Hi Group... I ordered the 3 in 1 angel trumpet from "House of Wesley: :( what it turned out to be is 3 plants white,yellow,pink in the same pot. I ordered 3 and did plant them all. I too thought there would a grafted, but it wasn't. Now I don't know what to feed them. Can anyone suggest a food for these plants. I'm kind of new to this, as I moved from CA to TN when I retired and not very experienced. Lynne

In the area that encompasses the Ozark Mountains and foothills (Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma) there is a subspecies or race of copperhead that has a lot of pink in its coloring - a very pretty snake. A friend of mine that works with reptiles at the zoo takes it upon herself to rescue as many as she can and when you visit she always has them in buckets or boxes or pillowcases in transit to someplace. Sometimes to be released, sometimes to other people who will house them awhile and then release them, some people to breed them I guess. I never ask. From all I've been told the bite is very painful but not life threatening as long as you end up in front of a doctor before too long. On one of my recent trips she picked me up in her pickup (the only vehicle allowed in OK) and we headed off to her place way out in the country by Lake Oolagah (I love those Native American names). On the way we had to stop and pick up her preteen daughter from school. We screamed through the school parking lot, shuffled some debris around behind the seat so that the kid would fit along with my luggage. It wasn't until we got out into the countryside that my friend mentioned we would have to stop so that she could release some snakes into the wild. I thought this would be great and that I could take some photos, since I had my camera with me. We stopped on an old country road in the shade of some trees and found a spot with a small stream - a perfect spot for a release, a rarely travelled road, shelter, food and water, a reptiles dream home. I had visions of a snake or two, maybe one poisonous in the mix. I was wrong. They were all copperheads, and there was a bunch of them. I don't remember how many exactly but it was more than 7. I also assumed they were in containers in the bed of the truck - WRONG! they were in tupperware containers on the floor of the kingcab, right at her daughters feet!!! It all came off as reckless to me but in all her life (and her children's) no one has ever been bitten - her horses have left plenty of scars on everyone and have proven far more dangerous than the reptiles. I've worked with reptiles in my past though I was never certified to work with venomous (and never wanted to be either). Snakes don't bother me like they do other people. When my vole population gets out of hand I've been known to haul home anything legless with scales to help with the problem - including copperheads. My tune may change if a person or pet gets bit, but until then they are all welcome in my yard. A problem with catch traps - glue traps, snap traps or bird netting left on the ground is that unless you check it every day the rotting animal stuck in the trap can really stink up your back yard.

Oh, where to start. Lisa's sign in name was one of the first ones I recognized, when I started lurking on this forum. She has such a beautiful way of describing fruit trees and veggies that it has inspired me to add many of those to my yard (I would never had mulberry, figs, sugar apple, miracle fruit, pomegranate barbados cherry, papaya, if it would not be for Lisa). You are a great inspiration, I would say the queen of edibles! Thank you Lisa, and enjoy this you truly deserve the praise. Veronika

Halloween is a fun holiday for me. It's all about candy and having fun. Here in south Texas, it can be 90 degrees or 60 degrees, depending on the weather! I made tombstones last year out of styrofoam, but the dogs knocked over the stack they were in and broke them when we were moving things out of our old shed. I put out skeletons, pumpkins, black cats, bats and ghosts. None of the gory, scarey stuff, just the fun kind. I don't like the blood and gore decorations. Save that for the commercial haunted houses. Halloween was definitely much more fun when my kids were younger. They don't seem to get into it too much, except to see what the trick or treaters are dressed up as, or to see how much of the candy bag they can devour before the 31st. I usually end up having to buy more candy, not because of the trick or treaters, but because of my kids (well, okay, us adults are guilty of digging into the candy bags, too!) Pat, I love the idea of the murder mystery party. A friend of my daughter's had one a couple of years ago and it was a real blast. Our HOA hosts a Halloween party for the little kids each year. Activities are bobbing for apples, face painting, ring toss, cake walk, costume contest, etc. One of the parents got industrious and made a cardboard box haunted maze for them to crawl through. They served punch and cookies and cupcakes and gave out goodie bags. Another parent provided the flat bed trailer and hay bales so the kids could take a hay ride. (The same person does this at Christmas for the neighborhood carolling.) Fun time for all that ends about dark so the kids can head off to trick or treat or parties. As for the bad side of Halloween, our humane society and animal control services stop adopting out black cats well in advance of Oct. 31st. Sad that there are weirdos out there that still commit outrageous acts, but we have been lucky that nothing has happened locally in a few years. ~Kathy