Hello from San Benito, Texas

[Smart Red]

I may be a day late and more than a dollar short -- I'm not getting on line every day anymore (depending) -- but I do want to wish you a hearty welcome to our friendly group at TEG.

I currently have two hoya -- a third didn't make it -- and one is my oldest plant; a cutting from Dad's plant. I haven't found spring to be the ideal flowering time for my hoya. It seems that I forget to care for it for a few months and then start tending it carefully when it bursts into (nighttime) bloom that fills the house with heavenly scent.

As far as the kitchen goes, I can cook. 'Nuff said about that.

I have an affection for tropical plants and had quite a few until DH saw that they were killed off a few years ago (totally by accident, but dead nonetheless). I love trying to push the envelope and grow tenders here in south-est, central-est Wisconsin.

Glad to have you growing with us and hope to learn more about your gardening adventures.

 

[Rose Tijerina]

I may be a day late and more than a dollar short -- I'm not getting on line every day anymore (depending) -- but I do want to wish you a hearty welcome to our friendly group at TEG.

I currently have two hoya -- a third didn't make it -- and one is my oldest plant; a cutting from Dad's plant. I haven't found spring to be the ideal flowering time for my hoya. It seems that I forget to care for it for a few months and then start tending it carefully when it bursts into (nighttime) bloom that fills the house with heavenly scent.

As far as the kitchen goes, I can cook. 'Nuff said about that.

I have an affection for tropical plants and had quite a few until DH saw that they were killed off a few years ago (totally by accident, but dead nonetheless). I love trying to push the envelope and grow tenders here in south-est, central-est Wisconsin.

Glad to have you growing with us and hope to learn more about your gardening adventures.

Good evening, I am still stuffed from Thanksgiving.... But let's talk turkey, I just realized that I may have another hoya plant underneath my flamboyant tree. My dream is to have a sanctuary for butterflies and hummingbirds. I realized that I am starting in the wrong time. I have two lantanas, milkweed , bright hibiscus blooms, but I need more color for the Spring. Excuse me but what does DH stand for? Pushing the envelope is something that works best for my friends, I am pretty reserved... Paranoid... I had a mess of morning glories, great flowers, I had so many young plants, I gave them away, get this it gave me two to three blooms but other people had cascades of them, glorious. This year I will post my new flowers because I will have new flowers☺☺☺

 

[Smart Red]

DH is internet shorthand for Dear Husband (DS, DD, DW -- dear son, daughter, wife, etc.)

I really hate to enable the addicted, but have you ever checked out Logee's Plant catalogs? One of my favorite 'fixes' when gardening isn't possible under all the white stuff here.

Okay, I don't really hate it. You are in good company if you're garden addicted here on TEG/

 

[Rose Tijerina]

Wonderful thank you for explain DH to me, I will look into the catalog , thank you

 

[baymule]

Welcome Rose! I was born in San Benito! ..........60 years ago.........but who's counting?
Welcome from northeast Texas! I haven't been back to the valley in many many years. Neither of my parents were born there, but they were both raised in the valley. My mother graduated in Weslaco, her father was assistant post master in Weslaco. My father never graduated as his father kept taking him out of school to work in the fields, chopping cotton for 50 cents a day. My father worked on gangs of men, digging the irrigation canals that criss-cross the valley, by hand shovels. They moved to Longview when I was only 2 years old, so my memories of the valley are from going back to visit.

When your hibiscus blooms, please post pictures!!