Check out this very informative Gardening board!
http://www.loveonaleaf.com/

Its the same old song and dance.

There's already too many redundant garden groups out there.

You can add yet another one to the list.


"queencln" wrote in message
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Check out this very informative Gardening board!
http://www.loveonaleaf.com/

"Cereus-validus......." wrote in message
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Its the same old song and dance.

There's already too many redundant garden groups out there.

You can add yet another one to the list.


I tend to agree. I visit and try to contribute HERE. I've been visiting here
for about 8 years., It never lets me down. Good information most of the
time, great conversations and food fights, some quarrels, some mud slinging,
some shit and a lot of fun in between. I still am amused by the people who
are too straight laced and pounce upon non-thinking or impulsively writing
folks who screw up upon occasion.

I also visit GardenWeb and carefully avoid Spike. I post upon occasion, I
ask questions, but there is a huge amount of information and connection to a
huge amount of people in more diversified forums at times. I'd never be able
to read or respond back to some, but it's still impressive. I mean, I can go
to the sanseveria forum and inquire about "Congo" sans and someone will know
what I'm talking about.............., and that NOW FINALLY, the rhizome I
got two years ago has produced a new leaf!! or that my "Twisted Sister"
rhizome isn't growing twisted, but maybe it will take time. Some grow like
weeds, others are slooooooow growers and take patience. At least their
almost cast iron to grow.

I just miss some of our regulars who have fallen by the wayside because AOL
dropped newsgroups. Hope fall is going well with you Cereus. I actually
have a Haemanthus that has THREE new flower spikes on it along with leaves.
AMAZING. It usually doesn't bloom for me until February or early March. This
is twice in a year. I just hope it's not the weird weather and that the
bulbs are just maturing and bloom more the older they get. I'm tempted to
bump the whole pot up larger with richer soil but I know that they prefer
crowded quarters and can remain in the same pot for as long as five years.

It's almost time for me to start contemplating the trek inside the house
with all the cacti and succulents and tropical's who are too tender to leave
in their pots outside for the winter. This is the season I long for a
sunroom, nothing large, just big enough for two chairs with thick, glass
bricks on the bottom of double pane huge windows all the way
around.............the more light the happier, and just enough insulation to
allow the room to never get below 40oF.....one can dream.....Everyone got
moved out late this year, and sad to say I've procrastinated in one area
that is totally unbecoming of myself. *

This year with the help of a garden friend who came over for supper, had
donned her leather corset and Betty Bam-a-lam and spike heels and proceeded
to help me organize the storage space along the wall that backs my kitchen
porch. We even used the muscle of oldest son to bring down the other old
album shelves to fit up against the first ones I'd incorporated to house the
various pots and supplies.

Karol saw I needed MORE organization, especially since she had cleaned out
her own storage shed and was bequeathing to me some awesome glazed pots she
was passing on to me. I'm a pot freak. I love them. So we helped each other.
She has her own landscape business and I don't mind her bossing me. It works
better that way sometimes. (I tend to get distracted easily, the fairy's
whisperings can be sooo distractive! g)

By the time we sorted the pots, swept the side porch and stacked the
containers, threw away less than savable assorted pots, and set up the
second shelves, I wondered how I had managed this long without them. *But
the one thing I forgot to do was go retrieve the empty pots underneath the
aquarium where the smaller pots of cacti and succulents winter that Squire
rigged a florescent light underneath the aquarium to provide light to the
little pricklies. I lost quite a few of them due to my dry house and being
distracted. So here I am, I have to gather, wash and empty the soils into
the recycle bucket before I can put the small pots of cacti and succulents
underneath the aquarium for late Fall and Wintering. sigh,,,,,,,,how I wish
I could hit the lottery and have a sunroom! LOL

off to meander garden stuff..................
madgardener up on the sunny and PERFECT fall day (just a bit TOOO dry) on
the ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking English Mountain where there
probably won't be fall colors this year due to the hot and dry spell we've
had these past two months, in Eastern Tennessee, zone 7, Sunset zone 36