Thanks Judy, but what will everyone else be eating? Just kidding. I'll share (maybe a little). I'm not sure what I'll bring but I'll also bring an ice chest with some ice.

casalester, the lady fern makes a nice clump and is easy. spleenwort does make a clump but it's small- like maybe 8" when full grown, so i doubt you'll get much coverage. It is evergreen, though. your choice. lisianthuslover, my bad. i just assumed b/c you'd seen jeri's rose... i do recall digging alstromeria this spring. It was a bit frantic, though at the swap. be nice to put a face to a name. i do have some ornamental oregano, can get you some. Carla, yes, i remember now! Super cute. Sure, swing by afterwards and get a branch. but you can have a pot, too- i have several. :) by the time you move it might be to a whole 2'! LOL yes, dogridge, i have plenty of pawpaws. Your name is on one! :)

Rooty tooty- there wasn't much of a recipe- i winged it. I nuked the pear pie filling ahead of time since the pears were so stinkin' hard. Started with about 6 cups of diced up pears. After the pears were softening (like 10 or more minutes on high power), i added just a bit of sugar, a squeeze or 2 of lemon juice & @2 tsp cornstarch mixed in a little water to make it into filling. Added in about tsp ground ginger, dash of nutmeg & cloves for spice after it had thickened. I took one of those premade pie crusts (raw) layered in the halved hardy kiwis, then put the precooked pear pie filling in and cooked it for an hour. And after all that some of the pears were *still* firm- and they were mostly ripe ones! Keiffers are too stinkin' hard, no doubt. Oh, I mixed up a bit of oatmeal, brown sugar and a couple pats of butter for the crumb crust, too. Can you tell i cook by the seat of my pants? LOL

Karen Hause, have you seen the flowers of this sedum? If so what color are they? We don't have a fully authoritative answer but have some strong leads regarding its identity. We'll write more about this, but the flower color would provide additional clarification. Incidentally, side-by-side comparison makes us more convinced that your blue sedum is S. hispanicum not 'Blue Spruce'. We'll write more about this, too.