Lol, I will stop coloring too when it all gets one color. I just have this big black patch in the back. They found something on the cat scan last night they need to do an MRI and get a closer look at it near the pituitary gland in his brain. I have been so worried I am exhausted. I couldn't even tell what I was trying to say in that last post. He is still very tired too. I hope we can still go this weekend but waiting to hear from the doctor if its ok or not and see how we are both feeling. He is in denial of course and outside working in the heat so I am watching him close and making him come in for breaks and drink water. I think he had heat exhaustion He passed out and had a siezure. Sure wish the ER doctor had told me more before she ran off and left. My sister's daughter in Georgia just had a baby and they had to remove her gallbladder this morning so she might be able to come either. Whats that song about if it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all? Lol, things will get better. Just soooo tired.

I googled it. Before it becomes that moth...it is a oleander moth. Or Polka dot moth or also called Uncle Sam moth because of it's colors. NOT good for Oleanders...as one could guess from the name lol. Who knows, maybe I will get to see one of those. But then they do eat the Oleander...so maybe...just maybe I can do without em lol Lucy

Kristy you can ID the hornworms by the little spike on their butt, even little ones have it. They get big, about 3". Sometimes you'll see them with little white eggs stuck to their back. You should leave those be. The eggs are from a parasitic wasp that preys on caterpillars, especially hornworms. Shawn the second pic is the clerodendrum (bleeding heart vine). I've had that one for about 3 years. I also have a standard solid green foliage one and another with purple and red blooms that I've had for about 7 years. Some years I cut them back enough to move them inside and allow them to keep growing. Other years I cut them to the soil and let them go dormant in the unheated (but above freezing) greenhouse. They can become monsters in warm climates. I've seen privacy fences in S. FL completely covered. It looks beautiful.

Thanks for the comments :) The blue feathered/wierd one has only put out about 8 flowers so far and 3 didn't even open all the way. I haven't been able to get any seeds so far from it either so hopefully I will get some before it freezes or I will have to try to root cuttings and overwinter in the house. The blue in the photo is a little darker than real life because my camera wants to make all the blue hues more purplish for some reason. The phillipine violets are more blue than purple too. Both our cats look like Halloween cats lol. We have the black one and one that is white, black, and orange calico with long hair. Shawn the plants I won on BGI are: Freckles (It has a green on green variegated foilage-just can't see it that good yet cuz it is so little), The other two are named yet but he is planning to register them. One of the others has a orange almost bronze flower, and the other one is a whitish cream flower, I think, that is a really spectacular bloomer. They are babies of the hybridizer Fred Sommers. kylie, that could be a deficiency-who knows, there is a mother plant and another normal pup in the same pot that are very healthy maybe they are hogging all the nutrients. I just think that pup is so wierd regardless lol~growing really slow too, only grew @ 3 inches all summer. I should separate it in the spring and see what happens. Jim, you get much hotter than us here but I know that MGs grow in hot climates and reseed themselves to the point they become invasive. I just let mine climb wild up other tall plants like the brugs and other vines. Some of the newer varieties don't seem to produce as many seeds so might not be as invasive. I don't have that many exotic types yet- but there are some really strange ones out there now-look at ebay lol.