Mla2ofus, shallots are milder than some onions, not all. They are milder than garlic. I use shallots with onions, sometimes. Garlic flavor will over-power them so those 2 won't be sharing a saute pan. Shallots seem real special to me. They are "different" than onions. If you use them while still growing, the green shallot can replace green onions. Not having gained all their unique flavor, they will taste just about the same as a green onions. I finally realized that it wasn't so smart to eat them like that! Wait a few more weeks and harvest the bulbs - much more value to bulbs. They keep better than any onion. I have them in my garage right now - it is freezing in there. I have had shallots in my garage every winter for the last 20 years. They are fine. If you want to try them, I'll suggest starting with seeds since the sets can be so expensive. Save some bulbs and plant those the following year. Don't eat all of your shallots the 1st winter! Okay, you can, if'n you really like 'em. Growing from seed just means that you will have a little more trouble with weed competition and the harvest will not be like the 1st week of August for you. They will pretty much need the full growing season to make bulbs from seed. Steve

Agastache aurantiaca (Orange Hummingbird Mint): Apricot Sprite – Apricot Sunrise – Fragrant Carpet – Fragrant Delight – Just Peachy – Lavender Martini – Navajo Sunset – Peach Margarita – Raspberry Daiquiri – Shades of Orange – Sprite Lilac – Sunset Yellow – Tango Agastache cana and cana x (hummingbird mint): Bolero – Heather Queen Agastache foeniculum and foeniculum x (anise hyssop): Arcado Pink – Arizona Mix – Arizona Sandstone – Arizona Sun – Arizona Sunset – Astello Indigo – Asturo White – Blue Fountain – Blue Spike – Bolero – Snow Spike Agastache mexicana (Mexican Giant Hyssop): Champagne – Sangria Agastache pallid and pallida x: Globetrotter – Rose Queen Agastache rugosa (Korean mint): Golden Jubilee – Korean mint – Liquorice/Licorice Blue – Liquorice/Licorice White ­ Agastache nepetoides (yellow giant hyssop) Agastache rupestris (threadleaf giant hyssop aka licorice mint hyssop) Agastache schrophularifolia (purple giant hyssop) Ageratum (floss flower): Aloha Blue – Blue Danube – Blue Diamond – Blue Leilani – Blue Planet – Fields Blue – Hawaii – Purple Fields – Red Top – White Bouquet Alcea rosea (hollyhock): Chater's Double Apricot – Halo series – Majorette Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon): Aroma series – Axiom series – Apple Blossom – Bronze Dragon – Frosted Sunset – Madame Butterfly – Peaches and Cream – Peach Breeze – Plum Blossom – Rembrandt – Royal Bride – Terracotta – Tutti Frutti Asarina (snapdragon vine or creeping snapdragon) Asclepias purpurescens (purple butterfly weed) Aster tongolensis (aster, East Indies) Bacopa Begonia tuberhybrida Calendula (pot marigold, English marigold): Antares Flashback – Apricots and Oranges – Apricot Twist – Art Shades – Citrus Smoothies – Deja Vu – Fruit Twist – Geisha Girl – Indian Prince – Neon – Oktoberfest – Solar Flashback – Sunshine Flashback Callistephus chinensis (China aster): Andrella – Blue Ribbon – China Pink – Daylight – Double Rainbow – Floretta Champagne – Fireworks – Giant Perfection – Giants of California – Idyll – Perfection – Pink Tower – Serenade – Spider Chrysanthemum – Standy Ceratotheca triloba (South African foxglove) Cladanthus arabicus (Palm Springs daisy): Golden Crown Cobaea scandens (cup & saucer Vine, cathedral bells): Royal Plum Coreopsis: Heaven’s Gate – Presto – Tetra Giants Cosmos: Cosmic series – Double Click – Snow Sonata Craspedia globosa (drumsticks, billy buttons) Cuphea: Bat Face Cuphea – Purple Passion Delosperma (ice plant) Deschampsia cespitosa (tufted hair grass) Dianthus (Pinks): Allwood Pinks (Dianthus alwoodii): – Amur River Pinks – Arctic Fire – Baths Pinks (Cheddar Pinks): – Black and White Minstrels – Cinnamon Red Hots – Cranberry Ice – Diana – Devon Sarah – First Love – Micro Chips – Neon Star – Raspberry Swirl – Summer Sundae – Superbus Diascia: Apricot Queen – Diamonte – Rose Queen Doeonicum: Little Leo Dorotheanthus bellidiformis (Livingstone or Livingston daisy, ice plant): Apricot Tutu – Magic Carpet – Sparkles Eustoma grandiflorum (lisianthus): any – Cinderella – Double Eagle – Echo – Sapphire Fuchsia Gaillardia pulchella (blanketflower): Arizona Red Shades – Commotion series – Mesa series – Mesa Bright – Mesa Yellow – Summer's Kiss – Tokajer – Torch series Gelsemium sempervirens (Carolina jessamine) Geranium, hardy: Vision Violet Helianthus (sunflower): Apricot Twist – Bicentenary – Coconut Ice – Earthwalker – Evening Sun – Frilly – Indian Blanket – Music Box – Pastiche – Prado Yellow – Razzmatazz – Solar Eclipse – Sundance Kid – Starburst Lemon Aura – The Bees Knees – Valentine Helichrysum (licorice Plant/trailing licorice): Silver Mist Heliopsis (false sunflower): Loraine Sunshine – Prairie Sunset – Prairie Nights Impatiens: Accent Premium Bright Eye Lepechinia hastata (false salvia) Leucanthemum (shasta daisy): White Knight Leymus arenarius (blue dune grass, lyme grass) Lopezia cordata (mosquito flower): Pretty Rose Monarda lambada (bee balm) Morina longifolia (whorlflower) Nassella tenuissima (feather grass) Nipponanthemum nipponicum (Montauk daisy aka Nippon daisy) Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian sage) Osteospermum (cape daisy, African daisy): Akila – Asti Papaver (Poppy): Blackcurrant Fizz – Burgundy Frills – Fruit Punch – Ooh La La – Violetta Blush Penstemon eatonii (firecracker penstemon) Penstemon gloxinoides (border penstemon) Penstemon superbus (superb penstemon Pentas lanceolata: any – Butterfly Sparkles – New Look Perilla: Fantasy Petunia: any hybrid commercial seed – Shock Wave Phlox drummondii (Phlox): Creme Brulee – Promise – Moody Blues – Phlox of Sheep – Summer Majesty – Watercolor Memories Phlox hybrida: Peppermint Candy Phlox paniculata (tall phlox): any harvested in 2018 Phyls nodiflora (frogfruit): Portulaca grandiflora (moss rose): Happy Hour – Kariba – Margarita – Sundial – Toucan Prunella: Freelander series – Loveliness series Rhodochiton atrosanguineum (purple bell vine) Rudbeckia hirta (black-eyed susan/gloriosa daisy): Chim Chiminee – Hot Chocolate – Radiance Salvia algeriensis (Algerian sage) Salvia argentea (silver sage) Salvia azurea (azure blue sage aka pitcher sage) Salvia chiapensis (Chiapas sage) Salvia darcyi (Darcy’s Mexican sage) Salvia desoleana (Sardinian sage) Salvia dumetorum aka Salvia stepposa (Siberian sage) Salvia flava var. megalantha aka Salvia bulleyana Salvia glutinosa (Jupiter’s distaff) Salvia hians (Kashmir sage) Salvia involucrata (rosebud salvia) Salvia koyamae (Japanese yellow sage) Salvia leucantha (Mexican bush sage) Salvia longispicata x :Big Blue Sage Salvia madrensis (forsythia sage) Salvia napifolia (Turkish sage) Salvia nubicola (Himalayan cloud sage) Salvia nemorosa aka Salvia sylvestris var. nemorosa (woodland sage): Adora Blue – New Dimension Blue – New Dimension Rose – Blue Queen – Rose Queen Salvia nutans (nodding sage) Salvia pachyphylla (desert mountain sage) Salvia patens (Gentian sage) Salvia pratensis (meadow sage) Salvia