[Baby Blessing]

I now only have the rose gardens and a garden of flowers scattered about in several areas, Rather than to do from seeds I had bought the flats already started and that worked out best, we have lilies, petunias (double ruffled ones) remind me of a big carnation, dahlias (love, love them), gladiolas, vinca (spreading kind) verbena white and red (spreading kind) purple lantana also the yellow lantana ( I preferr the purple), Canna's (don't do good for us) love the clematis vines, honeysuckle vines, and we have one vine which has beautiful large orange flowers all summer but cant think of its name. Our ground is well fetilized and well prepared beds for flowers and we find they tend to take care of themselves after they got established. Was really amazed to see many in bloom after the big snow we had in December. Our yard is surrounded by large giant Oleander bushes(they are poisonous but soooo pretty) ours are one red one white, guessing I think we have at least 150 of them, I think everything gets protected from the winds from the west with the large Oleander bushes.

Luckily we have our own well so we are okay, folks on community or city water are loosing much of their vegetation due to being rationed with the water companies. They passed a new ordinance in the cities last year not allowing folks that bought new homes to put lawns in their front yards and had to do something else in landscaping. Really sad. Some areas even had to do away with their fruit orchards.

Hope Connie sees your thread here, she is one that is really knowledgeable about garening.She has a beautiful yard and flower beds.

This is a great thread, gonna go read the others postings.

Have fun and enjoy your garden.

Patti and Jack
p.s love using miracle grow :-) the flowers flourish and so does our lawns