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- Queen Anne's Lace. I love it as a filler with cut flowers, too.
- Me too, Carol. But what is a weed? I have heard our granny-knigh
- A weed is any plant in the wrong place. Barbara Martin <
- Yes - and my Queen Anne's Lace always grows in the wrong place -
- Am I the only one with self-sowing perennials which act like wee
- Well, up until this year I had only one echinacea - 'White Swan'
- My malva is not zebrinus, it is the straight pink one about thre
- Well, as I said, I had only the white coneflower until this year
- That's interesting. My White Swan (or was it White Lustre) didn
- Barbara, Echinacea and malva (zebrinus, even!) are both pests
- That is interesting. I have tried for five years to get larkspu
- I don't know. I get columbine, too, but it's always the red/yel
- I thought the Music series was pretty, too. My favorite, though
- That blue and white is my favorite, too. Unfortunately something
- When the foxgloves reseed at my house it is usually in the pathw
- Ah - that's where my Nicotiana alata seeds. Do you move it, step on it/around it or pull it out? Barbar
- Does any one have Lady's Mantle as a "pest" reseeder perennial?
- If I didn't weed out the foxgloves, my garden would be over-run
- Do you have acid soil un your garden Kirk? What type is it? B
- Nepeta reseeds for me. Not to the nuisance point - but enough. F
- Barbara, Your article took me back to my childhood days when I
- Hi Keith! Sounds like a good possible guess to me. Also, man
- Today I found a huge beautiful bloom on my BlueBird hardy Hibisc
- It seems early for hydrangeas, doesn't it? And the Oriental lil
- Has anyone noticed that the daylilies and the Oriental lilies, e
- Yes! The daylilies are glorious this year!!!! My chives are re
- Clay, My Orientals are in bud but not yet in bloom - those th
- Carol, Did you say Chipmunks are invading your Oriental lilie
- Although daylilies are often listed as drought tolerant, in my e
- In the case of the Oriental lilies next to the gazebo, Barbara,
- By the way, Clay - that disapearing act is typical of voles. Min
- Carol, maybe you need to stop feeding your cats. ;) Barbara
- Carol, and Barbara, It turns out that you both were correct.
- Oh Clay, how unfortunate! Perhaps planting the bulbs in wire ca
- Clay, I've alwalys had vole problems with my lilies, too. So
- Marge, Agreed. The moles made the initial tunnels under my m
- Well, in that case, how about trying snakes? Barbara Martin
- Chipmunks, voles, moles, mice
- RE: Chipmunks, voles, moles, mice

- Got Shade? Plant Hosta!
- Got shade?
- Re: Got shade?
- Re: Re: Got shade?
- Re: Re: Re: Got shade?
- Re: Re: Got shade?
- Re: Re: Re: Got shade?

- Nocturnal Plants
- Nocturnal Plants
- some thoughts
- Night bloomers?
- Moonlight Madness
- Re: Night bloomers?
- Re: Re: Night bloomers?

- Cottage Garden in the City
- I just had to subscribe to you
- Re: I just had to subscribe to you

- Weeds, Be Gone!
- Pretty Weeds

- Spring Flowering Trees
- Flowering trees
- Re: Flowering trees
- Re: Re: Flowering trees
- Re: Re: Re: Flowering trees
- Re: Re: Re: Re: Flowering trees

- Gardeners Know the Best (and Worst) Dirt!
- What's the best (and worst) dirt you've known? Barbara Mart
- I guess it depends on what I am trying to grow. I am very new t
- William, you are talking mostly about container plants, correct?
- Barbara, I sometimes wonder if good soil is for the plant or the
- Marcella it sounds to me as though you have become an expert at
- Barbara, being in my fifties I love playing in my wonderful well
- Your garden sounds wonderful! Which region are you in? A f
- Barbara, My garden is located in Eugene, Oregon the southern end
- How do you locate good garden soil for raised bed, you ask. I w
- William, you are welcome to get rid of that dirt here. I repleni
- Marcella, I used to replenish my beds yearly with soil (it's am
- I am leaning toward Carol's solution, I will put more into the g
- William "finished" compost is not hot any more -- does that help
- Marcella you are so right! There is only ONE chance to get the
- Here is another interesting point about buying soil. In my area
- I guess I should have said compost instead of soil. When you ord
- When you order soil here, no matter how reputable and accommodat
- OOOH! That's a new one on me, and I live in dairy country. Wh
- Probably cleaner than unwashed manure (LOL) We get a pretty goo
- Washed dairy manure, what is it? Danged if I know. I can't imagi
- sterilze dirt
- Re: sterilize dirt

- Worms/Vermiculture was Compost Happens!
- Hey, Mz Martin!
- Worms and Vermicompost
- Lady Barbara's Woim Box
- worms, banana peels, and compost
- Thank you for the recipe --
- Compost tea
- Recipes for Compost Tea
- Toronto Tea!
- Tea Barrel
- worms
- Just one more reason
- great information
- Re: great information

- Speed Cleaning the Garden
- I loved the article
- Re: I loved the article
- Re: Re: I loved the article

- The Well Rounded Herb Garden
- Photo Illustration

- Please suggest flowering plants for shady places...
- Please suggest flowering plants for shady places...
- Re: Please suggest flowering plants for shady places...
- Flowers for shade in New Zealand

- Flower Shows
- Flower Show Impressions

- Spring: Feed the Need
- You can see the ground?

- May the Force Be With You
- May the Force be with You
- The graphic.

- Snowdrops NOW!
- Snowdrops blooming
- Re: Snowdrops blooming
- bellis bruiser!
- Re: bellis bruiser!

- [No title]
- help
- Re: help

- Cottage Garden Design, Part III
- Mulch
- Re: Mulch
- Re: Re: Mulch
- Re: Re: Re: Mulch
- Re: Re: Re: Re: Mulch

- A Flock of Baby ... Hummers???
- Doubletake!
- Hummingbirds
- Hummingbird Animation
- Buddleia
- Knocked my socks off!
- Great PIX!
- Barbara, what a...
- Re: Barbara, what a...

- MY NEWEST SNAKE STORY
- Snakes
- LOL
- Snakes
- Remind me
- You have no clue how right you are!
- Snakes alive
- What tricks
- thank you
- Ewwwww!
- Thank you
- Looking at those last two signatures.
- Laughter is A Good Thing
- Snakes alive
- Barbara, this article...
- Humor?

- The Ice Garden Cometh
- The Ice Garden Cometh
- Re: The Ice Garden Cometh
- Winter
- Re: Winter
- Re: Re: Winter
- Ice Storms
- Beautiful Pictures
- Re: Re: Re: Winter
- Banana Belt
- Digital Pictures
- Hardy Bananas
- Re: Hardy Bananas
- Barbara, your pictures...
- Still snow, but no ice!

- Cottage Garden Design
- Garden creation
- Re: Garden creation

- need help with planning my garden
- I need help planning my cottage borders
- Re: I need help planning my cottage borders
- Re: Re: I need help planning my cottage borders
- Re: Re: Re: I need help planning my cottage borders

- Your Garden Journal is Forever
- GARDEN JOURNAL
- Re: GARDEN JOURNAL

- AVERAGE FROST DATES
- Average Frost Dates Handy Map

- New Year Resolutions
- HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- Any good gardener's resolutions out there?
- Re: Any good gardener's resolutions out there?
- Re: Re: Any good gardener's resolutions out there?
- Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- Re: Re: Re: Any good gardener's resolutions out there?
- Re: Re: Re: Re: Any good gardener's resolutions out there?
- Re: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Any good gardener's resolutions out there?

- Garden Railroading: A Great Hobby
- Any garden railway hobbyists among us?

- Cottage Garden Fudge
- What? No chocolate lovers?!

- ENJOYING SNOW
- Do You Enjoy Snow?
- Re: Do You Enjoy Snow?
- Re: Re: Do You Enjoy Snow?

- Edible Christmas Trees
- My sisters' edible tree
- Re: My sisters' edible tree
- NoBake Cookie Tree
- Re: NoBake Cookie Tree

- Greetings!
- Greetings!
- Re: Greetings!
- Re: Re: Greetings!
- Got links?
- re: Political Humor on the internet

- CELEBRATE POINSETTIA DAY
- The "new" poinsettias

- EIGHT HUNDRED BULBS
- doing the math
- 800 bulbs on the wall
- Re: 800 bulbs on the wall
- Poet
- Re: Poet
- Re: doing the math
- Re bulb emergency was doing the math
- bulbs

- Internet Photos of My Garden
- Internet Photos of My Garden

- PIG FLIES!
- The truth rules.
- Re: The truth rules.

- Small Garden Dreams
- Favorite Small Feature
- Re: Favorite Small Feature
- Small Herb Gardens
- testing what's new

- Cottage Garden Featured in a Flash
- Barbara
- CG in Our Story FLASH???
- Marie B. Grambell Please Stand UP!
- Marie, Are You Out There?
- Irony
- Re: Irony
- No results for Grambel
- Found Gambrell

- Welcome, Frost
- Two edged sword
- Frost removal
- Did you save some?
- Gave up on that
- growth pattern
- Re: growth pattern
- Re: Re: growth pattern

- Ten Fall Garden Chores
- Did I catch them all?
- Helpful "to do" list
- ritual
- Plant Thousands of Bulbs
- 1001, 1002, 1003

- From Ponies to Pumpkins
- Barbara, this is...
- More memories!
- Barbara, we had...
- Barbara
- Hello!
- Garden memories
- Good ones!

- Snowbank in September
- OOPS IT DID IT AGAIN!
- boltonia report

- Luring the Garden Fairy
- I believe in fairies
- Do you believe?
- Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
- Hi from shade garden
- Shiny things are very important!
- In the fairy garden!
- Barbara, another ...
- NEVER pitch a half barrel!!!!!

- Piggy's Wonderful Day
- Piggy dear,
- Next stop on your tour?
- Thank you Piggy
- Piggy says thank you!
- How do you do
- Wish is still looking lovely!
- Hello Wish!
- If she
- Well....
- Tee! Hee!
- ummm

- 1st Annual Cyber Daffodil Show
- Winner's Are In!
- Great idea!

- Takin' A Break
- Flying Pigs
- Break time's almost over

- Daylily
- Daylily
- Daylily Fan Club

- Need Daylily Help
- Daylily disappointment
- Growing Conditions FIRST
- Daylily garden
- soil improvement
- Daylily border
- New daylilies
- Hit Those Sales!

- Mosaic Tiles
- Got To Try This!
- Stick With Me!

- Making Step Stones
- Making Step Stones
- Stained Glass Paths
- Colorant and Molds
- Stepstone Path/Patio Installation Tips
- Quikrete has Free Brochures!
- Better Homes and Gardens
- Dry Shake Colorant and Stamping Designs
- Building Gardening Stuff
- pavers
- Thanks for all the great tips!
- Concrete step stones
- Easy Stained Glass/Mosaic/Collage Stones
- Out of curiosity
- Try it and see!
- Complete how to make mosaic step stones instructions

- Takin' A Break
- Takin' A Break
- Barbara

- Daylilies to Bring Home
- It's working!
- Stella

- Blue and Pink Daylilies for Your Cottage Garden
- Blue and Pink daylillies
- I'm with Barbara
- Let's be fair
- Not one little inch.
- Don't do it!!
- Pig Headed

- Daylilies For Your Cottage Garden
- Cool links!
- Cool links
- Like This one
- Salt tolerance
- Another list
- More trees
- It does too exist! Sorry!
- one more try
- more from Minnesota
- Salt?

- Finding Just the Right Daylily for your Cottage Garden
- I'm shocked.
- Good grief.
- Stella's
- Barbara
- OH
- OK Toad
- Treeman!
- I'm partial to the pinks, too
- Ok Barbara
- Snooty about being a toad?
- I LOVE Chorus Line
- No brown garden, yet.
- update
- I'll go look -
- Found one!

- EEK -- aPOLOGIES
- Apologies

- Has Industrialisation affected the family structure?
- family structure
- Off the cuff and before coffee
- oops need more coffee
- Industrialization
- Daffy did you cheat and have your coffee first?
- farms
- History Repeats

- Love That Lavender (was Lovin' La Lavande)
- Too much lavender
- Believe it or not
- Container medium?
- Herb of the Year?
- Lavender
- Sure.

- Fountains You Can Make
- Have you ever ...
- Barbara
- Blushing
- Your
- the animation

- Quick & Easy Mini Pond
- Neat
- Neat Ponds
- Ponds and FOUNTAINS
- Poison Ivy and KOI
- electric fence
- This sounds like fun!
- It IS fun -- easy, too!

- Cottage Garden Style Today
- crones fairies voodoo

- Lily Pons Festival
- Be there! LilyPons
- LilyPons
- not to worry

- RECALL:Pull'N Spray Roundup & Home Defense
- Pull 'N Spray Recall

- Home Photos and etc.
- Home Photos and etc.
- Daffodils in Swampy Woods
- eek
- A walk in the park
- Check it out!
- Guess!
- And NOOOO
- Loved the photo
- EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW!! leeches
- Not Cherry Pie
- Poison ivy
- Hey I've got a fishy tooo

- Heliotrope! You Gotta Get Some!
- What does it smell like to you?
- I found one !
- Atlanta!
- Become Invisible!!!!
- Invisibility
- Atlanta
- Patent + Netherlands made the clue!!!!
- Makes sense
- Ah! that smell
- Ah! that smell
- Heliotropes
- escapees
- Winter H. or Petasites?

- Cats!!!
- Cats
- You are not alone!
- Cats
- Thank you Phal.
- Oh vey, reads both ways!
- Motion detector sprinkler
- Trimming Cat Claws
- Thank you!! People clipper!!!

- TENT CATERPILLARS DENUDING TREES!
- The Seven Year Cycle
- Tents
- EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
- Yes!
- Yup, our crabapple got hit too....
- SCARY
- Ah Sawflies
- They say
- I just sent....
- We still use that torch system
- birds
- That Naturally ...
- fungus
- Oh, No....
- ok

- Rosemary: Herb of the Year 2000
- Two questions!

- Container Tips, Tricks and Techniques
- Any favorite tips to share?
- Another tip
- Platic
- Drainage
- More plastic!

- Theme Gardens: The White Garden
- Wonderful article Barbara!
- Just half an hour later everything worked.
- Hi Herb!

- Garden Sayings, Quotes & Poetry
- Did you find it?
- Too many good ones for a favorite.
- Good ones! Keep 'em coming!
- Sorry Barbara
- Sure, why not!
- Thanks! More!

- Just Look at Those Vegetables!
- Favorite veggie?
- Favorite vegetable for LOOKS!
- Great photo!

- Control Those Bleeping Weeds
- Flaming weeds
- Herbicides
- Ah, the weeds......
- Weeds
- Darn, I near forgot!
- fabric
- vinegar
- Hand pullling
- I want one of those flame throwers
- Herb, if you use wood chips, why do you also use the fabric?
- Herb's torch
- The plain old torch!
- weeding weeding weeding
- Jojo-- it's cold-blooded is all
- Broom in PNW
- Coments about an "Environmentally Responsible" garden site.
- Your article links
- I don't mind dandelions too much but
- Lawns and xeriscaping
- ahem
- broom puller
- I have an ancient tool that is a most effective weeder.I
- Triangular
- No picture
- More favorite tools

- Add A Water Feature! It's Easy and Fun! The First of Three
- Barbara, I swear, you've found some of the most entertaining
- Carol, per Sierra Madre, "Bird bath heaters? You don't need no s
- Bird calls
- mixed results
- I found some!

- Terror At Ten!
- Scary Monsters
- You never can tell!
- Maybe the possum was hungry, Barbara!
- Possums
- Cute and hungry
- Possums on the roof!
- Dumb and dumbest--
- Try the Cookbook?
- possums
- the possum picture!
- Well HEY!
- Possums
- Interested in Critters
- If you think they look scary, wait until you hear one!
- Raccoons I've got in quantity...cute as the dickens
- FIFTY #?????
- Fifty punds, oh, Herb!
- Terror at 11
- THOSE THINGS

- The Bartram Franklinia Census
- Do you know of a Franklinia anywhere?
- Altamaha or alatamaha?
- franklinia census
- Thank you
- Contacting Bartram
- Census Update

- Herbal Beginnings
- Plastic imitations
- Oh my!
- Herb Gardening
- Everyone should grow a few herbs!