regla (mountain sage) Salvia reptans aka Salvia leptophylla (slenderleaf sage aka cobalt sage) Salvia roemeriana (cedar sage) Salvia sclarea (clary sage) Salvia stenophylla (blue mountain sage) Salvia subrotunda (hummingbird sage) Salvia taraxacifolia (dandelion sage) Salvia texana (Texas sage) Salvia tiliifolia (lindenleaf sage) Salvia transsylvanica (Transylvanian sage): Blue Cloud Salvia uliginosa (bog sage) Salvia verticillata (lilac sage): Purple Fairy Tale Salvia verticillata subsp. verticillata aka Salvia regeliana Salvia viridis aka Salvia horminum sage (painted sage) : Pink Sunday Solidago rugosa (goldenrod): Fireworks Tanacetum corymbosum ( wild meadow tansy) Teucrium chamaedris ( germander Thalictrum Rochebruneanum – lavender mist meadow rue Scabiosa (Pincushion Flower): Oxford Blue - Summer Sundae Stachys albotomentosa (7up Plant) Stipa tenuissima (feather grass) Sultera cordata (Bacopa): any - Blue Dawn - Bluetopia - Cotton Candy - Silk N Satin - Snowtopia Symphyotrichum novae angliae (New England Aster, Michaelmas Daisy): red - Alma Baby - Chilly Winds - Honeysong Pink - Red Star - September Ruby Tagetes (marigold): Capriccio – Fire Ball – Moonstruck – Scarlet Sophie – Snowdrift – Sunburst Orange Splash – Zenith Red Tagetes lemmonii (Copper Canyon daisy) Tagetes lucida (Mexican mint marigold aka Texas tarragon) Thunbergia alata (blackeyed susan Vine): Salmon Shades – Sunrise Surprise – Superstar Orange Verbascum: Clementine – Copper Rose – Flush of White – Rosetta – Snow Maiden – Violetta Verbena: Crystal Ball – Peaches & Cream Veronica grandis (heartleaf speedwell) Veronica longifolia (garden speedwell) Veronica spicata: Blue Bouquet or other Viola (pansy): Antique Shades – Atlas – Chalon Supreme – Freefall – Matrix – Panola Picotee Shades – other named varieties – but no johnny jump-ups Wedelia texana (Zexmenia) HERBS Lavender: Elegance series – Hidcote – Lavance – Multifida aka Fernleaf – Munstead – Spanish – Vincenza - White Ice Thymus (thyme): Lavender - Lemon - Lime - Orange - Silver VEGETABLES Beans: Helda – Selma Zebra Broccoli: Red Arrow – Redhead – Rudolph – Summer Purple – White Eye Jicama aka Yam Bean Lettuce: Asian Red – Forellenschluss – Gentilina – Rouge Grenobloise – Lollo Bionda – Lollo Rossa – May Queen – Mignonette Bronze – Outredgeous – Petite Rouge – Rouge De Grenoblouse Melon: Early Silverline Okra: Bowling Red – Edna Slaton’s Candelabra Pepper: Big Red – Mandarin – Sheepnose Pimento – Tennessee Cheese – Tequila Sunrise – Tunisian Baklouti – White Lakes – Yellow Monster Pumpkin/ Winter Squash: Autumn Crown – Gill's Golden Pippin – Golden Delicious – Melonette Jaspee De Vende – Red Warty Thing aka Victor – Sucrine Du Berry – Thai Kang Kob – Thai Rai Kaw Tok Spinach: Apollo - Merlo Nero - Monstrueux De Viroflay - Scenic - Viridis Tomatillo: Amarylla – Pineapple – Purple – Purple Coban – Rio Grande Verde – Verde – Verde Puebla Tomatoes: These hybrid tomatoes even if seeds are old or collected from next generation MERCED SAN REMO CABERNET (the large tomato, not the new cherry tomato with the same name)

