Freshly harvested this morning! I swear, those pods give you no hint that they're ripe until you touch it and it BLOWS!!! I haven't packeted them yet, gonna give them a day or so. I'll probally be doing 12+ seeds per pack this time. This one was tagged when I bought it, Datura metel "Belle Blanche". It has large white flowers with a silvery foilage. Commonly referred to as moonflower (but what white datura isn't?) It grows in bushy form, especially when pinched. The pic below was taken from it's first bloom, it's now much bigger and has several blooms at a time. And unfortunantly taking a pic of a white flower at dusk sets the flash off and kinda washes out the flower. kek19@aol.com Karri Here is a link that might be useful: Annie's Annuals pic of Belle Blanche

Hey Mai, Well until your email link is fixed, I guess you will just have to email folks...hopefully they will have a Member Page email link as a lot of newer members don't get it set up initially. I suggest you reporting it to GW via the Contact Us, link found at the bottom of any GW page. Choose Technical Question from the drop down menu, and then Subject line of "My email link doesn't work" or something similar. I've not read of others having email problems, so it must not be a widespread issue. Sue

RDW: Carful. The datura don't like the same treatment as the brugs. I lost some double purple dats because of that. (Yep, and I was warned about it too.) The dats don't like to be bothered, and they don't like to be fed as much or watered as much as the brugs. and, there are some diseases which can transfer which will decimate your brugs. I never had the problem, because my dats died. (grin) Ya wanna know what is funny? You can root shave a brug, and it won't pout. But, just repot a dat? It drops its buds and starts over, throwing a temper tantrum. The more you experience both, the more you realize how very DIFFERENT they are. Hard to believe at one point, as recently as the early to mid 1990s, they had them catagorized as the same type of plant. But the dats truly are amazing in their own right. I'm going to do more dats next year on the other side of the house where the sun blazes unmercifully. I'm also going to try some dats at the summer place, on an dirt (clay) island in the yard we refer to as "hell on earth." Gruesome, all day sun beating and pounding on it, from sun rise to sun set. Just gruesome. Elephant ears worked well there last year. Holes dug, back filled with dirt and seaweed, the clay underneath acted like a "water bowl" and held them damp. Perfect spot to try dats though. And some hardy hibiscus.

David, Do you still have hoyas on your wish list? Maybe we can trade... Michelle mascroggin1@yahoo.com