Send bethintexas a D-Mail to welcome her to Dave's or do it here--heck you can do it both places!
New Texan on Dave's!
Welcome Bethintexas, we hope to see you around on the Texas forum.
Josephine.
Welcome Beth, please write back with an introduction........here's mine
I am a native Texan from DFW area, total urban sprawl...but in the past few years moved 80 miles into the country north along the Red River into Oklahoma. I still grow the same plants like I am in North Texas, and still refer to myself as Texan. My nearest Wal-mart is Gainesville, TX. I venture back to the metroplex to check on Sam Moon occassionally 'cause I have always been a city girl.
Here, I grow natives on 40 acres, plant butterfly and cottage style gardens. I have water ponds and plants. My specialty would be tall bearded iris with a secondary in daylily. I have been around a long time so have gained a bit of knowledge but I have only been gardening the last ten years.
I actually did my first canning the other day, with the old hand girls of my southern Okla group giving LOTS of advice and laughing all the way, I managed to "put up" twenty pint jars of plum jelly. I figure jars, sugar, cleanup, and labor with the free 25 lbs of plums they gave me it cost me about $55 a jar, so I don't expect I"ll be giving any away. I don't eat sugar so my dear husband will eat a lot of plum jelly, which by-the-way he says is excellent. Every bit as good as the $2.98 jar at Wal-mart.
I am Jackie Anderson, but ya"ll can call me Sharondippity
Thank you for your introduction Jackie, it is good to know more about our members.
It sounds like you are a very nice and interesting person.
Josephine.