I have found this to happen on variegated plants. I have a duranta, that is green and yellow variegated. Sometimes an all green, or all yellow branch will come off of it. I also have a variegated rubber tree, that will also send up all green , non-variegated branches. If you were to root these, there would never be any variegation on that plant. Right now the variegated rubber tree has 1 branch with 1 side all green, and the other side all variegated. I left this one, but the others are cut off to promote the variegated growth..

Yeah, unfortunately after i took him to the doc's today, my son does have some form of flu, but i don't know if it's swine. They tested with a swab (quick test) but not the blood test. The reason i took him was yesterday he ran a fever suddenly in the afternoon and said his stomach was hurting. Then is morn he complained about sore throat, so i figured it could be a) strep, b) a secondary infection getting going and causing the fever (he was coughing a lot again), or c) flu. The doc wasn't very helpful as to whether he'd had flu all along and it had gotten worse or he'd managed to pick up a flu on top of a cold. Frankly, the doc had terrible bedside manner overall and i hope we don't have to see him again. He just recommended tamiflu, which i'd read really hasn't helped that much, and when i called around, found out was $100. No way we can afford that right now. So he'll have to let it run its course. He was feverish again in afternoon, but by eve it was gone again. So we'll just wait and see how he's doing. He definitely felt better today with the extra rest until the fever kicked in again, and even then was better than yest. I hate him missing school- because of the block schedule he's on every day he misses is like missing 2 days. Real good way to get behind very fast. To make matters worse, he has some poison ivy from when he felt better the other day & was out weed whacking. Part of it's on his neck because he was scratching skeeter bites. So he looks a fright, poor kid. And tomorrow's our anniversary, which we had planned to spend together, alone, but looks like that's not happening. Oh well. I just want him to get better. So far (KNOCK ON WOOD) nobody else has shown any signs/symptoms at all. Dottie- i would love to see them do some research on those adenoviruses. i remember reading about that but for some reason no one else did. I was beginning to think i'd made it up. people look at you like you're crazy when you tell them they discovered that a virus can make you fat.

Check out the Polly White Peach. It was developed in Iowa and is hardy to -20F. We live 5 miles north of St Paul, MN, and last June I planted one. It was a second year container tree that almost doubled in size over the summer after planting. (from 4 to 7 feet) I watered it until Oct, and put a white plastic cover over the trunk. I also planted it near our driveway so I could easily shovel snow around the base for some extra insulation. (we never use salt on our drive) Our winter was so incredibly mild, and the temp never went below -9F in our area. This spring, the tree is looking fantastic! The trunk looks good, zero dieback, and it easily has 40 to 50 flower buds. I've decided to take full advantage of this...if fruit develops, I will let the tree fully fruit, and only thin to prevent branch breakage. Who knows when we'll get another mild winter like this last one. I'm hoping for some good peaches.

Young-gardener, yes I've seen those look-alive pics...her kitchen is also fabulous. I love her little peek-a-boo window to the playroom! The color Vapor trails is not the cream color however...she wrote the she originally was going to do the grey color called Vapor Trails before finding out that Sally Wheat used Fieldstone...I think that's what I read anyway! I haven't decided for sure whether I'm going to flat out copy Sally Wheat's kitchen but at this point it's probably a smart thing to do! Here in the N.W., her colors aren't passe yet (if they even are at this point anywhere) because we're the last to find out what colors and designs are the new cutting edge thing! ;) Also - looking at your last post - I'd say there's a pretty darn good chance that the color "linen weave" IS indeed Sally's kitchen's cream color because I opened up both webpages and looked at the cream colors side by side and they seemed to match identically. They both seem to have pink in them don't they?! How fun! Thank you!