Hi! I'm really glad to find this beautiful board! I don't have any formal horticultural training, but I have been gardening for over 15 years. My favorites to grow are specimen plants, and I'd guess I have about 250 to 300 different species of trees, shrubs, plants and grasses all living in containers in my backyard. I grow house plants too. I dunno, maybe 30 (?) different kinds. I'm always looking for new varieties, and I always have a ton of questions about care, but my friends and family call me when they have a plant question... But now I can come here and talk to people who know a lot more than me!! (which aren't hard to find ) Timi

Hello GardenZealot, and welcome to the Garden Helper ....people here are really nice and friendly and I'm sure you'll love it here.....I noticed you like to paint....I paint a lot....ceramics, anything wood or metal...I just painted some christmas ornaments last night...helps relax me....

I'm glad you found us, and please come and talk with us whenever you can....you don't have to have a question....you can just come and chat in the banter hall if you want......

Hey Timi! Welcome to The Garden Helper! We have some really great folks around here, and there is usually someone that has an answer. And like Loz said, if you don't have anything gardening to say but want to "chat" we have the banter hall to keep you in touch!

Welcome to The Garden Helper.... GardenZ!

Yep there are some great people and teachers here....I'm a newbie to gardening so won't be of much help but I can give you a hardtime! J/K

Yeppie .....another one from California.....Calif. rules!!!!!

Catlover...

New York IS THE BEST !!! Helpful, fun, and feisty!

Have a great time here and don't be afraid to share what you know! Lynne

Hello GardenZealot
Welcome to The Garden Helpers Forum!!!
Welcome aboard!! Glad to have you here!!
We are really glad you found us too!!!
We have everything from beginners to Master Gardeners and everything in between...
All with a love of gardening and plants!
We hope you stick around, enjoy the forum
and add your voice to the growing voices
here at the forum....We have so many different
sections Bill has added for us here, recipes,
crafts and hobbies and of course "Banter Hall"
for chatting... Ask as many questions as you need and never stop!!
We love questions, and try to answer them all.
We love mysteries to solve as to "What is it"
And we love to have all the gardeners feel right at home... So, don't forget, if you can help out the other fellow gardeners, just jump right in and answer away!!!
Happy Gardening!
Glad to have you here!
Weezie
And glad to have another Californian here,
Anyone from Catlovers state is more than welcome
here!!! WE like pickin' on each other to see who
gets more gardeners from their state..
Although, New York Rules!!! J/K Karen!!!

And looking forward to hearing about all those plants you have!!!

Welcome to the Garden Helper, Timi!! As you can see, we're a friendly bunch, and always glad to have a new member on board!! The more, the merrier, right?? Do you have any pics of your specimen plants?? We LOVE pics!! Looking forward to chatting with you!


Nikkal

WOW!! So many wonderful responses, so fast!!!!! Thank you all so much for the warm welcome!! You know, I must say, even though I am a California native... I have to admit sometimes it seems as though we are the ones who are on the other side of the planet... But compared to NY'ers... hee hee hee, at least we don't talk funny

I do love to paint too - I don't remember who asked me... I'm not very good though. I mostly stick to oils on canvas. I can never get the "perspective" down quite right, you know what I mean? My hubby sculpts. He's awesome.

I would love to put some pictures up, but I don't know how. Could someone tell me? Boy, I'm so happy to find you guys!!! <img border="0" alt="[clappy]" title="" src="graemlins/clappy.gif" /> Timi

Timi, check out this link on the Gardeners' Chat forum:

Posting your own photos

Look Weezie, I did it - I linked to a post!!!!

You can use the links in the posts to set up photo storage, if you don't have it already, and there's some info on linking your photos, and putting them in your posts.
If you still have questions, just holler, and we can help ya out!!


Nikkal

Nikkal
Great job!!

I gotta figure out the picture
posting too someday!!!
after the holidays when I can sit
down and really give it a good look.

Weezie

Ooooooo! Thanks Nikkal, Weezie, I'll go check it out. Timi

Welcome GardenZealot!

You have found the best gardening forum on the web! These people are simply grand!

jc2weho
PS What is ponding? Do you make gardens ponds?

I was wondering about that ponding thing too!!

I was just talking to "Garden Crazy" about
her's.....
And njoynit has several..........
We love ponds!!!
They are so much fun....
I know Papito has some and Dawn in Tn has some too!
So many people have them, I have my eye on a liner
when my wee~one is just a bit bigger!
Can't wait!
Weezie

Hi Timi, just wanted to say welcome! Kinda new here myself and everyone is just great! I'm in Tennessee so I guess I'm stuck in the middle, huh?

Weezie, I wish I had a pond...we've got a 20 gal tub pond but its not even close to the real thing. I'd love to take over the landlady's stock pond but I don't think the cows would appreciate all my hard work. I'd love to be able the get rid of all the skeeters that live and breed in it!

Dawn

Hi Dawn Marie! Hi Weezie! Yes, I love ponding. You know Dawn Marie, I started with an 80 gallon "tree pot" I bought at Home Depot for $24.00. I put it on my covered patio and ran a regular aquarium canister style filter on it. I also had a titanium heater in the pot to keep the water a constant temp at night. Being above ground, the temp would fluctuate to much and make the poor fishies lives miserable. All in all, it cost me a little over $100.00 dollars to put it together, but it turned out pretty well. I'll see if I can take a pic. I still have it running on the patio, even though I've since dug a "hole" for a slightly bigger pond. Timi