- Cottage Garden Marks Third Anniversary
- Cottage Garden Marks Third Anniversary
- Congrats
- Great question!

- Companions
- Companion Planting
- Does the garlic work better than the soap? For some reason bunni
- Bunnies at bay, deer in the hay.
- Rabbits
- OH NO NOT POSSUMS!
- Garlic
- How To Repel BUGS
- oops "If I had a brain I'd be dangerous"
- Australian possums
- Garlic

- Companion Planting & You
- my secret of organic gardening
- The test of time

- Tackling the Tiger!
- If anyone wants some
- On the other hand
- No joke!
- My Tiger Lily
- Virus
- bulb tiger lily
- She's right, Clay
- Happy Camper Here
- Those are "tiger lilies" all right
- Voles!! No doubt
- Tigers
- Well! Hey everybody!
- Login/Logoff Problems
- Complaint Sent
- Thanks Barbara
- Blank Brick!
- I just wanted to say...
- Tiger art
- Toier Lily Virus Update
- edible lilies?
- yum

- garden beds
- i wonder if anybody has some advice for me.
- Lots you can do!
- garden unity
- Any southern gardeners out there?
- pix
- need space?
- back to the drawing board
- oh yeah...
- You sent pix!
- winter work
- spider lillies

- Flower Essence: Making Sense out of Non-Scents
- Barbara, *Now* you are giving me a whole new level of design
- But Barb! THEY DON'T SMELL!!!!!!!!!!!! This amazes me, but t
- Barbara, They must be missing their noses. ~mug shot~ Seri
- Water is the carrier, I believe. I used "snake oil" in the fig
- WHOA! I just realized something... maybe I didn't make it clear
- Barbara, I believe that there can be some non-volatile part
- Exactly! Barbara Martin OK now... they capture the essence of something by scooping up t
- Sure would save on postage! Barbara Martin ...And save recycling time or space in landfills. But Ec, I'm
- OK, I confess. A friend once sent me a small vial of flower ess
- Yes but have the plants taken over the conservatory yet? Are yo
- EC is overcharging. I'll do it for $18, plus shipping and handl
- Spiritual over physical? Or just chemical imbalances? DOn't yo
- Barb, What I said was I don't believe in this. It wasn
- Travis, I don't think I believe in this either. I am concerned
- I've been looking at some aromatherapy books. Essential oils ar
- I must admit, Barb, that yesterday I bought a lottery ticket (I
- You can't win if you don't play! Barbara Martin
- Trav -- you mentioned homeopathic medicine. That is perhaps a s
- Barb! Thank you for the clarification! If I understand it righ
- Nutritional imbalances?
- Either nutritonal imbalances or perhaps a need for spiritual gui
- I think the people who really go for the essences that have no e
- ec -- that may well explain many of the dessert recipes for "la
- Barbara, May I call you Barb? ;-) I just did it before, and
- Naturopathy? Homeopathy? Hmmm. Well, I resorted to the old fa
- Maybe Neal (Microbiology) or one of his readers can help us out.
- I asked Katie at Women in Science, too! Now I wonder what ot
- Also Michael at Medicine .... Barbara Martin Just to clarify the name bit....I use Barb because that name all
- The definitions Barbara Martin gave for homeopathy and naturopat
- Did a little research. Found Thanks for the clarification Neal. {Gulp} I had it backwards so
- SPA! Yes but which one? Here to help you select the *best* spa
- Barbara, you're a surfin' machine! I hear there's a 12-step p
- I cheated on that one -- saw it in the new Oct. Yahoo Internet L
- Calling on my memories of physics classes, I browsed the discuss
- Hi Dan! The frequency is I only surf when I'm procrastinating a
- Did I say something wrong? Barbara Barbara Martin <
- Hey all! Interesting discussion you have here. I was planning
- Thanks Mike! Be sure to let us know when you write that article
- LOOKING FOR A GOOD AROMATHERAPY BOOK

- A Garden Plan That Works
- Happy New Year
- A "job" to know????
- Design is always

- A Valentine Garden Design
- Red, white and pink color scheme
- By accident
- I think the idea is lovely
- My valentine garden
- Red, White, & Pink
- Mica -- what a fun idea
- The dangers of mixed pinks
- A spike of blue (or yellow)
- bleeding hearts
- Would they get enough sun there?
- we have very mild summers
- Mild summers or endless spring????
- Bleeding hearts
- Dicentra
- Good question
- Vancouver sun
- Hey Mica!
- Ha ha ha... I've never heard that
- Next time we hit a week or so of temps over 95 ....
- Uh huh...
- love the picture
- It was a joy

- TAKE THE POLL!!!!
- DO YOU...OR DON'T YOU?????
- Martha Barbara
- Dilemma
- OOOOPS TAKE THIS POLL!
- For real?
- Never crossed my mind
- OK, but...
- Cemeteries
- ;-)
- Plastic flowers/foliage wins garden contest

- How Beautiful
- Your message
- GMTA!
- Badly written
- HELLO WISH!
- Wish
- OOOOOOOOHHH! (from Squish)
- Of Course!!!!
- Hear hear!

- delightful article
- Weather
- Last article of the CENTURY
- Have fun
- Your welcome page . . .

- Flirting the F Word
- The F Word
- We got frosted, too
- Skin of my teeth
- We had two nights of it in a row
- Don't hate me cos i live in the deep south...
- That heirloom cloth you were kidding about
- Caster Beans?
- Pretty Catchy Title
- Castor beans
- Caster Beans
- Heat lovers looking bedraggled
- Frosties
- Osteospermum
- It's worth a try!
- My Osteos
- Let us know how it goes!

- Winterize Your Garden
- SNEAK PEEK

- Moving my garden
- Moving
- Should be interesting!

- RED ALERT!
- Hi Barbara
- KEWL!

- Daffodil 'Polly Anderson'
- Polly as in 'Polly's Pearl'
- Polly again
- Polly also
- Ask a simple question ....

- Mulch: More than Meets the Eye
- Is mulch your mantra?

- Be Bold With Your Bulbs
- Wow, Barbara!
- Glad to hear the article is helpful!
- A rumor I've heard
- Six inches

- Rose-of-Sharon: When The Rose is Not A Rose!
- Giant rose bushes? Rose of Sharon is in full bloom here in south
- Sounds wonderful Barbara! I'm also seriously thinking about a mo
- Nicotiana (alata or sylvestris) are marginally good here in PA z
- Arum or Calla Lily and Night-scented Jessamine. I'll add the Ni
- Amazing but the flower looks so similar!!! Barbara Martin <
- Barbara, I am a lover of roses, and I have just a few in my g
- Some years ago a non-gardening friend drove up my driveway and
- Barbara, I'm feeling a little left out. The Rose of Sharon are i
- Marcella, there should be one with the right color for the right
- Marcella, there should be one with the right color for the right
- Juanita Klepper Can anyone suggest a cure for my problem: I
- Hi Juanita! While I'm not sure what is wrong with your shrubs,
- Juanita Klepper Dear Barbara: Thanks so much for the tips
- Rose of Sharon not flowering
- Roses
- Non flowering
- Signature
- Hornworms and silkworms
- Rose is not a rose
- Rose by --
- rose of sharon
- Althea for Puerto Rico

- Seed Saving
- posted for Sara: Dear Ms. Martin, I'm sorry to bother you
- Hi Sara! I think the current thought on this one is to put the
- harvesting morning glory seeds
- Morning glory seeds

- "Rain, Rain, Go Away ..."
- NOAA Drought Information
- Rain Report from the Home Front
- Loss Estimates Begin

- On Strange Ground
- Inspirations
- Accidental inspiration
- What fun!
- Risky
- Getting a bit adventurous!
- Hot borders
- Heating up risk

- Easy Keepers for Summer Gardens
- New Ideas
- Ideas!
- A few more easy keepers
- Are they blooming now?
- All but one flowering
- Heat differences
- Hosta fans!
- THIS is the kind of weather
- Cosmos
- I hope so!

- Need Help With Dying Boston Ivy
- Boston Ivy
- help on the way!

- Need Help With Best Vines for Brick Walls
- Posted by Barbara for a reader who is searching for information
- That sort of depends on whether the walls in question are shady
- having lived with ivy on brick for twenty years, i can speak fro
- Hey Robert - I'm going to be in Boston this week - maybe I'll dr
- A little more information: this is in Halifax and possibly for
- Well, I'm a big ivy fan, too and there are so many variet
- marge, does boston ivy have berries? i think that is what i hav
- Virginia Creeper? Back to the original question.... if you are wondering which pl
- In my experience Virginia Creeper and in fact all of the parthe
- Robert, Yes, it has berries and from your leaf description, s
- I have a yard full of Virginia Creeper and I'm constantly havein
- interesting......i entered "virginia creeper"in the gardening.co
- Parthenocissus tricuspidata is Japanese Creeper or Boston Ivy.
- I went there and searched simply for "vine" and on the last two
- Well, rats, this is the second try here. Got a server error and
- Boston Ivy Problem
- good question!

- International Hummingbird Month
- International Hummingbird Month

- Drive-By Echinacea
- purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
- Fuzzy dice?

- Caw-ing All Gardeners!
- Scarecrow contests
- scarecrows are unique
- Scare crow Contest
- Any more contests?
- Dusty agrees.
- Scarecrows and Crows
- Now Dusty,
- Oh phooey Clay!
- Crows
- Crows
- Crows and Crows
- Crows and the world's largest scarecrow.

- Vacationland Greetings!
- Vacationland Greetings
- Welcome home!~

- Garden Party Planner: Start Here
- Best and worst of the garden party scene?
- I did it once
- Oh my!
- Garden Party
- Garden parties
- Garden weddings
- Weddings
- Garden weddings!
- Garden Weddings
- Nothing like a bit of tension

- Soft On Iris
- Iris
- Some just are hardier!
- Looking forward
- You can order them, too
- If it were up to me, I'd toss all of mine
- Comet

- Scratching the Itch
- Do you start new gardens
- It depends on what you call "handle."
- my favorite digging tool
- Short or long handled?
- I forgot
- No weeding tools for me
- Pictures
- I do pull most weeds by hand
- It's a little red shovel
- Digging
- Love that spade!
- Make them into a mobile or something

- Shady Riches
- Does money grow on trees?

- Those Golden Moments
- Love it or hate it???
- Golden/Senior Moments
- Senior Moments
- Seniority has NOTHING to do with it
- lololol
- I got the ajuga

- Garden of Weedin'
- Funny stuff, that definition of
- So do my nine zillion maple seedlings!
- Weedin' in the Garden
- Vinegar works pretty well,
- I thought of boiling water
- Try the torch
- Vinegar???
- I used it straight....
- Applying round-up
- What kind of bristles?
- A squeeze bottle

- 1998 Herb of the Year: Mint
- Do you grow mint? Is it in a container or in the ground? Do yo
- I grow chocolate mint in the stone wall around my raised bed whe
- I have all my different kinds of mint in containers. Most of th
- Here is a very useful recipe. Chocolate Minted Melon Balls:
- Carol -- aren't those spots sort of dry for mint? And yes, I su
- Barbara, yes those sites are dry for mint. I suspect that's what
- William -- do you collect mints? I am wondering if some of
- Abby -- that sounds delicious but what size balls are we suppose
- Barbara, It may be that Corsican mint simply isn't hardy for us
- No, I have killed it faster than that. Within a month of purcha
- Too much drainage? Mine is planted in clay. Carol That's one possibility. Is it in sun or shade? Barbara Martin
- Well, Bar, I do have a melon-baller. Maybe New England is
- My Corsican mint is in almost full sun, on a sloped area around
- I kept trying to grow it in morning sun thinking my soil wasn't
- Abby, maybe one could manage the effect using a small spoon? My
- I grew chocolate mint a couple of years--it never seems to make
- Diana which zone are you in, a cold one if I remember right? Wa
- Diana, I'm in zone 5 (central MA) and I've had chocolate mi
- Abby -- I would "prefer" not to cross-contaminate garden tools w
- Secret to Corsican Mint is to plant it in a container or in th
- But William -- aren't you in Texas? Zone 9 or something? I am
- Yes Barbara, I am in Houston TX. I do have the Corsican Mint on
- Plants never read the book! I guess we'll be seeing some more/n
- Golly!

- Is Lavender Overrated????
- Lavender: Is It Overrated???
- Quip Me If I'm Wrong
- Ya know
- I would venture to say that English lavender is underrated here,
- Ah - there is that!
- I planted English lavendar in completely unimproved soil - sand
- Over-rated?????
- All that chopping

- Garden Furniture You Can Make
- Garden Furniture You Can Make
- Potting Bench
- Potting Bench Number 2
- Flying pigs not furniture

- Tree Assassin!
- Are you planting trees this year?
- OUTED
- In just one year????
- Bare rooted - best buy
- Weepers
- Weepers
- tree gif
- Gary
- Gary
- Sorry.
- thanks for looking
- pruning cherry
- Definately an assassin
- Flame thrower? Chain saw? Glyphosate?
- Pruning
- tree planning
- Gay do you have a favorite tree?

- !!!GARDENING FREEBIES!!!
- Free Seedling Tree
- oops Tree Assassin Article

- Vegetationally Yours
- Do you have a favorite whimsey project?
- there are no rules
- Did you mean this?
- Groombridge Place Gardens
- Eccentric!
- Siitin' Pretty
- The Past Steps Out?

- When Pigs Fly
- Pegasus
- Pigasus
- Spring Maintenance
- A little spring care
- Yes
- Spring?
- PLAY TIME!!!!!
- Shorts???
- Shorts
- Two sweater day
- Too early? No Way!
- Too early
- Gotta Go Bare!
- Well,
- How about sprouters?

- COMPOST/was Mulch problem...
- ....bet you've talked about mulch!
- Hi Art! Compost happens!
- Compost
- The cans and the globs
- Hmmm...I keep my "can" covered.
- Well, it would help.
- Carbon to Nitrogen Ratio
- More on Compost

- Cardoons
- Cardoon?
- Cardoons
- Thanks Marcella!
- Cardoons
- Good thing I asked!
- That big
- Orrr......
- RED Cardoons
- cardoons
- Hi Julie!
- IPM redo

- Garden Structures You Can Build
- Plans and Ideas

- Cottage Gardens
- Cottage Gardens
- Carnations?
- Great links -- thanks!
- Carnations with scent!
- Pinks
- Mats
- One problem with pinks
- Heirloom Pinks/Carnations Pix!
- Thanks!
- That would help!
- Dianthus
- Dianthus for cold climates
- Step Stones
- Garden Furniture You Can Make

- Catalogs
- Mail Order
- Fall catalogs!
- Fall catalogues are much more civilized
- Deprivation and specialties!
- ???????
- All we have right now
- Bulbs
- "If ya snooze you lose!
- Still baffled
- LOL Mica!
- ordering
- Nothing like ....

