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Feb 1, 2010 8:17 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Jan
St. Pete,FL
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Hosted a Not-A-Raffle-Raffle Butterflies Seller of Garden Stuff
Tropicals Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Ponds Plumerias Hummingbirder
Here is the CHITCHAT forum.
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Feb 1, 2010 8:56 AM CST
Name: Jeri Nicholson
City of Central, La.
Garden Ideas: Level 2 Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Bromeliad Hummingbirder
Hostas Echinacea Dog Lover Amaryllis Tropicals Plumerias
Hi Budgielover!!! Cam a frost bitten south Louisianan join in the chatter?
"Faith is not about everything turning out OK;
Faith is about being OK no matter how things turn out."
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Feb 1, 2010 11:19 AM CST
Name: Lin Vosbury
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)

Region: Ukraine Region: United States of America Bird Bath, Fountain and Waterfall Region: Florida Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Birds Butterflies Bee Lover Hummingbirder Container Gardener
Hi ya budgielover and Jeri ... glad to be here.

Jeri: Some of us here in Florida have been a bit frostbitten this winter too, so you are in good company!
My yard looks like crud ... ugly, brown, mushy plants! It's hard to look out the window the way it looks right now. I sure can't wait for March 1st so I can begin pruning and cleaning up the mess and seeing what has any life left! This is the Schefflera tree in my backyard as it looks a few minutes ago! Ugly, huh? and, the Hibiscus just to the right of the Scheff. It's depressing for those of us in the south who aren't used to seeing this very often.

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~ I'm an old gal who still loves playing in the dirt!
~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot!


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Feb 1, 2010 11:39 AM CST
Name: Jeri Nicholson
City of Central, La.
Garden Ideas: Level 2 Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Bromeliad Hummingbirder
Hostas Echinacea Dog Lover Amaryllis Tropicals Plumerias
Oh Lin!!! I can so relate!!! I'm afraid that I've lost things I've had for years. Can't tell for sure until they don't reappear in the spring. I'm sitting here holding my breath and have fingers and toes crossed. I've swore I will dig up anything that comes back and haul it inside for next winter.
"Faith is not about everything turning out OK;
Faith is about being OK no matter how things turn out."
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Feb 1, 2010 12:06 PM CST
Name: Lin Vosbury
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)

Region: Ukraine Region: United States of America Bird Bath, Fountain and Waterfall Region: Florida Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Birds Butterflies Bee Lover Hummingbirder Container Gardener
LOL Jeri, I've been swearing I won't ever plant tropical's again.
~ I'm an old gal who still loves playing in the dirt!
~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot!


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Feb 1, 2010 1:00 PM CST
Name: Jeri Nicholson
City of Central, La.
Garden Ideas: Level 2 Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Bromeliad Hummingbirder
Hostas Echinacea Dog Lover Amaryllis Tropicals Plumerias
Aren't we bad and then my neighbor came over and invited me to go to Dupont's Nursery Fri. I almost jumped!!!! LOL!!!
"Faith is not about everything turning out OK;
Faith is about being OK no matter how things turn out."
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Feb 1, 2010 4:28 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Jan
St. Pete,FL
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Hosted a Not-A-Raffle-Raffle Butterflies Seller of Garden Stuff
Tropicals Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Ponds Plumerias Hummingbirder
hi everyone
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Feb 1, 2010 4:29 PM CST

