Marilyn, I know that it does take me longer to get my gardenwork and planting work done than it did years ago so I have slowed down. But heck, so what? It still gets done and I really love my garden. I love to look at the plants, I love to sit outside and I love to putter in the garden. And I am out of room so the really hard work of creating new gardens each spring is done. I always had to do that, create new ones plus mantain the ones already here. Now it is just take care of those gardens already here. And since I mulched very heavily in the fall, there are not many weeds this spring.

I have already ordered 2,550 bulbs coming this fall. I have lists here of what I intend to order still from Scheepers and their wholesale division, Van Engelen as soon as they update their website and open for orders later this month. So my bulb orders should more than double after that. Honestly, I don't know how I am going to get them all planted but I have just decided that there is going to be a spring bulb paradise next spring so that is the way it is gonna be!

Is there an offical list of the acorn getters?

Coming tomorrow!

Wow! I just read 6 pages of "catch up" on this thread...

What a bunch of great pics! And a delightful reading of ya'lls posts. Great fun!

Best smiles I've seen for a while here! Ya'll done goooood!

Shoe (with a beautiful blue ATP shirt in the dirty clothes basket!)

That's a good place for it, Shoe - means you're wearing it!

Hi Shoe!!
You are late to the party again.

Well, folks, I'm a collage failure. My photo program wouldn't accept images that weren't from iPhoto and iPhoto wouldn't accept images that weren't loaded from my own camera. At least I learned something new.

But all is not lost, I just can't give you a collage like I promised.
I can, however, give you this, I just didn't know where else to put it. We sure are looking good!

Check this out: http://garden.org/blogs/view/S...

And if I left anybody out, let me know and I'll re-do.

nice Sharon!!!

Thanks Sharon!

Love it Sharon! It looks like all the available shirt colors were covered too, I counted 6 Blue, 5 Tan, and 4 Texas Orange!

Very cool, Sharon!
#6 and #11.. Why didn't you place the little goat and the old goat next to one another?

Bubbles said:Very cool, Sharon!
#6 and #11.. Why didn't you place the little goat and the old goat next to one another?

Perfectly done, Sharon! I love it!

The official "I wore my ATP shirt" list:

*fiwit
*vic
tarev
plantladylin
*gingin
*Sharon
*Dutchlady1
*valleylynn
*Onewish1
*Bubbles
*Shannon
flaflwrgrl
*Newyorkrita
*Sherri

Those with astricks get acorns for the public display
And a mention goes to woofie and her goats

Thank you. I have to say I was surprised we didn't get more participants.

Me too

There's always next time, though!

It was FUN!

I dunno, I thought it was a pretty good showing, actually!

Well of course it was a GOOD showing (some might say 'excellent') , just less numerous than I expected.