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enid i don,t know about you my favorite all around tool is super glue could have saved you alot of time and worry love and hugs nettie

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my dh tells family and frinds he lived with a person who is a horder thats some one who keeps everyphing , that is not true i only keep things that are good stuff. if you can plant in it or it will hold water it has to be kept dh says get rit of it. i just let him go can,t do much wu=ith him. he is not as bad as he was. im going to bed love and hugs nettie.

Nettie, I let my DH say what he wants and then I do as I want and all he does is Shake his Head.

LOTS of good recycling ideas!!!!!! Aren't we a thrifty bunch! I love to recycle. Hate to spend good money on store bought stuff, when I can make it work just fine in recycled stuff. Love to check out estate sales or junk stores looking for something to make a planter out of. DH just smiles at me, he doesn't mind because I'm not spending money. LOL

My kids and ex-H use to say I could fix anything with superglue and duct tape! :-)

Huney!! Where have you been girlfriend? Cute puppy! Hi Kelly and Enid and Crit and RRM and Al and well, everyone!
I have some more exciting news for you guys. We picked up a 2nd location in Ashland, MS! It is a statuary but we plan to of course make it a nursery/statuary. It is a good compliment to Bolivar Nursery and we will sell to each other back and forth. I have been so busy but just wanted to share my news.

Working in the greenhouse today. I need to divide some Kimberly Queen and Boston Ferns. I still haven't really gotten an answer to my question about the root balls. Does anyone know how long it takes to grow a new plant from one of these balls? Any info would be much appreciated! Hope you all are having a good day!

Are you talking the little nodes that grow in the roots? I've never done that. I've only divided the plants and repotted them.

CONGRATULATIONS on your new place. That is terrific!

Some of those nodes are pretty big actually. Like an inch x an inch. I threw some of them in a small pot with mix. I was just hoping. I found some of the same nodes/bulbs in Ipomoea and it grew a new plant from it. The Sheriff in our county brought me his wife's ferns to overwinter in the greenhouse and they are so BIG and beautiful! I went to pick one up and it came out of the pot and there are a TON of those bulbs or bulbis or whatever the heck they are! I was told that each of those would make a new fern but just wanted to check with the experts :-)

I have seen them on Asparagus Fern, and yes, they do get pretty large. I've never tried to grow from those, I always threw them away. Drat!

i have planted my furns out in flower bads and take them in in fall onlt to find little furns comming up in the spring so i know they will come up just don,t how long they take, i don,t do that anymore to much work. i would love to start some camillas from my big red bush it is real pretty but i don,t know where to start. ive been told can.t be done but people know how i am. love nettie

a friend of myne has sent me a bag of small taters she said it is some kind of ivy thought mekos or rj might know what it is or rrm you might know im not going to plant them until i find out what it is. nettie

bill dors let me pick up the tea pots only get those with no lids then i put holes in the bottom of the pots make pretty planters, nettie

i guess mekos is not here tonight oh well just my luck.ill just have to wait.the story of my life. love nettie

loca have you seen the little ladies any where on here. thanks nettie

They seem to be missing in action nettie;o)

Today we are returning one of the carnivorous plants I bought. When I went to repot it I found it had a 1/2 inch black root. So I'm taking it back. I will pick up a new but not I'm not it'll be at that Lowes unless they get some fresh ones in today.

Mekos has been sick, Nettie. she can''t stand to be up for very long. Hasn't even been able to take care of little angel. Now you know, she is not well for that to happen.

Hi Ya'll - Got a touch of the flu bug last week, but getting back to normal. Slowed me down a bit for garden work, it's mostly cleaned up for the winter months. Now need to get organized for the upcoming holidays. Wifey will be snowed under with concert performances so I get to cook and clean for a while until the seasons over.

Al

Refresh my memory AL, what does she play???

if the weather would settle that would help some as far as i know there is no cure for what she has i sleep alot when it flairs up it doesn,t help all that much but i can stand it a little better. i was hopeing she was over it for a while i will put her back in my prayers im so sorry she feel bad again. hope she gets better real soon love nettie

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I'll tell her Nettie. She says "soon as I feel better, I will be back"
Yes, we will both say prayers. Bless you dear.

