I'm interested in a few things from your list.... Reseda Odorata Rudbeckia Prairie Sun Daylily Stella D'Oro Dianthus Crimsonia Centaurea Montana - Mtn Bluet Trollius- Orange Globeflower ruby flax Echinacea Lustre Hybrids Delphinium Chinese Blue Mirror Daylily UNK I have lot's to trade, let me know if anything interests you? Thanks, Alice Here is a link that might be useful: trade page

The information you've supplied us with is sketchy at best :-) There're several questions that need to be answered first in order to provide helpful advice: what kind of soil are you growing these plants in? Does the bucket have adequate drainage holes? How many hours is "plenty" of sunlight? Have you fertilized? If so, with what and how often? How do you water, and the frequency? Even without these answers, I'd venture to suggest that the primary reason the peppers are not growing is because it's still too cold for them. These are very temperature-sensitive plants and if both the soil and air temps are not sufficiently high, they will sit there and do nothing. If this goes on for too long or they are exposed to temps much below 40F, they could die. For optimum growth, they need a soil temperature of around 60F and air temps of 70-80F during the day and 60-70F at night. These temps are just not common in most of the US in early April :-) Growing them in a greenhouse or indoors (quite a bit more difficult) can get around that. The cabbage is a cool season crop and should grow well in cooler temperatures. But I'd suspect there are other factors limiting its growth that would become clear once the previous questions are answered. FWIW, there is a Container Gardening forum here on GW that you might find helpful. There's a bit more to successfully growing plants in a container than you might think if you've not done it before.

I would like to thank everybody who attended the plant swap today. I don't know about anybody else, but I just don't get this opportunity outside of gardenweb, to talk for hours about plants and to learn more. I had a really nice time today also, though I may have eaten too much, and got sunburn on top of my sunburn! It really was a treat to talk to everybody today. I think it was the smaller crowd that allowed us all to get to know each other, and made it easier for me to host my first plant swap. It was also the first time that I had met most of you, and I certainly hope to see you all again at future swaps! Thanks for coming today, Lynn. I know you're pressed for time with so many things to do. Wishing you the best in your adventure. Bring home something interesting for the 2008 plant swap ;-)

Funny thing about paintings.... especially family paintings. There are people who will go to great lengths to keep them in a family and pass them down through the generations. My great uncle was an artist who painted in oils in the late 1800's . He used to be a barber and had them all throughout his barbershop back in the day. He started selling some of them in Chicago to a department store. He used the money to help supplement his income. My grandmother wanted one particular painting of his that was in his home and when he died he left it to her. She also had a few smaller ones that she gave to my mom who eventually passed down to us kids. The large painting my grandma had was recently passed down from my uncle (who had no kids of his own) to my sister. She spent a fortune getting the painting back in shape by a curator. The curator commented that the frame itself was very valuable but not the painting. In spite of that we all have memories of that picture hanging in my grandma's living room. In the meantime, I found several of his paintings for sale on Ebay after deciding to look for them. Apparently they have been coming up from other estate sales. Since we all recognized his signature on the paintings we knew they were his. Since I am one of six sibs we have had to decide who is going to buy each one. Since I found his paintings online, I have been letting my sibs buy them. I havent found one that I really liked yet. And so far the ones that they bought fit their individual homes. Still waiting for one I like!