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Frostweed...oh dear....you know me...I just buy and don't really know my plant names very well! It's mainly orange and purple...haha....I'll see if I have pics of it...thanks for the help in advance!

Here is one type...

And here is another...

Of couse this was them in the summer! They are waaaay ugly now....another is purple...but not very vibrant.
I really didn't know they all had names...can you tell me the names?

It looks like Lantana Horrida. Here in zone 8 the lantana dies back to the ground so I cut it back down to about six inches from the ground and it comes back in spring just fine.
If yours doesn't die back completely in the winter, it still can benefit from cutting back, doing this keeps it from getting leggy, but if you want a tall shrub, you can prune it lightly. However if it dies back in the winter, cut it down, it will look a lot better.
I hope that helps.
Josephine.

It does Jo, but I would like to know WHEN to prune...now?

I do want the low profile, so I'll cut to 6 inches, like you said. I've got to go to bed...dental appt in the am....yuk....:-)

Would y'all like to have a little Austin meeting this summer at my house? I've got a new Huge spa that is just waiting for wine/iced tea? and cheese parties with gal friends...(I assume you are all ladies?? Not to exclude men, but there is no way I will appear in a swimsuit with men the shape I'm in...hehe. We could go on a nursery crawl until we are dead on our feet...then get in the spa or just sit in the pool for awhile to recover! This would need to be after school is out...say June...before it gets toooo hot???

Let me know if there is interest. This would just be for the "Lot" people...not a general call for everyone in Texas!!!...my house is small!!

Connie, cutting them down now is just fine, I have all of mine and the Turk's cap too.
Thank you for the invitation, I would love to do it, but June is a long time way from now, we shall see as the year moves on.
Have a good day.
Josephine.

Connie, I have vowed in 2008 to Have More Fun. That would follow accepting any and all invitations. Put me on your list.

Christi

I agree with LouC and on doing it after school is out and I even know how to get to Austin..well to get to it and get over by the mall the step son lived over by there until he moved here with us. LOL
so put me on the list and remind me so I can make sure I can take it off from the restaurant

Will do...guys. It IS a long time off...just wanted to see if there was any interest. I hosted one last year for some Austin people and it was such fun! Gardeners are such wonderful people, aren't we?? :-)

Amen to that, Connie.

Ditto Connie! I retire at the last of May. I fully intend to make it down to the butterfly festival, and loads of other trips the first year for sure.

And as always, I really must put in a plug for Dave's Garden Party in 2009.

It WILL happen. I just know it will.

Christi

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Very neat T.J. and timely too.

I like that TJ

now how about this one and I will post the answers when I get home tonight ...just someone reply so I remember LOL


These are not trick questions.
They are straight questions with straight answers.

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators
nor the participants know the score or the leader
until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly
moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce
on their own for several growing seasons. All other
vegetables must be replanted every year. What are
the only two perennial vegetables?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy,
with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is
whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't
been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the
bottle?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with
the letters 'dw' and they are all common words.
Name two of them.


7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English
grammar. Can you name at least half of them?


8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never
sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any
other form except fresh

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your
feet beginning with the letter 'S.'

#4 Strawberry
#6 Dwarf, Dwell, Dwindle,
#8 Bananas
#9 Socks, slippers, shoes, sandals, skates,skis.

mmm not bad going by what I have though #8 is not it ...LOL but that is not to say it couldn't be an answer will give the list I have after I get home tonight

#5 The bottle is placed over the pear before it's too big, while it's on the tree.

#7period, comma, apostraphe, colon, semicolon, hyphen, perinthesis, exclamation point, question mark, quotation marks

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#8 eggplant?

#3 Asparagus is one, strawberries would be, but are they vegetables or fruit?
#5 Place the empty bottle over the fruit flower and limb before it matures.
#7 period, comma, colon, semi-colon, question mark, exclamation mark, apostrophe, quotation marks, elipses

#1: tournament fishing?

#3: artichoke and asparagus, but there are also some perennial onions

add to #7: ellipses, dash, brackets, and slash mark

I saw frozen eggplant parmigiana the other day in HEB or Wal-Mart and decided it would have to be mushy.

1. submarine races?? Well, they have sonar. hmm..
2. Statue of Liberty
3. asparagus and rhubarb
4. strawberries
5. ummm.. blossom pushed into bottle, fruit forms inside? Just a guess. I'm going to read everyone else's answers when I'm done.
6. dwarf, dwindle, dwell
7. . , ? ! : ; - ' " ... () (without staring at the keyboard to find more, that's all I could think of)
8. lettuce? I've had it wilted, though. Does that count as cooking?
9. shoes, socks, slippers, sandals, stilts, snowshoes, skis, skates

Well I am impressed some good answers and some correct ones LOL
so not to keep ya waiting any longer.


Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor
the participants know the score or the leader until
the contest ends . . Boxing

2. North American landmark constantly moving
backward. Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about
two and a half feet each year because of the
millions of gallons of water that rush over it every
minute.)

3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on
their own for several growing seasons . Asparagus
and rhubarb.

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside
Strawberry.

5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It
grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over
pear buds when they are small, and are wired in
place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for
the entire growing seas on. When the pears are ripe,
they are snipped off at the stems.)

6. Three English words beginning with dw . Dwarf,
dwell and dwindle.

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. .
Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen,
apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point,
quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and
ellipses.

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen,
canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but
fresh. Lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet
beginning with 's' . Shoes, socks, sandals,
sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes,
stockings, stilts.

Very good Phyllis.

interesting some of the things you can get in your email worth sharing for fun.

The slash mark or virgule is a punctuation mark. It is used in expressions such as and/or.

LOL it came in my email and I thought it would be fun to share I know there are several that have more then just the answers given ...not grading anyone on it was just for fun LOL

Hey Guys I received this today in an email and thought it was pretty cute, I hope you get a chuckle out of it.


One winter morning a husband and wife in northern
Colorado were listening to the radio during breakfast.
They heard the announcer say, 'We are going to have 8
to 10 inches of snow today. You must park your car on
the even-numbered side of the street, so the snowplows
can get through.' So the good wife went out and moved
her car A week later while they are eating breakfast
again, the radio announcer said, 'We are expecting 10
to 12 inches of snow today. You must park your car on
the odd-numbered side of the street, so the snowplows
can get through. 'The good wife went out and moved her
car again.The next week they are again having
breakfast, when the radio announcer says, 'We are
expecting 12 to 14 inches of snow today. You must
park...' Then the electric power went out.
The good wife was very upset, and with a worried look
on her face she said, 'Honey, I don't know what to do.
Which side of the street do I need to park on so the
snowplows can get through?'
With the love and understanding in his voice that all
men who are married to Blondes exhibit, the husband
replied, 'Why don't you just leave it in the garage
this time?'

HaHa! That's great!

I'm an English teacher (28 years!) and I have no idea what "braces" are...except the ones I paid thousands of dollars for! Same as angle brackets? :-)

Braces are a type of bracket. Here's a link that tells way more than I want to know about all kinds of brackets! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brace_%28punctuation%29

Ah....thanks for the link, patrob! My 9th kids have a hard enough time with knowing when to use the comma, let alone some of the other seldom-used punctuation marks.

And I can't think of a singe time that we've ever needed a "brace" or "curly bracket" when writing AP-type essays. The example for the use of the curly bracket in the link seemed arcane to me, and a case where commas or parentheses would suffice. Oh well, I've never been one to grade based on those things anyhoo :-)

But thanks so much for the info!! I love learning new things each day....and especially when it's something people would expect me to know!