LorettaNJ said: Wonderful. Did it stay dormant for you? I find I can't keep them that way.

It did. I have a dark basement that stays cool all the time. I just laid them on a shelf in the basement. The bud on the white one was several inches long which made me happy because the flowers came that much faster. I started these two bulbs about three weeks ago.

Come on a tour of my yard today!












Hardy orchards






This is one of my favorite hellebores. It is one of my seedlings.




























I love autumn ferns and they are popping up volunteer in the yard.


These should be spectacular in a couple of days!

Beautiful, Alice. So you didn't lose many blooms on your azaleas from the frost you were worried about?

Looks great Alice! What is the plant in the first photo? Thks

David, the temperature here never fell below 34 so no damage was done. Looks like this will be a banner year for azaleas. We got rain in the fall and no freezing temperatures to nip the blooms!

Crawgarden, the first picture is is an azalea -- possibly Hershey red. I rooted a few and planted them somewhere on the slope. The one in the picture may have a double blood which means it isn't Hershey red. I'll check tomorrow.

The variegated Viola is real cute! You're yard looks like a park. So nice!

Gee Alice can Bailey and I come live at your house?

gingin said: Gee Alice can Bailey and I come live at your house?

Sure! Trade weed pulling for lodging!

The bad part about working is there is no time available to pull weeds! I absolutely love to pull weeds! I'll assure you that there are plenty to pull!

Lol...got a bunch here as well. And the damn youpon holly is taking over my world!!

gingin said: Lol...got a bunch here as well. And the damn youpon holly is taking over my world!!

Are they coming up from seed? https://www.wildflower.org/pla...

Actually I think it spreads underground, but by seed is a definite possibility...really don't know for sure. When I bought this place in 1996 was very excited to see it. Little did I know how invasive it would be for me!

@David_in_KS are you and Jonathon O.K.? I am just watching a livestream weather channel and they say tornado touched down in Kansas. Stay safe.

tigerpaws said: @David_in_KS are you and Jonathon O.K.? I am just watching a livestream weather channel and they say tornado touched down in Kansas. Stay safe.

The tornado watch area I saw on KFOR TV was mostly for Oklahoma, some spillover into southwest Kansas. We're currently not under any sort of tornado watch or warning. What's out there is at the opposite corner of the state.

Thanks for checking on us, tigerpaws. We've had wind and rain much of the day. After the dry conditions we've gone through, the sound of rain beating against the side of the house is wonderful. But I did NOT go for my evening walk.

Thank goodness you are safe David. I was watching Evan Freyberger's livestream and things seemed pretty tense. Massive dark clouds, hail, etc. If only there were some way scientists could come up with something to stop tornadoes from happening it would be wonderful. We have a hard life here in Canadian winters but I cannot imagine the hardships one would have in the event of a tornado. How does one rebuild their life when/if all is destroyed. Frightening.

I got this message from Roelie this morning. It sounds to me like she might have pneumonia.

"Hallo

Iam ill again . Had troubles again and as lasttime I had moist behind the longs I now now asked and got penecelline . I cannot come in My name was Roelie fancy handle . Do you know how to come in . What are there a lot of troubles in the world. I am not so happy with is . We know everything in Worldwar II In England is als ery bad. The King has cancer and his daughter in law also If the king had to stop then they get the queen Now she works allready less. It is a pity for it is a nice coupleThere is not much in the garden the rose prunis has flowers and they fall already and the white has not yet flowers three clematissn white have flowers.Please will you post this for me and do you hae any idea wht is wrong and greetings to the Larrie masie and the members and ou of course

Loe oelie"

I'm sending healing thoughts and thoughts of peace to Roelie. I need to send a card as well.

Can anyone explain, step by step, how to get to garden buddies? Both my phone and computer are set to go right to it without going through all the steps.

Alice, the bookmark I use to get to the National Gardening Association forums is
https://garden.org/forums/

The GardenBuddies thread is
The thread "GardenBuddies Say Hello!" in Sandbox forum

I normally don't have to use a password, but I think I have mine stored for automatic access.

And I see that the computer has converted the second address to something other than what I typed. But if you hover over the second address, you can see the text string that describes this thread.

I will pass your info on to her. Thanks David!

The thread "GardenBuddies Say Hello!" in Sandbox forum

This link sends you directly to the first page of this forum then you can select any page from this forum…..

I see what David means now about the website changing what was typed….
Sorry for the duplicate answer….