- Simplicity in Herb Garden Design
- Herb Garden Design

- Thank you!
- Valentine Event

- Cloves, Picotees & Sops-In-Wine
- Favorite Dianthus
- Flashing Lights
- The Colour Pink

- Favorite Pig & Frog Jokes, by Squish
- Squish asked me to post this. QUESTION: What do you get when
- Frog Joke Answer............................... A Hamphibian.
- GROOOAAANNN Now that is really a wonderful riddle
- Thank you! I knew somebody besides me would enjoy it. LOL!
- Here's another one, courtesy of Squish: Where did the farmer
- Squish's next joke answer................ On a pignic. Bar
- Knock, knock. Who's there? Thumping. Thumping who?
- Squish asks: What did the farmer use to count his cows?
- Squish answers..............................................
- Heres one my daughter told me today A chicken went into the l
- Hi Betty! Squish loved it! Thank you! Barbara Martin <
- Stretching on to fish here: Squish asks .... How do you comm
- Squish answers..................................................
- What does a frog say when it sees somethin' great? Barb in S
- Showstopper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL! Squish
- Does that mean we can't tell any more jokes?
I hope not, 'cau
- What witch?....................................... Barbar
- Or is that which witch? LOL Barbara Martin Whichever witch you've insulted, of course. <vbg> Whoev
- Well, how do you apologize to a witch? Barbara Martin <
-
- It's Hinky Pinky Time! (Thank you Barb in Southern Indiana!)
- Or is this a Stink Pink? Anyway, Squish says it's..............
- Seasonal riddle. This is new to me -- and Squish likes it just
- Still don't have it? ............ A watermelon. Enjoy the
- Why did the frog say meow? Indiana Barb
- Hee hee!
- Squish says "Bravo!" yet again. Perhaps the accolade is indeed
- On a Taxidermist's window: "We really know our stuff." (courtes
- What is a frog's favorite time? Barb in Southern Indiana &nb
-
- Quality frog joke for sure! Thank you! It's been a while since we had a joke, so here's one: What d
- "Time's fun when you're having flies." Barbara Martin <
- What did the frog order at the local take-out burger joint? B
- WHAT? TELL!! **ecwrite, mostly-absent-since-becoming-employe
- Are you sure you really want to know? French flies and a di
- What is the thirstiest frog in the world? Indiana Barb
- Ya just gotta love that frog! Barbara Martin and Squish et al
- What did the frog say to the fly?ooooh -- great animation!!!! Barbara Martin You just keep putting those frogs in there. You're never going
- This isn't exactly frogs, but it is close to pigs -- guinea pigs
- Clay -- don't you have any favorites to share? ;) Barbara Ma
- Barbara, No sayings to share. When I was last in Vietnam, du
- Red, white and blue frog (plus a little green)-- fab photo right
- What does a Romulan frog use for camoflage? AHEM.
- AHEM - Also
- Ahem too. LOL
- Poor frog!
- Poor poor frog!
- Frogs
- Not the hospital, I hope!
- Okay, one more.
- errr frogs' legs?
- What happens when frogs park illegally?
- Here is a sight.
- Pig Joke
- Name something that has more lives than a cat.
- Squish's Favorite Joke (For Now)
- Squish
- quishSay
- Do you recognize it????
- Recognize it?
- *Best Kept Secret*
- Toads make national news!!!!
- Yup!
- HAMSTERDANCE

- A Foxglove for Every Garden
- How Do You Stake Foxgloves?
- Stakes
- Only 18 inches???
- I don't stake
- Sheltered
- Staking is an art
- An alternative
- No!
- I use broken ones in bouquets, too.
- staking
- Cut flowers
- Foxgloves - prohibited weed?
- weedy foxgloves
- By the way -- daffodil contest

- email problems
- email problems

- TICK TALK: Ticks, Lyme Disease, and Tick Control
- Missouri Ticks
- Outdoor Tick Activity
- My sense is that
- Ticks
- Yeah, well, Lady B NAILED it...
- Yup!

- Earliest Spring Blooms
- What is your earliest spring favorite?
- Iris reticulata
- Helleborus niger
- December and January blooms sound fabulous --
- That's why I treasure the winter blooming heaths
- Spring in Vancouver
- Glorious!
- Showers
- First of Spring

- Having fun with your Iris's
- LOL
- Iris
- Thank you!
- AHAHAHAHA

- Winter's Triboluminescence
- Zamboni time in the garden
- Ice
- The rain is running under the ice
- Snow????
- We still have selected snow

- Daffodil tour
- Daffodil tour
- Thanks!
- Now!
- And a grand tour it is!

- Luminescences
- Ice Pix
-
- beautiful
- The Arboretum
- Cure for Cabin Fever?
- More Winter Garden Pix
- wow
- You bet -- just fine by me!

- Is Your Refrigerator Running?
- Do you have Prince Albert in a can?
- Check Feng Shui Gardening: A New Year, A New Spirit
- Happy New Year to All!
- Been redecorating, huh??
- Don't miss the poll! Did you vote?
- Let's see if this works! The Poll!!!
- Out with the old and in with the new!
- Always amazed
- Did you say so
- Kick back relax and enjoy the garden!

- Barbara
- Me to you

- NEW Cyndi Johnson's Catalog of Garden Catalogs 17th ed.
- New Edition Available NOW by Autoresponder

- HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
- Merry Christmas & Enjoy the Holiday!

- Winter Damage: Is Your Garden At Risk?
- How do you protect your most tender plants?
- House?
- OK, so I lied.
- Yeah, well, I lied, too
- If it works - yeah.
- I would expect plastic to overheat
- No problems
- Can you stack strawbales around it?

- Holiday Trees Are for the Birds!
- Does anyone use suet in warm weather?
- I use it all year.
- Suet
- One set of recipe instructions
- Suet melting
- Suet
- Warm Suet
- Do birds choke on peanut butter?
- SUET
- Quite true
- Hunh?

- Winter Topics
- Computers
- Don't worry!
- Mt. Vernon
- Christmas in D.C.
- White House Christmas
- Thanks!
- Visits

- Grow An Indoor Herb Garden This Winter!
- Has anyone actually tried digging up herbs to bring them indoors
- Don't forget -- The site will be down on Nov. 1 and 2 while we m
- I used to dig up a small bay tree every year and bringit in for
- Bay Trees
- Dragging in the pots!
- bay trees
- Indoor Herb Gardening
- Thanks Jojo!
- About repotting: the forever potbound
- Thanks for the tips Barbara
- Let's hope you have better luck now!

- Simple Garden Gifts and Treasures
- Are you ready for a break yet?
- Interesting article
- Hi MaryEllen --

- Just A Quiet Little Tool Talk
- Do you have a tabletop garden? Would you have one?
- Indoor Windowbox Plans
- If I'm going to give up a tabletop
- How about the Living Wreaths?

- Tarragon
- Does anyone have any experience with growing tarragon? I'm curio
- It doesn't seem too fussy, Alan. Mine is growing quite well in p
- Hi Alan! Tarragon isn't too fussy as long as the drainage is go
- I knew I could count on you guys!
- Home grown is sooooo good it's worth a try!
- Go for it, Alan!
- Tarragon
- Thanks Patty!

- Say Hello To Easy Winter Bulbs!
- Treating Bulbs With Force
- forcing question
- Forcing Is Inexact

- Open Forum Join IN!
- What's going on in your garden lately? In other words: What
- I saw something lovely today, in my own garden in the city. A hu
- I'm trying to decide what to mulch with hay and what to mulch wi
- Barbara, It's strange. In my garden has appeared the most lo
- Suzanne, I'm wondering what the mormal practice is in your area.
- Gay that sounds like Easter colors! Yum! Barbara Martin
- Clay, was it supposed to be a remontant iris? There are a numbe
- Suzanne, As per Barbara's comments, you have to be careful mu
- Suzanne, I think Barbara, pretty much covered it. The only tim
- Travis I remembered what you said once before about slugs and I
- Marcella, I'm glad someone besides me believes in Ruth Stout, to
- Suzanne, it finally occurred to me to ask you what it is that yo
- Don't forget -- The site will be down on Nov. 1 and 2 (that's Su
- I wrote *another* huge long message that was lost. Maybe I'm hit
- Barbara, you are right in that our natives are well adapted to t
- BTW Suzanne, if you're worried about your fruit trees: most comm
- So you don't mulch trees at all, Travis? That bare dirt just loo
- Some people use the old traditional mulch of alfalfa hay or a li
- Thanks, Barbara! You were correct earlier in that our PNW native
- Suzanne, I have mulched fruit trees, but not for winter protecti
- Mulching Fruit Trees cont'd
- Fall Wonders
- Odd Happenings in the Garden and Out!
- Strange things in the garden
- Off topic, but:
- OOPS Vegimanic strikes again!
- YUP My Stuff Member Options Change Alias
- If you right click on the green 'post message' button you can
- Left handed mice do the opposite!
- Good question
- Good Question...
- Little Green Thingies
- Green Thingies
- seeing past messages
- Carpal Tunnel here we come!
- I have a better idea!

- Chow Time!
- Barbara, I agree with you that nothing grows under a bird fee
- Hi Clay! You forgot to mention the mice and rats. (yuck) One y
- Barbara, I took a hint from Marge Talt and have several feede
- Barbara, As a second thought, after reading about the loss of
- Interesting thought -- I don't suppose the stuff would stay "hot
- Interesting thought -- I don't suppose the stuff would stay "hot
- Barbara, I've seen the heated bird baths. However, I'm old f
- I don't have one, either. LOL Truth be told, I don't use bird
- Barbara, The bird feeders belong to my wife and her mother.
- When we last lived in town we had some feeders, too. We could w
- IBarbara, I didn't make the watering rock, my late father-in-
- Barbara, I have had a bird feeder on the side of the house for s
- Those euonymous things will grow anywhere!!!! LOL Here's wha
- Howard, don't you have a cat? Are the euonymous rooted right th
- Barbara, I concede. You not only overwhelmed me with links t
- Do black oil sunflower seeds have the same "stuff" in them as th
- There's probably some difference in the 'stuff'. I think the m
- Barbara, the Euonymous plants are directly below the bird feeder
- Howard, Feed them tiny vole nuclear bombs, know as pressed po
- Gee Clay, between your vole strategies and your deer fencing a p
- Only the ones that "destroy" my gardens. I can tolerate a littl
- Don't the squirrels rob your birdfeeders? I've heard some avid
- Barbara, Believe it or not, I use the commercial bird feeder
- When you find one with teethmarks do you let it dry a bit and re
- Don't forget -- The site will be down on Nov. 1 and 2 (that's Su
- Bird Baffles
- Baffles

- article: Testing Again As Requested
- The old articles are in the old format -- very confusing to move
- Beware the gremlins and knights. Please ignore this thread. Th

- What Still Looks Good?
- Thanks for your great suggestions on adding some sizzle and pop
- Very nice article Abby - and helpful! Thank you for pinch-hittin
- Traute Klein, Editor of
- Carol, we all live and learn, I guess. I make up for Abby's tr
- Clay, are your Tasmanian bred daffs as hardy as most? It would
- Barbara, Tasmania is closer to the south pole than I am to th
- I never thought about the turn around time! (But I'm glad to hea
- Barbara, I finished my fall bulb planting, daffodils that is.
- What fun! What kind of labeling system do you use to make sure y
- Barbara, In general, I don't label, I plot plan. That way, w
- Gotcha! One fall I planted about 80 lilies and made a plot plan
- Barbara, The wind was really blowing this weekend. I have my
- Do you have a program you use or how do you do the plot plan on
- Do you make the plan first? :) Barbara Martin Barbara, I don't use a sophisticated or scientific method to
- On those occasions where I did plot a garden I used Corel Draw -
- Carol, Here's my punishment. I spend a paycheck on new intro
- Clay, I think it helps if you have the "organized" gene in your
- Clay, do you then recognize the results by their coordinates? As
- Barbara, It's much more simple than it seems. The problems b

- Shoo Fly Pie (or Shoofly Pie) Recipe
- A long while back I promised to find some Pennsylvania German Sh

- Shadows of Doom in the Sunny Border
- What's usually the very last flower in your garden? Barbara
- Barbara, Living in the P.N.W. there is always something coming i
- Believe it or not, it's usually a rose - although I'm not sure i
- Pansies...they bloom off and on all winter long, during the gent
- Marcella, I'm with you ... my climbing aster is the very last f
- Marge, Yup. It's the same plant. It definatly grows in the So
- We always have last roses too, Carol, especially "Iceberg" which
- Hi all! Sorry I've been so quiet. I have pneumonia and can har

- Fall Comes To the Cottage Garden
- Are the turtles crossing at your house yet? Barbara Martin
- I saw two today over about 100 miles of driving: one crossing th
- A couple of years ago I spotted a large snapping turtle slowly c
- The only turtle I've ever seen around here is the one my husband
- Several years ago we were shoveling mulch and accidently hit a t
- Last summer I was driving down the interstate coming home from a
- Soup? That's one thing I have never had occasion to eat. Ba
- Barbara, Jonathan was a little harsh on the turtle "mom," was
- More like truthful I suspect -- they're only turtles, after all.
- Is it too early to plan cold weather activities or are we plotti
- Barbara, the turtle you unearthed in the compost heap was probab

- Worried About Weather? Zones and Frost Dates
- Barbara, I dunno. It's only an average! :) Depends what you have out
- Barbara, you missed the the typo for Zone 4. FRISTFROST ALERT!!! LOL! DUH! I am holding my head in my hands
- European Zones are surprisingly warm! This map is available at
- Barbara, You should have a contest to see who can supply the
- I find that chart pretty inaccurate for the midwest. I grow rose
- Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! for saying what I have always found to b
- Are you beating your average frost date so far? Barbara Mart

- Hardy Bulb Facts
- What's your favorite tulip? I think mine is Maureen. Tall, lat
- Angelique is many a gardener's favorite -- but it keeps remindin
- Do I WISH I could remember the name of it! I planted just 5 bulb
- Bulb Insurance sounds fabulous -- wonder if it is itchy to inhal
- Barbara, I nearly cracked up when I saw that your favorite Tu
- Red and yellow tulips mixed in the same bed, Clay??? I have
- Well okay. Make the red maroon or is that moran, and have them
- That's ok, Clay - I'm the one who thinks dandelions in the lawn
- Carol, If that is a color combination that you dislike, don't
- Well. Call me a snob if you like, but I LIKE red and yellow tul
- Carbara, How about in front of azeleas that are late June blo
- That would be fine -- I meant simultaneous bloom. ALthough too b
- Barbara, I just posted a message to Carol about new "entrance
- Widows was a typo, right? Think "up" not out and hey -- what an
- The "n" is missing. Clay Higgins, Editor: OOOps. I knew that I knew that I knew that I was bein' head smac
- I've GOT it!!!! The name of the fantastic creamy-pink tulip I me
- Hope they were on sale! They sound exquisite -- thank you so mu
- Nope, the only things on sale were big bags of red and yellow mi
- Are you SURE you didn't snap up a couple of sacks to take home f
- Barbara, I'm a different personality than you, and not that l
- Know what my problem is with LOTS and LOTS of glorious spring bu
- Clay your secret is safe with us! Actually, I think you are t
- Lady B, the worst is planting them in the snow. And breaking th
- Barbara, I think you are right. Even if I had said it tongue-
- The most perennial patch of tulips we have was planted on a Chri
- For real. Tulip planting has been part of too many Thanksgivings
- It fall planting time for bulbs. Even when it is still too dry,
- Because we know the best sources for all kinds of gardening info
- Is Clay the only person planting daffodils this month? Somehow

- Think Dirty - Plant Bulbs!
- My daughter would love to plant a kaleidoscopic mix of tulips th
- Here's a quandary: our local Agway (farm/garden/pet and 4H anim
- Barbara, On keeping the squirrels out of the tulip when you p
- Barbara, I had to post again, after I read this article and y
- You are such a pro (!) -- I wish it would rain here, too. We a
- Thanks Barbara. In the daffodil world, I'm a "rank" amateur, wi
- And you really don't plant Walmart bulbs? Oh well. LOLOL. H
- Barbara, I made this decision a couple of years ago. No "com
- Well then. That explains it. Were the late planted ones ext
- Yeh! I won the Green Ribbon in Morristown, NJ., this year with
- I was just curious to know if I had been imagining that phenomen
- Clay, Barbara, I just dropped into your discussion about prize
- Thanks Marcella. Actually I use the same joke. The plumbing ne

- Peony Root Rot/Nematodes
- Recently someone (I think it was Clay!) asked somewhere about p
- It was me. Wish that url had been a link. Typing these things
- Here you go, Clay - a Thanks Carol -- sorry Clay! Barbara Martin Cottage Garden Q&A
- Barbara, I'm glad that you are not "totally" disappearing on
- Sandra Tatro
- Thank you. Great links coming up this week -- let me know i

- "Om! Mani Padme Hum!"
- Barbara, Will you need a bigger stock tank to comfortably sup
- Actually, I've been considering planting it directly in deep soi
- I thought about your Lotus today as I went shopping for a new ap
- Ummm... that is MOAT, nost most, or "MOIST", I mena, "MOST".
- That moat sounds like the mostest. I would move there just for
- Oh! Yes! You can put up with anything to have gold fish and Lot
- Calming? I'd say amazing and exciting and surreal. But I live i
- I think the lotus at my house may be slowing down for fall; eith
- Barbara: The lotus stuff is great! Mom and Dad
- Thanks!!! Every writer loves fan mail. :) LOL Barbara Martin
- Barbara I always want whatever you write about! No wonder I'm so

