Hopefully we'll find out next year. I'll not hold out hope for flowers this year. :) I would grow these just for the foliage alone. Now that it quite raining, the one leaf that had been holding water is now tilted. Water will just run off now. Darn, I really enjoyed watching it fill and dump.

My Reynolds parchment paper is good to 420ð, too. I don't think I never need to go over that when using it. Mostly, I use parchment paper for baked goods, but when I use it for the occasional main dish, it's something that's cooked fairly gently, not blasted. My problem with the Martha wrap is having to throw away two products, instead of just one. I usually recycle my parchment paper a few times before I throw it away, and even then, I'm wishing I could recycle. Unfortunately, I've tried the Silpats, and don't like them nearly as much.

Glass can be so frustrating to clean and I agree @Annette Holbrook(z7a) they show dust. I did LED lighting in mine but chose only to light the top and not let it shine through shelves. I know it might not be the best option for you but I like the effect in my kitchen.

My plant list is for a prairie. Im all about prairies, and me and my prairie people friends don't usually mention the word 'meadow'. I think of meadows as scaled down versions of prairies with plants not exceding 3 ft in height. Meadows to me, are like the Swiss alpine meadows, or the mountain meadows that are in our western rocky mountains. They are quite beautiful, with an array of deep colors. I remember passing by a beautiful mountain meadow in Wyoming, and stopping to admire it, wondering if Julie Andrews would show up dancing with a group of children. If I lived on a plot with acreage I'd definiately do a meadow and a prairie. There was that Olaf guy who was designing European meadows that used a lot of American natives. I grow a number of natives that are shorter and they can't tolerate taller cometition, so at the north and south sides of my oval shaped beds, Im trying to leave them free for the shorter plants. I'm adding plants to one of those sections now. It already has Prairie Dropseed and Prairie Smoke,(Geum triflorum). Ive added our native yarrow, Achillea gracilis, which was incorrectly lumped with the Eurasian Achillea millefolium since Linaeus's time., Little Bluestem, Liatris pynostachya, Whorled Milkweed, Phlox pilosella. I'm impressed with your success at growing Pasqueflowers and hemiparasitics Rosa. I haven't had success with either. I've wanted to grow the Bastard Toadflax for years, even surgically inserting it's seeds into the rootmasses of native grasses, but nothing, I can see why it deserves it's common name. I need to give the Indian Paintbrushes another go. My Verbesina virginica is about 11+ ft. tall right now, but if grown in the UK, where the summers aren't tropically hot, it would probably top out at about head height. The Palafoxia callosa has just started blooming. Another hemiparastic that I've wanted to grow is the Purple False Foxglove, Agalinis. I've broadcasted hundreds of seeds for it, yet no germination whatsoever. Danny, that's great that the Cliff and Stiff Goldenrods like your wet soil. Drummondii is such an elegant goldenrod. I cut my plant back completely to the ground along with my showy goldenrod, because the long drought caused both of them to look very shabby. Im going to divide my gargantuan clump of prairie dropseed. I know youve said it cant be done, but I've heard different from others. I have some vollunteers,(just in case). You must have a very sensative nose, because I can barely detect any smell from it's flowers, yet they send you into convultions.😂 The Callirhoe Bushii is growing in a short plant section. I've been trying to beat it into submission, since it's attempt to murder my New Jersey Tea. I'm very interested in seeing how it behaves in East Anglia.