsue

marsue wrote:
Hey, all you guys on this thread!--. Just wanted to share to bits of good news with you.
First, thanks to Sheila_FW, who told me about Freecycle, I found a local Freecycle group and have I ever hit the jackpot! 3 people have donated their newspapers to me for the lasagna bed; then I really hit the "mother-lode" all wrapped up in one lady--she has horse manure (oh, happy day!), she has plastic jugs, she has cannas, forsythias, and other plants for the asking and on top of all these freebies, she teaches riding lessons! You may ask what riding lessons have to do with this thread--well, nothing, but my granddaughter has been wanting to take riding lessons!

Then on Saturday past, I noticed a yellow bloom when I looked outside and yes, indeed, there was a goldenrod in my side yard right beside an oleander. Oh, happy day again!-- A goldenrod for my perennial bed. Sigh--I'm in gardening heaven, except for one thing. Now I need to find someone to shovel that horse manure into the back of DH's pick-up! (DH has a bad back, sure enuff!)