Cheryl

Do you know what kind of orchid it is?

My favorite line is "hello, my name is Cheryl and I'm a plantaholic"

Cheryl

Thanks for mentioning Winter Sowing, you're a wintersown superstar! It really is a lot of fun to do and it makes winter pass by so easily! My attic is rapidly filling with boxes and bags of recyclables to make my Winter Sowing flats with. I am planning on starting well over a hundred flats again this year! We're getting very close to the Winter Solstice when we'll be able to start Winter Sowing! Hooray! We have now have a Winter Solstice Day Celebration too. You can Winter Sow in a mild winter climate because with Winter Sowing you don't need snow and ice, you only need the season called winter.

If anyone has any questions about Winter Sowing please do visit the Winter Sowing Forum or check out our extensive FAQs. The WS forum welcomes everyone with wide open arms, we are the friendliest forum on the GardenWeb, and that's something Winter Sowers take great pride in. This friendliness was recently highlighted in the Wall Street Journal.


Winter Sowing Flats made from Recyclables

Thanks, hope to see you drop by the WS Forum!

Trudi Davidoff

Betty

It has been a miserable winter here in the northeast - what kept most of us going is the beautiful sites we would know would arrive in March April and now May! The wonder of color - daffodils, tulips, forthensia trees, azalea, etc. Keep in mind I can't spell! But I find gardening therapeutic and I try to come here every day. My oldest daughter Alexis suffers from a chronic illness and her goal this year is a rose garden. She had roses around the yard but some didn't make it through our harsh winter. We started a pond garden last fall and can't wait to work on that. Dispite the servere pain she is in and myself due to arthritis in our backs - GW keeps us going! We find gardening away to escape the pain. I can't imagine not having flowers but I am learning to plant perannuals rather than annuals. My youngest are out on the hunt to find "Hot Cocoa" roses. They however try to keep me away from our town treasure chest as yes I do love to find garden junk. :-) They have returned with garden statues!!! We recycle 2 liter soda bottles and use as mini green houses for our seeds then transplant them when the signs of frost are over. We celebrate winter soltice here in December. Gardening keeps me sane! My goal is a "Moon" garden this summer! Happy Gardening!

*goes into trance with mouth agape and drool trickling down corner of lip, a la Homer Simpson...."mmmmm garden"*