Thanks, I will sprinkle seeds when the time comes....would like it in a garden "up the hill". The Jack in the Pulpit seems to have dwindled to just one plant....I need to watch for seeds on that one. Think I am remembering that one of the noids is wide brim... About 5 years ago I bought a bag of 5 bare root WB's from WalMart....what can I say...it was late in the season and they were on sale for ...maybe $1....and all but one lived. But they took so long to amount to anything I sort of forgot about them....now I am discovering these large lovely hosta!

Hi Plllog! "That is, I know it's possible, but might not be in your budget." See, there's the crux of it. This little beverage center idea of mine was not in the original budget. (Nor, alas, were new drywall in the livingroom and halls, the gorgeous walnut top on my used cabinet island, the matching gorgeous top that will soon be on the new media cabinet and the near full gut of the bathroom.) And we're still determined to get through remodeling our ugly duckling without taking out a loan or dipping into savings. Conventional wisdom says: Wait until the coffers are full again but that's so hard to do. First off, I'm a cheapskate. Even if the goose who laid the golden egg waddled up onto my deck and built a nest, I'm not sure I would willingly pay someone to mess up the walls I just paid to fix. Second, I'm not quite cheap enough. My new kitchen is starting to look pretty good but, gosh, it would look so much better if the microwave and coffee maker didn't take up so much room on that one counter. I'm willing to spend a little bit more to change that, especially since I'm going to have a piece of countertop leftover that should be just the right size. Still, it's nice to know that it's possible. Maybe when the coffers ARE full again I'll put a tile counter outside on my deck to shade the golden goose should she happen to wander by ;) Thanks for your help!

As i've said before, we will be relocating in a month or so and i'm trying to decide what plants to take with me and what to leave behind. I'm marking them in case the frost hits before we move. I've found several i've never seen before, so i am so grateful for all the help Gardenweb readers have given me.

The new growth in the first photo is a sucker. The graft is the knob where all the other canes are sprouting from. Anything much below that point will always be root stock growth. I *think* I see a living bud of the original rose at the base of the only green cane remaining, so it might be worth removing the sucker and replanting. To remove the sucker, don't cut it, but pull it off with a downward motion. It looks like the other two have lots of new growing points from the right place, so they should be fine. John