Hey. I just bought a pachira aquatica from a store and im not sure how to raise it. I am thinking along the lines of: water once a week mist once a week 3-5" pot braided indirect sunlight in summer/winter; direct in spring/fall watered from bottom apparently it is native to wetlands so i am going to try more water...i hope it grows for a long time. is it bad to have a few shriveled leaves here and there? Also: it came with a tie to keep it braided; i loosened it and i saw indents in the trunk! will that harm the tree? Just in case i loosened it. Thanks ahead, A.B.

Well, I don't know that this works perfectly, but it gets at least somewhat of everything you want. Perhaps that is enough?The family entrance to the home is in the side. Enter there, and you'll pass the 5' x 5' half bath (with a window!) and a closet and hooks on the back of the pantry and/or on the long stairwell wall. Not the most elaborate mudroom or half bath ever, but it's more than you have now. If you would like to trade traffic flow for a bigger closet, you could always close off the entrance to dining/kitchen areas from the mudroom. (If you're carrying groceries, you'd probably enter the house through the deck doors anyway.) Like this: In addition to the half bath and mudroom, this plan also gains you a big kitchen with an island that is not a corridor kitchen. Moreover, though you cannot see the entire living room from the island, you can see the entire dining room and about half of the living room: Note that, though the living room does not change in size, it has a new traffic pattern running into it from the new hallway. This will shift any natural living room furniture layouts to the right. Does that leave you enough room for a decent furniture layout?

I would fix it and move on, but I am seriously concerned that you're being taken in $200 increments. You need to get something from them that when this is fixed there are no further issues so that you can move on rather than fix this problem and have them come back with yet one more. That being said I can't imagine putting a cast-iron sink into a cabinet where the material split and not being nervous. The last time I looked at one of Kohler's manuals there were several ways to hold that sink in the cabinet. Rather than be a little nervous about it, you should make sure that the sink is supported properly. It will be much much more costly for you if after you have the granite countertop installed the sink separates from the countertop and begins to fall downwards.

In my no-spray garden the Austins get blackspot and defoliate. Olivia Rose Austin gets less blackspot than many others. It has a lovely medium fragrance like rosewater. Jubilee Celebration has strong sweet fragrance, beautiful pink and cream blend. Princess Alexandra of Kent is also very fragrant, large sumptuous blooms. Mortimer Sackler is highly fragrant with an Old Rose fragrance, one of the taller Austins, good repeat bloom with an elegant arching habit. The Generous Gardener is another tall Austin with lovely fragrance. Olivia Rose Austin Jubilee Celebration Princess Alexandra of Kent on left Munstead Wood Mortimer Sackler The Generous Gardener