your second garden looks great ! I wish someone would provide me a beautiful brug garden to look at ! ( JK)

You have a great area for your brugs ! I like the coleus too !

Thats a really pretty garden Barry. You did a good job.

I hope your friend appreciates you. That's a lot of work. It looks great.

Linda

Barry, I love it! Kinda reminds me of my brugmansia bed. You have as many brugmansia in your bed as I have in mine. I have 8 planted in my entire bed. My plants are about 1 ft taller than yours, so your bed is really doing well. I have moved all of filthyriches plants out of the brugmansia bed, just think if they would have been true, then my plants would be 4 ft tall instead of 2ft tall. It is really hot, and they are not doing as well as I hoped they would. They only get 20 minutes of water every other day from the sprinkler system. Barbra,

Looking Good Barry!!!..I like the red coleus mixed in with the brugs!

Thanks all, for your comments!

Barry how colse to me are you? Would let you have a 3rd garden any time you want to plant it. Judy

Barry! Two thumbs up on a job well done :0)All your brugs look very healthy and seem to be enjoying there new home.

Rigo

Snowbank is looking nice Barry!! Great Job!!
Kylie

Whoa, you are busy Barry! You must have a lot of confidence in your friend to have planted Snowbank there -- I keep mine close to the back door, LOL!

my friend turned out to be increasingly delusional over the past 4 months.... Trust him? no more.. but the Snowbank is in an ideal place, and I worked like a dog amending tilling and weeding the garden.
He wont do what I say: "DO Nothing"! He doesn't know a thing about gardening.It is most frustrating to see him strip leaves off the bottom healthy of the tomato plants, drip water for 3 days or water for a few minutes each day.

I might give up on this garden - if it gets worse, he won't listen. Then I dig up the Snowbank.

Looks good. All that red coleus really makes it pop! Gonna be real pretty when it all matures.

Wow, i wish my neighbor came and did my yard for me! haha. u did a great job.

Barry, your friend is lucky to have you as a friend. If he is increasingly delusional, does he have family to care for him? Also, sorry to say this, but perhaps you should get the brugs you prize, like Snowbank, back to your own yard because someone might say they belong to your friends house and then you won't be able to get them back. It was a wonderful idea to spread your garden, but feel you need to be aware of this just in case. If that happened here in CA, for sure one could not claim plants once they were planted in someone's yard.

Sadly, his friends have also noticed the change. He needs help.

We had an intervention,by grouping up and calling His (Joe) son, who is only 20. Joe was on Medical leave from work, because of some of his behavior, at the erge of his co-workers, rather than being dismissed.

What occurred was a total flop, the Employer's Doctor gave him a clean bill of health in the presence of his son, who I believe was totally unprepared for this and has been convince by his Dad that we (his friends) are all loons, short sighted people who cannot comprehend just how forward thinking he is. The young son bought it hook-line-and-sinker. So now there is no real hope that he get seen by a qualified Psychiatrist. Merely mentioning the possibility that he need help, leads to confrontation with him.

So...... I choose to hang around and try to cope with this situation. Joe has been a good friend over the Winter and Spring, and has gotten me out of a jam, by giving me allot of work, and forwarding me money for work I still have to accomplish around his home. So you see I am inextricably involved. The potential loss of my Snowbank is a small price to pay for remaining loyal to a friend who someday may be in real trouble and need an advocate, who can shed some light on a situation that could evolve, due to his delusions. Although he is trying at times, I have decided to cope.

Joe's friends that remain are in Florida. He has just gone there for a 17 day vacation. I pray that these people, and his son,(who lives in Florida) will finally see the extent to with which Joe is sick, and that something will come of this. He desperately need some Medical scrutiny, by a qualified MD.

Wish there was something I could do :(

barry, while he's gone, dig up the damn snowbank and plant something else quietly in its place. that crazy dude will never even notice.

next time I come by, I promise it'll be during the daytime so I can see the second garden :D and I'll bring something cool other than a pork kebab courtesy of dami. here's a hint - it'll be leafy!

Ria