WOO HOO....WOULD YOU LOOK AT WHAT I'VE GOT! A new Mediterranean gardening book, all the way from Oregon, full of great ideas. Here is a quote from Marcel Proust - on a card which my sister sent me - "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom".

Thanks to Becky at myserenitygarden.blogspot for this garden gift and the warm glow you have given me. The sunflower and marigold seeds you included will be started end February-ish.

(See the bourganvillea blooming still, as are African daisies, honeysuckle, passion flower and pink trumpet vine. Oh, and the solanum is fantastic under the pergola).