Thanks to hostarookie for keeping the count & doing the Excel spreadsheet! Posts through 13:00 on 3/25/11 are included here, others will be included next time. Please post any corrections & we will work on them! It has been previously announced that containers sown on Winter Solstice Dec 21 - May 1 count for Zone Wars. You can celebrate May Day & sow containers! You have until midnight of Sunday, May 1, your local time, to sow containers that will count for Zone Wars. Any containers sown on May 2 do not count. Zone Wars Total: 13,317 Please post here with your current TOTAL count. Happy sowing! Zone 4 = 959 Zone 5 = 4598 Zone 6 = 3619 Zone 7 = 3323 Zone 8 = 818 Please click on the link to view the Zone Wars Spreadsheet You may need to increase your text size after you click on the spreadsheet: control+plus sign or in Internet Explorer - View, Text size (choose a larger size). Other browsers are very similar. Thanks to everybody who posted feedback on the new spreadsheet! Everyone who posted could see it. Please post here if you cannot see it and we will get back to you. Thanks!

Melissa, if the spot get only 2 hrs less sun than the spots where your BDs have no trouble to set blooms, then I think you are ok...the sun exposure is on the low side, even for hyrangeas, if you want reliable blooms...that said, i think your location will be alright...since it close to the house, the soil maybe more alkaline than you think..hydrangeas are more tolerant to alkaline soil than Rhodies would...there are many lacecaps you can chose...I am partial to the mopheads but i have clients would only have lacecaps...fuji waterfall, blue bird, blue billow are the common ones...the more recent introductions like lady in red, twist-n-shout (1st rebloomer for a lacecap), and lemon wave...I dont have cuttings for these, but you probably can find these plants in local nurseries or online suppliers (hyrangeaplus.com)..forestfarm.com would be another place for hydrangea online shopping.. /..

Thanks for all your hard work Karen! Can't wait to read it in its entirety. Jodi-

Just looked at all three pages of aprons and none of them were like I remembered. About 6 yrs ago I found two at a craft show and bought them both. Just like my Grandma wore everyday but shorter, of course she was shorter than I am maybe that was it. Anyway these things had seams on the side to join the back and front pieces and popped over the head and then tied at the waist. Would love some more - the fact I didn't blink an eye at paying $50 for pattern tells you how badly I want them. Maybe there were regional aprons (of the country), she was wearing them in the late 50's and early 60's, and then too all the older women in upstate NY wore them pratically all day. FWIW LOL. Molly Whoops forgot to say there was no waist per se, the ties just closed the back.