Mine are doing this as well, my first thought was aster yellows, but I'm also wondering if the weather has been a factor. (Can you tell I'm in denial?) I only have 3 coneflower plants, all Pow Wow Wild Berry, started from seed last year. 2 in one bed and the other one is in a bed nearly 500 ft. away. I got rid of all my coneflowers a few years ago because I was tired of yanking plants with aster yellows, then saw Pow Wow and decided to give them another try, this may be a very short lived 2nd chance.

Well when i say a proper forum i'm not being derogatory to the good people on here,its just that well i post on a lot of forums from all subjects,and GW works really different to what i call a forum-not as bad as yahoo groups tho! Also GW is primarily for gardeners something i don't really enjoy. I love plants but not gardening. And of course most of the trees on here are the garden kind,bred to be as small as possible,to fit in a space. Nothing wrong with that of course but I like to see BIG trees growing in the wild or arboreta etc. I'd love to show you what I grow but all I have is a lowly goldcrest,i just don't have the space or,at the moment,the time. So i see my trees online but find it hard to believe there is not one tree forum out there! If i had the time and money I'd make my own and you'd all be welcome to join and share your sylvian experiences. But as it is all I have is GW with its ads surveys and hangups. Luckily I use my phone a lot and so don't see any ads. It just tends to hang up on me.

Lou, Yup, that's it. On spaghetti sauce cooking day grandma's menu was: BREAKFAST=eggs poached in sauce LUNCH=when all the guys came home for lunch, DGM scooped out enough sauce to make a pot of pasta e fagioli DINNER=spaghetti with sauce and various meats baked in sauce SUNDAY=lasagna made with leftover sauce I never knew it to vary from this routine and I pretty much use the same schedule--except the eggs (I don't do eggs!). The sauce was an all day production.

I think what you are gravitating to, and calling a "cool" yellow, are the yellows with a green undertone. I'm also a big fan of the greenish yellows - I have greenmount silk in my house and also dunmore cream. How dark of a shade are you looking for? I had the greenmount silk mixed at 50% strength and it was very pretty (though still ended up being too yellow for what I wanted). If you like it, but it's too strong, you can always have it mixed at a lesser strength. To me Dunmore Cream reads as more of a tan than a yellow, but again it has a definite green undertone. It's also a very pretty color, but much darker on the wall than the greemount silk is. That said, I ended up picking BM's Lancaster Whitewash for the majority of my house. On the chip it reads as a grayish off-white, but, at least in my house, it reads as a light greenish-grayish yellow. It's not a showstopper of a color (it's pretty bland, actually) but it's just what I needed to complement my cabinets and flooring, etc. (The cabinets, particularly, are the weirdest shade of gray-green and nothing looked right next to them until I discovered the lancaster whitewash.) You might want to test it out. You definitely will want to stay away from the yellows with the red/brassy undertones -- that is what is making them read peachy. I tried a bunch of the Laura Ashley Pale Golds and they all ended up too peachy for my taste. At the paint store, stand in front of the paint chips and look for the spot where the yellows meet the greens and the colors are grayed out (not screaming bright) -- that's probably where you'll want to be if you like Greenmount Silk. Good luck! Picking paint colors is such a PITA!