OK, the truth is most roses aren't fragrant. The good news is that there are lots of fragrant ones out there. Here's my list of heavy hitters by color of Hybrid Teas that are intensely fragrant. Non Hybrid Teas are in (parenthesis.) BTW Marie Pavie doesn't smell much to me nor does New Zealand. Also, don't believe catalogue descriptions when it comes to strength of fragrance. Red- Mr Lincoln, Firefighter, Oklahoma, Papa Meilland White- Pope John Paul 2, Maria Shriver, Prairie Star Purple- Melody Parfumee (grandiflora), Twilight Zone, Angel Face, Heirloom Reddish Purple- Munstead Wood (Austin), Rouge Royal Pink - Peter Mayle, Radio Times (Austin) Sharifa Asma (Austin), The McArtney Rose, Tiffany, Elle Alec's Red, Comptesse De Provence Yellow- Lemon Spice Multi Color- Secret, Double Delight, Typhoo Tea, Bella'Roma Orangish Red- Fragrant Cloud, Dolly Parton Apricot- Jude The Obscure (Austin), Tamora (Austin), Golden Celebration (Austin) There are many, many, many more that are fragrant, but these will get you done.

Oh dear, I'm so far behind I'll never catch up! Neely, that chocolate cake looks good and I love Nigella. She's not afraid to go on TV eating a cold pork chop in her pajamas, LOL, I like that! Shambo, I never thought of adding a sauce to the cabbage roll casserole, I'll try to remember that Lynda, you do a better job on hot dog buns than I do too, mine are never long enough and always too wide. And I've never heard of anyone making wine from guavas, it's a very pretty color. Sleevendog, you lost a chicken, LOL. Usually they're alive when that happens to me! All the frittatas look good too, I'm never that creative. Jasdip, I had to laugh, thinking of you and your "exercise class" out in the parking lot, serving as entertainment. You should get someone to film it, you could have your own YouTube exercise channel! OK, so what's for dinner? I made a version of those peanut butter noodles they serve at Asian restaurants, but I had a box of soy spaghetti in the pantry, so I used that. It was not as bad as I expected and Elery actually liked it a lot. I roasted a butternut squash to go with it, I still have a lot of them in the store room. In my quest to make freezer room, I pulled out a bag of chicken legs from the chickens we raised last year. They were HUGE, so I put 4 of them in the air fryer and the other 4 became chicken noodle soup. I mashed some potatoes and celeriac, roasted parsnips and beets and steamed some brussels sprouts. The celeriac, beets and sprouts were all courtesy of Misfits. I decided to try a new dish, Pasta a ceci. I was not a fan and even Elery wasn't all that crazy about it. The recipe came from Serious Eats. One day we spent fixing fence getting ready to put the cattle out onto pasture, so I just scrambled some eggs and made that salad with peas and peanuts that I like. We stuffed the eggs into flour tortillas and topped them with home canned peach/mango salsa: Time to cook for Mother, so I made some potato cheese soup which she likes a lot, and some split pea soup, which she likes sometimes. Bread pudding to use up some eggs: Still trying to make freezer room, I put a piece of pork butt in the small Nesco roaster, and baked the purple sweet potatoes I got from Misfits. We had the rest of the pea salad. I also took 3 bags of chicken wings out of the freezer and started a big batch of stock, no one in my family will eat chicken wings. I don't like chicken skin, so there's not much left after skinning a chicken wing, LOL. I'll can the stock tomorrow, after it simmers all night in the big Nesco. While digging for the chicken wings, I found some bags of raspberries from 2019 in the freezer and made jelly. I used to make jam, but the seeds get under Mother's partial plate and so she only wants seedless now. Seven of the 8 ounce jars and one 4 ounce jar are cooling on the counter, Mother likes it on corn muffins. At least she does today, who knows about tomorrow. (shrug) I know I made a batch of potato salad in there somewhere, but I sure don't remember what we had with it, and so, I'm caught up! Annie