I can't see, its all covered in snow :(

Shawn

Barb
it's not that much longer,my big brugs in the basement are
starting to wake up, my confused Amaryllis are starting
to bloom, I don't know why I can't get them to bloom at
Christmas time, but here they are getting ready to open
yes I will post Pic's, tommorrow & Thursday it will be 51 &
56 degrees, I can get some things done outside yea
Elizabeth

My citrus trees started blooming this weekend. And the first blossoms finally opened on the nectarine and plum trees. Peach and apricot are a little slow this year. My grape vines have popped out with their first leaves. Still waiting on the Japanese Maples and the Magnolia to leaf out. The buds are getting fat, just haven't opened yet. We were forecast to hit 87 yesterday, but only made it to 84.

Ryan

Shawn you are like me snow snow go away. Ice storm tommorow and 6 or more inches following the next day...

Elizabeth LOL on the confused amarylis mine is getting ready to bloom too..hahhah I just love this time of year. The sun is longer adn the plants say. Hey here I am ... I started a bunch of cuttings last year and they are leafing out. One is a mandevilla and it has variegated leaves. I was shocked. The brug babies are getting huge. I will need to repot them before they go outside. This has been a great year in the gh compared to last year. I have a little bit of knowledge now not much but a little and have been using avid. I can keep up with the bugs. WHOO HOO compared to last year...

Ryan that sounds so beutiful. I bet the citrus smells good huh? I am so envious of you that live in that climate. We get excited here when are plants wake up after a very long winter that starts in October for us....I am so frickin excited eventhough it will be till may to put things outside....Barb

My Vodoo Lilies have started...

the names of the things comming up, that I know of the top of my head are the Canna's lol. The Dats from last year are sprouting out of the ground. Castor bean plant coming back again lol. Otherwise just lil things

Lucy

Two of my three brugmansia that I didn't cover before the frost are sprouting little green stuff from the bottom, the third feels alive, but hasn't started to sprout yet. I am worried that things that began to grow during a warm spell in January and got killed back by the frost will just give up...like my Mexican sage and cuphea. This is a real learning experience. I guess it will be May before I really know what plants survived.

Springggggggggggggg is cominnnnnnnnnnnnnnng. . .I can just SMELL it. . .I can FEEL it when the soil crunches, and the "bite" in the air is not as hard as it was. . .

I'm soooooooooooooooooo itchin' to get diggin' I can't HELP myself!

Dweeb you are one of the best....You really hooked me up this fall. every single one of yours is growing like crazy. I remeber we had puter problems..Lol I will always remember how nice you were to me...I am hooked.. Have fun digging in the dirt... LoL If you ever need replacemants I am here for ya...barb

Barb, I may have to take you up on that this fall.

The "green" room was LITERALLY making a wall "green" so he installed one of those vents in the apex? It pulls ALL my humidity now, AND my heat. My "jungle" like I had last year is a pathetic row of sticks right now.

I've lost several now. I may only have a hand ful now of Brugs. I stomped inside today and said "buddy, we need to talk man, there has to be a happy medium here."

Ya CAN'T suck all the HEAT AND HUMIDITY from my green room leaving it 68, no humidity when I'm trying to root stuff. They're just barely surviving now, not thriving.

Soooooooo, next summer, I guess the "rubber paint" is going in. Something has to change. I can't do the brug cuttings in a room that barely stays warm enough for cuttings and nothing thrives to jump here in Illinois.

But I'm so glad they are doing well and hanging in for you. I'm so glad. Just pay it forward to new people, just like all the wonderful people here did for me 2 years ago. (was it really two years ago now? I still feel like a newbie.)

I hope they bloom for you like they did for me.

roflmao now I know why my brugs do not like it in the house either...we do not heat it above 65 degrees ha ha ha ha ha

Lucy

Dweeb You sent me doubles remeber.... they are yours if you need them.. Just let me know...:) Wi girl totally understand here on humidity it sucks so dry in the winter and humid in the summer. LOL Barb

Lucy:

Yep, and if you do THAT, you have cut WAY back on the water.

Karyn told me that.

I was KILLING them with water. Cold and damp? Sure fire way to destroy a cutting. I killed dozens upon dozens. She finally told me in a nice way "put the watering can DOWN!"

Now, I've got cuttings that are dropping leaves, shriveling, barely hanging on. I'm going to need to purchase this spring after freezing weather is gone.

Replace some that i have lost now. I still have some that are making it, now that I have to adjust the watering in there. But I've lost some favorites of mine.

Dweeb we were typing at the same time. Did you see my message above? Barb

Rose - just saw it! Yea, the MITES have had a hey day on my cuttings. I keep trying to strip them.

The high humidity used to help me keep them at bay. Once that room got dry? I can't keep up. They're everywhere.

But then again, the mites keep stripping leaves for me. I keep rinsing them.

Yelled at the ants that moved in after the torrent of rain we just had. They made a home in one of my brug pots. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. . . . . disgusting.

I hear you on the "dry" though. That's why I loved the humidity in there. Guess I need to be able to keep the humidity from traveling up the wall, into the ceiling.