Narcissus bulbs (paperwhites) & calla lilies
Posted By: fave flower just 1? I have 2....LOL on 2006-04-10
In Reply to: spring is here - so what's your favorite flower?
sorry, I have 2....*LOL*
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- spring is here - so what's your favorite flower?
- Narcissus bulbs (paperwhites) & calla lilies - fave flower just 1? I have 2....LOL
- Pansies - I think they are just gorgeous!
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Consider the Lilies
 Consider the Lilies
By Dr. Robert Schuller
Once Christ came to visit the home of Mary and Martha. Martha was so busy in the kitchen with the dishes and the food and the house and the clothes that she thought she had no time to come out to talk to Jesus. She was so concerned about things that she had no time for people, so concerned about her house that she had no time for God. So Jesus said, "Oh, Martha, you are so concerned about so many things, so many things. And only one thing is really needed."
And that is God!
Christ makes this point very clear in the Sermon on the Mount: "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be satisfied" (Matt. 5:6).
There you have it-the formula for fulfillment, the key to contentment, the secret of satisfaction.
Do you understand? I hope so. Listen to Jesus: Be not so concerned about things. Do not be so concerned about your house and your clothes. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will come (Matt. 6:27-33).
The feeling of fulfillment is in finding faith. Most of you understand and know that. You have felt the throb of God in your heart. You have prayed to Him and felt His presence. And these great spiritual experiences are real. No wonder they satisfy.
Every time I feel the way that you do I read this and "consider the lilies." There are a LOT of us in the same situation. If you need someone to talk to feel free to E-mail me at EDITED 
OT: Flower bulbs keep getting dug up
I live in a bad neighborhood on a fairly high-traffic corner. There is a little patch of ground outside my fence that I have been trying since spring to plant bulbs there, but they keep disappearing. First I tried tulips. They did start to bloom, and one morning they were all pulled out and scattered about the area. We do have a lot of squirrels around, so I blamed it on them not knowing at the time I planted that squirrels love tulip bulbs.
So I gave up on the tulips and tried something else I found packaged as Flowers for Dummies. I don't even know what these are called. They are a mixture of purple and white kind of weedy-looking flowers on the package. They didn't even start to bloom yet, and I go out there today and they are all pulled up.
Does anyone have any idea if it would be the local kids doing this or stray cats or dogs or what? I'm really getting a complex about this as this is my 3rd crop of bulbs! At any rate, I have given up on the flower bulbs and think now I will try to spread wildflower seeds and see if anything grows.
Rodents ate all my bulbs. (nt)
Bulbs/squirrels
I have tried tulips and crocus and the squirrels love them, but they do not like daffodils. There is a mixture you can get to plant with the bulbs that squirrels hate, also from what I understand from my neighbor they hate marigolds, he puts them around his vegetables to keep animals out/no fence. Cats will dig up lawns, dogs also will dig up flower beds. Oh, and skunks looking for grubs. I feel for you trying to plant something nice in a small space. You can try a little fence around the area or that, but if it is kids not taught to respect property, it won't matter what you do. Your local garden store or Home Depot should have something you can buy to put on your garden to keep pesty critters away without harming them. I have known people who have bought coyote urine and put that around their gardens because of damage due from deer/raccoons, etc.
You're supposed to plant them in beds and line the bed with chicken wire and then place the bulbs
on top of the wire and cover. This keeps the critters from getting to them, but is a lot of work.
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