Welcome to possibly the friendliest and most helpful of the GW forums. Glad to have you here.

Thank you!

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Welcome! Everyone here has been so helpful to me! Can't wait to hear your questions!
Barb

Welcome you have found the best source of consumer information on the net. I can't wait to post the pictures
of my finished kitchen it is the result of all the advice from the Kitchen,Flooring, and the Appliance forums and the great people who reside there!
AJ

Welcome Tropicals! This is a great place with helpful people and lots of pictures! You won't be disappointed. The kitchens on here are beautiful. Problem is, you will probably want every single one of them!

I will have to check you out on the gardening forum. I am dying to try growing plumerias. I think it gets too cold here. I love the scent. It is the scent of Hawaii.

Hi and welcome to the TKO world :)

Hi! I posted for years on the gardening side before I checked out the home forums. I'm glad to "meet" you!

Val, your life will never be the same again. Step 1 is admitting it! Welcome.

Allison

Thank you all for the nice welcome! I am excited to be planning my kitchen, but dread all the work and mess ahead!
Mustbnuts  yes, I do love them all! But I am always really drawn to the buttercreamish colors, so that must be what I love the best!
Plumeria only need 2 things, at least 6 hours a day of sun and heat. I have over 150 cultivars as large as 16 feet tall and my yard is blooming like crazy right now. If you live in a cold climate (I am in central Florida), you need to bring them into the house in the winter  or any time the temp is below about 60.
BTW, I havenÂt posted on the Plumeria forum in years (ever since the forums battle about 6 or 7 years ago)

Here is a link that might be useful: Here is a link to my garden site - haven't updated it in years though

i'm sensing i won't be a successful plumeria owner in my lifetime :) but i do have a small collection of kitchens :p welcome aboard!

Welcome, Val! This is such a friendly, helpful forum; it will help you with your remodel a lot!
What were the forums battles? Sounds intense!

igloochic - if your name has anything to do with your location, I guess you never will be. I am truly sad for anyone who can't enjoy the beauty and incredible scents of the lovely plumeria. On the other hand, I can't grow peonies or roses here! Too hot!

morton5 - it was horrible. Someone started another forum somewhere and then everyone started arguing about which forum to use and I dropped off both of them!

OT here--We are very hot, hot, hot here in the summer time (normal daily temps are over 105 degrees. Nights may cool off to 80 for two seconds and then shoot back up. I love the pinks and striped plumerias and my garden is mostly pinks, whites and purples.

I can grow brugmansia (which I love--and have one blooming right now--pretty white one. I also grow orchids inside the house as well as outside.

It is the winters that get cool here and foggy for weeks on end. Ugh! The gloom! Hate it. We are mostly around freezing (but not too freezing as we are a citrus area) at nights but get up in the low 40's during the day during the worst part of winter. That lasts for about 3--4 months or so. We have lots of wind machines so the citrus doesn't freeze.

I would love to go plumerias. I may give it a try some day.

i have peonies coming out my...umm garden gates lol and i do adore them. they do very well in alaska as do violets. i'm not a hot weather person...so i'll have to go plumaria free for life heh heh but its fun to hear the passion in your writing about them.

those garden forums get a bit brutal! i posted asking a question about some plants in my newly planted garden (done by a wonderful master gardener) and was ripped in two for not asking my gardner....told i was too cheap to pay for the info etc. my gardener had passed away suddenly a few weeks after planting :( a very young woman with children. that was my last post to the gardening pooh pooh heads :)

Hi! You are going to love this forum! I found it about 5 months ago and I'm addicted. Everyone is so helpful and friendly.

Jeanine

Just chiming in to say Hi, and welcome to what others have said - a life-changing experience.

I was about to say that I haven't been here that long, but actually it's been a year now (or thereabouts). I can't believe it. I never planned to do a kitchen redo, but as luck what have it, and my pursestrings too - LOL, one thing led to another, and another and now I have a new kitchen ( minus new cabinets). I can't tell you how much these folks helped me with picking and matching, etc. There is so much help here and everyone is a willing participant. Welcome aboard!!