- Containing Fantasy
- Have you planted any enchanting containers for fall? (Or spring
- I don't know about enchanting, but I do have a few containers ar
- Oh,oh, you guys have my competitive instincts up on this one. Y
- Don't feel bad Marcella. Some of my late spring purchases are s
- Barbara, Oh yeh, I have some of those too. I just found a reall
- Yes, I have a similar spot next to a redbud tree on the sheltere
- A dwarf pink canna with burgundy leaves sounds gorgeous! What w
- A couple of years ago when both gardenes were open for a weekend
- Barbara, This past Friday, I got my competitive spirit up for
- Clay, your "eye" sounds like it's doing just fine, with or witho
- Gay, don't plants just do that!*! Once a garden club came to
- Isn't that the way great combinations are born? Accident??
- Not always! :) What's the best one you have seen or made thi
- Purple sage and sedum 'Vera Jamieson'. They look like they were
- Barbara, I agree that Nature sometimes has the best imagination.
- I have to agree with you there, Gay. These happy accidents keep
- A single Purple Ironweed popped up blooming in the middle of a p
- Happy accidents. Sometimes I get so annoyed when after all my h
- Spoken from the heart! :) Barbara Martin Barbara, Talking about accidents of nature. I have discovere
- Clay, sorry for the delay. Are you really talking about peonie
- Barbara reading your article made me feel much happier with my g
- A Happy Plant? What is that? Sounds like something everyone nee
- It's whatever grabs your eye and makes you smile every time you
- Wild Chicken Gizzard? I'm beginning to feel a bit like a parr
- Not the free range kind ! Barbara Martin Free range parrot? Or free range chicken gizzard? The plant. The plant looked like a Joseph's Coat on steroids --
- Now that does sound like a happy plant - one bound to mak
- Made a lot of other people giggle, too -- see, it's STILL doing
- Dracaena massangeana is well known as Happy Plant here in Aus.,
- Mary, I'm not sure! I did a bit of a search and came up with th
- I wonder if you can find some -- it would look pop your socks of
- Clay, awhile back you asked about root borers in peonies. I sti
- Barbara, I think they are borers. I have a couple of differe
- Clay, if you really think that's so then you need to think in te
- Great idea Barbara about underplanting the Happy Plant with Ires
- Barbara, Thanks for the discussion on the peonies. My bearde
- Clay, scorched earth is right! Have you talked to the County Ext
- Mary -- did you find the one called Chicken Gizzard? Do you th
- Barbara, Our County Extension agent is a part time Professor
- Oh Dear. Can you try the one for PG County? It might be interes
- Barbara, He's really a nice guy. He's the one that put me on

- Listening to the Lotus
- Are you growing water lotus? How is yours doing? Barbara
- I have no water lotus. But they have them in the formerly coo
- How eerie, ec! Bathtub is big enough, it might do if there
- My lotus only did so-so. I had two last year, and the bass some
- Lotus are heavy feeders, especially in pots. Could you reach wi
- I wouldn't dare. This is my fifth lotus, and the first to someho
- Is the edge of the pot above the surrounding water level by any
- Nope - edge of pot is about 2" below the surface- and about 1 fo
- I guess I'm in trouble now! :) Maybe you could do a foliar f
- Wait a minute -- you have a BIG pond -- all you need is a little
- Hey - that sounds like fun!! Maybe I'll take a trip to the army/
- Try one of those long handled jobs on the water lilies -- they a
- Well? Did it work? Did you try it? Barbara Martin
- No I haven't, since I've been pretty well housebound with a viru
- I'll tell you what worked. The threat of me buying a raft and la
- I hope you feel better soon -- and I still really want to know i

- "Where the Wild Things Are" (Chic Heron Pukeballs?)
- Friday's Wall Street Journal ran an article "Where the Wild Thin

- Take Me to the Salamander!
- Has anyone ever actually been to The Salamander? Or found one i
- Barbara, I don't do salamanders. I visited the web site on y
- I don't grill 'em or keep 'em as pets, either! BUT: the Salama
- Barbara, I tried your link to salamander longevity in hope of an
- Howie I think I read somewhere in my surfing travels last week t
- Barbara, I used the Encylopedia Brittanica to first type my crit
- I have a record. I went back to the longgevity page with the new
- WOW!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!! That's fantastic!!!!! Is i
- Unfortunately, no. In eft years it must have rivealed Methusalah
- Barbara, Let's serve up those salamanders, over easy if you w
- Thanks, Clay! And to think I am the "couth police" here (edit
- Barbara, You don't have to worry about me. I've been as "unc
- Clay, I'd be more worried about me. LOL Theory is goo
- I am still drooling over the Salamander Menu -- we can't pop out
- My daughter sent me this link for a great page on geckos -- <
- Clay, I think you have maybe touched on something important. I
- Barbara, Yes it does make sense. I'm glad for the "room" for
- Barbara, Since I am also "La Chef" in my house, what the heck
- Barbara, I tried to post this one before and it didn't seem t
- I'll have to ask around for a really goooooood recipe -- give me
- Oh -- the posting mechanism has been slipping today -- duplicate
- Slippery Pot Pie here we go! These are all supposedly Pennsylva
- Barbara, That's service above and beyond the call to duty. I
- Cheat! Cheat!! LOLOL!!!! and you wonder why I didn't have a
- Shoo Fly pie might take longer for a good one -- the recipes re
- I was introduced to Shoo Fly pie many a year ago when I took a s
- Clay, I sort of suspect it started as a waste not want not kind

- Grab Your Scissors And Go!
- Do you dry flowers or make potpourri? Any favorite tips? Ba

- Hankering for Honeysuckle?
- Would you recognize the fragrance of honeysuckle? Barbara Ma
- carol tombro Where in the world do you find honeysuckle to get
- Hi Carol! You can probably find a source for Lonicera japonica f
- Barbara: Our property borders the woods where the honeysuckle g
- Kim, that's in all probaility Lonicera japonica, the one that is
- Oh -- multiflora rose is also on the bad bad bad plant list in m
- I have had so many private emails about where to find or how to
- Barbara, In your message to Kim, you stated that honeysuckle
- Clay, there are several different kinds of honeysuckle vine.
- Virginia Marin - Invasive!? I'd take it any day to Kudzu!! My
- Many ornamentals become "thugs" in Australia but I have never he
- A Grackel sounds something like a crow's caw. It has been so
- I just hope it didn't do that at two A.M. ! :) Barbara Marti
- Gay, you have so many unusual and interesting plants there... bu
- It has naturalized around the wooded areas of my yard. I'd kind
- Akin to kudzu. Barbara Martin And my forsythia. ;-) Maybe even my dwarf nonrunning bamboo which for once I had the s
- Yes, we have very strict plant restrictions, even from state to
- Barbara, After all the commentary on Honeysuckle, I took a wa
- Clay I hope you washed promptly and carefully with soap and wate
- Marge Talt, our Shade Garden editor, is doing a great series on
- Speaking of kudzu and other somewhat vigorous plants - have you
- Barbara, you mentioned the variety I had was most likely japonic
- It still does! :) Barbara Martin Just came across another reference on Japanese honeysuckle. App
- Invasion of the Garden Snatchers is another fine look at exotic
- Egads -- here's another industry take on the issue: Garden. Sculpture. Garden. Ever the Twain Shall Meet!
- Barbara, Do you define sculpture as purely ornamental or symb
- Good question! My favorite addition to the garden this year is
- Sculpture would be a three dimensional thing, sculptural qualiti
- Barb, as a more serious answer to your question, yes, trellis an
- Thanks, Barbara. I needed that. : ) surachada bowra I am interested in sculpture garden. I want
- What a feat -- rainforest in Surrey! Thank you for the thumbs-u

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- Squish on NOVA of PBS Fame
- Barbara Martin Barbara Martin This evening my daughter and I were watching NOVA about veterina
- I am sure you would know your own darling Squish. It is like an
- In a heartbeat --it was the ODDEST thing -- it was Squish for s

- Shady Highlights: Summer Shrubs Part Three
- Do you have a reliable and easy care favorite to add to the list
- Pacific Northwest Garden This is a hard one unless you consider
- Marcella, I would certainly consider the hardy fuschia as a bloo
- That will teach you, Barbara. You picked a hard one for high su
- Well, Barbara, since you're the funniest mom on the web, I doubt
- Kim, it varies. Actually I'm only one of three equally honor
- Marcella, I have not tried butterfly bushes in full shade here;
- Great article, Barbara! But how come no roses other than Rose of
- Hi Alan! Glad you enjoyed it. ROSES? Well, check here to fi
- For the scoop on the "roses" I do grow for high summer,

- Of Ladybug , Virgin's Cow, and ... Devil's Chicken?!?
- Once again, I must commend you on your Title. I don't know ho
- Thanks Elise! Mother Nature teaches gardeners to have a good sen
- I think they're marigolds. Or calendula. Carol -- virtually
- If you ask me, I think the picture looks like Coreopsis. Maybe y
- Name this plant contest! Now we're talkin' serious! Doronicum
- I don't think it's Doronicum because the leaves in the picture a
- The Lady bug article was truly fascinating. You really out did y
- "Off the wall" is right -- especially if they (the lady bugs) ha
- FYI, source to order ladybugs has moved to www.biconet.net

- Help! Need Boxy Plants
- I am designing a little boxy shaped fenced in garden for myself.
- So far the best I have come up with is a flowerbox full of four

- Summer Shrub Hit Parade Part Two
- Did I miss any favorite smaller summer blooming shrubs for sunny
- Barbara....do you know of any shrubs (besides elder, witch hazel
- Welcome Pier! What a great question! I do not consider mys
- Barbara, I would like to plant some shrubs along my fences. I w
- Yup, I think I have a pretty good idea why. Is your heat index
- I wanted to use the shrubs to "decorate" the fences.....lots of
- Drought is a frightening thing. I spent a summer like that in A
- Barbara, I read Pier Jones comments and your reply with inter
- That's one of the best ways to garden. That's mostly what make
- Do you count roses as a summer-blooming shrub? And for me mock
- Clay, I only hope I'm as successful as your mother, because I b
- Well, Barbara, you hit a nerve with Spirea! I'm quite fond of t
- Carol, Good luck on the cuttings. I've been fairly successfu
- About these spirea cuttings: Carol, if you don't want to risk lo
- Marge, I visit Michael Moore's site often.....and have printed l
- Barbara--First, forget the paint, my husband would have a heart
- Pier, this is an interesting time for you and your garden. You
- Barbara, I will make notes today....I really bad about thinking,
- Pier, one other thought -- the forsythia may not actually be dea
- Well, Barbara, you may have hit on my problem..."plenty of sun".

- Check Your "Old" Roses NOW!
- Barbara Martin If you are growing old or antique or English or heirloom roses,
- The test results are back -- read Mark's excellent follow-up rep

- Summer Blooming Shrubs Part One
- Have you ever smelled a Calycanthus bloom? Did it smell as repu
- Yes, Barbara, I've smelled one. I've got this shrub (which BTW i
- Barbara, coincidentally, I am using a photo of a chimonanthus pr
- Marge, I don't grow it. I am waiting to find one with excellent
- Gay, that is quite something! Chimonanthus praecox (Fragrant
- this is slightly off-topic, but speaking of plants surviving zon
- sorry, i forgot the link for the article....it is http://www.geo
- Barbara, Yes it smells fantastic!!! Read all about it in my nex
- Robert, sounds more like read it and weep! LOL Thank you! W
- Gay I am getting confused. Are we talking about the summer bloo
- Barbara, the Winter bloomer. I was confused when you asked if i
- Barbara, I think the scent may be stronger on more humid days
- I have read several articles on scent and it is amazing how diff
- Barbara, I enjoyed this article, and specially the part about
- Thank you, Clay. Really, most shrubs are easy care if you put t
- Gay, it is colder than that. We have lows in the 20's every win
- Thanks Marge! I may take you up on it when I get my new shrub b
- Barbara, Just let me know and some is yours. You know, I've
- Gay, glad to find another who finds Houttuynia a disgusting scen
- Barbara, Are you sure you're in Zone 6? -20°F is on the cusp
- Marge, there seems to be a snow and "weather" line at Thurmont M
- Barb, the zones are done on averages. So we are zone 6b except
- I can't wait to see the heat index maps!!!! :) LOL Barbara
- Barbara, I've hit that weather line, actually. Last winter w
- I guess I am spoilt. The lack of water is a killer. In the cou
- Gay, how does your rainfall pattern work? Barbara Martin
- Marge, that's it exactly. When my husband worked in Frederick I

- It’s Hummingbird Time!
- Are there hummingbirds in your garden? Barbara Martin
- No, Barbara, we have honey suckers but that is not the same. In
- I thought I saw one today, but it turned out to be a dragonfly i
- I haven't seen any yet, except for the early bird scouts. Ju
- I love hummingbirds too, but I haven't seen any here in NC yet.
- I saw one last evening. We had a terrible storm rip through in
- Laurel, are your mimosa trees in bloom yet? You are so much fur
- Gay are honeysuckers birds then? Barbara Martin Barb, Have you ever found a nest? Our storm came from the south
- Barbara, they are birds. The birds that live on honey, Australi
- Gay our hummingbirds are very tiny, about 3 inches long. So sma
- No, Barbara, I've never found a nest...I just see the newly fled
- You've seen baby ones???????? Barbara Martin They aren't really babies by the time I get to see them...almost
- Do you have a feeder in a special spot or a favorite plant spot?
- Barbara, We have a hummingbird feeder in our entrance and dri
- Hi Clay! Wonder if that has anything to do with the trees remov

- A Loving Father's Day OUT of the Garden
- What kinds of garden gifts do you give or receive on Father's Da
- Barbara, In answer to your question about gifts for Father's
- Poor thing,maybe you could have a belated father's day ;-( Ei
- Well, at least you had a little break, Clay! LOL My husband
- My dad got a cool gif via email -- dunno if he had chores to mak
- Eileen, did you make any "gifts from the garden" to give this ye
- Barbara, Congratulations on being the funniest Mum in the Wor
- Thank you Gay! It is my most treasured Internet award. ;) H

- Replacing A Weber Kettle Barbeque Grill ?
- Here's the thing: this year we are giving a Weber kettle as a

- Squish Talks Tacky
- Need hints from last year's winner? Ask away here! Barbara
- The Tacky Yard Art Contest is a Suite101.com phenomenon. Use th
- Remember that Squish and Wish are official judges. I know Squish
- Wish here. I don't know about advice, Carol, some of them may b
- Gay I think the idiom here would be covert ? Or at least under
- Wish here Well, I don't mind tucking into that as long as it
- Carol didn't put in the tacky platypus, Wish - Gay did.
- P.S. Wish and Squish - I'm so glad to see you back!
- Thank you, gracious lady. I am glad to be doing something usefu
- Squish knew it would be impossible to stay away for long! Chat

- Haunted By Honeysuckle
- Do hummingbirds like your "good" honeysuckle? Barbara Marti
- No. Hummers don't seem to like much of anything in my yard, whi
- Well, I have a helpful Hummer article coming up next -- maybe to
- That variegated ampelopsis sure does look cool in the catal
- hi Abby! Great to hear from you again! I haven't seen "Cedar L
- Barbara, I never thought to plant something to attract hummingbi
- Alan are you looking at the wrong time of day? They run by sche
- I really did go ahead and publish an extra article this week. <
- I expect you have more varieties of honey suckle than we do in T

