She's about to...Spring has sprung!

New room everyone! Come and show us whats blooming in your area!

I have mexican petunia in bloom!

yay! I love that stuff..

Here is queen emma crinum, she is about too.
and.. my posse of dogs to the north of me..

She is going to be beautiful!

Do you want some of the mexican petunia?

oh I have tons of that plant, so easy to propagate, I have pink and purple, looking for white..
How are your plants doing? Is your coral tree growing?

So far all you gave me is doing good. They loved the 2 days of rain we had a few days ago!

Taters, I would love some mexican petunia. Do you think it will grow in zone 6b?

Not for sure if it would come back for you, but I would be glad to send you some. Send me your address in a message, and I will get some out to you! Maybe keep it in a large pot, and bring it in for the winter?

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=c952

Hi everyone! Looking so forward to end of tax season. I have daffs and crocus in bloom. Otherwise not much blooming. Be glad when it is warm enough to throw everything outside.

Our papercrete workshop went over great, had over 29 people there. We are going to make pots at our next meeting to sell at our plant sale. Then we are thinking about doing a fund raiser showing people how to make the and charge folks. Maybe as a money maker for me I will make some and sell at farmers market.

First pic is of one I did before class, second is of the 4H kiddos, and last is a couple of our Master Gardeners making pots, and the oval one I make about a year ago.

Had a neighbor of a friend give me a bunch of really nice pots. One is huge and orange, beautiful. Would be great for succulents.

Well just wanted to drop by and check on you all. Later

Dang I was hoping those Mexican petunias would winter over but since I am zone 5...rofl.

ok, who's the wise guy keeping this thread a secret? LOL
ya thought I couldn't find ya?

Hey Joyce, I can send some to you as well. Just keep them heavily mulched or covered?
Anyone that wants some, send me a message with your address, I will send you some!

Hey Kathy, glad you found us! How are you doing?

doing just fine Linda

Mary, i BRING MY CHI CHI IN AND KEEP IT GOING IN BRIGHT LIGHT OVER WINTER, BUT LAST YEAR, i HAD SOME POP UP FROM seeds AS THEY FLY ABOUT 100 FT OR SO. jUST A HEADS UP TO YOU GUYS ON THE BEAUTIFUL RUELLIA. dang it, stoopid caps lock!

Joyce, looks like so much fun , glad you had a good turn out. I gave someone some of that purple chi chi at swap last spring, wonder who got it? LOL BTW, I am coming up there to your neck of the woods on APril 11th weekend.. *hint* *hint*

Kathy ((((hugs)))) I just hafta get to Alabama some time~!

What is chi chi?

Mexican Petunia, Ruella, chi-chi all the same :)

Ah, OK! I have never heard them called chi chi.

Debra, You are always elcome

april 11 i work all day 9 to 4, dang. april 12 i am off all day....then after the 15th i am FREE...LOL
Hey hint hint doing taxes is a good part-time gig... with full time capabilities since this is the headquarters of h&r. Leaves spring summer and fall for other activities.

Thank you for the offer on the flowers but being zone 5 I don't think I have enough mulch...lol I looked them up and they are zone 8 rated...lol if I get my greenhouse done this year Taters I will have more room.

Just let me know when you are ready!

Joyce, I am headed to KC area that week of the 11th, to celebrate our birthdays with KayJones. We would love to meet up with you. Please contact me!

my pear trees are in full bloom, as is the peach trees. my apple trees are starting to bloom.
time to start getting the veggie garden ready

Love the fruit trees when they bloom. My neighbor has orange trees in bloom and they smell so good. They are full of bee's also.

taters I will let you know, if it happens...lol

will get a hold of you Debra.
Hey does your emma crinum bloom fall over? Mine always does, the bloom gets so BIG and extended so far out.

Our fruit trees are just breaking dormancy....oh to have orange tree!

