The fig was exhausted,growing the fruits last year. It did not have energy to fight transplant shock. For now place shade over the Peter Honey,and make sure the soil is moist but not wet.

Price difference includes exchange rate, shipping, distribution, dealer markup, and, most importantly, what the market will bear. A big difference is that most of our small urban units are rentals owned by a landlord who owns the whole building and land, and who provides basic appliances, though less and less the fridge. Apartment house appliances are pretty basic, and not what people usually choose for their homes. And we have a lot of basic "builder" kitchens put into housing developments. In Europe the same small apartments are usually leaseholds, where someone owns the land and the skeleton of the building but people buy the use of the apartment, and there are also a lot of what's basically condominiums. They fit those out nicely because they have pride of ownership. So there's a bigger demand for higher end appliances for those. I don't know as much about the suburban developments, though my impression is that there aren't as many. Plus, in the U.S. we still have a lingering attitude that kitchens should be basic, farm style simplicity, and get freaked out by the numbers. $300 in 1960 would be over $2100 today, but we forget that saving up for a $300 appliance was a big deal for our parents, and want to pay less than $1000 for the same thing now, even though there are lots of technological advancements. And we can! If we get the above, basic units. Anyway, there's also the whole supply and demand thing. They have a higher demand for higher end appliances, so the price on them goes down. Add it all together, and you get different prices in different locations.

Oh I can relate. DH had a grandmother and an old maid aunt...guess who got all their stuff. His folks had an apartment in NYC and the old house here. Guess who got all their stuff. Then my Mom had to clean out their old house after Dad passed...50+ years of accumulation and both were pack rats. Guess who got a lot of their stuff. She moved into a condo here and had a house in FL besides. When she passed, guess who got all her stuff from those 2 places. Let alone our own stuff and moving out of the old house and into the new house. Is it any wonder we left the upstairs in the new house just attic space? Any wonder that it looks like a goodwill store? And the tension one suffers between, this is still good, how can I throw it out...but do I really need 14 wooden spoons? And then you get this weird support for keeping it...like when our can opener busted and we just went to the attic to get another one...and there's still another up there... And trying to get rid of stuff that was in DH's family triggers this strong reaction in him, like a hoarder, that I'm not tossing a dishtowel, but a piece of his family history and how dare I! So I know that an awful lot of this stuff I'll have to deal with once he's gone. We too are orphans with no children, nieces or nephews and ends of the line. So I know a lot of this stuff will be meaningless to many. We both have cousins though who have children so will probably pass some stuff down to them. The rest will just have to go. And yes, looking at photos of people who looked so young and carefree, and knowing ex post how their lives ended, often in such sad and painful ways. It is truly heart wrenching. A labor required of those of us who are the end of the line. Not easy, I know. But there it is. On the other side though, we've been working at cleaning out over 60 years of accumulation and mess in the barn...while it is dirty nasty work, there is something wonderful about looking at the space that you just cleaned up, all the room you've made, finding treasures you didn't know you had amongst the detritus of accumulation, and that sense of accomplishment at having made a tremendous difference. So there's that too.

I feel for you. We finished our kitchen remodel and thought we were DONE...until I noticed that the lr/dr walls just didn't "go" with the new kitchen. Prior to the reno, the kitchen was completely closed off so no need to worry about coordinating the colors but now, with kitchen open to the lr and dr, it just didn't look right. So new paint for the lr/dr and now the blinds in the living room look sort of yellow against the new paint so we order new blinds. And the hallway off the living room leading to bathroom and bedrooms looks dingy...sigh. My DH decided the lights/ceiling fans don't look right AND he wants to replace the front door, which is now open to the kitchen where it wasn't before!! It's kind of comical when you think about it...pretty soon the kitchen gut/remodel will wind up leading to a complete refresh of our whole first floor!!!