I have had very different results with Black eyed suzi's. I had some rather plain ones, that where doing fabulous prior to our moving. Now I will never know the fate of them, but year over year they where thriving, increasing in size, probably by 2 to 3 times every year. I have a hard time to believe that next spring they would not come up again, unless the new home owner removed them! lol. Now, I had some really pretty Gloriosa Daisys, they where yellow with a green eye, huge flower, and really they are a black eyed suzi, I planted 3, the next spring only 1 came up. Although it florished that year! That is just how the cookie crumbed! lol. I think if you want to grow these flowers and want them to stick around, the best bet is to plant the more plain varieties, mulch them in the fall (make sure to remove excess mulch in the spring) and perhaps spread some new seed into the planting in the fall. Otherwise, you just sort of roll the dice! The best news is, they are surprisingly easy to grow from seed! And not expensive at all that way!

We have the exact opposite issue! We can't find a door that is tall enough. it sure it hard to find things for old houses! Not sure where you live but our fave places to visit are: www.historichouseparts.com www.rehouseny.com they are both are house salvage places. If you look in your town you may have similar stores. I would suggest looking there. -renee

Hi, sorry I've been MIA again for awhile. Looks like you've got some great answers already. I'll try to fill in my answers as well - please forgive me Steph (and others) if I duplicate what you've said. I found the old 2009 IKEA Kitchen printed catalog, and am trying to figure what it is they mean about the things included. For the HIGH CABINETS, it says, " Prices includes frame, doors, hinges, drawers, legs, wire baskets, pull out cleaning storage and shelves where shown. Drawer and door dampers are included in all combinations except for the ARLIG series. The RATIONELL drawer and door dampers are sold separately. Toekicks and knobs/handles sold separately...." So. What sort of drawer and door dampers are included? And would it be a better idea to get the Rationell drawer and door dampers? It does not mention "full extension drawers" at all. Would that be what the Rationell drawer and door fittings do? Or are the drawers full extension anyway? No mention of needing to purchase DRAWER FRONTS for the roll out drawers behind the hinged Stat doors. Will I need to order those too? The door and drawer dampers that are included (make sure you order them - soft close dampers aren't automatically included) work exactly the same as the BLUM ones. IKEA calls them Rationell. I'm not sure why. I did read on some site somewhere (sorry, don't remember where) that they are not identical. When you order the pantry, all of the necessary hardware should come with it. Make sure you specify that you want the dampers - they don't necessarily come with, if you don't specify them. And, the doors come with the configuration I'm looking at, and I still wonder if I can order a side panel in the same look, which is the STAT in white? And will it be a single tall panel or do I get it as the doors, a high door and a short door above that which I attach as the side panel? I would suggest calling them to get the definitive answer to that exact question. We did not order sides as we are doing plain white and the sides of the cabs themselves are exactly that. We also went in person, it may be different when you order over the phone. I don't want to order the door pulls, I have a style I'm getting locally. It says LEGS are included "where shown" but nothing has a set of legs included in the drawing. No big deal, but I sure cannot put it together if I don't start with the base. My ceilings are 98 inches, and the cabinet is 88 inches, I think w/o the legs. So laying it on its side to attach legs after it's put together does not seem like an option to me. All of the base cabinets need legs. The pantry box would sit evenly with other base cabs, so it would need the same legs. They are kinda cheap plastic thingys - but very easy to adjust if your floor isn't exactly perfectly even. My order will be for the HDW2488 Stat white, which is 24w x 24d x 88h....... Double check the height - it looks like they offer a couple of diff height cabinets. It wouldn't be fun if you ended up getting the wrong one. And while I'm at it, I decided to have them ship the BDI18 which is a base cab 24d x 18w x 30h w/ pull out ironing board, with visible legs, also in the Stat door. Guess I'll need a Stat side panel for that also, unless I change it to the Rubrik stainless steel option. I am like a swimmer standing on the diving board, bouncing up/down/up/down. I don't know what else I'll need to order. How about the brackets to attach the tall cabinets and the base cabinets to the wall? Are those a separate purchase with Ikea? Just how helpful will the folks be when I place my order by phone? The brackets are separate - but when they help you put together your order, they should include all of that kind of stuff. For instance, even though we have 3 cabinet runs, we only got one bracket - my DH just cut it into the appropriate lengths. Maybe they'll send me a 2010 Kitchen catalog if I order some stuff. Did you try the link I posted above to order a catalogue online? It looked like a pretty simply process. :o) I await your advice on this latest flurry of questions. Thank all you who are talking me through this. ***** next post***** But what you are telling me, Prairie, is that you moved the garbage UP and probably cut the front door so that when you pulled out the top to wipe your trimmings/trash into the can, one single drawer was beneath it and was not opened. You could pull it out as separate drawer with a different drawer front or was it the other portion of the cabinet door? How did you arrange the door of the cabinet so it was normal looking? Do you have a photo you could upload of that? Then I would know what you mean. Nothing like a good photo to give me an AHA! moment. We are making our own drawers which means we can put the drawers wherever we want. We are not limited to the sizes of drawer faces that IKEA provides. The pics that Steph posted are great. Ikea comes with the large door that covers all three 'drawers'. All IKEA drawers are identical (in two sizes). The ones that are meant as pull-outs behind a door come with little drawer fronts. pull out drawer front If you look closely at this page, you can see the two smaller drawers come with the fronts - the taller one (with rails on the sides) would attach to the pull out door front. 5 piece 12 inch pull out I don't have my camera at the moment - my DH took it to work, but I'll try to post some pics of the garbage cabinet configuration later. Please let me know if I've missed any questions. :) ~ Missy

Thanks again for all the ideas. Looking again at the location, I have decided it needs to be either oak, or something totally different, like metal. It will literally touch an oak buffet on one side. I tried putting another 2 small (but not shallow enough to actually use) bookcases there, that are in different finishes, one dark stained pine, and another a cherry laminate shoe organizer, just to see how different finishes looked. Both ended up just looking like I stuck something totally random there. I think I’m too fussy for that. I got excited about that Ikea hack, only to find that the Borghum line is not made any more. I looked through the Ikea catalog, and came up with nothing. I looked at Hobby Lobby yesterday for metal. But it being the Christmas season means they have little furniture on display now. Looked at wall shelves too, figuring many could be set on the floor. But most of these are too shallow and too small.