- Historic Cottage Gardens
- Virginia Marin - I like Old English Cottage Gardens!
- Hi Virginia! Do you have a favorite one or is it just in genera
- Nick Twight I am a student of Landscape Architecture at Univers
- Great question! Can you tell based on your research so far what
- Thanks Barbara for responding! Mare Island is now a defunct nav
- Gardens, even if temporary home base, can reflect the person in
- Here is the CA reference I was thinking of: California referenc
- Thank-you for the contact info. I will write to Thomas Brown for
- Smack me over the head -- must be a holiday weekend -- but you m
- Nick, what is your time frame on this project? If it's due on Tu
- Gertrude did design some American gardens, Barbara - just none i
- I prefer the local vernacular whenever possible. The English inf
- NORMA HOLLAND IHAVE NO IDEA ABOUT COTTAGE GARDENS PLEASE TAKE M
- Oh Norma how awful to be getting mail you don't want!! I do
- I currently have Favretti's recent book on recall at Davis’ Shie
- I currently have Favretti's recent book on recall at Davis’ Shie
- Carol general plant lists would be helpful, and thanks for joini
- Nick, I think you need to look into Garrett Eckbo and also exten
- You are right! My thinking on the last three periods that I stat
- To find all of our 30+ gardening topics, including California a
- Nick, You cannot forget the influence W Robinson had on Engli
- Here are some links you might find useful as you prepare that pr
- Gay you are so right about finding the catalogs and walking the
- sorry closing tags Barbara Martin Thank-you Both! All of your input has been very important to my
- Nick, in preparing my next article I found another link by happe
- I will certainly be happy to keep you up to date on the project
- Another
- Gay you are a veritable surfing machine this week! I may have t
- Thanks Nick! We love fan mail! Barbara Martin
- Barbara, I hope you don't mind! It was a bit quiet on my discuss
- Nick, I finally managed to unearth my book on Victorian gardens
- Carol, if it would not be too much trouble I would love to recei
- Nick, I found three old rose contact names and addresses in Cali
- Here's a site I just found - a center for Landscape history rese
- Sunset Magazine is celebrating their centennial this year. Perh

- What Is A Cottage Garden?
- Barbara, What is the definition of cottage garden? I had a g
- Hi Clay! Your post literally made me laugh out loud. Thank y
- Is this a bull frog? I'm not sure, but as our Garden Adventures
- Clay, Historically, a cottage garden was one that began with
- I didn't know what a cotttage garden was... even though i someho
- Welcome back ec! In a sense they are one and the same, eco and
- New Cottage Garden book out -- read a review Since I started all this with a question, and have now done some
- Bite your tongue! The deer at my house eat daffodil foliage in
- I think we are getting closer to having a major league cottage g
- But William! Cottage Gardens aren't major league -- they're jus

- Roses? I Don’t Grow No Stinkin’ Roses!
- I planted three roses this spring. Did you plant any? Barb
- Beat ya! I planted 5. Which ones did you plant? I put in 5 of
- Barbara, Carol, I planted 52 rose bushes this spring! I gather
- William, I could swear that I read somewhere in a discussion th
- I planted three striped roses. (It was deep dark winter when I o
- William, I suspect your idea of benign neglect is a lot stricter
- Carol, I'm sure moving a sucker counts just fine. Did it take i
- Rosa Mundi is lovely! From a distance the flower color sort of r
- So far it has buds and a slew of aphids. :) Barbara Martin
- So go aim your hose at it. Hard. ;-) I had an outbreak of aphid
- My hose doesn't reach that far, Carol. I live in the country an
- Well, when I was trying to stretch my hose to reach (with no luc
- Barbara, I moved that sucker in the spring when it was still fa
- Carol, I don't even try to stretch my hose to reach. New trees
- The blooms on my Damask roses are rotting because of all the rai
- A friend of mine from Corvallis just told me it had been raining
- Hey, tell me about rain and Roses! Mine are balled up and cover
- I am about to buy a sp. rose that I have tried to get in Austral
- Gay, what do they mean, R. rubrifolia is hard to propagate?? Is
- Carol, Kiftsgate is offered by the Rosearaie at Bayfields in Mai
- Carol, I can't remember the exact quote nor can I remember her n
- Rosaraie at Bayfields lists it, but also rates it as hardy only
- Um, their 1998 paper catalog and on-line catalog say this: "Min
- I'll be really curious! They benefit from the ocean, often allo
- The rain has finally let up, I was able to spray the roses this
- Kirk, are you spraying your Albas for blackspot or something els
- I don't spray my Albas at all, except that some spray gets on th
- Barbara, Enjoyed your attitude in the article about "You don'
- Kirk what a clever idea! I have often jokingly thought about ca
- Clay! Cool soil is something I never thought about. Dry in sum
- The trouble in Tasmania is that by the time the daffodils are in
- Barbara, Certain daffodils do like hot summers, e.g., tazetta
- Barbara, I forgot to mention in my previous post. In "line"
- Good grief! If you do all that no wonder you don't want to mes
- Barbara, I'm not into the scientific arena of growing daffodi
- Wow, the discussion of Roses really took off! I do like to make

- Landscape and Garden Design On A Budget: You Can Make It Happen
- I am wondering if anyone has had good results using "faux" finis
- I have. Did you want to know anything else? ;-) Actually,
- Barbara, your six steps are RIGHT ON! Especially the part about
- Carol, thanks, that's the type of project I had in mind. Do you
- Thank you Marge! I have moved so often I really do sympathi
- Barbara, the verdigris calls for a mix of paints: gold spray pa
- Hey are you guys referring to me??? (grin) I think I resemble th
- Ah, Debbie, you're a junker!! A woman after my own heart. My hu
- Okay, here's a question. I have a huge round stocktank I am usi
- Exactly how raised is it? How far off the ground and how big (ap
- Carol, it is a watering trough for stock animals -- about 5 fee
- So you want it to continue to be a raised pond? I was going to
- It is so flat on that section of lawn where it is, I don't think
- I haven't had any experience with it personally, but have a frie
- I have made troughs and stones but without some of the additives
- Has anyone had experience doing mosaics for out door use in cold
- Debi -- sounds like you have true talent... do you have favorit
- Barb, Construction sites where old buildings are being torn down
- Architectural salvage! Half my house was done with that. And y
- Barbara, Talk to me about moving a lot. Last time I totted i
- WHOA! Ask this crowd for ideas and stand back! WAAAAAAAAAY bac
- If you like brown flowers, can I recomend a Northwest native to
- Since we're talking flower color, what other good silver-leafed
- Brett -- that sounds interesting! Does it require acid soil lik
- Carol, gray foliage is usually sort of blue, to my mind. Silvery
- Would calycanthus flowers count as brown? Barbara Martin <
- Carol. there are some lovely "Verbascums" now in the shade you w
- Barbara, A mix of blues and silvers would be fine. I had alrea
- Barbara, there are a few daylilies now in brown tones. And I hav
- Just coming in from the garden I spied Ajuga 'Metallica Crispa'
- Debra, metallica crispa may be evergreen here too - under the sn
- Carol, a possibility for your burgundy foliage might be the dwar
- Barbara, The Evergreen Huckleberry has a fine texture similar
- Barb, Raintree nursery carries the Evergreen Huckleberry, I know
- PNW gardening must be a lot of fun -- no wonder you have so many
- Nancy Remmers I am looking for a substitute for boxwood. The
- Hi Nancy! First off, let me stress there is really no such t

- Silly Over Fowl
- Oh - nice bonus! The way Gay's picture sort of drips into my pos
- Carol, you may have the peacocks anytime you give me the word! W
- The man who gave a home to our rooster also has peacocks. My hus
- Carol, two are really beautiful to have around the place! You w
- Editor's Note: I moved and retitled this portion of the thread
- But Gay, they pop up so beautifully! I liked them -- I was read
- Probably, also chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, and doves. But
- Big aviaries made in scultured iron and wire, beautiful bird cag
- Somewhat like the empty bird cages i have just because they are
- How about the moveable arks of permaculture fame? Much more in

- Should You Plant By the Moon and the Zodiac?
- Have you ever tried this? Does it work for you? Barbara Ma
- Barbara, I've never tried this. I've often wondered why
- Proximity to oceans and the poles -- that type of locational di
- Yes. There's a small book I really liked, by the Borland (??)
- That takes some of the magic out of it, but none of the charm.
- Maureen & Bridget Boland wrote one of my favorite books: "Old W
- Same book, even. I like it...especially the section about rose
- I guess dogs who live in town have better manners. :) Barbar
- ...Or small town gardens are easier and cheaper to fence than ex
- Zodiac gardening? Is anyone using that method? I would love to h
- Ummm... given that the moon passes overhead every day, and given
- Hi Trav! I guess YOU don't plant by the moon OR the zodiac eith
- Hi Barbara, My point was the plants experience that same grav
- Oops, wasn't gonna use that sig until the new veggies editor cam
- I don't usually call in the OBGYN to check out my garden, but ap

- Savvy Gardener's Guide to Fall Color
- sheila steimer hi i have live here 4years and i have clay dir
- Hi Sheila! Working with clay soil can be very discouraging but
- If you can get the sol loosened by breaking it up with gypsum, r
- You're right, Gay -- I have four roses growing in the part of my
- The use of gypsum is not instead, use earlier before the organic
- The gypsum is supposed to make the clay flocculate I think. The
- Gay is black frost a killing frost? I have never heard that bef
- Gypsum is supposed to make clay flocculate, where it turns into
- Don't get me wrong, I am the biggest advocate for organic matter
- Gay that could be freezing rain or an ice storm or hoar frost or
- Barbara, Gay may be talking about cold snaps combined with ki
- I,m a little muddled. I wrote about rime because I was writing
- Gay, interesting what things are called in different places! I
- Have you ever seen your Rhododendrons droop their leaves when th
- Gay, is this the picture you meant for me to Barb -- that really is a nice article on soil. I know it says gy
- If gypsum is being used, the soils are usually very alkaline to
- Good thing I'm not a physicist, either! (big grin) That's much
- Barb? If you know that then the next thing I'd ask is if you wo
- Barbara, Sorry, I missed this discussion's update. I think
- Nothing like giving you a choice between a rock and a hard place
- Barbara, Cations are positively charged molecules or atoms.
- Yes. Better you than me! :) TIA (GD&R) Barbara Martin

- Planting Your First Culinary Herb Garden
- Did I leave out your favorite? I hope not! Barbara Martin
- What was the first herb you planted? Barbara Martin
- My first herb plants were Rosemary and Parsely. I have containe
- How big and tall does that parsley get for you? Can you grow
- My first herb was basil - lots of it. I wanted to make pesto. I
- Carol, My Italian parsley gets about two and a half feet. The
- Here in my part of zone 6 we can have winter lows of 20 below ze
- Speaking of parsley, last summer I toured a local herb farm with
- Many herb gardeners grow Rosemary in a pot and bring it in to a
- Me, I've got mint. I planted mint because my father said it wou
- Mel., just wait til it comes in (without knocking) and takes roo
- Okay that's three votes for growing mint in a pot! Rosemary does
- susan kolberg Hi new toy your group. Was looking up info on knot
- Hi Susan! Thank you for the kind words. Your project sounds li
- Which culinary herbs do we use the most? I know or at least I

- Sapphire: When Blue Really Means Blue!
- Any true blue flowers? Off the top of my head I vote for plumba
- Add delphinium and flax. Barbara Martin Barbara, How about adding Chinese forget-me-nots Cynogloss
- Campanula? Gentians? Carol Plain old myosotis has been looking me in the face this week, to
- I have a veritable lake of them in the side yard! I've been
- My favorite blue flower is Salvia Patens. I grew my from seed a
- Does Salvia Patens also self sow for you? At one time I had a v
- How about meconopsis? They do vary but a good meconopsis betoni
- That's the rumor I hear, Gay -- but in the US it is very difficu
- How about Lithodora (or Lithospermum) and Ceanothus thrysifolius
- That sounds familiar Josephine! Just give a link to this thread
- Electric blue?? Sounds wonderful! That deep blue pansy with the
- Yeah, I dragged home a couple of really pretty viola seedlings -
- Siskiyou Pink? I just planted that, too. Does yours have reddis
- The foliage looks kind of sickly to me, actually, but the flower
- Siskiyou gaura just looks sick naturally. Are you talking about
- Most gauras have that sickly-looking blotching, don't they? The
- I have never tried meconopsis because I figured they just wouldn
- Marcella, Meconopsis - Yes they are a little difficult until the
- The problem with blue poppies here (in coastal B.C.) is the abun
- Josephine, when the soil is too acidic, it can drain some elemen

- The Things Mothers Grow For Love!
- Any one else growing assorted rakes and brooms? Barbara Mar
- What a nice article. No I don't have a barrel of rakes, etc. bu
- Thank you Mona! Are you *sure* your garden hasn't relected your
- reflected oops Barbara Martin Actually, Barbara, I think you're lucky that your daughter enjoy
- This spring she is deliberating over a selection of annuals for
- A Victorian clubhouse??? Is she leaning toward the hot c
- I took pictures the day we cut down a blooming Sugar Tyme crabap
- Barbara, your frog doesn't seem to be getting anywhere.
- No, but he hops good. LOL! Barbara Martin ORANGE Impatiens! WOW!
- What do you think will look good with these new impatiens for sh
- Edging lobelia?? Or how about some of the coleus that is gold wi
- I've been thinking about this some more. Is this a space where y
- Hot and bronzy colours in the shade are great -- that's what mim
- Carol, I definitely think lime would be a disaster with these, a
- Josephine, I just can't get into them either. But I really like
- Mottled? With what?? Eeuuw!! I haven't seen them, so I was gue
- It's a sort of you have to see it to believe it sort of thing, C
- From the sounds of it, I think I'll disregard these as well. ;-)
- Carol, They are really strange-looking plants. I thought the
- Somehow I suspect they will be drop dead spectacular in the righ
- Well, I just had to see what you were talking about, so I waded
- Geraniums are awfully popular. Also petunias and marigolds. Al
- True, true. And sweet allyssum and pansies and that annual brigh
- Ummm, we bought sweet alyssum in three colors, I have to go back
- You need to buy sweet alyssum?? I planted some the first
- Carol I use the Easter Bonnet alyssum in containers in full sun

- Purple Flowers: Spring in the Cottage Garden
- Do you have a favorite purple flower? I never considered myse
- Hi Barbara,I think my most favorte purple flowers have to be my
- Hi Eileen! Glad your lilac is still kicking! I love lilacs, to
- The only purple in my spring garden is from the lilacs, a few cr
- Am I allowed to brag about my white Lunaria with white varigate
- Barbara, I have purple but I pair it with white, Aquilegia a
- Hi Barb! Campanula glomerata is definitely in the purple groupi
- Do African Violets count? I just love their colors. Have four
- Hi Mona! You bet African violets count! (Thank you for remindi
- Hi Marcella! This is the place to brag!!! Your white varie
- Barbara, I did wonder a bit about about your purple redbud cl
- Barbara, different Miss Kims? I had no idea. Well I guess I ha
- Barb, there is a redbud called "Pansy" that is purple. I wanted
- Redbuds in the wild vary from what I call a soft medium pink to
- Marcella, Miss Kim is sometimes described as growing to 3 x 3 fe
- Barbara, That must be my problem with redbuds: my nearsighte
- Barb, actually I suspect your local redbud population may verge
- I have Red Bud "Forest Panda." It's what I would call a rosey p
- Deep rich soil? Maybe that's why mine have little buds! LOL
- Other, later purples? Lots of good daylilies. Liatris? Some col
- Have you forgotten your own native flower Later purples: Salvia "Purple Rain" is a good purple, the "Blue
- I forgot this. It is more purple than in the photo -
- Gorgeous photo Gay! Do you know which one that is? :) Barba
- The closest blue rose I grow is "Velchenblau." It grows over an
- Here's a bit of name dropping - No, it was given to me as a cutt
- Gay -- somehow elementary doesn't seem adequate but the cuttings
- Marcella, are we doing blue or purple? If we are doing blue I'd
- Gay, if you don't start collecting thses stories into a publish
- Well, let's all help Josephine out by adding to this thread on
- Carol, I WAS heading towards a book, then along came Suite101.co
- I know, I now Gay -- I'm sorry. But look at it this way -- thes
- Carol, Thanks for the offer. My Gay, please be sure to let us know when the next chapter is read
- Gay, I will certainly buy that book when it's published. I hav
- Marcella, what fun! You must be sure to tell us as soon as the
- Barbara, My garden will also appear in Better Homes and Gardens
- Best of luck, Marcella. Wait until the TV people come. Not goin
- Gay, do you mean your next article here or are you in an upcomin
- Marcella, I don't suppose you would consider sharing some of yo
- The house [historical town house]and gardens have been published
- Gay, what a poignant story. I can just see you out in your gard
- Marcella, if you make them up and keep a straight face most peop
- Gay what a wonderful tribute! Barbara Martin Ewww! Earwigs! HELP!
- Sugs are quite tasty with a nice Riesling. Anybody have any sugg
- Hi Wayne! I know you meant slugs can be tasty! ;) Since earwi
- Wayne, I'm no wine connoisseur, but if you need an informed opi
- No, no, no, you've all got it wrong. Slugs go best with a nice
- I have found that earwigs in the garden soon end up as earwigs i
- Just think about soapy water! On second thought, don't. Bar

