Thank you for the welcome Lynn and Julia!
@ valleylynn Too late on the "addicting" part, I'm going all in! I have a LOT of ground to cover. We got an addition to the family last summer in the shape of a horse (actually it's a great dane). 10 mos old right now and her racing around doing acrobatics is mutilating the grass. Decided this month that I am not going to fight the grass battle all summer. Gonna do rock beds, paths in the back. There is no way on earth I would post a picture of my backyard right now! Use to be acceptable, now it is an embarrassment. I will post pix as we begin the process a bit at a time in the next few months if you are interested. Gotta get a camera first, my old cell phone probably won't suffice. A camera seems to be a prerequisite to be on ATP! All this "sharing" going on with the pix is so much nicer than solid text forums.
I have some raised beds in a different area of the yard that the g.dane doesn't have access to at this time. They are my organic garden beds. Going to be using parts of them to propagate some new plants for the backyard renovation here shortly. Can quickly convert them to cold frames.
I recently made what may be a mistake and ordered a bunch of sempervivums (just listed them on my list here) to use in the rock gardens that I currently have on courtyard area...hoping they aren't going to die because I have them inside. I will have to discuss that problem in the semps threads sometime this week. Also got a bunch of cuttings of tender succulents (echevaria, etc.) going indoors so will post about that in the proper area also. I truly love the tender succulents!
Looking forward to all that I am going to learn here!
