feelin like you need to go OUTSIDE for a lil bit n dig or weed or spray or feed n water or something? feeling a little TRAPPED perhaps a bit BORED? How much longer does winter last? Theres no where to run--n nowhere to hide......somebody dig up some pics? a ray of hope for poor theatrical me? cheryl
are yall gettin cabin fever yet?
I know what you mean about cabin fever. I sure wish Spring would hurry and get here. This is a bad pic of Cyprees gardens but it was sure full of blooms.
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This is Dr. Suess
I was just telling DH a little while ago, that as soon as Christmas was over it was going to be so boring. Everything dead outside and nothing to plant or take care of, nothing but reruns on tv, and nothing to do but look outside and long for Spring. Even the forums here have been pretty slow lately.
Well, I'm pretty sick of it already. Can't wait for the new year and dirt!! Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I'd say I love the smell of dirt. By I'm addicted to plants and can't wait to be able to get into the greenhouse to play, dirt and all. It will be good to see that tropical look again too.
Just this evening over dinner I told my DH that I couldn't wait for Spring! Seems I couldn't wait for Fall so I could quit mowing for a while, but oh how I miss my garden!!! Gretchen
ahelms thats a wondermous pic :) before school started up I got quite in the habit of having my coffee outside with the doves and writing spiders,---now its rush, rush, rush---ball games and housework,---- post some more yall---these walls are closin in on me. cheryl
brugie--that my dear is prettttttttttttttttty----very pretty. I wanna *work* outside.......
This is that same bed earlier in the spring. Right now it doesn't have this much in it. Everything is brown and ugly around here. Maybe a small pile of dirty snow can be found, but that is about it.
Shirley, your first picture makes me long for Spring, or even Summer.
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Oh Brugie, why didn't you put those 2 pics in the landscape contest? WOW, I do not remember seeing that before. Just fantastic.
Ada, Cypress gardens looks so great. I really do love white ones.
Here's a picture taken in Sept. I sure miss it.
This was taken Dec.6th. It still looks the same today.
Sure do miss summer.
Snowhermit, I can see where you get your name from. You have great woods in the first picture. Can you take a picture, now, from the same place you took the first one? A before and after thing. Just thinking about my place when we get the big one and have our 1"-2" of snow. I'm drawing plans for a new brug garden and I like your layout. Thanks, George
It was 65 today and will be 33 by daylight. That really stinks.
Think spring! Seems like we've been couped up inside for a long time already.
This was Monday morning. Today is rain with a flood watch. There's been a couple of bad ice jams causing flooding on some of the rivers.
Snow and Sue,thats what it looks like here too,and after the rain today its suppose to turn to snow at dinner time and more lake effect.......
With the Christmas rush, I haven't had a chance to get cabin fever yet. But I have already ordered all my seed starting supplies, so that when January gets here - I'll be ready! I have a few things that I start early and then move them under grow lights. Most things that I start from seed won't be started until late Feb or early March.
I use this down time to pour through all the seed catalogs and to plan out what I am going to plant. I have favorites that I always plant, but I always try to add a few new things that I have never grown.
Plus, I need to give some serious thought as to where to plant all my new brugs. So, I guess you could say that I garden all year long - -even though the next couple of months will be done primarily on paper and in my mind.
"shaking with gardening need", Ive only gotten one catalog so far so havnt even been able to pour over them. I will be doing some seed starting soon, I have some that need a longer growing season and hopefully I can keep the kids and dogs out of everything this year. I also need to figure out how Im going to enlarge my front garden again(this will be the 3rd time)
I hear you Dravencat..... my beds get enlarged every year. DH finally gave me a smaller tiller of my own so that he doesn't have to drag out the big one so often.
Two seed catalogs that I always love to receive are Parks Seed and Thompson and Morgan. If you don't get those, go to their websites and sign up for them to send one to you.
