Don't wait too long to dig up the red buds if you want to move them. I had a few volunteers in my mulch and decided to use them to trade with but they had some surprisingly established roots for no bigger than they were. I had to do a lot of digging and of course that's not easy in our rocky soil. They transplanted ok but you will save yourself some work if you do it when they're little. I love redbuds and have three in my yard. They're supposed to be good to garden under since they are deep rooted. Most of the trees I have are shallow rooted which is a shame because I love shade gardens. My shade plants struggle (or die) in the summer.

While some fabrics have applied "finishes", many of those are not really washable. A well-known example is chintz decorating fabric often made into curtains. It has a subtle sheen, but if you wash it the sheen disappears, leaving just the printed colors on the fabric. Some people like chintz even better after it's been washed, however. Some modern fabrics have resins embedded in the fabric to assist in preventing wrinkles. This is the basis of the wash and wear dress shirts, for example. Those resins do wear away over the course of a large number of washes, so perhaps that's what the salesman had in mind. Personally I find the added resins unpleasant so I try never to buy fabrics treated with them. Finally most white fabris and clothing sold in the US are treated with optical brightening agents (OBAs), which are essentially florescent dyes that make the white color appear to glow. This is to aid in maintaing the visual impression of whiteness. Many mainstream detergents also add a small amount of OBAs in an attempt to prolong the effect. If you wear clothes made of treated fabric next to your skin, you acquire a subtle florescence of your own. In addition, older or antique white textiles when washed with detergents that add OBAs can become splotchy looking. On the whole, I imagine the marketing babble about maintaining your clothing's finish most likely has to do with the resin-coated anti-wrinkling factor. Those do wear away over time, and you may not have clothing treated that way. For that reason you should decide if the "finish-protection" thing is really important to you. HTH, Molly~ PS BTW, a very familiar textile finish is plain old starch added to the rinse water. For that, of course, it's probably better that it washes away with each wash or you'd be walking around like the tin man sooner or later.

The picture is too dark for me to even guess...but it looks like a greyed down blue or a grey with alot of blue. You might try posting this over on Home Decorating and see what those clever folks come up with. Good luck.

slime mold... created by the rotting of your mulch ... should have no impact on a live plant ... other than on your psyche ... lol ... ken https://duckduckgo.com/?q=slime+mold&t=ffcm&ia=images&iax=images