OK; Buddy---you see how much you've been missed---don't be coy. When I pick up beer bottles along the roadside while walking my daughter's dog, I've often thought of you. When Bicycle Charlie comes and hangs out down by the river for the day, with his knapsack stuffed with food and beer, camoflauge jacket and wide brimmed, beat-up hat, I've wondered how you're doing. I see him leave in the afternoon and wonder about you again. Solitary life, but happy enough and content with himself. Your individual paths find their own routes when I remember the galaxies of separation in your thought processes and your particular ability to take any given day and turn it into an excerpt from a battered novel, which when opened, allows weathered pages of life-lived-on-the-edge to fall where they may. One has the choice to pick up a page or two and read them, or to leave them as they lay and continue on their way. I have to chase them as they're blown about and catch what I can. So much of this world is worded pablum, contrived situations passing for reality, cocooned lives rolling over those who have nothing between hurt and their vunerable skin. You remind the reader life is to be lived and endured, to be celebrated and once again, endured. And you never, ever sugar-coat it. That is why I remember you. That is why I will never, ever forget you. You remind me of Richard Abbey---he got out before you did---not that he wanted to. I'll never forget him, either.

Nice pics vera!! That last one doesn't look anything like my sweet pea though.

I have the red super king, the trinidad is what I am after. I don't have a rooted white COT, I am just sticking it in a pot now for you, so you could stick a red cutting in a pot for me. :) If the yellow one is solid yellow, I'll take that too, and I am bring you a yellow & pink one. I also went back to HD and picked up one of those crotons for you. :)

I put together a list of what I have to offer for the swap. If anybody is interested in any of these, let me know. Blue glory bower (Clerodendrum ugandense) Firecracker plant (Russelia equisetiformis) Scarlet milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) Yellow bells (Tecoma stans) Coral vine (Antigonon leptopus) Mexican flame vine (Senecio confus)-butterfly nectar Malabar spinach (Basella rubrum) Pyrosia longifolia fern Virginia chain fern (Woodwardia virginica) Sword fern (nephrolepsis exaltata) Heliconia psittacorum Lady DI Large orange heliconia (I don't know the name yet) Pendant Lobster claw heliconia (Heliconia rostrata) Moringa oleifera Coral bush ( Jatropha multifida)- nectar loved my zebra but. Costus purple gueen (Costus erythrophyllus) Costus stepladder (Costus malortieanus) Hedychium Sagigake Curcuma Coco top Curcuma kimono Alpinia pinstripe (Alpinia fromosana) Zingiber creamy way Candle bush (Senna alata) Pitaya - Dragon fruit (physical graffity var.) Ming aralia (Polyscias fruticosa) fennel stevia (stevia rebaudiana) I can post pictures upon request. Let me know. Veronika