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I Think the several day blog is more my style, testing this format out:

Thursday,  2/14

Well today was so fun. I potted up  cannas, hanging begonias, elephant ears,  ostrich & cinnamon ferns, more gloirosa vines and even planted some castor bean & luffa seeds(thanks Deb).  Fridays are a free day for me, my mom attends a memory class -she always ask me where we're going as pull into the parking lot :)-gotta laugh! So I have from 10-2 alone, weather wise it should be fairly decent-woohoo.  I plan on gleefully killing a bunch of lamium left from the last person's attempt! Personally, I feel lamium should be labeled under noxious weed along w/crown vetch & bishop's weed~Andrea

Saturday, 2/16

I was going to keep my husband company on a ferry trip to see a client in Port Hadock, but our caregiver (for my mother) cancelled at the last minute.  It is wonderful how things seem to work out.  While I would have enjoyed spending time w/DH and seeing the project, my garden helper and I  accomplished sooooooooooooo much in the garden that I feel ahead of the game-whew.  Chris(Mosaic2007) arrives Wednesday morning and now I'll feel comfortable letting her in the backyard!

Sunday, 2/17

With help from my mom, I finally cleared the akebia & climbing rose off the arbor over our swing so I can repaint.  I will replace w/C.armandi-the whole structure will be removed with the new addition, but I wanted the white gone until then-could be a year or two.  Plus, I was tired of trying to keep the roses looking tidy.  Unfortunately, while clipping the roses, my mom became ill, she went to bed. 

Monday, 2/18

Turns out we all had food poisioning from a lunch we ate at a local fish & chips joint.  Dh & I were ill all day.....101 temp as well. No gardening today.

Tuesday, 2/19

After helping me put all the newly potted plants back in the garage (spent the day in the sun), my husband asked "are all these going in our garden?"....I almost fell over laughing.-all the while thinking to myself- oh yes, all these and many more that haven't even been purchased my loving husband!

Wednesday, 2/20  FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW

Once again, our caregiver cancelled short notice, but my darling daughter and sweet husband filled in caring for my mom so I could go to the show as planned-so thankful!  I picked up Chris at the train station and off we went.  I should take time to list what we bought-or at least what I did for my future reference.  I believe this blog will be as close to organizing a notebook as I will ever get!

Begonia Luxurians x 3, Paeonia japonica, Sarracenia 'Judith Hindle', Dichelostemma ida-maia, Disporum cantoniense 'Green Giant', Disporum cantoniense 'Night Heron x 2, Impatiens omeiana, Alstroemeria haemantha-orange, Kniphofia 'Vanilla'.  Non plant-a beautiful glass leaf from Glass Gardens NW www.glassgardensnw.com>

Chris is a great friend, unfortunately,we rarely get to spend time together since she moved to Oregon, so this day was a treat.  We were less than impressed with the display gardens, did see my tree ferns in one-they looked great.  We parked our loot at the plant check and went to Palomino's for happy hour, stuffed and two glasses of wine later, we retrived our treasures and made our way to Bothell.  Such bliss being around all those plants and spending time with Chris!