Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Becky's Spring Swap, follow-up thread, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
BOY! I have a lot of comments and a question....

Question first:....
Wyldeflower--The small Bleeding Heart you gave me--is it the smaller or the larger variety? Both of mine are definitely large! Close to 3' tall and wide. Color?

Jill,
My BH's are still all green. I cut them back half way, as I have read somewhere that if you do that right after blooming, it will re-grow and bloom again. I really could not wait for the natural die-back as I am already late planting all my Summer flowers. Had to cut the BH back foliage back to make space!

And--speaking about the "hanging bags"--my neighborhood's largest road-side stand/Nursery (Hubers) sells them, and one of the owners told me that when you plant them, you have to lay them down flat for all the plants to grow up/out--THEN you hang it up. I am guessing the root systems of all the plants hold the soil together, whereas, if you hung them up right away, the soil may all "schlump" ( I love using these Yiddish names for things) to the bottom part. Then again--maybe not!
OK! End of my "kibbitzing" with you!

Chantelle---I have some suggestions for you!

You know--when someone orders out for a corporate meeting, a big Office party, or some such thing--all the food comes on these huge plastic platters/trays with high-domed lids. Sort of--like what Bec had for the fruit tray and the veggie tray. The bottom part of it is "divided" into wedges--(like Pizza slices) one for each type of vegetable/fruit--with a small circle in the middle for the dip container.
GREAT for a mold for a stepping stone--AND! The top lid makes an awesome saucer for a huge pot of some kind. Same goes for the deep lids on cakes--GREAT saucers--or use them as greenhouse domes for a seedling tray. Don't just think of everything as trash!!! EVERY thing in our lives has another "life"--if you just stop and think!

MY brain, immediately, clicks into this mode when I see things like this---RECYCLE!!!!
"Hmmmm? What else could I use that for???"
Now--if the tray is one of those big, rectangular ones--usually black--you could use that also. I use one of those for a drip-tray under my Dehumidifier. Makes it easy for me to slide it around on the floor too w/o marring it.

As for what to paint/print on your just-poured stepping stones--How about the foot-prints and hand-prints of your precious 1yr. old Granddaughter? Maybe yours too? Right next to each other?

And, Chantelle,--I don't want to sound self-promoting (not my nature)--but since you love all these garden sayings, did you ever "catch" me posting my beautiful Poem ( "The Garden Wakes" ) I wrote to my Garden about a year ago? To this day--if I read it--I literally tear over and I cannot believe it came out of my brain in about 45 minutes.....
If not--I will D-mail it to you.
And--if enough of the new people here have not read it either--I will be happy to c/p it in here.....

OK? Gita

Some "Sweet Surrender" Rose blooms to you all!!!!