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Mar 23, 2011 10:11 AM CST

Name: Jim Hawk
Odessa, Florida (Zone 9b)

Beautiful, Janice. It is a wonderful time of year. I wish I could bottle some of this weather and send it to our friends up north.

Jim

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Ursula

Mar 23, 2011 10:56 AM CST

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Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a

Janice, beautiful!
The Crocus are blooming here, but it is sleeting and not too much fun outside.

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Mar 23, 2011 3:32 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

We are getting a snowstorm tonight and tomorrow. Just keep posting those pictures!!!

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ctcarol

Mar 23, 2011 5:31 PM CST

Name: Carol
Santa Ana, ca
Sunset zone 22, USDA zone 10 A.

Beautiful, Janice! I always envision mine looking like that, but it doesn't happen.

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Mar 24, 2011 6:33 AM CST

Name: Jim Hawk
Odessa, Florida (Zone 9b)

Maybe I can pick up the spirits of those suffering through yet another snow storm or at least nasty weather.

The caladiums are beginning to emerge.

Wild native lantana:

Golden Cestrum:

Oyster plant:

The first hibiscus of the season:

Butterfly garden staples scarlet milkweed and yellow lantana:

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Mar 24, 2011 6:38 AM CST

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Name: Kathy
Western MA

It hasn't snowed....yet. I'm hoping it was just a scare. It was 26 degrees when I was dog walking this AM though. Thanks for those colorful pics, Jim!!! I especially love the color of the first hibiscus and the scarlet milkweed!

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Ursula

Mar 24, 2011 6:40 AM CST

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Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a

Oh yes, you just did! Pretty, pretty!

It looked more like Christmas here this morning, as I cleaned off my car from the white stuff and discovered I had probably a dead battery....

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Mar 24, 2011 6:48 AM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Aargh! So I guess the snow landed south of us.

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sandnsea2

Mar 24, 2011 10:11 AM CST

Name: Janice
Cape Cod, MA, USA (Zone 7a)

Just gorgeous, Jim. Love the Lantana!

There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle
- Albert Einstein.

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Mar 24, 2011 1:21 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

My garden!

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Ursula

Mar 24, 2011 5:44 PM CST

Moderator

Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a

Sweet!

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wha

Mar 24, 2011 7:14 PM CST

N. Middlesex County, MA

nice kathy!

Bill

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Mar 24, 2011 8:05 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Thanks Bill!

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sugarcane

Mar 25, 2011 1:03 PM CST

Name: lindsey
wesley chapel, fl

I love that desk garden Kathy, that striped Phal is adorable!
Everything is starting to bloom at once here, the dogwoods and redbuds are so
pretty at the moment...wish I had one! I do have this pretty Japanese Maple and some daffodils and some tulips

and then I have this compost pile with last years items..tulips are treated like annuals here, because the winters aren't really cold enough (HA!) long enough ( DOUBLE HA!)
and the critters just love to eat them. So imagine my surprise ...

lindsey

| @sugarcane | Post #84307 (14)

Mar 25, 2011 1:36 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Kathy
Western MA

Guess they took advantage of the compost! Looks like the sauntered on over to where the good stuff was.

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wha

Mar 25, 2011 2:47 PM CST

N. Middlesex County, MA

lindsey which maple it that? looks like it could be a chishio improved or kasura?

Bill

| @wha | Post #84309 (16)

Mar 25, 2011 2:50 PM CST

Name: Jim Hawk
Odessa, Florida (Zone 9b)

At least you can grow tulips, Lindsey. We don't seem to have them at all.

Jim

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sandnsea2

Mar 25, 2011 4:54 PM CST

Name: Janice
Cape Cod, MA, USA (Zone 7a)

Very pretty, Lindsey!
Iris bucharica, et al

There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle
- Albert Einstein.

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