what a cool idea for a commercial

What a funny commercial! Thanks for sharing, Lynn.

HILARIOUS!

I knew you all would like it. Are you still laughing crittergarden?

I do like that commercial.

I makes me smile every time I see it.

I know I don't get on often enough but a quick update on the beds valleylynn and I did last spring. Everything seems to have made it through winter. Spring has sprung here in New Mexico and I am excited to see how the cute little things progress!!





These above are Spring


Think these are Pekinese





The Red Rum is my favorite so far. Love the Color and they seem to be doing well

It's good to see them there!
I lost fewer to the squirrels than last year.

Thank goodness no squirrels here, just a lot of doves, which drives my cat crazy

Denise, you need more semps!!!

March 2014 Update of my one semp bed with all the soon to-be-Spring coloring:

Photo of entire bed:


Photo of bed on one end of white rock with spyder named Magnus (made by goldfinch4)


Other end of bed from white rock with spyder named Magnus who has met another spyder, Jenkins (made by goldfinch4)

Oh, and before anybody asks...that bright orange one in the foreground that is transparent looking is a dying NOID and was pulled out this weekend.

Bev, beautiful beds and lovely semps. I am sooooo jealous.
You have a lot of really nice plants there.
Don't care much for spiders... (forgive me Chris, you do nice work but ewwwww)

Hey there Denice. I think the third photo from the top is Limelight? They should all start making offsets soon. They are looking healthy.

Wow Bev, beautiful bed. And it looks like the spiders are sizing each other up. Are you sure one of them is not a girl spider?

I don't have a limelight? Spring, Pekinese, Red Rum, hmmmm will have to go look to see what the other one was

Bev those beds are gorgeous, and l must take baby steps, I am just newly addicted to semps

Just spent the entire weekend applying a granular systemic to the bed section by section. Had a top dressing rock layer on top of soil and had to remove all so that I could sprinkle and work the granules into the soil. Am double thinking the use of the systemic in granule form as I would hate to have to remove the rock dressing every time I need to work the systemic into the soil (which can be every 8-10 weeks if the mealy/aphid infestation persists.

Anybody know of a systemic that can be diluted with water and applied that way?

Your Limelight was the one that did so well last year when everything else was struggling.

Hi Denice Great to see you on here!! Can't wait to see how your semps do in another couple of months!
Bev I hope you get that all sorted out...do you know if its root or stem mealy bugs? I've heard root mealy bugs are harder to get rid of. Hope its the other kind...I never have bad outbreaks of mealy bugs but every now and then I have them on my tender succulents, and I just use full strength rubbing alcohol, the highest percent you can find (70% or something) spray them one time per day for a week or so and this seems to work for me. I've never had to do that for semps though...I didn't realize they could be a problem with semps Good luck!