Our online classmate.

If you go to the first post welcoming Cara, our online classmate, you will see her response about her garden. Check it out and get to know her. Then post more info about your garden so she can get to know you/us.

Sideling Hill

"The Sideling Hill road cut is a 340-foot deep road cut where Interstate 68 cuts through Sideling Hill, about 6 miles west of Hancock in Washington County, Maryland. It is notable as an impressive man-made mountain pass, visible from miles away and one of the best rock exposures in Maryland and indeed in the entire northeastern[1] United States. Almost 810 feet of strata in a tightly folded syncline are exposed in this road cut. Although other exposures may surpass Sideling Hill in either thickness of exposed strata or in quality of geologic structure, few can equal its combination of both. There is an Exhibit Center to help provide the public with a better understanding of the geology of the cut. A pedestrian walkway bridge crosses I-68 for better access to the cut, along with a picnic area and rest area facilities." from Maryland DNR The website is

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/western/sidelinghill.html

Soil levels

The Huntington Garden, CA

photography

Finally I can see grass, green and brown grass, and my mind wonders about the brown spots. Is it a disease, fungi, insects, thatch, any of those new conditions we just learned or are the weeds just dormant? We have learned so much and I wonder if I can remember and apply all that information when the grass starts to grow.

I want to share this website: photobucket.com. It is a site where you register for free and then have access to photography information. I understand that it will allow you to post pictures on the blog and gives helpful information related to photography.

More on Hellebores

If you find the post "Assignment" wherein I queried about Hellebores you will see that we got one "outsider" post from Barry Glick in WV. If you click on 'comment' then 'glickster' then under blogs, 'Hellebores,' you will find cultural info about Hellebores. If you click on sunfarm you go to a web site selling flowers, I think. Need to explore it more when I have time, but it looks interesting. And there is more than Hellebores. Thanx, Barry.

Missed quiz

Aha, a way to see if I can get the quiz I missed. After the Basic Botany , Plant Physiology class I forgot to pick up the quiz sheet. If anyone would please scan a copy of the quiz and bring it to the next class I would sure appreciate it. All winter long nothing to do, now everything is going on. I even see some flower bulbs peeking above my mulch testing the air, and thank goodness my garlic survived the winter. And last but not least I think I am going to make it too. I hope my head don`t explode after the next class, it has not worked this
hard since I retired. Looking forward to the next class.