- Ewww! Slugs in the Garden!
- Has any one tried the new slug product from Gardens Alive? I wo
- No -- but I did find a great remedy for slugs. Buy a rooster! Ca
- A rooster? Somehow I thought you brought home a baby chick and
- Well, yes -- that's how it usually goes. Cute little baby chicks
- I get an unbearably cute magazine here at Glynwood called Birds
- I have never seen a hot dog sized slug, thank God. Barbara do y
- Lady B! I used to hurl slugs into the road and watch the birds
- Kim, it FELT like a hotdog. It was in a suburb of Washington D
- theresa beerman I have found orange peel to work well as a slug
- hi Theresa! This is interesting. Margaret's I feed dry kibble, and yes we have snails too, we didn't used to
- ANTS?!? I thought Hawaii should be a gardener's paradise, but .
- I was thinking about one of your earlier posts, Barbara, and I t
- Don't you also now have a lot of birds and other critters, too?
- Tons of birds -- and new interesting kinds each year. Partly I c
- Have you added many native plants with that in mind specifically
- Its not so much that the ants eat the roots as they set up farmi
- Well, both. I've added dogwoods, and other berried bushes. Learn
- I have tried organic stuff like bioling water on the ants but it
- Theresa that is so similar to how I decided to use the slug bait
- Here is an recipe for ants. 1 ts. sugar 1 ts creme of ta
- Hi Mona, I'm going to try that today. When I pulled out some of
- Hi Theresa! Let us know how it works on yours! Barbara Mar

- Purple Tulip?
- Does any one have a favorite purple tulip? I am looking for one
- I like Queen of the Night, the alleged black tulip which is actu
- 14 years! How deep did you plant them??? Barbara Martin
- Six inches -- just like the instructions said. Other tulips that
- Maureen has come back again and again here in heavy soil. But

- Garden Design Is Theater: It's Show Time!
- What is your favorite "special effect" in gardening terms? One
- I have a rather large garden, so I am fond of perspective effect
- I'm not clear on where you're oputtingthat mirror, Barbara, but
- This is a good trick to use in a tiny garden. The mirror would
- Kirk it must be nearly impossible to navigate without depth perc
- Carol I like to use "what's around the next bend in the path", t

- Daylily Questions!
- Posted for Mercia: I recently discovered daylilies. They a
- Hi Mercia! I love daylilies, too. They are addicitve. Not to
- Daylilies are a great flower for the gardener! Easy to care for,
- For a nice introductory piece on daylilies -- see I managed to find out something about 'Royal Mountie' -- it i
- Ah -- my sources once again come through! Here's the scoop on 'R
- Mercia Ayers
- I am so excited about the information I received from Carol and
- I am so excited about the information I received from Carol and
- Uh oh -- sounds like you are really hooked! Enjoy! :) Barba

- It’s Earth Day: Bring On The Worms!
- Do you have worms? Barbara Martin Yup, I have worms (well, not me, but my soil does) and they're a
- Kim thanks for the tip -- I have been so busy actually gardening
- Well then, I can't think of any better celebration of National G
- I wrote about Arbor Day last year and decided to do Earth Day th
- Well I'll be darn Arbor day is also my birthday. Worms. Great
- Am I the only one here that actually has worms? My aunt offered
- Happy Birthday, Marcella! I'm sure the lady bugs are very happy
- Jessica, that's interesting. I don't think I would have been ab
- I used a under bed sice rubbermaid and made holes all along the
- .. lively music playing in the background.." worm you come home
- Hi Lynn! What fun! Please keep us posted! :) Barbara Marti

- Arbor Day: Think before you plant that tree!
- Treees can be wonderful additions or horrible inheritances. PLE
- Are you planting trees for Arbor Day? Barbara Martin <

- Add ANOTHER Water Feature! Just Do It!
- Cynthia Vorce I build Water fountains out of Lava rocks and S
- Hi Cynthia! What a fabulous endeavor! I suspect power tool
- Cynthia Vorce Hi Barbara! Thanks for responding so quick
- Cynthia, I checked with my husband, Mr. Fixit, and he tells me t
- Cynthia Vorce Thanks for all the ideas. I have a drill and I
- Kim, Cynthia -- this is great! Thanks for finding some resource
- Cynthia, just an odd thought here, but could you possibly mold t
- Barbara, That is a very good idea, but I know nothing about
- Cynthia, here's a thought (although I have no idea if it's a goo
- Kim I think it would work with some experimentation. You could
- They make fake diamonds, too, but I can't tell the difference.

- Catch That Bunny! Hide Those Eggs!
- Happy Easter! How's the gardening weather holding up in you
- Rain, rain and more rain. It's putting a real damper (so to spe
- Kim, was it really that many? I'm glad you enjoy it. I cheat.
- I'm planting roses today, to cascade down the wall os the secret
- I have been sick so I haven't had to go out into the storm. We h

- Easter Eggs!
- Joke of the week. While researching my current article I found

- Planted Squill but it never came up?
- I planted a bunch of different bulb plants this January includin
- William, generally squill is a little later than the other bulbs
- William - another thought. If the planting area is fairly remov
- As this is a brand new house (July 96) it gets pretty much full
- William, why leave the minis in pots?? They might make a perfec
- William -- my apologies I missed this earlier in the scroll! M
- I will have room for them in the front bed though it is not a ra
- William, do you consider yourself to be a collector? What is yo
- Not a collector, just a HARJ (Houston Area Rose Junkie)
- William, that's great! And I just love your new signature!!!
- The wish list is a reality. I ordered them yesterday and they w
- William, Wait til next year -- or until you hit a great sale.
- HEHEHE That's what they all say! LOL!!!! :) Barbara Marti
- What ME get more ROSES. I don't think so!!

- The Perfect Perennial Garden
- What would be the perfect perennial garden for you? Barbara
- Well, I've got color pretty well nailed down now. But I'd like t
- My perfect perennial garden would allow mass-planting of all my
- Which means you can *afford* all your favorite plants, right??
- My perfect perennial garden is getting smaller all the time! :)
- The "perfect" part of mine is pretty small. Small enough that I
- Just like the magazines do! Vignettes are great! Panoramic sho
- I didn't think that you were supposed to till the ground for per
- So they tell us, Kirk. I prefer to till, then build a raised be
- Kirk, I don't do either one. I just sheet compost. Barbara
- My favorite way to start a perennial garden is lay lots of newsp
- The newspaper method does not work for kikuyu grass which sends
- I kill the grass with black plastic for a couple of months
- theresa -- did I miss something or are you not using soil amendm
- abby -- may I ask why you bother with the plastic since you end
- Debbie -- do you find that the six inch layer of bark mulch is s
- Kirk, so far we have no double diggers, or at least no admitted
- Barbara, Almost everyone except Ruth Stout says we're sup
- By the way -- I used to use the newspaper method. A lot of tapro
- The British gardening books told me to double dig, so I did it.
- Let's trot over to While we're all waiting to hear what the "uptown" (huge grin!) g
- Barbara, I have not found any noticeable problems with the ba
- Debbie you have raised so many interesting points! I am beginni
- Why so defensive Debbie?
- Barbara, After having said all that, I must say that I have b
- The purpose of double digging is many fold... let me share one o
- Ummm... I could have sworn that double-digging came out of the "
- I am also influenced by the French intensive method. Actually my
- We crawl on our hands and knees to weed all the gardens and use
- Any more passionate testimonials out there? So far I think we h
- No one has mentioned raised beds. That's another good solution f
- It taks at least four cups of tea to get the motor started in th
- Gay, Since I do keep my chiropractor and his family well fed,
- That's pretty much what I thought, too. Every garden I have had
- Somehow I doubt that mixed borders are any less of a perennial g
- Did you know that tea is marvellous for Camellias? I have an old
- Theresa and Gay! That tea must help ward off the iron chlorosis
- Isn't it odd that for some people plants can grow like weeds an
- Theresa, the collector garden is always a challenge! Sometimes
- I have. Or more correctly, I made an unconscious choice. I can'
- I have lots of space, I live on 15 acres. It is mainly forest an
- Barbara, the iron may help but the tea is still good for the Cam
- I don't have an iron kettle or pot, at least not one without a h
- Theresa -- probably depends on how much they rust (or not)and sp
- In the olden days when I was pregnant every year, the Aussie Gov
- Gay, when you talked about massing plants above, would you say t

- Equinox? Solstice? Move the Furniture!!!!
- Spring fever gotcha yet? Barbara Martin You bet! I finally got out today and finished pruning all the r
- We had a dull and dreary kind of day so I went out and bought my
- A cupola??? Where is it going??? Are you gonna enter it in this
- I'm not giving away any clues about this year's tacky yard art c
- Do people get to win two years in a row??? I'll have to check th
- The cupola is in my garden. It is a rescued historic artifact
- Where were you rescuing artifacts?? And did they happen to have
- I bought a really nice iron gate at the same place yesterday. T
- Hmmm. I guess I won't be traveling in the snowstorm we're predi
- I heard on an American TV show that your Spring's official date
- I think it has to do with the position of the earth relative to
- Historic York Inc. operates a warehouse style recycling center
- Gay, it was really and truly the actual vernal equinox. The sci
- Here's a nice brief discussion of the seasons -- full of links t
- Believe me, I have checked -- we have no architectural salvage p
- Carol, if you email me the measurements I can check when I stop
- That sounds like a good uidea, Barbara. Thanks! I just wis
- We have LOTS of daffs (and crocus and abeliophyllum, plus scilla
- Gay, You might be interested to know that in Hawaii we have what
- Theresa, how long does the dry season last? Do you use laundry
- Aloha Barbara, the interesting thing about this island is that y
- Microclimates are incredible! (I thought I had some interesting
- Soil? In my garden I do actually have soil. This is not unive
- Theresa I'm sure people would be interested in hearing about gar
- Interested, Theresa?? I was fascinated enough to read your post
- TSK tsk! That Carol! Always encouraging new editors in the Gard

- Did you see the rabbit drop the eggs?
- Did you see this animated gif in my article this week? Watch f

- What Makes A "Good" Garden Design?
- Hi Barbara Welcome to Suite101! I'm the Perennials editor. I
- Hi Amber! Thank you! I'll do my best. Barbara
- Hi Barbara and a huge, although belated, welcome to Suite101!
- Glad you found me, Marge! This is fun! Barbara
- Hi Barbara, I enjoyed your article about the "right plant for t
- What a great idea! Did you make an actual pond or did you do a
- Barbara, I dug a tiny "pond" and used a plastic liner, and put
- Laurel it sounds wonderful! I have a suggestion though. If the

- Hoorah, Hooray, My Azaleas and Indian Hawthorn finally bloomed.
- We moved into our new home in July 1996 and for the first time t
- It sounds wonderful! So far we only have violas crocus daffodil
- Bah, humbug! All I have are Helleborus niger. Although I see o
- Which is worse: bare dirt or snow? Barbara Martin
- Is it traditional to give plants as housewarming gifts? People
- Answer to question 1: bare dirt. Snow is at least living mulch.

- Bewitched By Lilac: Magic Memories
- Bar-- I, too am a reluctant lilac fan. In this climate, unle
- Michael Dirr calls the odor of Syringa reticulata (Japanese tree
- Miss Kim and a lot of the other very small lilacs are Korean, ar
- Carol -- most of the small leafed lilacs are ostensibly from Chi
- Barbara Martin Oops - I also meant to mention these smaller lilacs don't seen t
- Patricia Thomas Hello, I dry Lilacs! I do dried flower a
- Maybe I'll have to get one of these legendary Japanese tree
- Maybe you'd better stick some cuttings! In a few years you'll n
- Um, I have a feeling inkberry from cuttings would grow Very Slow
- I would consider some of the dwarf species of lilacs but I need
- William, the lilacs need a chilling period in order to bloom, so

- How to Get the Cutting Garden You've Always Wanted!
- What are your favorites for cutting? Barbara Martin
- Whatever happes to be flowering! ;) Seriously, right now one
- I don't cut flowers anymore unless I'm entering them in competit
- Keep the cats! Just cut the bouquets to give as gifts -- pe
- For many years, I always filled all rooms in the house with vase
- Gay, What do you mean when you say "soaking"? Are you immers
- Linda, after cutting the flower [always cut on a slant as this h
- Gay, does it help to recut the stems? Barbara Martin
- Barbara, Been to country so sorry re delay. Yes, it does, a
- Barb, I grow larkspur (for fresh and dried), oriental lilies

- News Flash! Garden Catalogs!
- Latest update to the ultra on-line Watch out for Gecky! Coming Soon!
- Editor's Note: Watch out for Gecky Starting an eco-garden
- Posted by Carol for Kevin I am planning on moving into the ar
- I have a little more information from Kevin. He will be gardenin
- Thank you for a very tough (broad and open-ended) question! I

- HAPPY BIRTHDAY ECO-GARDENS! LET'S CELEBRATE!!!
- Welcome to Eco-Gardens! Ideas for articles in 1998? Favor
- Happy Anniversary Eco-Gardens! I have enjoyed your articles and
- Thanks Debbie! Hi from Epcot. Be back late next week! CIAO!

- ECO-GARDENS GUESTBOOK
- You'll need to become a Suite 101 Member to post here, but that'

- ECO-GARDENS TALK BACK!!!
- This is a great time to tell me what you think -- I'm on vacatio

- Snowbirds and Wannabe Snowbirds!
- Okay, it's winter at your place and you'd rather be someplace el

- LINKS for Eco-Gardens!
- Know of a link I should include? Tell me about it here! Ba

- Resolved. Keep Garden Journal. Label Plants.
- Barbara, My garden journal is really 3. One for taking outsi
- I've always been a fan of the looseleaf binder as a way to keep
- Which categories do you find the most useful in your garden jour
- I don't know about useful, but the thing find myself looking up
- Categories? Lists of plant varieties, their growth habits in
- I'm not even going to describe my journal (or lack thereof) ;-).
- Labeling is my great failure, Linda. Using the ones that come w
- I also have a Garden Journal of sorts- actually kind of a multi-
- Another interesting journal idea is using a video camera. I have
- I think black and white photos or Polaroid photos are the most r
- Brett uses a computer record, is any one else using one? Barbar
- I tried. I even bought a computer program called Journal that au
- I am going to start a separate thread on computers in the garden
- Black and white photos tend to make you look at the structure of
- That sure sounds like the voice of experience! Great tips!!!!

