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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Gene GeRue wrote:

> Plant flowers. Sunflowers,

Check

 hollyhocks,

got seedlings started-2 inches tall..this will be the first time I've
grown them

iris,

loads and loads of them, got another one for my water garden the other
day and transplanted some wild ones into the creekbed a few weeks ago.


tulips,

check, flowered and gone

 daffodils,

check, flowered and gone

> hibiscus,

I don't have one, bummer

lilacs,

I planted a lilac the first year here.  The deer browse it and it is
still a stick.

rose of sharon,

I call it althea, one of my childhood favs...I refuse to buy a big one
and anything smaller than 4 or 5 feet gets eaten quickly.


 forsythia,

hate the stuff...allergies...there was a hedge of it near the road, I
let my neighbor dig it up with his tractor.


 climbing roses,

Check.  I have a beautiful pale yellow rose called a Mother's Day rose.
 I have a few other roses in odd places, and ocassionally I find one
that was planted 40 years ago down in the wooded area.  Digging and
transplanting all those old roses into a dedicated bed is on my list of
things to do this year.


 passion
> vine,

It grows wild here..one of my favorites.


anything that blooms pretty. Scarlet Runner Beans work, too.

I bought a pack of seed because I forgot to save seed a few years back.
 I planted the 10 seeds, so I am really excited about having SRB's
again.  The hummers love them.

Today, I planted more monarda and lithodora, some blazing star
bulbs(gift), and sowed some seeds for cardinal vine, more calendula,
echinacea, columbine, cleome, a crapload of zinnias, .

In addition to all of that, I have candytuft, artemesias, azaleas,
balloon flower, phlox, confederate rose, carnations, blue sage,
nasturtiums, marigolds, cosmos, leadwort, lambs ears, globe alliums,
glads, freesias, rosemary(it flowers all the time), bleeding heart,
ditch lillies(naturalized daylillies everywhere), asiatic lillies, and
I've even got some cacti blooming!

Oh, and I've decided to grow cotton again this year.  Cotton and okra
flowers are like hibiscus flowers...very beautiful.

I love flowers.  I love herbs.  I love gardening.

--
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public
debt  should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered
and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed
lest Rome become bankrupt.  People must again learn to work, instead of
living on public assistance."

--Cicero, 55 BC
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