hI Charlene
Glad to see you made in down here. You will love it.

Do you know, I just found this thread. I've had a lot of fun reading about you all. So many I know already & some fairly well. I have often wondered different things about you guys which are answered here. Took me long enough huh? :rofl:
Okay...
Real name: Ann
Age: 54
Native Floridian
Married 37 years, childless by choice
1 dearly beloved dog
Hobbies: gardening, watching nature and her wildlife, dogs, learning about anything & everything
#1 survival tool: laughter

I knew Hetty is Dutch. I was surprised about you Apopka John. I am 1/2 dutch on father's side. I believe that is where my love of gardening comes from.

Hello Everyone!

Real Name: Kelly
Age: 38
Family: 1 Son - 13 yrs old
Occupation: Photography Tech
Hobbies: Gardening (my version of it anyway), reading, writing, crafting, finding new uses for old items.
Pets: 2 cats - Sookie & Severus, 1 Teacup Chihuahua - Casper (aka 'Shmooky').

primarily, my gardening interests are Butterfly and Hummingbird gardening, followed closely by herb gardening. I'm always stumbling into new projects whether it be to mosaic a patio table or turning plastic water bottles into outdoor chandeliers.

I just found this cubit today and recognize a few of you from DG! Looking forward to sharing ideas and gardening experiences (or mishaps) with all of you

Hi Kelly,
Welcome over here on the cubits FL site. Where are you in Florida?
Charlene

I'm in Palm Coast - 30 miles south of St. Augustine and 25 miles north of Daytona -OR- 1 hour south of Jacksonville and 1 hour 15 min north east of Orlando

Hi Kelly
Welcome to Cubits!
Jan

Kelly, ..... OR west of Flagler Beach....right? Lived in Flagler for a while....
Welcome!

Hello everyone! This is so exciting to see so many old friends here and now to even make new ones! I am in the hot, hot part of SW Florida- the Everglades.

Hey Carol
New Pet or Dinner?

Yea!!! Carol showed up!

I know. It is like everyone is coming home.

Hi all. This switch to the new forum actually got some email to me and reminded me of the DG world of old. I had signed up with cubits early on but simply forgot to log on to see what's going on and then the years slipped by.

I'm in Naples in the Golden Gate Estates area and am quickly approaching the mid 70s. I find that thought to be kind'a wierd. I've been doing orchids and general landscaping around my place since buying this property back in 2004. The last two winters sort of struck me for a loop and left me in a depressed mode for a while. I lost so much of what was tropical that I was about to give up gardening in general and just let be what may. I'm over it now and things are looking better again. If we don't get another freeze this winter, most plants will return to their former glory. My Screw Pine palm (Pandanus basedowii) still looks like hell but it is not dead and will eventually recover - if given half a chance. 60+ Christmas palms are gone but no need to go on.

Upon surveying the damage I noticed that the few bromeliads that I had showed some leaf damage but were generally OK. Being that they are close cousins of my orchids, I investigated that world some more and am now as much a bromeliad fanatic as an orchid one, probably more so as the broms can be planted into my landscape.

Otherwise I have too many other hobbies and don't have enough time to spend on them. Life has too many distractions. It is nice to see a lot of familiar faces and names on these pages but not very many when considering all the gardners in South Florida. I'm quite active in several FB groups where data comes to you via email and response activity is encouraged by threads. That is missing here.
One of my new beds made in early June:

I said there are too few members in this group for South Florida. I just realized it's for all of Florida. Geez. That's roughly 19 million people. Somebody has to get the word out.

Fred said:I said there are too few members in this group for South Florida. I just realized it's for all of Florida. Geez. That's roughly 19 million people. Somebody has to get the word out.

Everybody can help by spreading the word on Facebook, Twitter, friends, garden clubs, etc.

Have any recent pictures of your pond and stream? I fell in love with it when you first put it in.

Jan...

Hello everyone, I'm Jim Hawk. I'm 65, soon to be 66 but am very healthy and active. I'm a Master Gardener in Hillsborough County (Tampa) and live on an acre lot on a lake in Odessa. My gardening interests are orchids, palms and cycads, grasses (both lawns and ornamentals), roses, rare tropical fruit, and most plants that are rare and different. I retired as a Defense Department physical scientest some 13 years ago and moved to Florida to care for my elderly mother who passed last year. My job allowed me to travel and live in many parts of the world, sparking my interest in tropical fruits. I met my wife of 27 years while living in Peru. We have no children or pets. Other hobbies include exercising at a gym 5 days a week and singing bass in the church choir. Just a note: somewhere on this thread I saw we have a Boilermaker. I did my grad work at Purdue back in the 70's.

Jim

Let's see.

and


It's still the same old fish in there.

Jim I am your Boilermaker
However I am a retired member of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers. The kind of Boiler maker I am is the kind that builds and repairs the big boilers in our power houses and in Papermills.
My job has also has allowed me to travel up and down the East Coast and into the heartland of Ky, Ohio, Ms, and even into West Texas a few years back. I too am 65 next month.
I am so happy to be retired!
Sidney

Sorry about the mix up, Sidney. I just thought of Purdue when I saw boilermaker. You may be the first real one I've met. By the way, I think we may have met at DG Round Up near Tampa several years ago.

Jim

Yes, I went to one at Airel's house.
One long hot day!

Geeze, I introduced myself and the site went stone cold dead. I'm getting a complex here.

Jim