- Computers in the Garden ?
- Do you use the computer for your garden? Do you have a favorite
- Barbara, I may not have been too successful with a garden journ

- Echinacea Bravado and Magnus?
- Does any one know if the purple cone flower Echinacea purp. call
- I think Bravado's claim to fame is a deeper purple color. If I r
- I just checked my favorite nursery -- with Magnus the features a
- That's what we remembered about Bravado and one of us vaguely re
- All I can tell you is that the catalog for my local nursery list
- Tom Clothier just sent me a note saying Bravado is listed as pur
- I have heard that the two are very similar, but they were sepera
- Brett -- I am finding conflicting descriptions in catalogs offer
- Barbara, This often happens when a named clone is treated the
- I finally thought to check with the source and visited the Peren

- For the Children.
- Hi Barb, I'm happy to see your article here. My first grandchild
- Emma, how wonderful!!!! Barbara Martin Suite 101 Kids is a newly designated grouping of Suite 101 topic

- Tell Me About Your Garden This Month: 1/98
- Bluebirds came through in a glorious band today -- about two mon

- Can the Verbose 10% zip up for two weeks? How about two days?
- Barbara Martin on Jan 13, 1998 at 08:15 PM
- Actually, Michel, I would prefer to skip the 17th and 18th becau

- What’s Your Garden Landscape Style?: Cowboy? Edwardian! Eccen
- Hmm. I might be an eccentric gardener. Who else would have a ga
- I have to say eclectic since I saw myself in many of the styles,
- Great Links. Thank You! Mary Ellen Bradshaw
- Mine? Immature, varigated, playful, and expansive. My current
- How much is your garden style influenced by the style of your ho
- The funny thing is that the one extra plant will always fit in s
- How about a garden to charm us with surprise and delight? G
- I have to agree about the topiary. I have one, bought at a plant
- Barbara, Oh! Yes! I would love it if people described my garden
- Gay, this will make you smile. My newspaper column and some oth
- Read my thoughts on peafowl at my home page So they're not door prizes during open gardens? :) I hope an
- Maybe they could be prizes for the theme garden contest? Carol
- Would require an appropriate theme. Barbara Martin
- You started that one. Look under the cats and dogs and hens and
- I couldn't do it to anyone!!! Beautiful things.Of course our si
- PS Barbara, thanks for kind words re home page and also for that
- I kind of liked "enchanted" myself, Gay. That's how your gardens
- Carol, anytime but it has to be a Roman orgy. Apparently, accord
- Gotta add Roman Orgy Staging to the garden style lexicon. Step b
- Gay, I read your entire series of pages in one sitting from star
- Ok, OK we'll do a Roman Orgy. I must say that your surplus of p
- Believe it or not, there is an application sitting in my editors
- Ah! You two make me coyly blush. Carol, the rose petals I can
- And to think I've been missing out on this fascinating discu
- Hi Linda! I don't know where *you've* been, but I've been tryin

- Pie in the Sky!
- And what is the most pie-in-the-sky item on your dream ga
- I want, I want, I want...... :) What I really dream about i
- May Santa at least bring you a nice shovel. (and a real pretty
- I'm with you,Debbie. Ever since we built this house, I have want
- Maybe a partridge in a pear tree plus a bulldozer or two for sta
- I want the big slope beside the house graded with stone terraces
- Maybe you'll get rocks for Christmas! (And I don't mean coal
- I got a lump of coal one year. My mom syas she's regretted it ev
- Carol, Re: Good Gardening Loot. The "kids" gave us (me?) a
- My gardening present I received this year was a gift certificate
- Visions of Paradise................ Barbara Martin
- Hey Debra, I am curious, where were you planning on getting t
- Debbie, I've had the chance to get koi for my pond several time
- Brett and Carol, I actually haven't thought that far ahead! T

- Garden Design Basics: The Step By Step Process
- Wishing you the merriest of holidays! Barbara Martin

- Deck Solutions
- What's your suggestion for our hypothetical suburban deck?

- Face Down in the Fish Pond: Dry Garden Design Basics
- Okay, so who measures with a tape and who does it by eyeball? (
- Depending on the size of the space I sometimes use feet (my own
- Hi Abby! Are they metric? Barbara Martin Sorry, I shouldn't be flippant, but it is great to see you in th
- Well, Barbara, being in the architecture business, I always meas
- this all too hard. just go to store and spend more than you s
- Yes but ec you gave a lot of thought ahead of time to what y ou
- Marge, it is interesting to see how people think differently and
- Abby! You come back here! teeeheee. Abby is my little sister.
- Yes, I'll admit it. I am Barb's BIGGER little sister. And yes,
- Barb, I do it mostly by eyeball. Or even more casually. My hus
- Abby, thank you. I will keep the forsythia article in the works
- I also use the eyeball method. Last year though I measured the l
- Nothing like using what's close at hand! :) Neon paint help re
- Yes using body parts to measure with is always at hand. :) Altho
- teehee my family once lost me in the garden -- nothing like Ma
- Bar, what plant was that you were weeding in? I want it.
- Whatever one we have a lot of -- feverfew was it this past year!
- I think Genna's got a tutu she's outgrowing...
- My flower garden is usually so full of bright colors and tall pl
- Lord, Barbara, don't tell your clients you don't have to draw it
- About an eighth, Marge. And as you can see it's not even very g
- What is this -- family photo time? Barbara Martin
- Well, Carol, find I don't have a long shot that does it justice,
- no. i prefer going to the grocery store in muddy Madras incognit
- Enjoyed the greenhouse tour! :) I just let my imagination fill i
- If we have more photos to share, it may be time to update the ga

- lumber in composter
- I was wondering if you knew what a gardener's to do if she inh
- Well, let's see. Treated lumber gives off bad fumes when burned
- Well? I can't believe I did *that* great of a job on such a con

- Garden Design Basics: Setting Ground Rules
- How irresponsible *are* you? We'd ALL like to know! That wa
- I'm usually totally irresponsible when it comes to ordering seed
- Hi there Eco-Gardeners - People who order plants by mail alot ar
- Free plants always do present a dilemma, don't they? I have frie
- I remember asking "How much do I owe you?" on payday when I work
- It's nice to know that I am not alone.
- Well, Barbara, not having dug my pond yet, I haven't fallen in t
- Marge, I bet your garage is full, too! I may seem fixated on th

- OVER THE BACK FENCE aka RANDOM THOUGHTS
- Helpful tip of the day: I found not one, not two, but THREE cof
- Welcome to the back fence! What's on your mind? Barbara Martin
- Barb, I chuckled when I read about the coffee cups. A proble
- Coffee cups ARE important. Is it possible it's genetic? My Dad
- Like we do with our gardening hand tools, we should paint our co
- We could put cup holders in appropriate spots.
...a tastefu
- Did someone mention tacky yard art? I love yard art. And I lov
- I just dug up a tacky garden ornament! Where do I enter the cont
- You'll have to wait until the next contest, Debbie. Which will p
- Wasn't it over 4th of July? (I need more timne to prepare! --
- Ok, I will try to be patient! Barb, but I think I have the conte
- You bet! If it's yard art to you, then it's yard art for me. T
- Debra. If you want to enter now, you certainly can. Just descr
- I just checked and the Tacky Yard Art article ran on May 30. So
- My husband or the pig? A contender, I mean. ROTFL! Barbara Mar
- Well, Barbara Searles (Cats editor) was going to enter her husba
- Anything is possible. Barbara Martin In that case, I may enter my rooster. He's an especially valuabl
- More live tacky yard art! WOW!!!! This is opening some serious
- Here's live yard art, although not particularly tacky. The seed
- In honor of the season, perhaps we should invent a new category
- Hello Love the idea of Back Fence chit-chat. It's Thanksgi
- Those are Kentucky style beans? I would have guessed California
- Now that we are all stuffed this should be appropriate to post.
- I guess you ate a big dinner! :) Diet strategies any one? B
- Barbara, What about constant attendance at dinner parties? N
- You should see the roving waiters drop the hors d'oeuvres trays
- Debra You must send this little gem about cold and fat burnin
- ec, I believe the bit about the hand models. I remember watc
- ec, Squish seemed to go a little flat. Then I found another var
- EC~ I can't take credit for it, my husband sent it to me from
- I want to know what some of you are doing to help ease the garde
- I slam doors at this stage, myself! Also sleep a lot extra. An
- Painting murals on the wall! Debra, that *does* sound fun! I us
- Barb, I am not painting murals on the wall, although rereadi
- I didn't *really* think you were drawing on the walls, I just ki

- Quick! Name that Plant! In Latin!!!
- Barbara, Okay, my favorite Latin name is Sanseveria (not sure
- Well yes--I have to admit that I usually use the Latin names. I
- This conversation is funny. I keep running into the problem of
- Diana, Check Dr. K's Guide to pronunciation in the article.
- What with the recent bestseller about Venus and Mars, maybe it's
- Barbara! Not "pussytoes" or "cats and kittens"?! Not even "catn
- OK, so this is not my arena--but if it ain't mums, what is it.
- "Mums" is what us lazy typers and talkers call a chrysanthemum.
- Hey -- Mum's the word here -- I didn't pick out the picture and
- "MMMMmmmmms's" the word here! is what I *meant* to say. The fl
- Okay it's late but I'm going to risk it - call me crazy, call me
- Y'know, Karen--I was about to say the same thing myself. Carol
- OK. I couldn't bear the suspense any longer. I spent an hour se
- That dandelion picture goes to prove that a weed is just a plant
- Sunny, thank you -- it may be a dumb dandelion, but I kinda like
- Name That Plant: I found this Hi Karen! Epithets!!! What ARE you sending us? Actually, it i
- If you all couldn't tell those were dandylions, you need to get
- Taraxacum officinale for all those who are still actual
- Yes and there are few blooming at my house despite the fact it i

- The Holiday Gardener’s "Handy" Reference
- Barbara, I tried that trick of using heavy duty cleaners bare
- Skin wasn't tough enough when you started! That or not dirty en
- Barbara, I loved this article and can really identify with th
- Thanks Mary Ellen! To be honest, I have no idea if the stick wor

- Garden Happy Talk
- I would like this to become a Garden Bulletin Board where we can
- WINTER IS COMING! THE S WORD! Here is the extended forecast
- Maybe I should get out there and rescue the tropical waterlilies
- My dwarf papyrus is out there scratching at the door through the
- Most of my dahlias bit the dust. Too late, to late. Why is it
- Carol, It may not be too late for your dahlias. I've had the
- With all the snow on the ground here (14 inches), my Schneewidke
- Snowbunny? Barbara Martin Oh Barbara! Now I wish I'd consulted you before naming my house
- That's all the German I could remember -- but it sounds like a d
- I may have misspelled it--try Schneewidchen. I know you can do
- wittchen would do it, but I had to dig out the old Langenscheidt
- But have you figured out yet what it is? Hint: its common na
- Give up? It's the What *some* people will bring into the house! Snowy weeds! ~si
- Snow White of fairy tale fame is what I was thinking of -- I rec
- Several of mine are in bloom now and one of our student employee
- Is it hardy? Or is it really a container plant? The picture lo
- I tried to winter one over here in zone-5-sometimes-4, but had n
- In the meantime, how did you get the original? Barbara Martin
- I cannot answer that question on the grounds that it may incrimi

- OT Turkey Day Dining With A Difference!
- Thanksgiving Dinner is a big tradition and most of us have favor
- Sometimes we have goose instead of turkey. I stuff it with slig
- Two years ago I made No-turkey Turkey for our main course. It's
- What's the torta part? And Lee Ann, watch out for those mushroo
- Carol -- can you approximate the recipe for filling made with po
- Barbara, I'm one of those people who cooks by eye, not recipe,
- Carol -- You start with raw rice, correct? I LOVE the freezing
- Carol, How much garlic do you put in a goose? Barbara Martin <
- Barbara, The freezing idea was my mom's. Thew worst part of tha
- WOW! Reckon it would work on a torched chicken, too? (The garli
- Sure it would. I torch my chickens at 450 F the whole time -- do
- Torta Rustica is a rustic Italian pie; I'll list the ingredients
- Speaking of garlic: peel off the skin and alternately dunk fo
- Lee Ann, That sounds heavenly! And to both you and ec, I'm gla
- Garlic is great. It is definitely a household staple here. My da

- Celebrating Nuts and Berries, Sticks and Vines!
- Barbara, Have you heard anything about a new dogwood called "Fl
- It sounds wonderful, as do many new introductions. I have not y

- Back Seat Gardening: The View From the Garden Bench
- Barbara, Garden benches are nice, but I like to carry chairs
- Isn't it amazing when you discover how much of your yard and hom

- Razorback herb gardener
- Kimber Standridge Hello everyone. I'm new to this so bear with
- Razorback calling -- BIG WELCOME! Whereabouts are you from?

- Tick Control?
- I recently received a question about tick control and posted it

- Veggies and Wild Flowers on a NY Hillside
- I received a very interesting question about gardening with ter

- The Front Walk: A Garden Design Basic
- How often do you use your front walk? Do your guests use your f
- Seems to me than when people don't use the front walk, either it
- Judy! At least I didn't ask what your measurements are! Big Gr

- Hunting in the Garden: Where Plants, Animals and People Cross Pa
- The hunt is on! If you've had frost in your garden, what still
- *If* I've had frost? We had snow flurries yesterday! If we fol
- So far we are frost free. I still have nasturtiums 'Alaska' vari
- Frost... I have a vague recollection of what that is... the loo
- Hello Hollywood! No! Frost is something people do to their hair
- I'm not doing it to my hair. My hair is doing it without my help
- The ornamental grasses are blooming big time here. They are col

- The Contemporary Garden Journal: Readers, Writers and Publishers
- Journal schmournal. I suspect we are just plain nosey and that'
- Barbara, I really enjoy reading gardening journals. One I've rea
- That's one I haven't read yet! THanks for the tip! I'm hopin
- Judy, Could you tell us what's special about Page Dickey's bo
- Here's one of my all time faves -- but does it count as a garden

- CHIPMUNKS: Friend or Foe? You Decide!
- As far as keeping the chipmunks out of the crocus, I like the su
- I'm not sure platic would stop our crazed critters -- actually,
- I think chipmunks could get through the plastic, too. After all
- I suspect a household cat or dog might be a pretty good deterrre

- Facts of Life In the Natural Garden
- What's moving in your garden this week? Barbara Martin
- My plants moved in my garden this week! I have most of my best
- My garden movers today: Crickets and hoppers and dogs, oh my!
- In my garden today? The chicken, after an absence of three days
- Not THAT chicken! Think he'd do under a corn stalk in lieu of a
- My husband, who has been threatening to eat that poor chicken si
- Actually, the titmice are back, and the finches, and more chicka
- Today we saw (among other things in our yard) 6 deer at once, in
- Try a two pointbuck as a part of a separate herd of seven. Toda

- POLITICS IN THE GARDEN: LIBERALS UNITE!
- Liberal or Conservative? Which one are you? Barbara Martin
- Well, I do confess to having one spiral topiary. But the shaggy
- Barbara, To be fair to gardeners everywhere, I think Ms. Need
- I take it you didn't actually like the great manipulation of spa
- Barb! You can pick any label you like. As I tell my students an
- Perhaps Needleman is a "victim" of a neighbor who has done a nat
- Well, maybe. So often that type of a radical departure from the
- Guys, I think you're wrong; I don't think she meant it in ter
- Travis, Needleman (and that name, that name...) said that gar
- My first impression of her article was that she'd hit on a nifty
- I know she used garden terminology, but I felt like she w
- My Momma always taught me it's not polite to bring up religion o
- Deb, you forget I was at one of your parties, and I heard you ta
- Hmmmm must have been rebellious that day! Last time I invite YOU
- And I always thought gentlemen didn't tell! Barbara Martin
- I tend to agree with Marge that this article was, at least, a ra
- To be honest, the more times I read the article the less I could
- Then and again -- I think it would be intructive if Ms. Needlema
- Barb Dorsett, How on earth can you accuse Gertrude Jeckyll of be
- Jeckyll and Lutyens kept a firm grip on the design basics -- sca
- And Lutyens drew the straight lines...for Jekyll to fill with dr
- Carol, Her echinops don't qualify as topiary forms? She used
- Barb! WHAT have you been reading lately?!? (big grin!) B
- Susan Hill & Rory Stuart's Reflections From a Garden. (b
- Summary? Pretty please? Sounds wonderful! Barbara Martin
- I'll tell you when I've read enough of it to know. So far, idea
- Oh. THAT kind of book. Well, think of it this way. If you don
- Barbara, At that scale, if I have *any* of it there won't be
- I'm of the hairy armpit school of gardening, myself. LOLOL, B
- Thank you. Barbara Martin Thank you. Barbara Martin Thank you. Barbara Martin Were you really thrice grateful, Barbara? ;-) Carol (virtual
- I love love love fan mail. Barbara Martin And....she also wants to have the gardening discussion string wi
- I especially love fan mail from people who are not gardening edi
- Seriously, though, in answer to the question about grand scale o
- Seriously, though, in answer to the question about grand scale o
- (I apologize if this results in multiple posts -- I am having tr

