I need a favor, and y’all owe me. Here I sit, week after week, slaving over my laptop, cropping pictures and writing amusing and informative information, all for your benefit. All you have to do is click your mouse to see fabulous pictures like this one taken at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
So here’s what I need. I’m building support for preserving the Smith Lake Section 16 land as part of Forever Wild so the land can fulfill its purpose. It was set aside in 1819 for the benefit of the schools, and it has so many lessons to teach and so many gifts to give. The October 2012 issue of Outdoor Alabama states, “Study after study shows that the greatest barrier to Americans going out and enjoying the outdoors is lack of access. This is especially true for our children.” If the Forever Wild Land Trust purchases this land, it will become either a nature preserve or a recreation area. The entire Southeast would enjoy a new public space that could include hunting, fishing, hiking, swimming, boating and/or outdoor education.
Here’s the favor, please like us on facebook and visit our website www.SaveSmithLake.com to sign an electronic petition.
Thanks for considering this, and I now return you to your regularly scheduled garden-shenanigans blog.
In looking back on 2012, I can’t believe I never showed you my pot garden. – The children would prefer I call it my potted garden, but I seldom listen to their advice.
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It turned out really good this year. I used my favorites from 2011, and I’m not re-captioning all those plants, so check my 2011 blog. – FYI I changed the zebra grass to a larger variety. I’d tell you what it is, but I think I lost the damn tag.
I added a few new things, like that Verbena ‘Babylon Carpet Blue’ in the middle on the bottom – it was pretty nice…a solid 8 on the 1-10 scale.
I always include a purple Angelonia, and this year it was ‘Purple Stripe’.
The superstar of my new plants was this Lobularia ‘Blushing Princess’; it was amazing, and it will probably be a hot plant in Alabama Gardener magazine. It’s new for 2013, but I got it in 2012 because I’m a plant ho. Proven Winners sent it to me in a box full of cool 2013 plants for free.
It is one of many plants I talk about in my speech ‘Peggy’s Picks – Tales from a Plant Ho’.