Theresa, thanks so much!! I will be fine here as long as nothing else bad happens for a while, lol. Kylie, I think I'm good to go with the plants but thanks very much for the offer. Most everything I've lost was plants that I was planning to sell at the market next year. The mother plants of these were all in a different section and look fine. It's good to keep back-up plants in different places I guess!

WOW, heck of a family tree. Check this out! Progeny: 'A Big Splash' selfed 'A Many-splendored Thing' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Alice Blue Gown' hybrid 'Alligator Shoes' = PP x 'montana' 'Band of Gold' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Bashful Polly' hybrid 'Benedict Arnold' hybrid 'Big and Blue' = PP x 'Blue Seer' 'Big Pizza Pie' = PP x 'Maekawa' 'Blast Off' = 'Mikado' x PP 'Blue Canopy' = PP x '(x 'Dorothy Benedict')' 'Blue Form' sport/gg 'Blues in the Night' selfed 'Brilliance' hybrid 'Celestial' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Chairman of the Board' = PP x 'Elatior' 'Cinderella' selfed 'Clyde's Birthday' hybrid 'Dandy Randy' selfed 'Dazzling' = PP x 'Maekawa' 'Eggs Benedict' = PP x 'Incredible Hunk' 'Final Answer' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'George W.' = PP x 'Incredible Hunk' 'Gil Jones' selfed 'Go Dorothy' hybrid 'Gold Dorothy of Richland' hybrid 'Grand Maw JoAnn' hybrid 'Grandchild' hybrid 'Heavenly Beginnings' = PP x 'Elatior' 'Herb Benedict' = PP x 'Tokudama Aureonebulosa' 'Hideko Gowen' selfed 'Hot Flash' selfed 'Huron Blue' hybrid 'In Sook' = PP x 'montana' 'Janet's Joy' sport/gg 'Jim Wilkins' selfed 'Lickity Split' = PP x 'pycnophylla' 'Lovely to Behold' = PP x '(x 'Dorothy Benedict')' 'Lover's Leap' = PP x 'Nooner' 'Lucky Fifty' sport/o 'MacBenedict' hybrid 'Mean Mama' sport/yg 'Miss Tokyo' = PP x 'montana 'Aureomarginata'' 'Misty Mary Ann' = PP x '(x 'Dorothy Benedict')' 'My Friend Nancy' = PP x 'montana 'Chirifu'' 'My Love Dorothy' selfed 'Nifty Fifty' sport/gy 'Outrageous' = PP x 'montana 'Aureomarginata'' 'Roller Coaster' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Ruby Benedict' = PP x 'Tokudama Aureonebulosa' 'Sails at Sunset' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Seducer' selfed 'Silk Kimono' = PP x 'montana' 'Simply Sharon' seedling 'Skyward' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Song Sung Blues' = PP x 'Maekawa' 'Sportscaster' seedling 'Spring Break' = PP x '(x 'Dorothy Benedict')' 'Stellar by Starlight' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Super Star' = PP x 'Maekawa' 'Surf and Turf' = PP x 'Incredible Hunk' 'Teacher's Pet' = PP x 'montana' 'Unexpected Pleasure' = PP x 'montana' 'Van Wade' = PP x 'Northern Lights' 'Warwick Curtsey' = PP x 'nakaiana' 'Xanadu Contemplation' selfed

I wish you could have gone on the arboretum tour a couple of years ago. One of the gardeners had a fairy garden about that size that she and a neighbor friend worked on together. She had all the things you mention and then some. I think the stream might have been a dry river bed of rocks. There was a walk up the hill and around the top of the garden, so one could see and photograph it from all angles. "fairy houses and scenes with some pathways, bridges, ladders, steps, etc. joining the areas. I may even figure out how to add a river, lake, and waterfalls" Remember to add some pergolas, my favorite delicate architecture for fairies. I had a small fairy garden about 5' x 5', but the terrain was so rough I can no longer keep it up. Now, I have even more fun building tiny fairy gardens in large pot saucers. Usually, I pick just one small vignette for each. I have chosen to have small succulents in them, so I can bring them inside for the winter. Then I have them here and there around the living area, where I can enjoy them all year long. I decorate them seasonally: spring - planting tools and pets, summer - out door furniture and faux flowers, fall - rakes, pumpkins and scarecrows, with tiny wreaths and garlands, winter - . I am always dinging around with them: changing a plant, mushroom, miniature grape vine ball, fairy or wishing well, etc. I make streams from sea rock or pebbles and ponds with mirrors, water bubbles with beads and pearls. I make fairy books, easels, etc. to represent our hobbies. I have found some cute animals, bicycles, wagons, etc. among the Christmas ornaments and a few things from the Christmas Villages.

I haven't gotten the prizes mailed yet. I came down with a "cold" and have been staying in just in case ... my COVID test kits are expired but show as negative when I take the test. However, they say not to use them if they are expired so I don't know. Hopefully I'll feel up to going out a little by tomorrow.