I forgot that you can't bend anymore, sorry. How wonderful to have a garden room, that makes for a very nice hobby. The tulip tree pictures are beautiful.
I have had a small 'christmas tree' cactus that only blooms every other year It produces small pink flowers. I keep it on the window sill. When I was working, I had it on my desk and because the company was a cable company & the lights were on 24/7 and it would bloom all winter. At home it blooms every 2 years and the pink flowers don't last as long as they did when it was on my office desk. I had over 60 plants that were years and years old when I first moved into this apartment. I loved it, but then one summer it was like the marching ants decided to come in. It was awful, I had 3 maintenance men here at one time in the morning. Overnight, there were literally thousands of ants all over the window and the wall in my bedroom, and on the living window. They completely infested all my plants, when I picked up the pot from it's saucer, all I could see was a thick layer of black moving around, hundreds of them were piled up on one another. It seems that the day before the maintenance people had to open the concrete floor in the laundry room to fix a pipe, which is next to my apartment. Well we guess that the underground must have gotten so flooded that they disturbed a huge nest and the closes dry land was my apartment. It was like a sci-fi movie, and equally disgusting. The plants were so heavily infested they had to throw them all out and exterminate the apartment. I had to move my birds to a neighbors apartment and me and Princess slept at my sisters for a couple of days. The one plant that still saddens me was my 20 year old Bromeliad. This was the first time that it started to grow a stalk for a beautiful flower. You can't buy that particular Bromeliad any more, ever since they changed the importing/exporting laws. So once it bloomed and then the bloom dies, you get baby plants. I would have gotten a lot of money for those baby plants! Of course the owners of the apartments would not compensate me for the loss either. I also had a 10 year old mini Bonsai tree, among other exotic plants. I had a real green thumb and use to give away plants all the time just from the cuttings of my plants. Now I don't have the desire to get back into it anymore. So I just have a couple of plants now and the Christmas Catus was the only plant that the ants didn't like, so it got saved. -------Original Message------- From: [email protected] Date: 2/28/2011 7:25:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Re: Tulip Tree - [1 Attachment] [Attachment(s) from [email protected] included below] My husband and I used to garden. Now, I can't kneel, nor stoop, even using a garden stool doesn't help. So, I don't do much gardening anymore. I do have a yardman because the yard is big and has lots of huge trees on it. Although he was a television personality, my husband was a real handy man. He enclosed our front porch and we made it into a garden room. That's where I keep my "tender" plants, mostly cactus, in pots and hanging baskets and that's where I do most of my "gardening". Attached is a photo of the Pencil Cactus which is starting to bloom. Gloria
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