Ooooops! Heth this may be wayyyy too belated but I had several chaos happening/stuff to arrange on the home front. That tiny turnip has only grown from 1/2" to 2" (it's a foreshortened angle so looks smaller than it really is) and it's almost the end of September. My other orchid's baby leaf is at a standstill for 3 months!!!! whereas it's other bifoliate leaf grew like dynamite (within 1-2 weeks)! I still suspect that secondary bifoliate leaf is hiding something??? maybe it is indeed hiding a spike???? It's still spotted! even 3 months later and barely grew whereas it's other bifoliate leaf didn't have any spots on it. Naughty orchid is taking forever! But then I read other people waiting 2 whole years. I'd go beserk! LOL! Whitecat and Orchid126 I am going from happy dance to hopping impatient, hee-hee! Heth my orchids are cattelya hybrids (Lc. Yen Amethys x Blc Varut Greenworth) and (Lc. Longriver Compton 'Golden Star') Here is the link to my first blooms. Lc. Yen Amethys x Blc Varut Greenworth The other hasn't bloomed yet and is the "naughty orchid" that won't leaf out properly.

They aren't going into the ground yet. That's why I love Chamblees, they send potted gallons which means I can hold off for a while until it clears up and warms up a little. I have some shelving on the deck where flats of perennials are being started, it is on wheels and gets rolled indoors in the rare freezes. That's where they are going to stay. It may only be a week or two, Texas weather changes dramatically sometimes from one week to the next.

Susan Would there happen to be a common name for a lindera benzoin bush? I've noticed you are enamored with butterflies and moths, just curious how you acquire so many species, collecting or commerical? I am putting in several new beds and am trying to divide and bargain hunt as much as I can this fall, then splurge on bedding plants in the spring, I have worked a deal with a commercial grower to buy wholesale. Truthfully, I'm using up all of DH brownie points with this guy. Aunt Net

Little acts of kindness are the best and I'll say it again....many of you are like my family. I have a couple of really cool brothers!!! You KNOW who you are!!! And...I'll ask one more time...has anyone heard from Devon? All attempts to contact him via email have gone unanswered and he has bulbs from last year waiting for him.