Hello Everyone!!! I think ii lost this post.. so many post going on !! Great to see!! Thank you all for the nice comments!!! Hi Barbra!!! I hope you get you drip system installed.. im sure it is hard driving back and forth.. I would be worried too! I am sure you will have beautiful blooms in TX.. You all down their have Large ones.. LOL!! Everything is big in TX! Right? Good luck.. I can't wait to see some of your pics!!! Thanks for everything... ;-) Hi Mike!! Thank you!! I can't wait to see yours too!!! Rox.. You are so kind.. thank you!! You have some beauties at your home.. I am talking.. gorgeous!!! Hi Chuy... Always nice to hear from you!!! I am sure you will be posting your blooms soon too!! Have fun in Cali!!! Mima.. Thank you so much!! I just started to watermark some of my pics.. Some people like to take them and use them on their websites as their own. Our resident detective, Emily.. ;-) brought my attention to some.. So now I mark them. Thank you,, I like them too!!! Hi Nicole.. I have no doubt we would be in major trouble in Cali at JJ's LOL!!!! I think Desert Sunrise is a winner.. You wouldn't believe the color change in 5 days here. The heat has really deepened the color.. I love it!!! My ears and my heart were at the open house.. I was thinking of you all there and thinking of the time change too! Glad you limited yourself.. ;-) I am sure they' re good ones.. yes, a lady needs to keep some things a secret!!! ;-) we all need to keep those totals mum.... right? My Taj Mahal has an inflo as well as Thai Super Round has bloomed. I will post pics tomorrow.. Especially with the color change.. I was taken back when I came home from my trip with "TEA STAINS" all over me.. LMAO!! ;-) I noticed inflos on.. Lani.. Saigoon Moon, San Miguel, Aztec Gold, Lavender ( I have been waiting for this one...) Keiki Lavender, Rachaels Cloud, Miami Rose, Kauka Wilder, Thai ELsie, DIvine, Pele, Royal Hawaiian and a few Noids... I m so EXCITED!!!! I wish you were here... sigh!!! My Golden Pagoda is in the rooting Process.. so I am looking to the Plumeria Gods.. ;-) I am also keeping my fingers crossed too! That is the news.. Thank you for asking.. I am so happy with the inflos this year.. last year I fertilized well. Now it is showing.. So I am keeping up with the same system as last year!! xoxox Hi K.. I agree Kohola is a beauty.. I have more blooms to open , so I will post pics.. How is Psycho? Did it root? I tried to take another pic of Kohola today.. the camera cant pic up the color. SO frustrating.. I love it!! YOU need one.!!! Hope you had a good time at the sale. Sounds like you have taken good care of all of the ladies.. Did your wife get a new purse? ;-) Hi Robert!!! My trees were late as well.. But now, they are really taking off. MY inflo total is more than I have ever had. My Desert Sunrise has three heads of blooms and it looks like something you would see in Hawaii.. II am STOKED!!! I wish I had you and your sniffer here too! My Tuberoses are blooming.. I cut a stalk and set it in water and my whole house smells wonderful.. I have no doubt that you will have pics soon too! Thank you AS ALWAYS. I need to post at the fragrant.... ;-) Great eye on the six petals.. that was the first to open and all of the others are five... I missed that, vut you are the only one who spotted it.. Eagle eye!! ;-) Good catch!!! Thank YOU!!! Hi Kasie!! Thank you so much!! How are your s doing? You have a better start being in Cali ,,, LUCKY!!! ;-) Hi Spioran.. Thank you!!! I really appreciate the kind comments!! Hope you are having a great summer!! Hi Peg.. I think it is time.. They re looking beautiful!! We will meet soon. I have inflos popping and I am so happy!! Always fun to have you over and I really love the lunches.. "Im Hungry!!!" ;-) Hi Dave.. Desert Sunrise? OMG I love her!!! She is a must.. hold on.. I need to go and smell her for you.. ill be right back.. LOL.... back... I am awful at describing fragrance, but she smells of a sweet perfume fragrance to me. She is a beauty.. I am going to post tomorrow the difference in the last five days.. the coloration change is just amazing. The heat we have had has changed her.. she is deeper and just stunning.. I believe she is a seedling of PP. You have to get her, or you can wait and I will give you a cutting when ready!!! Like DIvine.. you will be so happy!!! I sure am. She is a must have... Hi Manuel, Thank you so much for the compliments on my pics.. I do like to play with the camera, but the humidity has been a problem. I have to bring the camera out and let it sit to adjust to the temps outside.. I get all fogged up!! LOL!!! Coming from a Professional Photographer..... thank you!!! That means a lot.. Mahalo!!! I especially liked the pic of San Miguel with the leaves.. Ohhh my Tuberoses are blooming too! I just LOVE Them!!! Bill was right, they are fabulous... Always nice to see you post. Thank you!!! ;-) Take care.. Hi Emily!!! Thank you.. This is a great season for me. The trees are loving the temps and the time in the sunshine. I also think they are so well adjusted in the watering system and fertilizer too! I love the Foliage Pro!! I wish I could produce such beauties with the seedlings like you!! Congratulations.. I think you need to start your own seedling starter business.. LOL.. You do a great job!!! Thank you.. You are sweetie!! Hi Jen!!! Thank You!!! Scent reports.. ETLD is to die for.. I am loving the inflos right now.. I took a pic of a bloom that I measured at 4 inches across. It is huge. This is one fragrant tree.. My Desert Sunrise is very fragrant too!! I see you mentioned the color change.. I am experiencing that right now.. in 5 days, it has changed so much. it is dark orange and just as you descried. I will post tomorrow. I need to upload to photobucket. I do find it interesting how they all look different all around the country... wonder why mine has a strong fragrance. I just go outside at night.. I know they are more fragrant in the evening too... try at night, Jen!! George.. YOU will LOVE Desert Sunrise.. Just wait!!! LOL!!! Let us know what you think!!! Take good care everyone!!! Ill start a new thread on the blooms.. I cant wait for you to see the color change... OMG!!! Night... or good morning.. ;-) Laura