Ellen is the vocal music director at our local high school. She also teaches younger elementary grades during the week. She will direct two huge school programs just before Christmas, plus play the piano for a professional concert orchestra during the holidays. It's practice, practice, and more practice with a lot of evening work to be done. We hope to be fully retired sometime around February 1st., maybe do some traveling to someplace warm for the rest of the winter. I can't foresee her ever getting completely out of the music business though, just likes it so much.

Al

It is her life, AL. That is nice, so nice of you to help her out. that is what makes her happy.

ive said this before a very special lady you have al but im sure you know that, love to you both nettie. past my bed time think im going to head that way.

I "bagged" my turkey this morning, a 22 pounder from Wegman's Market! They were selling them for just 39 cents a pound on their annual promotion. I'll likely be doing the cooking for Thanksgiving, maybe Tuesday or Wednesday because everybody else is working on the weekend.

Al

When the weather acts up, it really flares up my fibromyalgia. Even though I take medication for it, the rain and low barometer pressure always makes me hurt. I hate winter because the cold really bothers me. Besides the creams, patches, heating pad and meds, there isn't much else I can do about it. A massage once in a while helps. I'm really wiped out this evening. Trimmed up a bunch of things and put them in potting mix to root. Step-son carried all the plants in the house for me. Then, since it was dark, held the flash-light so I could dig the 2 big banana trees. I brought the small ones in a while back. Suppose to be freezing temps here at night the next 7 days. Glad we only have to move them around twice a year!

I'm not sure we've been getting freezing temperatures here or not because my body temperature is off. I switched up my medication and it's thrown my body off whack.

I managed to stay busy all day but got very little done. I made a bog bowl for half of my carnivorous plants. I potted the store bought thyme and another lemongrass that I rooted. Repotted my Christmas cactus and potted a bayleaf stem that may or may not have rooted.

al i think my rooting hormone is probly about 10 years old still works good so i just keep useing it. it .s not bad until it stops working. nettie

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crit you may need to get you a wagon for your rideing lawn mower they are real handy. i usee ours allot but i have two grown sons that will help me if i beg and i know how to beg. ive done alot for them and would do alot more if they needed me and i stay able. you take care of your self and don,t over do love and hugs nettie

I love my trailer. Especially to haul rocks and pinestraw.
Very handy.

I have a trailer for my mower. I use it all the time to take hay across the road to the horses, and tons of other things. Couldn't use it to bring the plants in however. They were all on the deck around the pool. Have to be hand carried. Can use the 'little red wagon' for some of them.

My plants around the pool.

Another

My little Rat Terrier Pistol is in this one. :-)

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Last one. Wish we could attach more than 1 photo at a time!!!

dh will not let me have a pool that one is very nice we are to ckose to the lake he don,t won,t to do maintance on one ill get over it some time or not. love nrttie hope you are feeling better today.

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Beautiful pool and deck garden Crit.

Al

Thanks Al and Nettie. We really enjoy it.

Nettie, We live about 6 miles from the large Keystone Lake here and we still have a pool. :-) It isn't all that much trouble. Put in a few chemicals, Clean it out once in a while . ENJOY, ENJOY, ENJOY all the time! That is one of the things that sold me on this house, besides loving the house. It isn't heated, which is when I really need it for the Fibro so could use during the winter, but during the summer I swim and walk in the pool. Walking is really good exercize with the water resistance, and easier on your joints. It is about 5' deep in the middle and slopes upward on each end. Great for walking

Nice pictures Crit! All thats missing is one of Mekos' Mojito's! I have some pretty Majesty Palms that would look great out there by the pool. ;-)

I actually bought 2 Majestic or Majesty Palms at WallyWorld this fall, then divided them and got 5! :-)) I had them setting at the 4 corners of the pool, but was afraid silly dog might run into them while chasing a frog or grasshopper, or the wind would topple them right into the pool. Have them in the fiberglass/styrofoam type planters that look like concrete. If you look real close at the one that has my doggie in it, you can see one of them between the whiskey barrell and trellis. They aren't real big yet, but they will be!!!!!
My new brugs will be pretty around the pool too. That's about the only place that gets full sun. There and just on the other side of the deck about 10 feet out.

I love all the pretty tropical plants. Especially the Palms..