Marked by Lydia is very pretty, and your rose is just beautiful. I have bletilla, but while it has multiplied a bit, mine has never bloomed :( Lots of heat here too. It rained yesterday afternoon & seemed cooler last night. I'm hoping today might be a bit cooler too.

Thanks everyone! Funny story regarding his name. He started out as Thomas, named after a favorite uncle of mine. I use to call him that and only that. But when he was about 4 YO he came home rom preschool and told me, not asked, that he be called Tommy. Now he goes by Tom or Tommy or his full name when he is in trouble. LOL Clare

Since I usually hunt things for a long time, I rarely have regrets. But sometimes I'm being impulsive. For example I'm saving for a bed for my daughter(she has where to sleep no worries..she just dreams about full size bed instead of twin). Yesterday they have all sorts of deals, in honor of Mother's day..I see some nightstands and I fall in love. We don't have matching nightstands in our master; we have other things (huge end table and bookshelf ladder lol) that work nicely and look fine, but it's been years that I wanted to get matching nightstands because I think our bedroom, as much as I love it, might use some relief:) So I buy these nightstands..sale and all, but it's not really cheap. And I know-it's not that I chose wrong, they are adorable, and in worst case if my husband hates them or I have an unexpected bill to pay-they're lightweight and the store is 20 min from us, and we can return it. But could I go without them for another year or two or three or..? Yeah I could. So sitting here full of remorse and guilt.. Also they were new. I know old nightstands that I really tend to love are more expensive than these. I even checked our CL once again, to make sure before making the purchase. But still. Who knows, maybe I'd eventually find a bargain. And now I still have to find this full size bed. I can't even tell myself I gave myself a Mother's Day gift..because I already got a HUGE orchid... Thank you for giving me this great opportunity to confess..because I didn't say a word to my unsuspecting husband yet..:)

Galinas, that's such a completely unexpected and generous offer. Thank you. I do have a friend who would probably be willing to grow my current seedlings for me. She likes digging holes. :) I'll have to ask her. Can I get back to you? While I'm on this subject, I'm sometimes willing to go to extreme lengths to accomplish things. If I were to completely encircle each one with a wall of vertical T8 bulbs, would that be enough light? If not, or if there's some kind of drawback to this, I'll abandon the idea of growing indoors and accept that they're going outside somewhere, somehow. Since it's been 4 days, time for me to give an update. I think it's recovered pretty well. It's perked up and looks sturdy. The line that's tied to it is no longer needed to keep it upright - it would be OK without it. It was dry, so I gave it a little bit of water a couple of hours ago. This is the first drink it's had in 4 days. Water didn't drain from the bottom - I didn't give it enough for that. I would like to ask whether anyone knows why the leaves would be curling down like this. This is new. Did I go too far in the other direction and wait too long to water it, or is this some other issue? Most of the larger leaves are curved like a claw. One or two are basically flat but curved inward at the tips. Here's one which is doing something unique from the others. The edges are curled in: A final question, this one about plant physiology. I mentioned earlier that I observed what I called a "seesawing" of the longest branch - alternating significantly in height. I've observed this behavior long enough now to see a pattern. It sits lower throughout the day. Then, when there's about an hour to go in its 'day', the branch rises significantly and stays that way until I wake up to go to work. This definitely seems to be part of a circadian rhythm. Does anyone know why that happens? This question comes purely from an interest in biology - I might learn something. :)