Thanks Kay. CE has been outstanding this year! CIG is always a winner in my book! Poor CTF...to be hoed to death..bad way to go, I should think. Mmmmm, looking at my phot's, I see that I mispelled Comanche...I can't corret it now but will try after the thread dies...Ciel D'or is my least favorite of these. I am not overly fond of the color although I have to give her some credit. She's a good doer... Jean my dear, mine are virtually done too! These were all taken back when I really had blooms. I still have a lot of doubles blooming and I also have quite a few scape but if we don't get rain, they will sizzle out.. Good choices Linda. CC is always so pretty and CRD is a real surprise to me. It did very well this year! You are so right Chris. CRD was one I thought folks probably wouldn't care for..It goes to show how you can be surprised... Thank ya'll...Ellie

Rita, I don't think garden work ever gets "caught up" but it sure sounds like you've been making progress! I'll bet that really feels good. Good for you! Saturday will be a big catch up day for me. The town holds a free "clean up" day where you can dump anything you need to be rid of for free. I hope to get the rest of my sunflowers and some tree suckers pulled too. I have been saving all the seedy weeds and big stalks like sunflowers on my trailer all summer so that I can haul it all to their dumpster. It is a mountain. Then the community gardens require so many hours of volunteer time and their last work day is also on Saturday. I still owe them 1.5 hours so I'll be helping winterize things down there too. If I get done with all that I have a plot there ready to till and cover with black landscape fabric so that it is ready for spring planting when I start moving daylilies & iris again. I would love to mulch my yard too but need to buy & install edgers first as the soil is already washing into the walkways in some areas. Then there is the rest of the 12.5 yards of sheep poop that I still need to spread. I guess it could be used as a mulch too. Then there are the beds around the house that I didn't have time to weed this summer & now need to really be dug......then...it never ends :)

Many thanks to all! Anja: I haven’t thought of a name for her. Joey: Somehow, there is a delay before your posts show up. I replied to Donna long before your query was visible. I wonder if it’s my computer system, or another Houzz glitch.

Perma, I got every Russian lilac Peter had! I had some in Alaska after I read an article Peter wrote about how wonderful they were years ago. It was too cold for them at my home in Alaska. They did not bloom there for me outside of Anchorage. A gardener friend there had "Beauty of Moscow" bloom for him in Anchorage. The fragrance and beauty was astounding, I thought. That is the only one I have seen bloom. I hope they like it here. Also, vapor, I told Peter what a help you were recommending him. I just called you vaporvac from Houzz. If you ever want to out yourself to him, I'm sure he appreciates your recommendations and you should keep them up.