That's great! Well done. Glad you got the Ditch Witch, sometimes it's better just to let a machine do at least some of the work. Happy gardening.

Your foliage looks good, Suzy. If you have time and want to continue washing the foliage, inspecting for the saw fly larvae, and you don't have many plants, you may not need any "products." If you have many plants; if you find washing the foliage and inspecting for the saw fly tedious or too energy and time consuming and you don't mind using products to control or eliminate the insect issues, by all means use them. If you only have a few plants and enjoy manually attacking the insect issues, then continue doing that. Whichever is most enjoyable and reasonable for you is valid. That white leaf will probably never turn green. Whether it is a genetic mutation or caused by a virus, when it was formed, something prevented it from forming the ability to produce chlorophyll. It likely isn't capable of turning green. If it offends you, clip that one off. It won't hurt anything to leave it or remove it. Only green parts photosynthesize food. You have probably seen the cactus and succulents in red or yellow which have been grafted on to green plants to create decorative potted plants. The other colors are not capable of "feeding" themselves through photosynthesis, so they are grafted on green plant parts which do generate food. That leaf is likely similar to the other colored cacti and succulents. If it bothers you, remove it. If it doesn't, leave it alone. It probably won't make any difference either way. And, I seriously doubt it is anything to worry about nor anything you can prevent occurring again. If it is a mutation, it might or might not happen again. If it is viral, it may, or may not reoccur, but there still isn't anything you can do about it and it won't "spread" to other plants unless you bud or graft pieces of this plant on to the others. Just keep feeding and watering the plant as you have and it should continue performing as it has for you. Have fun! Thanks. Kim

Your installer is correct about hot water heater and the flue. This is a problem if the flue is a brick chimney. If it is a liner could be installed to solve the problem. You have to decide if the added cost of the line and the PVC pipe exhaust is worth it in order to get a 95%+ AFUE furnace. I think the Honeywell thermostat model is incorrect. Did you mean model 8320 instead of 8230? The 8230 is a special electric heat thermostat. Connecting a 2-stage furnace to a single stage thermostat is a very bad idea. When you do this the stages are controlled by a timer on the control board. The furnace always starts up in the first stage and then goes to the second stage after a set period of time. You loose all the benefits of a having a 2-stage furnace. The Honeywell 8320 can control two stages. But it would be best if you got the Infinity controller. Ask the installer to substitute it. It should be about the same price.

Excellent that you went to Bletchley Park. Most people had never heard of it until the movie came out. It is near the facility I visit when I travel to the UK.