I've already had the tops chewed off of two by the cows, Alice. Cows eat anything! I moved all of them back another foot from the fence and strung some wire between the barbed wire. That's working so far. Yes, they are about 1' elevated and 4' from that stream, but the pond only overflows for about 9 mo. Thus, the stream is dry for 3 mo. It dried up a couple of weeks ago and now I can simply walk across to that fence-line, rather than going across where I put some spare tile down.

Ken, I think it will be a really pretty wall...great contrast in textures with those 2 plants, and both with white flowers!

No, not done yet. I have a Fairy Festival I've never done before the last weekend of this month up by Tampa, then I'm done for the season. So, I have 2 weeks in front of me of furiously making fairy houses and fairy gardens! We'll see how it goes!

Well I guess cows aren't so smart. Good thing you moved the plants and added fencing.

Patty, I have seen fairy gardens but never thought they would have a whole festival for them. I know your gardens will be lovely.

Good luck with this new selling adventure, Patty. You are so talented.

There is probably a reason you've never seen cow performing in a circus, Alice.

We lived adjacent to a cow pasture once and my son, about 6 at the time, told me a cow was climibng the fence and I sort of just nodded. A few minutes later I looked up and saw a cow in our yard and another climbing the fence to join the first. YIKES, I called the farmer and he told me they do that all the time. He came by and convinced he cow to climb back into the pasture.

Thanks Alice & Ken! I don't know that's it's really a new 'adventure'...just a new show! Yes, Alice, I know of at least one other "Fairy Festival" and that one is here in Sarasota at the Spanish Point...

Here's an example of the 'fairy gardens' I've been making for a few years now...previously I've just used them as displays for my fairy houses, now we'll see if they sell...

I like those! .....and is that an antique bedspread they are on? for a good sale.

I like those too, Patty. I hope you have a lot of success at the upcoming sale.

Cows climb a barbed wire fence, Alice? Wow! I just got home from HD with 48' of treated 2x2 and 1x6 lumber. I have decided to build raised boxes and that will allow me to move those nine fence-line plants another foot or even two feet towards the creek and away from the fence. That will allow them to still be about 18" above the average high level of the creek. Maybe, just maybe, that will get them far enough away that the cows can't reach them. Another project.

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When I think of Fairy Garden, I think of Gnomes
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Glenn, the one on the left is a gnome garden. I make fairy houses and gnome homes too!.

I have more garden gnomes than fairy's in my own yard!

Alice, that's one of my fall tablecloths! And a plain white sheet held behind them...

Always seems like daylilies would not grow well in Florida, but amazingly they really do. In fact there are a number of daylily breeders based in Florida. Their fabulous new releases are well out of my price range, but still fun to peruse.

My powerhouse re-blooming baby H. Siloam Double Classic is in full form this week. It is fragrant, doesn't get rusty (as a lot of daylilies do here) and has a nice short stature, perfect for my small space.


Had my doubts about the Sun Hostas, but here they are putting on pretty foliage again this spring. An experiment with 50cent plants, seems to be a success! Alice's beautiful begonia Don Miller in the background. Zinnias planted with my granddaughters are giving me a little bouquet every day. I'm wondering how far into the summer they will survive.

I think the daylilies like the excellent drainage in FL soils. Your Siloam Double Classics are always over the top beautiful.

I love the Zinnias!

Yesterday I moved most of my C&S outside. In the process I thought this Euphorbia x lomi/Thai Giant looked rather nice.

, from a distance the flowers look like camellia blossoms.

The flower of the Giraffe's Knee. Each of those pointy stems will produce this flower. An interesting pattern on the stems and the "giraffe knee". But one weird flower. This plant hails from E. Africa.

Giraffe's Knee, Gonatopus boivinii

Fascinating! So this thing is an Arum!

Good term, Ursula............."thing". I guess if one wants to grow "exotics", this should be on their list. Patty gifted this plant to me, and I divided her/him in the fall, before it went dormant.

You know, my first thought seeing the leafy growth and the very pretty pattern on the stems, was - is that one related to Amorphophallus. Great plant!