The more I try to mentally picture or sketch the space that I have created, the more I feel it protrudes too far from the house. I think that a small ornamental would be too close to the house in this area, though I do love Japanese Maples and Dogwoods... I may bring the farthest edge of the tilled area back in and reseed with grass. Part of the problem is that I have already planted the three astilbe 'Superba', and I have no other place to plant them. I'm sort of 'locked' into the asitlbe as the highest plants in the back of the bed. Otherwise, I may have considered a goatsbeard (aruncus) or maybe cimicifuga at the rear to further bring the height up, and allow me to move towards the front with more perennials.

I can see all your points, but really MOST of their customers probably aren't rural, and don't have this problem. I'm sure they just aren't aware of how important it can be for those of us in this situation. I emailed Betty, not to have her do anything about my situation, but to let her know that PO Box customers might appreciate a heads-up in the future. They're super-busy right now I'm sure, and I'll bet they just have never thought of how much it could matter to some of us. Incidentally, I had the same thing happen last year with a perennial order from BC. So I knew full well I should ask for a shipping confirmation, I just forgot. I'm just glad that they will ship to a PO Box at all, there are so many companies that just WON'T, I guess because they only ship UPS . . . now that's annoying. "Yeah, for the address, um, tell the guy to take TWP Rd 521 to the W for 12 miles, then turn south, take the first left past the bridge . . ." I swear, the next company that tells me that they won't ship to a PO Box, I'm going to just ask the person on the phone if they'll ship it to me personally, through the mail. I recently had an even bigger package-fiasco with one such company . . . I still don't even know what went wrong, except maybe everything. Ah well, thanks for the support, and I'm glad to see so many of your familiar names still here! Really, though, please don't blame Betty. I can imagine being in her position, and I don't expect she knew this problem was a possibility. Happy gardening, until next time!

Luvs...just read your post..and Thank you for your caring words. I'm feeling much better, and I'm looking foward to being out and about again real soon. I see the Dr on Wed - to get an 'all clear' and can hopefully move on. Funny, the Witch has been sitting in the shed for a couple of weeks now..DH got her done real fast along with the cats. I was going to put her up this past weekend, but..you know why that didn't happen...lol Hopefully in a few days..as I promised the kids. As far as my Fall decos...I've got most done too. I think that's where I pushed too hard when I was feeling awful. Right now, I'm in bed, downloading pics to Photobucket and will be posting. TG for this laptop! jane

Thanks for the advice/support. Normally I'm pretty calm about this stuff, but the cabinets were so expensive! OK, to answer your questions. The Russian cabinet guy is the owner of the shop and was there installing with other guys yesterday. I called the company where I got the pulls and they had no clue about the tack. They are going to the warehouse to make sure that it's not included with the pulls (I have none left to check), just so I will know myself before I pitch a fit. ALL of the drawers have this tack. My husband thinks they accidentally drilled a hole in one of the drawers as if to put a knob on (everywhere else is knobs) and then put the tack in to cover their error. My concern is, even if they pull out the tack, there will be a hole in my nice, new, $$$ cabinets. They did buy the cabinet paint to match, but the cabinets have off-white paint and a brown glaze so I suspect it would be hard to match it perfectly. I don't have pics at the moment, but will take some when I go back to the apartment tomorrow. DH is going over there today -- I can't face it!