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Oh, that is lovely thyme2dig! I like how the edges get a dark purple/back color. I think I remember you said on another thread that you were putting a lot of new shrubs in recently...it must look very nice. In my yard, the Flame Maples (Acer ginnala 'Flame') are the show stoppers when it comes to fall foliage color. There are eight around the yard. Several are orange/red, while a few others have different colors like yellow and...

This where I have started to prepare the new shade garden. The big bushy hollies will be moved to the back-I used to keep them pruned in an open, zenlike shape, but they have gotten away from me. There will be a path that meanders along and curves to the left toward the back yard. We may have to move a few of the old azaleas in the present island bed on the right in order to avoid the kousa when we make the path. From Drop Box

I think it was Trailrunner that had the sage-coloured fence - it sort of disappeared. I painted some nice old adirondack chairs in lime green and bubble-gum pink - not going to fade into anything, but I like the impact. I have also seen some obelisks' in potagers painted electric blue - very nice. I guess it is the impact you wish to make!!! Nancy.

I get tired of the ones that 'expand' and you have to close them or wait until they return to normal size. BUT - if this is what it takes to keep GW free, so be it. I'd rather wait a couple of seconds more than have to pay a yearly fee. Just MHO. You would think however, that they would have more ads that had to do with gardening. Most of the things advertised, I have no interest in whatsoever.

Cyn, don't forget comic books, Anyone remember The Katzenjammer Kids, Prince Valiant and Alley Oop from the comic strips. Enough already this is really making me feel my age LOL. Annette

No surprise, the answers are and Tom and Jerry were more movie and TV cartoons than comic books, but they did appear in both. for Cynthia, Annette, Nancy, Libby, and Stagerat. As for tappets, they are little dealies that ride on the camshaft of an engine as part of the mechanism that opens the valves. I've never heard them called lifter arms, but they are sometimes called lifters, so lifter arms is pretty darn close, Stagerat! In the days...

I had forgotten the advice given me about painting pressure treated wood. Thanks CMK!

Holleygarden- You know, I just looked and I don't see much for formal gardens either. There seem to be gardens for specific types of flowers, like roses, that may or may not be formal designs. The only formal style I've seen is in the potager forum and that's not always formal, either. I've read that cottage garden style is more informal and a reaction to the formal gardens that were popular at the time. The curved paths...

pam, after I read your post I sought out that Fire Fox add-on: Ad Block Plus. It works! How strange to not see anything on the right side of the page, it'll take some time getting used to. ha.

1. Build a small raised bed for veggies, esp. tomatoes. 2. Figure out how to meld a raspberry patch into the landscape. I've wanted to grow them for a while, but don't want something that looks like a big weedpatch. 3. Re-edge the rose garden in the back yard. We had so much rain this summer that the weeds are creeping over the stone borders and into the garden. Lois in PA