Hi everyone! I see lots of familiar names from DG and Cubits....I am Nanny56 on DG and Cubits...though I don't visit Cubits very much at all any more except the co-ops!

I am originally from Indianapolis Indiana but I now live in West Central Indiana. I love plants and always have more stuff then what I have room for. I love flowers and I love growing my own tomatoes in the summer. My DH loves those maters too!

I am addicted to growing daylilies, lilies. I love echinaceas, and have a growing fondness for phlox. Hostas have piece of my heart too!

Now I just need to convince the DH grass is NOT a priority.......

ah Claudia sounds as you are in the same position as me. I used to sneak garden areas out, He'd leave for work and I'd head out the door. marking of and digging up grass and piling it up somewhere he couldn't see right away. Run get some compost and till it in and maybe even have a few plants put in before he got home. He never knew what to expect when he would come home. Now 7 years later, he just gave u[p and lets me do what I'm gonna do cause if he don't.........well he has to go to work, does he not?

Oh shoot...I have done that a couple of places He hates to mow so I can't figure out why he wants to keep it!

Six weeks and six days till Spring. Just saying.

Six weeks does not sound all that long I did notice yesterday that I have some "dwarf iris" sticking their tips out...but they are under the dryer vent so they get extra heat beside this mild weather we are having.

CherieCoogan said:Six weeks and six days till Spring. Just saying.

In the 60's at my house today....BEAUTIFUL!!!!

Wow, I have lilies poking their noses out of the ground! I hope they're prepared for some more cold weather! Warm as it has been lately, it IS still just February 2!

Oh I am so sorry. I was off by one week. Its actually SEVEN weeks till Spring. I blame it on all the cloudy days. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. My lilies had better NOT started coming up. Couldn't see in the clouds anyway. I don't know what I'd rather have sunny and cold or kinda warmish and clouds.

BookerC1 said:Wow, I have lilies poking their noses out of the ground! I hope they're prepared for some more cold weather! Warm as it has been lately, it IS still just February 2!

Me too....Lots of stuff starting to grow!

Heck, I start my countdown-to-spring in November. First we turn the clocks back in fall and then suffer through progressively shorter days until about apx. Dec. 21. Yes, there are a couple of cold, snowy months ahead, but the days are getting longer and that surely means Spring is right around the corner?! How else could we have time to review all those seed catalogs and make plans?

I've loved the warm temps this winter but have had too little precip. I only have a few daffodil noses poking up and am glad we have a big snow storm coming to dump a blanket on their little heads.

Howdy, Y'all! I'm a Texas girl transplanted to the Upper Midwest. I've grown just about everything you could imagine in Houston's semi-tropical climate, including orchids outdoors. Here in the seasonal climate, I've had to learn about an entirely different biome. I've focused on perennials since my time and arthritis don't allow as much constant care as I've had in the past. My hyacinths are just starting to show green, so I'm assured that all the crazy weather we've had hasn't killed them.

Hello!

Hi everyone, I have lived my whole life in Wisconsin, Now living about 8 miles from the Illinois border in zone 5. I grow a wide variety of Vegies, have 5 apple trees, 2 plum, 4 apricot, 1 peach, 3 cherries, and have 2 more peach trees ordered and another apricot to be planted this spring. I have 5 turkeys, 2 ducks, and more chickens then I can count and 27 horses (mostly race horses) I also have about 100 varieties of day lilies, and my passion is the TB iris. I have about 300 cultivars of them. I'm supposed to be retired, but seem to be working more now then when I was working. lol Here's a couple of pics if I can make this work.
Granny Smith Apple Harvest

Contender Peaches

New Baby

Some Iris in bloom

My gosh sounds like you keep very busy for being retired!! I love daylilies too so maybe I will see around on the Daylily Forum!

Love all the beauties of your farm...

to you, I love the tall bearded iris also. I need to get around to dividing a bunch this year. Was supposed to last year but well um, well? Its like this my hubby said what would you rather do? Divide iris? or go to Nashville TN? Now you KNOW what I chose right?

Wow, that's a lot of horses! We have just one, and a few each of the other critters you mentioned.

Lovely pictures!

I don't have any of those kritters, I do have squirrels, chipmonks, birds and damn bunnies that eat everything if I'm not vigilant.