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Posted By: blackthumbfla Frustrated newbie - January 25th, 2007 at 03:24 PM
Hi Everyone!

I'm happy to have found this forum. My name is Ranee and I currently live in central Florida. We moved from the foothills of North Carolina a bit over a year ago and I simply cannot seem to get it together here so far as getting anything to grow and flourish. (OK, actually, I was just getting to the point where I could get most things to grow in NC--guess you could say I'm a recovering black thumb sufferer. ;-)

Seriously though, there are few things that give me such satisfaction as puttering in the yard with different flowers and plants (haven't done much vegetable gardening yet,) and seeing the results of my work months and years later. And it's REALLY frustrating for me that most of what I put in the ground simply withers and dies here in Florida. If there's anyone here from this area, please let me know who you are so that I can carefully watch your posts and learn from your experience. Oh--and I especially love trees and would LOVE to learn how to cultivate them well.

Looking forward to getting to know all of you and learn from you.
Blessings,
Ranee
Posted By: badplanter Re: Frustrated newbie - January 25th, 2007 at 03:29 PM
Hi there, and welcome to the Forum!

I hope you get everything figured out--and soon! kissies thumbup

--Mark--
Posted By: penny in ontario Re: Frustrated newbie - January 25th, 2007 at 03:34 PM
Hi there,


Welcome to the Forum.

Its nice to meet you!!
Posted By: netty Re: Frustrated newbie - January 25th, 2007 at 04:15 PM
Hi Ranee wavey
Welcome to the forum! I'm sure someone from Florida will be along to help you soon. In the meantime, perhaps you could get some pointers from your local garden center. Don't get too frustrated!
Posted By: sibyl Re: Frustrated newbie - January 25th, 2007 at 05:51 PM
wavey hello
welcome to the fourm!!
Posted By: plantqueen Re: Frustrated newbie - January 25th, 2007 at 06:39 PM
Welcome to the forum! wavey
Posted By: blackthumbfla Re: Frustrated newbie - January 27th, 2007 at 06:28 AM
Thanks for the welcome everyone! Don't worry...I never give up. It took me 5 years to get my yard and garden doing well in NC. My handle isn't blackthumb for nothing ya know. <g>
Blessings,
Ranee
Posted By: Dixie Angel Re: Frustrated newbie - January 27th, 2007 at 06:34 AM
Welcome, Ranee!

What part of NC did you move from? I spent 18 years in Troy...

Dianna
Posted By: chenno Re: Frustrated newbie - January 30th, 2007 at 09:25 PM
Welcome to you;-)
Posted By: melcon6 Re: Frustrated newbie - February 4th, 2007 at 01:19 PM
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/melcon6/GH%20Graphics/text_welcome_7.gif?t=1170595152[/img] to the forum!
Posted By: Francine Re: Frustrated newbie - February 11th, 2007 at 03:27 PM
hello and welcome to the forum, i m not sure so don t take me 100 per cent on that one but..why don t you try going on the member s directory and i think they ve got a place where you can look for members according to their state...good luck.

Franny.
Posted By: Francine Re: Frustrated newbie - February 11th, 2007 at 03:30 PM
ya i got it...scroll up the page and click on view members list..then at the bottom of that page to the left there is a box and it ll be written something like search by subject and you can search by location...there is a lot of page but i ll try helping you from here and i tell you if i find one.

Franny.
Posted By: Francine Re: Frustrated newbie - February 11th, 2007 at 03:44 PM
ok i got them for you,,after redaing 10 pages i ve listed all the members from florida...here they are ,meet :


Tracy...jupiter,fl.
Eddie...st-cloud,fl.
pel4us..daytona beach,fl.
shayla..largo,fl.
dunseth..central florida.
mineux...north-east florida.
g8rlane...north central fl.
superc 413...palm bay.

so now you go back to the members list and type their name as i wrote it,it ll give you their profile ,you click on pm the person or you take one of their post and write something...i think at first it s better to pm them.

Franny.
Posted By: MLN Re: Frustrated newbie - February 11th, 2007 at 07:11 PM
Ranee,
Welcome to the forum. I know you will enjoy it here.
I had 5 1/2 acres of dirt to start with and I love trees too. I started by running searches to see what types of trees do best in my area of MS. Not all of them made it here on my property (I have such awful clay soil) but I've ended up with 80+ that are thriving real well. In all my searching I know I saw quite a few beautiful trees I fell in love with that grow down in FLA but not here eek I'm sure you'll find some that will like your circumstances smile Do you have an Ag college in FLA? They always have such good info.
Posted By: dirt in my diamonds Re: Frustrated newbie - February 11th, 2007 at 11:33 PM
Welcome! I'm new here too and from Salisbury, NC.
wavey
'Manda
Posted By: patches1414 Re: Frustrated newbie - February 13th, 2007 at 07:07 AM
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Welcome to the forum! smile We're so glad to have you aboard and I think you're going to like it here. wink I'm quite a distance from your zone and growing conditions, so I don't know how much help I can be Duh , but there's lots of information and lots of other help available. thumbup
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