Snow and Poppy, I can't imagine having to live with so much snow. I've lived in the south all of my life, and call "cold weather" any day that requires more than a light-weight jacket.
Hi Nat, I've been looking at the seed catalogs too, but I already have more seeds (from DG and other gardening friends) than I can possibly grow. Already under lights are baby brugs, hostas, lilies, helleborus. Jan/Feb I'll start daturas, moon flower, various vines etc, and I have a very small yard with not much sun. Most of it I'll give away but I just love to watch them grow.
Linda, I, too, have received lots of seeds from DGer's. And I want to make sure that I use as many of them as I can this next year. But, I still want seed for some of the basics that I grow, like petunias, salvia, sunflowers and impatiens. But this year, I will not be buying nearly as much as I have in the past thanks to the generosity of others.
I took cuttings off of a gorgeous surfina petunia(Priscilla)and I am babying those under lights, as well as lots of brugs, a desert rose, an unusual portulaca(this one has foliage similar to a sedum and I haven't been able to get any seed off of it), and coleus cuttings.
I am already sick and tired of snow and the winter has not even started yet.
I'm staying busy starting brug seedlings and caring for the 80+ potted tropicals and houseplants I have inside, it's dark when I leave for work and dark when I get home, so I couldn't get anything done outside anyway. I've been keeping busy reading, drooling over the seed catalogs, playing with my doggie, and doing house repairs. last weekend I replaced all the plumbing under my kitchen sink and built a box out of 2X6 lumber with hardware cloth on the bottom, I'm using it to hold my winter sowing containers for now but it will be a soil screen this summer. I never seem to have enough time to do everything I want to, so I never get bored!
Hey Carena, want to come visit my house?
Kell, you know I would love to!!! Maybe if I come for a visit, little elves will come to my house and clean it for me!!
I want to come visit Kell!!!! :)
party at Kell's house!!!
a christmas party at kell house?-----i dont know what thread it was on---but I first found this place about this time last year? and someone had rewritten "the night before christams" but they had inserted memebers names in it and it was so funny--it would be funnier still if I had known some of yalls personalities a litle more as i do now----can someone bump it up here?---I hope I didnt dream that? help me out yall? cheryl
Hey, Kell, I'm on my way.
Kell, do you need me to bring anything from SC? I've been waiting for a party at your house.
Party??? Do I get to come too?
Hey you guyz....I heard that Kell is hosting a month long retreat for brug lovers suffering from Cold & Gray Syndrome.
*sniffle'wheeze'cough'*
It dis da place we sign up?
1>...Shirley S.
2>...Shirley M.
3>...Cheryl
4>...Carena
..fill out the rest yer self please ;~)
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Merry Christmas To All
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Man, what a beautiful picture Shirley S. Makes me think I might get into the Christmas spirit yet. Since I can't get into your post to sign up, I'll leave it up to you. LOL!! I am in serious need of some kind of retreat.
I dont know where that conservatory is in the pic---but im thinkin CAMP OUT at Scooterbugs!!!-------after kells party that is---*dont worry Kell we wont make a mess or eat you out of house n home* lololol cheryl
Nah, we wouldn't eat yer home kell..lol
plays, y'all come on up (as in North). I posted elsewhere; the location of the conservatory is Milwaukee.On the shores of Lake Michigan...Brrrrr!
...... DD and I took off for the day for some girl time and went to "The Domes" aka Mitchell Park Conservatory.
......I need to go weekly I think =)
Powder Puff Tree
EDIT...The tree with the red thingy on it (~:
This message was edited Dec 18, 2003 9:40 PM
LOL. I just saw this thread............ you all will never believe me when I tell you all I left for Tahiti with no clue you all were on your way here!
I had big hopes that Carena would do her energizer bunny routine around my messy house!
I sure will, Kell! I'll clean you out, err, I mean I'll clean up really well before you get back! I'm sure the neighbors won't notice the U-haul van in your driveway loaded up with plants!