- Violas! Who else fell for violas this weekend?!?
- Please don't tell me I'm the only one to succomb to their charms
- Barb, I did! I like their bright blooms in the depths of winter
- Mine usually get buried under snow for weeks at a time, then pop

- Bush blocks
- John Harman Well, the 'bush' is just about anywhere outside the
- Australian gardeners must be tenacious! My daughter will be v
- Just about to do the inevitable Spring article.Yes Spring has sp
- FAB! SEND PIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Barbara Martin Yes, John -- pictures!! Send them for the garden tour! Carol (v

- Wash Your Hands With Soap Before You Eat! And Other Lessons From
- Oh LOL, did I fall for that one! Tell your Dad he's my kinda g
- Hi Barbara, I loved your article on modern herbs. As a Pharmacy
- Hi Emma! Glad to hear your plants are doing well for you! Do

- Permaculture: Gardens for Body and Soul
- Win a free book! Did any one enter that fun contest? Be sur

- Ecobabble or Ecopsychology? (Organic Gardening Part Three)
- Why do you garden? Barbara Martin Because I can't help myself. I'm addicted. Carol (virtually ga
- Carol, we all knew that! (GRIN) But what got you started? What m
- What got *me* started? A Shepherd's seed catalog. It arrived on
- Those Catalogs! I think a Breck's catalog is what got me sta
- Hmm -- when I got *my* first Breck's catalog I made a list of $8
- I STILL could order $800 worth of bulbs... often and alot ... n
- I garden cause you guys enticed me into it!!! Now I LOVE it.
- ec, when are you going to send me pictures of your garden for th
- Hi ec! I bet you could grow some bulbs in pots! Lots of the no
- Growing bulbs in pots--that was one of my early activities in ga
- If you really want to make a statement--grow the Bengal Tiger ca
- Diana -- AROIDS?!? What are aroids? Please don't tell me they'r
- Lee Ann, I just knew somebody would ask something like that!
- Aroids include these genuses: Acorus (looks somewhat like grass
- No kidding! You better post over here and give us the heads up
- My continuing problem has more to do with carpentry than gardeni
- ec: How about sturdy hooks and pulleys? Fewer holes in the wal

- Obesity in plants?
- Is there such a thing? If so, I hope you will add to the FAT!
- Yes, plants can be obese! There has been quite a discussion on
- Yes, plants can be obese! There has been quite a discussion on
- Have you ever seen scape blast on a daylily? It literally drink
- Hi ec! Overwatered plants can drown or as Carol pointed out, ex

- The Garden Observer! (Organic Gardening Part Two)
- Does anyone keep a garden journal? Record weather or other data
- I start journals and use them for a month or so. Then they get
- I keep a journal. A huge three ring binder with dividers and poc
- Thank heavens I'm not the only disorganized one! I've tried sev
- Glad to hear too, that I am not the only one disorganized! I
- I think I'd just settle for an organized garden....organized for
- The closest I've gotten to a reliable journal with regular entri
- Winter -- yes! That's when I do most of my journal writing, too.
- Carol, Do you actually draw out plans for things? Or do you jus
- Barbara, I drew out an elaborate plan for the very first garden
- I don't map out my own garden any more, either! But I used to do

- Healthy Plants Don't Get Nits! (Organic Gardening: Part One)
- Huh. I get it now... The morning glories I planted are the on
- I'm with you, Barbara! I generally don't use chemicals, but wil
- Ec -- maybe the morning glories needed bigger pots -- the bigger
- Hi Marge! Just curious, but what all do you keep on hand to use
- Well, actually, Barbara, I don't keep much in the heavy chemical
- Barbara, It sounds like you and I have pretty much the same phi
- Hi Marge! As far as a suggestion for what to do about leaf mine
- Yah, Barbara...big help! But, (whine) I want to grow Hel
- Is THAT what's been chomping on the anemones!?! Something munch
- Marge, Maybe you can grow something as a companion for your H
- Barb, That's a thought I hadn't come up with! I'll have to g

- Pssst! There’s a SNAKE in the garden!
- Barbara, Those milk snakes are common? I've never s
- The first snake I saw in my garden here in Pennsylvania was a mi
- Snakes! The garters are great in the garden. Eating slugs twice
- Hi Debra! Do you have a picture? I could put it up somewhere be
- My goodnesss... first bats, now s-s-s-snakes????? PANIC!!!!!
- Well, I really learned something from that living color snake li
- Well Barb, unfortunately I don't. I should have photographed the
- Sluggo is almost Kewt. Does this mean I have to "do" slugs next
- Hi ec! Timber Rattlers live around here, according to the maps,
- Carol! Were you out in the sun for a good long while before you
- My worst nightmare, turned into an article. I'll probably have
- Kim! Here are my SNAKE TIPS FOR WIMPS! Bad dreams and snakes
- Ok, I'll take your tips... Talk to myself and jump around lik

- Weather Weather Everywhere! What Are We to Think !?!
- Do you use moles or toads or daylilies to predict the weather?
- Actually, daylilies tell me more about what the weather *was*. I
- Barbara, I use the Murphy system. Leave out a favorite too
- I use the watering method. If the drought is long and extreme
- Well, Barbara, I sure wish your system worked for my garden! If
- Dry as toast hmmm... hasn't rained here since March... April???
- Do you live in a desert? Barbara Martin (Eco-Gardens)
- No Barbara, it's that wonderful Mediterranian climate. We had al
- Speaking of car muddied, my Murphy's law is wash the car and it

- WHOLLY BATS, BATMAN : DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA- NOT!!!!
- Barbara of eco Very wonderful and batty (har har) article.
- Barbara, I like your article. I have bats living in the woods
- Hi EC! Hi Darcy! Thank you! We have some bats by our house,
- We have at least one bat in the house every summer. My husband
- Carol, how do bats get in your house? Darcy, Oregon
- Darcy, The house is over 100 years old. It has cracks and holes
- Hi Darcy! Some of my relatives had a huge old rambling house on
- Bats can even get into newer buildings. We get them in the libr
- Hi Lee Ann! What a great technique! I use a similar method for
- Really, I am astonished with these tales of bats in the house an
- Hi Darcy! What a memorable event! I suspect you are correct
- Barbara, Your 'just in case' reminded me of my son's kinderg
- Hi Barb! LOL! Thank you! If only our "in case" were so hypot
- And they say it's not healthy living in the city. This country
- Kim, maybe it would help you overcome your aversion to bats if y
- Lee Ann, I wish it were that simple. I know about the benefit
- Kim, I tried to track down Dr. Anderson today, but got sidetrack
- Lee Ann, that's hysterical! But what luck for your mom that 7 p
- Carol, I think she might have prayed for hummingbirds to grace t
- Hi Kim! I have a lot of respect for the pioneers and settlers
- Kim, You know you were surprised and scared. Think of that poo
- Um, snakes are the ones that make me all but scream. I really do
- Kim, I was REALLY scared of bats too until about two weeks ago w

- In case you didn't see the recipe in Virtually Gardening
- Yes, I have finally put this page together for everyone! Thanks
- Sounds great! Thank you! Barbara Barbara Martin (Eco-Garde
- Gardeners who like to Bake, I've just made the Biscotti recip

- Where Have All the Flowers Gone? On Daylilies and Woodchucks
- Saw your garden "art" photos. I really thought you were kidding
- ME? JEST? Well, I never! (Very Big Grin!) Have you ever
- I have a quality bat story. But I was saving it for your articl
- Barbara, I can sympathize totally. I felt the same way when I c
- Foxes eat baby rabbits, so do mink owls and cats, among others.
- We live in an area which is into agriculture in a big way. Peop
- Hi Kim! This is interesting! For the record, I do not own a
- Barbara, I'll bet my bottom dollar it's Bambi who has munched
- Hi Marge! On the whole I cerainly agree with you about the li
- Maybe it's time to inquire about squished woodchucks... **ec
- Hi Ecwrite! I've never seen a squished woodchcuk (aka groundhog
- Barbara I think you touched on a very important point when you m
- Thanks, Kim! Barbara Martin (Eco-Gardens)

- This One’s For the Birds! Gardening With the WiId Neighbors
- Barbara, You absolutely must play those bird calls wit
- Catbirds? Are you sure you want them around? Don't you like
- Really? These seem pretty friendly. At least they're not in the
- Yup. Maybe they were defending a nest or something. Took a tuft
- I'm just getting my feet wet with bird watching and I have to sa
- Hi Kim! Maybe I should expand into books here! Thank you fo
- I think books are a great idea! Speaking of birds -- do chick
- Hi Carol! Last time I checked, chickens were domesticated anima
- Yup, Barbara, I'm going the orange routine to try to encourage m
- I don't know anything about chickens either except to say that B
- Carol, your description of your little chickie (called "peeps"
- Lee Ann, I can certainly understand why they're called peeps! U
- This reminds me of the local nursery I frequent. They have chic
- Carol! Next thing you know there will be a sign at your front d
- Shoes with tassles, huh, Kim? Maybe I should haul mine out to a
- Hi Carol! And I almost believed the old saw about the bird in h

- WANTED: Favorite Birding Links
- Do you have a favorite birding link to recommend? I'd be glad to
- Barbara, There's always the That's Pet Birds, right? I meant more the wild outdoor kind. B
- Barbara, I'm afraid all of my own favorite bird links came from
- Actually, since the sub-group is Pet and Animals, these Birds ar
- Thanks! Honestly, I figured it was only per birds so I never loo
- Thanks Carol! You're very kind. Maybe I'll just do a compendiu
- Barbara - the birds topic is more about birds-birdwatching than
- Thanks Lily. I took a look at it and it seems I have already in

- Get Wild! Garden Parties to Attract the Neighbors!?!
- Wild yard art wins award! Check out the discussions under Suite
- Barbara, Hope you'll do part of this series on how to attrac
- Bats are on the way! Thanks, Amber Barbara Martin (Eco-Garden
- Barbara of eco-- your photos are just lovely The gnomes, in p
- ec--spike heels will do a decent job of aerating, but if you can
- Carol! Nobody said they (hummers) were smart! Barbara Martin
- hi ecwrite of the web! Next thing we know you'll be keeping a j
- Barbara, ec not only has a camera but a Polaroid scanner and ha
- Carol? What are pothos?? ec
- They're kind of like philodendron. I thought that was what you
- Ah... I get it! The plastic ivy is INSIDE my house...stuck be
- Which leads to another interesting question. How many of us use
- Lobster whirligig. Used to have one of those concrete seahorse b
- Well, speaking of indoor garden decor and attracting wildlife, i
- Well, Barbara, I can see why you won! My copper frog just didn'
- I *want* that piglet! Does anyone know if being managing editor
- No, No, Carol...I've got first dibs on the piglet :-) Please, P
- No, Marge--he would *not* go well with your tasteful verdigris f
- Hi Karen! Don't you ever feed that cat? I planned to write my
- Carol! Marge! Money? What money!? It's a looong way from hom
- Barbara, he is 18 pounds... some of that is not muscle, most peo
- Tell him that if you can find him in the garden, without any cap
- Yup. Right next to the squished piglet. Barbara Martin (Eco-G
- More like, on top of the squished piglet... :-) How do you think
- Karen, It's nice to know I'm not the only one with fat cats. Ca
- Well, Carol, I *could* put the pig under a different plant than
- Squashed piglets don't come cheap. Virtually speaking.Barbara M
- Use the piglet as the icon for the suite 101 virtual garden tour

- OK, so what exactly IS Plant Food?
- Now that the Garden Goddesses of 101 have turn me into one of th
- Elise, Plant food is normally basically fertilizer--a mixture o
- Hi Elise! Ain't no such animal as plant food, technically speak
- Elise, Barbara, I agree that most plants do get sufficient nutr
- Hi Carol! Sorry --I didn't mean to imply plants don't need fert
- Just a small warning about using Osmocote "time release" fertili
- Yeah, the Impatiens didn't like the hamburgers at all. Actual
- Whew! Thanks, Karen. I'm glad the only thing did this to was t
- Long-term fertilizers are formulated two ways. Some brands rele
- Elise--Your impatiens may be curling because they are getting to
- Hi Elise! Now we're all worrying about your impatiens -- either

- Bye-Bye Bambi: A Battle for Keeps!
- I've never had to do battle with deer in my neighborhood althoug
- Hi Diana! Let's be real clear here. I/we do not own a gun. My

- I finally get it!
- Okay, my back hurts and my hands will never be quite the same. B
- You are in trouble now, Barbara. First comes those gift plants--
- And now you're recruiting your neighbors to go plant shopping wi
- Clean clothes, Diana? To go play in the dirt? Carol (virtua
- Hey-- I don't like to travel with dirty clohtes. Settled for s
- Hi Barbara! Welcome to the club! Enjoy! (Membership is always o
- Glad to hear the pop bottle terrariums worked out well for you!
- Thanks everyone for your best wishes and warnings too! I'm down
- Barbara, an easy way to make a semicircle is to use your hose a
- Hi Barbara! Hint on marking the shape you want to dig: spray p
- Ahh! I've heard about the hose trick, but frankly didn't feel li
- Barbara -- if you want a true semi circle, tie some yarn or stri
- If you tie the spray paint can to the end of the string you have
- Hi Karen! Yup-- you explained it exactly -- although I've never

- Knock Off the Old Knot Garden? NOT!
- Thanks for bringing back fond memories of the Museum of Garden H
- Barbara, I've always wanted to do a knot garden. Originally I p
- Hi Judy! Yes, I have always loved them, too, but never planted
- Hi Carol! Three suggestions for coping with the number of plant
- Wow, a whole article just for me! Aren't you nice. After all th
- Yes, Judy--I'm afraid you'll have to plant one now. And then wri
- Well, Barbara, now I know what to do with the 120 little lavende
- Hi everyone: I just found this neat on-line magazine edition
- Hi Diana! Thanks for the tip! Barbara Barbara Martin (Eco-

- The No-Fail Herb Garden: Informal Recipe for Success
- Hello Barbara Eco-Gardening I was reading your current articl
- Hi Elise! She *is* fabulous! Have you seen her on tv? I don't w
- Barbara of eco, I think I HAVE to do the frog lady for my next
- Hi ecwrite! So you're hooked, hunh? Glad you enjoy it--some of

- On Herb Gardening... and Other Things!
- Hi Barbara, Guess I am dense after all, or just can't read.
- Hi Pat! Who's dense? I just thought you loved my articles! LO

- Hug A Tree? Give Me A Break! It 's Arbor Day Again
- Age old connection was discussed in my classroom on Arbor day an
- Delightful! Did they learn it all from you or did they just lik
- Hi: This reminds me of the time I asked a bunch of middle sch
- I can't take credit for most of what they knew about trees. We s
- Deborah! How clever! Hope you don't mind I copied that out to
- Yes, I have done this in music. BUT I must explain that for abou
- Deborah! TIA--Sounds great! I usually teach grown-ups but I ke
- Sure thing, Barb! It'll be next week before I can get anything t
- Ok, Barb! I've got the goods now. I found the manuals that have
- Hi Deborah! Welcome back! Thanks for the info. Both Project
- Excellent! I'm glad you shared the official PLT site and I have

- When Hugs Just Aren't Enough: Trees Need Care, Too!
- Trees! You gotta love 'em! Or am I the only one who thinks "top
- Barbara, No, I do too. By the way I love this article, not o

- Photo
- I enlarged your photo to a full screen but there were not enough
- Pixels and Frogs -- Howard, I can't believe you did that -- ju

- Al Gore's Gone Native -- And On His Very Own Lawn, No Less!
- Bravo, Barbara! I've been fighting with my husband for years bec
- Barbara-- Great title, great article. YAY team!! all the
- Barbara Loved this article! Great job! I'm just glad I don't
- From the mouths of babes and small children who ask about the em

- Home Lawn Care: The Softer Touchstone of Suburban Living
- Barbara, I can't wait for next week--although now I'll have to d

- Butterflies and Gardens: Making the Perfect Match
- Barbara, Beware!!! You asked for my opinion, and I'm even goi
- Do you do books for a nickel? (If that was "only" your .02 cent
- Karen, I'm glad to see your reply--maybe you'd like to critique
- Barbara - You asked whether I checked the intro section before I
- Cryptic? ME? LOL! Better cryptic than a cipher! ;) Karen, I

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