BjBloomers said:I guess us No. CA folks get to squeeze into this forum, thank-x for sharing! :). I'm way North in CA about 150 miles south of the Oregon border in the mtns. West of Redding. Mostly Z7 some 7B. Its very cold here in the winter and we have a pretty short growing season. I do have a greenhouse to help get an earlier start in spring and to over winter tender plants. I used to be immersed in Brugs. Found they don't like to bloom for me until they are back into the GH. So been attempting to phase them out. By the looks of the Brug Forum, I don't have anything that special any more. There are some real beauties out there. At one time I had 150 plants. A little excessive but they start so easily and no one up here really knows what they are so getting rid of them wasn't so easy. I will keep a few that will bloom out in my yard, but they are just too large for me to be lugging around anymore. I have been focusing more on Perennials for my yard the last couple of years We ( DH & I) moved to our 4 acres of bare land in 99 and lived in a 35' 5th wheel while we built our home. Took 2 years from start to finish. We did most of it ourselves. 1st place I have ever landscaped from scratch. Not as easy as I had imagined. I had re-done many structured yards, made them my own. This is an on going project. I have a lot of shade, part shade, some deep shade along a stream, not very much full sun. Deer are big pests here as well as gophers. I have a dog that keeps the deer at bay, she would like to wrangle the gophers as well but I discourage this as she digs holes large enough to bury a VW Bug in! I wage a gopher war every spring into summer. They usually win but I give 'er heck! I belong to our local garden Club and they have great plant sales 2 Xs a year. My car stops at all nurseries! And I swap plants and seeds with friends.
"""" One can never have too many plants!""""""
I dabble in a bit of garden art, willow trellis, gates chairs, some mosaics, stepping stones, bowling balls, & pots. I'll post some pics soon as they are on my other computer, not hooked up to the internet any longer.
You live in some beautiful country 'down there' 
.................. My thoughts EXACTLY 
, now if I could just convince my husband.......... I have tried for years to 'do away' with our grass lawn and replace with lower maintenance 'steppable' plants ......... THAT is an ongoing project fer me .............. sigh............................
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