chris

I was referred here by bk from floridagardenexchange2 (yahoo groups). Thanks Bill...

I am located in N Central FL, zone 8b. Love gardening, esp tropicals (wished I lived in zone 10b or 11, but that's besides the point). Some of my favorite plants are bananas, gingers, canna lillies, palms, elephant ears, camelias, citrus trees..... (I'll stop there, that list would be wayyyy too long).

I am a married sahm in my 40's, with 1 child. We live on 5 acres in the pine flatlands. Have occasional standing water in some parts of yard after heavy rains, bone dry in May and a couple of other times throughout the year. We've only been here for a couple of years and I'm still learning how to grow things in this yard. (came here from Jax where we had incredibly rich soil that I could easily grow anything in).

Other than gardening, some favorite things are reef tanks, fishing, swimming, shrimping, (water activities in general), reading and horse back riding.

We are currently in the process of building a house ourselves (ie: no contractor or subs), what a pia that is.... Of course, when we first moved out here (living in trailer until house is down), I couldn't wait to start on the yard, cleared a lot of the property, planted fruit and nut trees, planted various shrubs along fence line, flower beds ect. Of course, I spent way too much on the yard, so now the house is going to be a while before we can afford to finish it ... Forgot one important thing though - I have to keep up with weeding all these areas!

Anyhow, now you pretty much have my life story!

Chris