Patty, I'm sorry the snow put an end to your gardening season. Snow is wonderful at covering and disguising in beauty all the stuff that needs to be cleaned up, though, not to mention a good insulator. I have a lot of frozen plants, but no snow. But, hey, the snapdragons and alyssum are still sitting there blooming. Actually, they are frozen in place. I've got some rose suggestions for you to think on--these roses are the toughest of the tough in my garden: Morden Sunrise, Royal Bonica, Ascot, Munstead Wood (yes, unbelievably), Princess Al of K ( another unbelievable), and Colette, a climber. Good luck navigating this winter and may your roses come through with flying buds. My wishes for everyone here, too. Diane

Don't you just hate it when 3/4 of the buds open up with messy flowers until finally you get a few flawless ones, and then presto.....the season is over? Some years are definitely better than others and patience is necessary. You got some good ones today with Here Lies Butch as my pick for favorite..

Thank you all for commenting. No, not angels, just cat people. These are unusually cute kittens. I think cats must be like hobos were in the depression and leave some kind of a sign where cat people live. My husband was a cat lover as a youngster.l. My spouse insisted on taking night duty since I have issues with falling back to sleep and he doesn't. we have a home for one and possibly two already. Sometimes kittens with a story (or ups for that matter) fid homes easier. Yes, Julia, that is a replacement for the New Paradigm I lost and it was planted last summer. We are afraid the mother cat was killed since they won't leave kittens this young otherwise. I have had one leave a sick kitten here (Katie-did-it) but never a litter and these are not sick. Kate, there are two "spots". One a long-haired fuzzy male and the other a very loving female. She climbs my jeans to get up close and likes to touch my face, then curl up on my chest. This should be the last litter, but the way it is, who knows? kay