Sooooo glad you are back and running full tilt again! Keep up the good work!

I'm so thankful you're well and healthy and recovered.

Isn't it an inspiring message? I'm so very thankful to have our "greene" healthy and gardening again with us.

Our local Savannah Backyard Gardeners Facebook group is a nice bunch of people. When one member ha some wind damage to his Duranta erecta plant, he cut off the damaged branches, piled them in the back lane, and offered them free to the group.

I grabbed the dogs and drove in the rain and picked up several branches. Prepared the cuttings and waited to see what happened. There are now 33 that rooted successfully, 2 or 3 were duds, and one was an over-achiever.


And on that trip to Lowe's to buy potting soil to re-pot the rooted cuttings, I found a broken stem on the floor and stuck it into my water bottle and forgot all about it. Look at this! I'm thinking it might be a hardy Hibiscus but am not certain.

The power company hired a tree removal company and...well, this is a new look for my front yard.

This is a before and after as viewed from across the street.


My current project is to make this look presentable.


This is what the stump of a 60+-year-old azalea looks like; each over 24 inches across and mixed with Smilax, ugh. I have 4 of these to work around.

They went thru my area like the wrath of god a few years back and I lost some nice dogwoods that they came OVER MY FENCE to cut down. I'm all for keeping the utility company's right of way clear but they do get a bit carried away.