Can you put them in the shade? Do you know any of your neighbors? Watering 4 plants isn't a lot to ask, especially if they have a view of your pretty flowers too. You could also use a plastic bottle with a pin hole, so water drips out slowly. As the sun hits it, the air/water inside will heat up, forcing it to expand and drip out.

It IS a campanula or bellflower. It is a form of Dalmatian bellflower, Campanula portenschlagiana 'Get Mee'. These are often found in grocery stores as potted gift plants and can be enjoyed indoors then planted in the garden. Indoors, provide bright but indirect light and avoid high heat. Keep soil moist. Outdoors plant in full to partial sun. These are very hardy garden perennials.

First thing you need to look at is your water. Liverworts are very susceptible to the types of salts in water. So it is best to use distilled or r/o water only. Secondly, check out my recent thread on growing Marchantia. You need to take the liverwort off of the old soil that is in the pot you purchased. Then get some sand, creek or river only and mix with some peat moss. And probably divide the clump up into 2 pots. Make a depression in the sand mix and press in the liverwort. Water and bag into a one gallon sized bag and put in a spot that gets a couple of hours of direct sun on a northern exposure. Give it time.

Whoa, if you get a degree in industrial arts you get to acquire carpentry textbooks along the way?!? Sweet! Kim, I've always enjoyed/appreciated your contributions; given the wisdom of trial and error that was behind them, I see why they stood out. My mom got us a couple of the Reader's Digest fixit books (have to run downstairs, one of them might be the very one you have); I like the way they are encyclopedic and detailed. I know Jane Powell but not the Small Houses books (do you mean The Not So Big stuff by Susanka, or the Small House anthologies from Fine Homebuilding?) Thanks for mentioning books; I think I might start a reference book thread for this forum. Hey Casey, THANKS for taking the bait. And you are NOT a bloody genius, you are an old house DEITY for crying out loud! Would you please start your own show on youtube? Or maybe just a house tour? Even Petch house has youtube videos. Or, do you already have a project blog and everyone knows about it but me? Actually for someone with a degree in historic preservation, I am impressed with how low-key your posts come across; they read more like an old friend who's "been there" and wants to pass along lessons learned along the way, it's really very nice and encouraging. But if you ever want to browbeat me feel free; I would take it as a compliment. To be honest if I post about something I'm thinking of doing to my house, and you don't opine, I figure one of two things is going on: 1) you're not on the forum; or 2) you're politely disapproving. Most of the time I assume it's 2 because you seem to be pretty consistent around here. But I just want to say, and I hope I speak for many, that I love love love your posts, especially when I'm searching on a problem I'm trying to solve and something from you pops up! (PS I finally got around to using that general finishes gel varnish you recommended and it was fantastic, thank you; I will post photos to the woodworking forum sometime before the next census.) Oh, and I love the way you "aged" the color tones in the new pine beadboard in your kitchen; reminds me of the pine in my grandmother's kitchen. When I was really little I used to look at the gleaming pores and think it was the closest wood could get to 24K gold.