We planted bunches of pear apple plum trees two years ago II think. We should of pruned this spring but we didn;t.

so far, Joyce, Queen Emma just keeps popping her flowers open.. it is a HUGE plant now, taking it up to Lee's Summit to her new owner, KayJones ( Jo McFall. )

The EE's from you are all standing pretty,.,,, I am anxious to get them into their outside bed. Still too cold for any of that. :P

My Old Fashioned Pear is still not bloomed, but when the red bud pops out, so will it. It will be nice if I get at least 1 pear from it this year, the squirrels love those things.
Joe assembled my newest arch finally. I had left a three page Honey Do list on the counter the night before, he scratched two things off of it last night :)
( Have to keep him busy , since he is retired, and I am not)

yes, I fought with the squirrels last year over my pears. the neighbors sheep too.

Well, I had our first hummer in my hands last night. I had a feeder in my hand, and the hummer came right up, and landed on the feeder, and just sat there drinking his nectar. I will take the camera out this afternoon, and try to get a picture.

Update! I'm getting around almost normally from my knee surgery. Still having some problem with pain, but nothiing I can't handle. I now have sine friends living with me. Tom and Renee and thier 18 yr old son who has a problem with some brain damage from fight when he was in high school. He keeps mostly to himself and is a nice kid. Tom crawled around under my trailer and fixed all the broken pipes so we have water back in the trailer and Renee has taken over the kichen for meals and cleaning. Now that I'm getting around better I'm picking up and helping when and where I can. They are staying with me to save money to get thier own place. I will miss them when they move out.
I see the surgery on April 2 and am going to get him to release me to go back to work even if it's only part time. Of course I only work 21 hours a week anyway, but instead of working 7 hrs a day I'll tell him I'll do 4 hours a day/5 days a week.a

So glad to hear you are healing up good, and also nice to hear you have someone there to help you out Mary. You should have no problem going back to work!

so happy to hear that. Recovery has been good for you.
SO happy you had a hummer in your hand, LK. I have never done that. Rose came over today and turned the compost, moves some heavy things, brought up some huge pots for me. She got her workout for the day, and I sat on my bum and picked leaves and sycamore balls out of my garden beds, found my Virginia blue bells about to bloom on the other side of the fence! *sigh*

Wow Linda Kay a hummer in your hand my Mom would of been tickled pink if that would of happened to her. I would to actually!!

My hours this week are cut way back, but the following week look out. I will be glad when it is over except for missing the money.


LOL I thought you were meeting the other secret person in Independence Debbie. lol I still want to see you all! Glad the ee's are doing good. Everything in the solar room has some kind of bug I will be so GLAD when I can drag this stuff outside.....

Sound s like everyone is doing good.

I went and bought another apple tree, another peach tree, a Persian lilac, and a ann magnolia.
then went to the hospital cuz I was having chest pains

After posting how good I was doing on the 29th, I turned around and hurt my leg late that afternoon. I have been so afraid that I broke something loose but PT thinks that what I did was pop the muscle in my upper thigh. Whatever I did, I am back on the walker when trying to walk and having some real pain when I try to bend the knee, but the pain is in the mid thigh. May not be able to go back to work as planned. Darn!!!!

OH NO! So sorry Mary. I hope it heals quickly.

Glad to hear your knee is healing Mary. So sorry you had a setback with your thigh, be careful and feel better soon.

Kathy, did you go to the dr? worry about you girl.
Mary, u sposed to take it easy!
that is an order! :)
I graduated from PT, but it looks like those visits are 140.00 a pop holy cow! good thing I have insurance.. what a racket! ( Mine was like going to a small gymnasium place)

Amazing what they charge for PT!

oh yeal, and for 45 minutes too.. I am in the wrong profession. :P
They gave me a graduation tshirt and a ball, tho.
I just wish I could smell, I bet Kathy's yard smells wonderful with all those trees.

Thanks everyone. I pull the muscle getting into bed just like I've been doing for the past 5 weeks, so am very upset at hurting my leg.

Debra, They smell sooo good!

Saw the surgeon today and he gave me permission to go back to work next week.