It would help if y'all started a new thread for each new query. Include a picture (preferably showing the whole plant, a close up of leaves, and flowers if any), and tell us how big it is and where you found the plant. Knowing whether it's in Florida or Michigan can help ID a plant. Mary, I would say posting your three plants in one thread works, but piggybacking on another thread gets confusing, especially since others have done the same here. Also, there's a Name That Plant forum here; the people who hang out there are friendly and knowledgeable about a wide variety of plants. ----------------------- Now that I got that off my chest, the first one Mary posted looks like a carrot relative--maybe fennel or queen ann's lace. #2 might be a hosta relative. I think #3 will have yellow flowers, but I don't know the name. Maybe an artemissia relative?

Marti8a ~ Between the oppressive heat, my determination *not* to run up the water bill, and my lower back pain . . . I made the deliberate decision to let the entire backyard go last summer. In the past 3 weeks (since the tornadoes & hail), I've spent more time in the yard than I did all of 2011! Lots of storm debris, but lots and lots of 2011 weeds and leaves. I strongly 2nd someone's earlier recommendation that you employ a lawn service for a season (month, summer, year) -- you can select the $$ or type or method of service. So they could weed or they could napalm or they could use only organic . . . its your choice. But this will kickstart the project until it gets to a level you can manage. I did the same thing with a cleaning service last year -- I've never used a cleaning service before, but things had gotten out of control (both cleaning & life in general), so we did a one-time turbo clean for the kitchen, one bathroom and the living area, and I'm so glad I did. ~ freshair

Thank you for the kind words. I am happy you had a nice day Velleen. I just wrote a long post but erased it because my brother just showed up with the food. Little too late. I ate the fish and it was really good. I don't normally eat fried fish but enjoyed the perch my friend made. My friend Donna called me after and asked me how my Easter dinner was and if I still had company. I told her I didn't get the ham and didn't invite Paul over and she was more shocked than I was. We had a good laugh. I told her I didn't care about the ham now darn it, I wanted the chocolate. Dontcha know chocolate heals all wounds? LOL So I sat here and wrote another long post about how my SIL should have called me when they realized they needed the ham, etc. but I wasn't going to say anything to her so that she would feel bad. I just thought it was strange anyways that she called me at 1:30 in the morning to offer the ham. I joked with Donna that maybe I dreamt it but she said no, she talked to me after Shelley called me. LOLOL So the phone rings a few minutes ago just as I was going to submit my post and I saw it was my SIL so I didn't answer it. I listened to the message and she said that Ray had all the food packed up and was going to bring it over but she wasn't sure if I was home. I shut off my lights and went to hide out in my bedroom. LOL I should have realized she knew I was home because when I am on the internet the phone rings funny. My brother just lives 2 streets over so by the time I got into the bedroom he was here. I told him he shouldn't have bothered as I already ate and they could use the ham for sandwiches. He asked me if Paul came over for dinner and I said no, I didn't have anything to make for him. I can't really talk to Ray without him jumping on me so I wasn't going to say anything but I thought what the heck. LOL I told him Shelley should have called me yesterday so I could have gone out and bought my own ham so I could have Paul and Laura over. Surprisingly he didn't attack me like he usually does when I speak. He said he wasn't sure how much ham they needed because when it was out of the package it didn't look like it would be enough to feed Shelley's family. I offered him the cupcakes to take home but he said for me to keep them they had enough desserts and stuff. I told him I made the cupcakes specially for them but he said "you and Paul eat them". I was more upset over that because I did spend some time on the cupcakes dying the icing and decorating them. I can't eat 24 cupcakes. I haven't looked in the bag of food he brought. I think I will call Paul and tell him to come over and eat it. Ray said he only ending up taking a few slices off the ham. I am glad the next major holiday isn't until Thanksgiving in October and I am going to treat that like any other Monday and nobody better mention me making a holiday dinner. Marjorie bailed on Christmas and now this happened on Easter. I'm giving up holidays for Lent - oh darn it's Easter - Lent is over. Okay, where is that chocolate? LOL I hope you all had a Happy Easter. Anne

Hey, Alana. Thank you for the update! I was actually thinking of you and your rose the other day as I walked through the neighborhood. You must be psychic because I have been planning to unearth this post from the forum history. (I use the word "unearth" to imply laborious digging. I am at a loss as to how to search for old threads and need to figure out the new system.) I want to offer a bit of my experience with the two HMs, Nur Mahal and Sky Rocket. I have never seen either one hit that true dark red note that your rose hits. In my experience, they don't deepen to that color. They tend to have more crimson-pink undertones. I would swear up and down that your rose is Dr. Huey except for the pink "sport" in an earlier photo (which really stumped me) and, now, the suspected remontancy. I also wanted to share something really odd that I spotted last summer in Portland. A number of neighbors are growing what I believe is Dr. Huey. The circumstances are right for Huey--neglected or abandoned garden or a cluster of contemporary cultivars that seem to be sending out shoots of rootstock or plants in formerly neglected gardens which are now tended by new homeowners. Last summer, I could have sworn I saw later blooms on some of those plants that I believe to be Huey. If my year hadn't been so crazy, I would have stopped to photograph the blooms/plants. This year, I'm hoping that I'll have time to keep my eyes open for the impossible, and if I see it, I'll swing the car to the side of the road and pull out my phone camera. Can anyone speak to this phenomenon? Does Huey carry the possibility of minor remontancy when growing under some set of unusual circumstances? I hesitate to even mention it for fear of sounding like I've lost my mind, but last year rhododendrons and camellias rebloomed, as did my Magnolia soulingeana. Carol