[Bon of Babble]

I love asparagus and wish I could grow it where I live - it is far too hot here.

I am lucky I am not fighting gophers - as a lot of my friends and neighbors are. I dread them finding my garden. I've seen them fell huge rose bushes in one night by eating all of the roots. They are impossible to get rid of.

I am trying to collect all of the colors of bougainvillea - I have yellow/gold, white/green/pink, red, pink/cream/red, purple and orange. This is the yellow one, called "gold rush" - I've seen it as "California gold rush" too:

This is "Thai Delight.": This is "sea foam" (sorry it's turned):

[MomwithHope]

I never knew! Nothing like that in Michigan. I remember a trip to the Caribbean where we saw them all over, even growing on people’s roofs. Thanks for the pics! PS. We keep groundhogs and varmits under control with a .22. Gophers I believe are smaller you might want to try Tomcat baits. They work great on chipmunks otherwise we would be overrun.