dont vine about the winter.
spring will come soon and squash the snow..and wintr will just have bean a memory.
try to maintain a cherry outlook till then and dont beet your head against the wall.lettuce pray for sunshine and pretend we dont carrot at all the snow & cold.

Mousetrap: Love to see them post the pics if ya find them.

nobleheart:

It sounds like a little prayer and is adorable
I am impatiens for spring, myself

☼ajtgirl☼: Ehhhhhhhhh we hit 45 today a heat wave.

Foxy Lady:

Did it melt all the snow and ice?

☼ajtgirl☼: Yes it did than we got rain.

....so some garden & winter related search ideas:
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=alpine+flowers
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=glacial+flowers
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=andes+flower
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=arctic+flower
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=calvin%20snowman&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
anyone else got any related search ideas to help with the winter blahs?

nobleheart: Live in a warmer climate and you don't have snow problems. LOL

Mousetrap: Look what i found

Foxy Lady:

nobleheart: Thanks for sharing.

Mousetrap: ROFLMBO

shorted link

www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/

http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/

http://www.blossomswap.com/gardening/

http://www.garden.org/home

to help with a garden project at the club. We are gonna have a BBQ, probably throw some astro turf down. A bench in honnor of a club member who died NYEve with her name on. A water feature and garden. The club had money donated to them by the girls parents and B&Q.
Just thought you would like to know(or maybe you did,nt really wanna know but tough you do now lol) that I got volunteered to help plan it.

The Eden project in Cornwall.
http://www.eden-project.co.uk/
http://www.cornishlight.co.uk/eden-project.htm

there is a massive shortage of water in Queensland (actually all of australia) but south of me in Brisbane they are on level 5 water restrictions.
no hoses, no sprinklers, only able to water from 4am to 8am and then only by bucket. No washing cars, houses . 140litres per person per day only. If you are caught flouting the laws you will be heavely fined.
For your information 1 gallon = 3.7 litres, so you can imagine how short showers will be.

things are really bad.

thank god we arent that desperate yet because of the big wet we got this year, but if the local authorities dont clamp down we will be looking at the same thing in the future....

water is such a precious commodity and with australia being the driest continent on earth we are having massive problems.

thought you might be interested in this useless piece of information hahaha

Actually the nurseries are talking of suing the local govt. because a...there plants are dying and b...they are losing lots of business because people wont buy because they cant water. it is having a dominoe effect.

BerniceC: Well! If its any consulation it would not make any difference if you lived in the UK. We are drowning in water and there is still a hose pipe ban lol!

Mousetrap: its crazy isnt it!!!!

heres mine:
The famous laburnum arch in full bloom at Bodnant Gardens in wales.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/fun/wallpaper/pages/images/laburnum1024.jpg

Mousetrap: have u got a hosepipe ban where u r ???

nobleheart: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh looks almost like an Arch.

Mousetrap: You got to be kidding?So what happens with all the flooding?

Oceans Apart: I know your game! You just wanna know where I am so you can eat me for dinner! I not just any ole mouse, I,m a smart mouse!

Foxy Lady: No I,m not kidding, welcome to the UK lol! My mam has a hose pipe ban and she did,nt even get flooded, just lots of rain.
Its mostly the Council that come up with these rules. Even when our resoivoirs are full they still slap a hosepipe ban on some areas. Mosetly down south but they do nearly every year Manchester up north.
As for the flooding I guess there is not much they can do about it. Fortunately even though here we are surrounded by canals we don,t get flooded a lot.

Sorry i asked

Oceans Apart:

Mousetrap: It's either you or chicken,and chicken tastes like everything

Jim Dandy: CRUMBS!

Mousetrap: Wow thats awful really.

Foxy Lady: SPRING IS ALMOST HERE

Does anyone know if she's in the area that had a Cyclone? Please let us know.

Foxy Lady:Bernice is in Townsville east coast and the cyclone was hitting the west coast around port hedland. So she 'll be fine.

skipinnz: Thanks for letting us know,i got worried.

Foxy Lady:me here and fine :)

Thanks for your concern, but on the 1st March my you beaut, super fast, faster than the speed of sound, INTERNET provider.....went broke . So now Im back on dial up until the whole horrible mess can be sorted. it is so slow that Ive only been coming on here to play games etc and havent been posting as such.

Again thanks for the concern tho ,

BerniceC: I wasn't sure where you were in Australia.I'm glad your ok.

Juat when i thought Spring was upon us we get hit tonite with a Snow storm

Foxy Lady: Yuo sam here, it has been beautiful the last few days, now we have snow coming in tomorrow

more snow..grrrr..very funny mother nature..you can my kiss cheeks .
all kidding aside,someone asked me if I new were to get real shamrocks seeds.I was told it is NOT clover,but a diff plant..anyone know?

nobleheart: I think you should ask an Irishman!

state flower:
http://www.50states.com/flower.htm
state trees:
http://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/collections/statetreeflower.html

Well daylight saving has finished, and the temps are dropping so it looks like our winter is on its way. At least we don't get snow. LOL

Oceans Apart: We missed the storm but Albany,NY got 23 inches.

nobleheart:Have you tried Google? Maybe ajtgirl can answer that question she owns a nursery.

nobleheart:
Sorry to answer so late
We sell a plant around St. Patty's Day which is marketed as Irish Shamrocks
It is called Oxalis and it has large clover shaped leaves and tiny little white or bluish flowers
The leaves can be bright green or a deep red
I'll try to find a picture

nobleheart:

http://www.easytogrowbulbs.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=13&gclid=COjG9pC-gosCFQstUAodiGDwEQ

Turns out Shamrocks (Oxalis)  are a bulb
We buy them in from other wholesales and don't grow them ourselves

Hope the link works

☼ajtgirl☼: Thanks for helping out.

☼ajtgirl☼: OXALIS????
If I remember correctly oxalis is a noxious weed in New Zealand...maybe skip could verify that as I havent lived there since '78.

☼ajtgirl☼: here is something I found.....
Notes: The genus Oxalis includes over 800 species of annual or perennial, stemmed or stemless, herbs and shrubs, often with underground bulbs or tubers. A few are aquatic species. Of the thirty species of Oxalis in Australia, twenty are naturalised and many are existing or potential serious pests in various parts of the country. Twenty two species of Oxalis were listed in Victorian nursery catalogues between 1855 and 1889. Eleven species are described in Gardening Australia's Flora (2003) with acknowledgement that 'some of the world's worst weeds belong in Oxalis,…'

One species of concern in Victoria is Soursob, Oxalis pes-caprae which invades coastal heath vegetation, grassland, woodland and dry forest. It also occurs along roadsides, and in gardens, crops and pastures. It is distinguished by the three heart-shaped leaflets with or without stalks which fold in dull days or at night. Flowers are bright yellow in colour and open in sunlight and close at night. There are masses of underground bulbs which are spread by water, birds, in dumped garden waste and during cultivation.