Plumerias Photo Contest Winner: 2015 Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Master Level Forum moderator
Region: Florida Cat Lover Garden Sages Cactus and Succulents Tropicals Hosted a Not-A-Raffle-Raffle
I'm here Smiling
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Feb 1, 2010 7:43 PM CST
Name: Charleen
Alford, Florida (Zone 8a)
Walk in Peace / I'm Timber's Mom.
Miniature Gardening Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! I sent a postcard to Randy! Tip Photographer I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Charter ATP Member
Mules Garden Ideas: Level 2 Sempervivums Plant and/or Seed Trader Region: United States of America Beekeeper
How about an old mule woman?
May I visit too??
Charleen
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Feb 2, 2010 2:29 PM CST
Name: Susan
Georgia
Charter ATP Member
How about another GA gal? It's good to see friends here! I saw FL so didn't come over at first. LOL
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Feb 2, 2010 3:11 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Jan
St. Pete,FL
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Hosted a Not-A-Raffle-Raffle Butterflies Seller of Garden Stuff
Tropicals Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Ponds Plumerias Hummingbirder
Everyone is welcome to come warm their toes. (as warm as it gets right now. LOL)
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Feb 2, 2010 4:05 PM CST
Name: Cindy
Northeast Louisiana
Charter ATP Member Birds Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Region: Louisiana Daylilies
Cut Flowers Raises cows Bulbs Butterflies Lover of wildlife (Black bear badge)
Hey everyone . Charleen I love that picture with your red mule. We have riding mules and love them. Jeri I am so sorry for your losses and I am sure Jim will be too when you make him pay for new ones.

Lin sorry about yours too. I didn't lose to may tropicals because I dug them up in Oct when we were about to flood. I lost hundreds of plants to the flood but I will comeback. Don't we all. It hurts to lose those big mature plants though. If I were talented at designing I would welcome the new slate, but I am not.
Good to see y"all take care Cindy
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Feb 2, 2010 8:11 PM CST
Name: Jim Bailey
DeLand, Fla (Zone 9a)
well,well,well,--I see some of you guys are already here! Are we supposed to go back and forth between here and DG?
I told jeremy if thats ok with everyone
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Feb 3, 2010 2:55 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Jan
St. Pete,FL
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Hosted a Not-A-Raffle-Raffle Butterflies Seller of Garden Stuff
Tropicals Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Ponds Plumerias Hummingbirder
I am for now till we see how both go.
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Feb 3, 2010 2:37 PM CST
Name: Marianne
Fort Myers, FL (Zone 10b)
Dog Lover Region: Florida Plumerias Tropicals
Hi, guys! This is beginning to feel like home already!
Marianne
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Feb 3, 2010 4:32 PM CST
Name: Paul Hicks
Florida
Booooooo
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Feb 3, 2010 4:32 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Jan
St. Pete,FL
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Hosted a Not-A-Raffle-Raffle Butterflies Seller of Garden Stuff
Tropicals Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Ponds Plumerias Hummingbirder
Hi Marianne. Glad you made it over. How are you feeling this week?
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Feb 3, 2010 5:01 PM CST
Name: Becky
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)
Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Daylilies Hummingbirder Butterflies Seed Starter Container Gardener
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Master Level Lover of wildlife (Black bear badge) Birds Ponds
Lin - My yard looks like yours! Sad

Nice to see all the "sunny" faces here! Smiling
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Garden Rooms and Becky's Budget Garden
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Feb 3, 2010 5:13 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Jan
St. Pete,FL
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Hosted a Not-A-Raffle-Raffle Butterflies Seller of Garden Stuff
Tropicals Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Ponds Plumerias Hummingbirder
I hear you Becky. I am trying so hard to leave my pruners alone. LOL
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Feb 3, 2010 6:01 PM CST
Name: Becky
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)
Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Daylilies Hummingbirder Butterflies Seed Starter Container Gardener
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Master Level Lover of wildlife (Black bear badge) Birds Ponds
LOL! Yeah ... it's killing me to see all that brown dead stuff everywhere. I wanna clean it all up!

All my Passiflora vines on the east fence got wiped out. I am hoping they will come back. My yard may get a complete make-over this year if everything was actually killed to the roots. I sure hope not! Spent years growing my backyard garden and now it looks like a disaster. Sad And here in the Fall I thought we were going to have a mild winter this year. Mother Nature sure fooled me! LOL!
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Garden Rooms and Becky's Budget Garden

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