Please Josh, it's Kim. Yup, you CAN have a scratch'n sniff garden! Everyone can. Many roses have those scents but we aren't aware of them often because no one told us to notice them, or we are too preoccupied to. All that you need to hybridize roses are interest, desire and a little room. The time becomes available as you create it and it teaches patience. You're probably still in the "collectors mode". Once you've "been there, done that" long enough, you just might get bitten by that bug. If not, no worries. Everyone can't be expected to do the same thing, thankfully! I'm thrilled for you that you've obtained permission to plant the roses and are finding the ones which should live and flourish well there for many years to come. Great job! Congratulations! Kim

Aaaaaaah. . .that is hysterical! Where do you FIND that stuff!?!?!? Oh that is just toooooo funny! With my coffee and laughing when I saw that.

Thanks Mnwsgal. I will do that too. The suggestion is also effective to uproot an overgrown greek oregano. Love the plant and it's lovely pink flowers but it's taking over as well. so I've decided to do the following : First to make space for the miscanthus in the backyard..So kill off a hydrangea annabelle which got hidden by the taller joe pye weed. Reduce the pye weed to a smaller size. Remove the bugloss and see if it can be relocated to another part of the yard. Kill off the Rudbeckia goldsturm (I've another clump located in the front yard. What do you think of the mix of a miscanthus and the Joe Pye weed? I also have a Filipendula but it's white and I rather liked the pink one - so I'm planning to remove this. In the front yard, I plan to reduce further the salvia nemerosa and to remove a boneset and a miniature joe pye weed. Then remove the miscanthus, some phloxes and then remove all the foxgloves which were ill located. Also a fushia pink achillea. In the space besides the remaining salvias, I plan to put in large delphiniums and I would like to try to get light pinks or light blue ones to contrast with the deep blues of the salvias. I also have a really nice light pink achillea & astrantias to go with the salvias. I also think the delphiniums would come up around the same time the peonies are dying off & I have a really nice one in this area. I tried to put in yellows in the form of coreopsis but for some reason my correopsis is delayed in blooming while elsewhere in the neighborhood, these have been blooming heavily. So much to do.. but the ideas are forming now... I should post a photo of my front yard..However I find photobucket to be soooo slow in uploading. Any other good website I could try for free?

Brownthumbia, honestly I haven't given any of our dogs olive oil but when I read your post above I wondered about it myself. Go back to Dan's post above and re-read the link he provided. I just did and there's information about olive oil for dogs. It may be that a whole olive isn't good for pets, maybe due to the pits, but I don't know for sure, but apparently olive oil is. Because of the size of your dog, I would go with less is best. I'm not a vet nor have any type of medical training so I do have to say that you should be careful when starting your furry kiddo on anything. They often have allergic reactions to different things just like we do. And other times whatever it is just doesn't agree with their tummies. We've been very lucky in the vets that we've had over the years. We did have one vet we didn't like (we went to him because our other vet had retired), which actually led us to the vet that suggested the fish oil. The other vet had one of our dogs so medicated that she could barely walk, much less get outside to go to the bathroom. All this for dry skin. He had never tested her for anything, just prescribed heavy duty drugs (which weren't cheap). I should have had a clue when he came into the room and told me to lift her up onto the tall metal table. Let's see...she was about 125-130 lbs., and I was all of about 98 lbs. (then...not so skinny now). Altho she hadn't been on the meds more than a couple days, we eased her off and took her to the new vet. Who, BTW, immediately got down on the floor to our dog's level. He was our vet for almost 20 years and the most wonderful, loving man with animals we've ever met. I guess the point that I'm trying to make is find a good vet who is more concerned about the health and well being of your furry kids then he is about the final billing total at the counter when you're getting ready to leave. Thank you for the tip about the eye droppers. My husband actually found some at the grocery store a couple days ago when he was looking for something else. Now if we can only remember where we saw the liquid fish oil. Jenna