Wow! It’s been a long time! I guess a lot has happened in 6 months. Or maybe not since it is quite possible that I have forgotten what I wanted to write about.

Anyway…we had a pretty mild winter and about 20 seconds of snow. I was too lazy to go out and cover anything and suprisingly nothing croaked. My snapdragons, pansies, and petunias survived and I’ve got a picture to prove it (along with a new camera!)

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Some of my other plants are starting to come back and I guess I’ll be surprised because I don’t remember what I had in the front beds.

This week I will be going to my favorite nursery to stock up on flowers. I hope I see my favorite toothless lady there. Maybe she got a new set of teeth for Christmas and I won’t recognize her. I have no idea what I’m gonna buy, though. I just can’t be bothered to plan it all out. Yeah, yeah…I know. A failure to plan is a plan to fail. I will probably be buying stuff for containers because I planted some indoor plants that outgrew their pots outside in a shady area and have a bunch of empty pots that need filling. The indoor plants like their new home. My China plant is really doing well. Probably because it is finally getting water. I think the dracnea is getting too much water because it’s leaves are turning yellow. We’ve had a lot of rain, though. And they also have to face the wrath of…
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who thinks it’s fun to try and find geckos and doesn’t care where she goes to get them. She also thinks it’s fun to pull young plants out of pots or completely knock the pot over. Just ask my tomato plants. Stupid dog.

I’m sad to report that my recycled ficus tree is no longer. After being asked a million times by my husband why I was keeping the stupid thing, I finally decided it was time for it to go. That, and the fact that you could totally break off the branches just by looking at it. Now getting that stump out of that huge pot was not easy, either.

The house behind me has huge crape myrtles that I like to pretend are mine and they were kind enough to seed in my yard! Problem is that will probably be totally overcrowed since the neighbor’s trees overhang into my yard. I yanked some of them out and planted them in the front. My neighbors were laughing at my Charlie Brown crape myrtle trees since they were about as thick as the ink part of a pen. That’s not a very good description, but was the only thing I could think of that was that size. I, however, had the last laugh because the leaves are blooming. I have also threatened any child, mine or those that play in my yard, that heads will roll if they even think of pulling them out of the ground. So far, so good. Of course, that doesn’t stop any balls from landing in my flower beds. And my husband hasn’t mowed the front lawn yet. I don’t think he knows that they are there because he hasn’t asked me why I have two sticks in the ground. I’m sure they are not long for this world.

And finally, a peace lilly that I’ve had for at least 5 years that has never bloomed, making me wonder if it was really even a peace lilly, decided to bloom!

Neglect pays off after all!