Who has a green thumb??

Oh Andy, I love Sweet Peas. So pretty, so delicate, and they fill the house with such a sweet sent.

Like Rick, we have a late, and very short growing period here in the Nevada Desert. I will grow tomatoes, and my usual bed of herbs.  

I need to replace the lavender out front. Every time I go down the path, I squeeze the lavender and rub it on my skin.

When I was growing up, we had mint out back, and I could never pass it without giving it a squeeze and then enjoying the smell for a while.

My mum was a wonderful flower gardener, and my dad a wonderful vegetable gardener. Wish I'd listened and learned back then, though it's a whole different kettle of fish growing a garden in the desert. 

Not me!!!

I know what you mean, Sue.  We have a few beds around the house, but I didn't grow anything this year.  Our sesons are all mxed up too.  You plant cool weather plants in Sept. here and warm weather plants in Feb.  Everything has to be harvested by mid May at the latest.  Of course you begin a garden here with a jackhammer to dig up the beds.  Our soil is caliche (sp?) which is why they can make adobe bricks out of it.  I was spoiled back east when gardening meant pulling a few weeds now and then, but here a garden is very high maintenance.  I grow my flowers in big pots, but there aren't many that survive the summer here unless they're in full shade and you water them daily.

Oh yes Ruth, our water bill during the summer is horrendous. But if we want anything to look green or have colour, then we have to water, water, water.

I must come visit, I'm know you're even more desert than us, so it might make me grateful for what I have here (or don't have).