Sultry, where are you now? North Florida? I can attest that the storms, especially in the spring and fall, have insane winds. You have to cement anything into the ground that you don't want blown away, and even then, the top might blow off.

Way up in the Panhandle. Yes our storms are crazy here. More tornados and high winds than where we used to live. We are probably safer from hurricanes being more inland.

Deb I feel for you. As you know I had to downsize and curtail my non-orchid gardening very severely due to my health issues. Hub and I spent half an hour this morning sprucing upthe little flower garden we have now. Half an hour! and it all looks nice and neat and the three pots in it are ready for my zinnia and cosmos seeds.

The orchid GH is still going but hubs is doing a lot of the work. unfortunately I can only help every few days but he wants to continue taking care of the plants for which I'm grateful. It's easier now that I rehomed about 50 plants so we only have about 100 and the plan is to only replace plants that die…and as hard as that is I'm sticking to it because hubs has enough to do with being my caregiver and taking care of everything around here.

I sure know what creating a monster can look like! We are constantly battling vines in our yard - Virginia creeper is horrible, and so is coral vine - tho it has lovely, bee-attracting flowers. I wish I'd never introduced the coral vine, and that I hadn't let the V. creeper take off.

So my plans are the same as practically every year - clean up and try to make things neater and easier to maintain.

I'm lucky hubby will do grunt work digging stuff up, but the flipside of that is that he has no patience and so often, the good goes out with the bad. My Rangoon creeper is no more after his last effort 😕

There are lots of seeds left behind, tho. Perhaps I can start a new one, who knows?

On second thought, do I really need another creeper vine? Ah well, it was pretty - and fragrant - while it lasted.

I love your Rangoon Creeper! I left my other one at the old place. I had the double type.

I am going to get another one asap! I have big plans for vines this year. We have cleared pastures all around the house and the front 6 acres up to the ponds. So I need to plant trees and shrubs and flowering vines.

Right now, I am starting butterfly pea vines..double blue, double lavender, and double white. I have grown the single blue before. It is supposed to make a good blue tea! If you add lemon to the blue tea, it will turn pink!

The back acreages are all woods that still need clearing. The vines back there are Kudzu and Smilax and Japanese Honeysuckle..Everwhere!!! lol

Luckily, the goats and pigs love them. It just isnt properly fenced off back there yet so I cant let them on the loose yet.

What seeds are you all planting? I started my tomatoes they need up potting badly. I still need to start peppers.

My last frost date here is supposedly April 1st! However, they now say we are zone 9a instead of 8b. I will believe it when I see it. We got a late March freeze last year that killed off all my mulberry fruits.