Patricia, that's right!...I almost forgot about how horrific it was for you and your roses last year. I felt so bad for you. Variety is a good thing, and I'm "branching out" myself when it comes to plants. Frankly, there are times when I'm sick to death of tending to roses; they can be like spoiled children. :-) As to clematis, I wonder if some varieties (like some roses) are less driven by heat and more driven by length of daylight. If that's the case, then those cued by hours of daylight or number of photons don't care how warm it is out; they will break dormancy when the amount of light is "right" for them. Just a hypothesis.

Funny but I didnt think they ate anything at all until I planted strawberries and then POW! They do love themselves some strawberries...Oh and by the way, baby pigeons and birds like to eat these, we get lots of baby pigeons roaming and waddling around the backyard looking for food. I started the strawberries from root bunch so they didnt eat them, they waited for the berries. Just when I think I get a nice berry, there they are underneath munching away. I just spray them off and eats what left. They are very clean, I will give them that. Interesting thing I just actually learned tonight...I was looking for something I dropped earlier out in the backyard, so I went out there with a flash light. As I began looking in the grass (which is about 20 feet by 60 feet), I noticed tiny little black bugs everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE, they turned out to be rollie pollies. Some wear eating the dead grass, some were eating the tips of grass, some were just laying around, some were sleeping in bunches, others were "wrestling". I couldnt believe how many, possibly thousands. Tens of thousands. But yet I still have full strawberries if I find them before the bugs...They wait for them to get ripe BTW but when the berries get scarce, they begin to eat them when they are yellow. But they leave the actual plants alone. And I just finished planting a buttload of butterfly plant/weed seeds too. Which just happens to be their favorite. Pillbugs are not bugs, they are crustaceans, much like shrimp and crayfish. Pillbugs breathe through gills. Because of this, they need a lot of moisture or they will die. They cannot survive in water, but they must have water vapor in order to breathe. Pillbugs molt and shed, but they don't do it all at once. They shed half their exoskeleton and then shed the other half later. Pillbugs are like kangaroos because they carry their eggs in a pouch. The babies remain in the pouch for a few days and then move on. Pillbugs do not urinate. I found this fascinating because the thought of bugs urinating in the first place already seems weird and a little gross. Urine contains ammonia that must be excreted from the body, but pillbugs are able to deal with the ammonia gas and pass it straight to their exoskeleton. Pillbugs drink through their butts. They can drink through their mouths, but they also can take in water from the rear. Pillbugs eat their own poop. As if some of this information is not already alarming, pillbugs munch on poop and rotten veggies all day and even eat their own poop in order to recoup the lost copper in their bodies, which is needed in order for them to live. This is also known as coprography (or gross if you want a simpler term). Pillbugs have blue blood. The color is from a substance called hemocyanin which contains copper ions. When oxygen comes in contact with this substance, the blood of a pillbug becomes blue. Also when pillbugs get sick, they also turn blue. Pillbugs live up to two years and are active at night time.

I DID have the same tightening pressure in the head when I wake up bit it went away after I cut out my overindulgence in tea and coffee. I still DO wake up around 3 am. sometimes, I am wide-awake, and I AM ON HRT! I have noticed if I keep up with a high level of calcium -- my GYN said 1500 mg of calcium AND 800 IU of Vitamin D is also necessary. Don't forget to get the type of calcium that has magnesium, else you are really not absorbing the calcium into your system! So everything working in concert correctly has helped me get a solid night's rest but if I forget my vitamins, then the HRT has no effect... The other thing I have noticed is if I wake up hungry at the magic hour of 3 a.m... I sometimes have not eaten enough for supper (ergo the cure of those who take tryptophan)... I often skip dinner and graze on smaller items... so had to cut that out... But I am going to try that natural progesterone cream... anyway, Doc says he will only keep me on HRT for a very short period of time, wants me only to take it every other day, but I need to work for a living and I need my sleep. But like I said, it is not working that great anyway... You can try the HRT for a short term just to see it's effect.. I remember taking two pills the first night and it knocked me out and proved that it was a key piece of the puzzle. I went to a sleep seminar not too long ago when it first started happening to me at age 53, and when the speaker asked for a raise of hands for a) who is under stress then b) who can't fall asleep and c) who is menopausal, man, the hands that went up was astounding.. I then realized this is biological and definitely related to the whole hormonal complex..... of course, it pays to stay as calm as possible as pointed out.. perhaps your headache is related to a bit of panic? At the very least if it continues, ask for a blood pressure check... be well

While looking at the above government link, I notice San Jose, CA, has high sodium (Na) in their tap. My sister there has high blood pressure, while my blood pressure is low. But my risk of heart attack is higher than her, see below excerpt from WebMD "Higher doses of calcium increase the chance of having serious side effects. Some recent research also suggests that doses over the recommended daily requirement of 1000-1300 mg daily for most adults might increase the chance of heart attack. " http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-781-CALCIUM.aspx?activeIngredientId=781&activeIngredientName=CALCIUM Also see http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/256791.php "The finding came from a new study by a team of experts led by Qian Xiao, from the National Institutes of Health, and supports prior research from last year which indicated that calcium supplements are linked to a higher risk of heart attack." UPDATE: Bought 3 different brands of cherry juice to see if they help with sleep. Trader's Joe cherry juice is too sour & bitter. Indian Summer cherry juice is too watery. Neither of these help with my sleep. The cherry juice that helped was one from nearby Wisconsin (1 hour away) ... its FRESHNESS was what worked. In my experience, FRESH grapefruit works better than STALE cherry juice that was cooked (pasteurized), which destroyed the enzymes. Here's an excerpt from below link: http://bembu.com/foods-to-help-you-sleep 2. Grapefruit Eating grapefruit before bed has been an old wives’ tale for years, but as it turns out there’s a reason why this has been known to help sleep. It contains lycopene, an antioxidant in the body that has been shown to improve the way you sleep. Grapefruit can also help you lose weight if needed." I also notice that fish oil is very effective for good sleep. I took NOW fish oil, since it's the cheapest & best rated on Amazon, only 14 cents. I'm switching to NOW liquid fish oil, lemon flavor, since I get more Omega-3 per price-unit. Fish oil works when magnesium and cherry juice failed. There's days that I could not sleep, and fish oil did the job when nothing worked. I'm going to try cod-liver oil, to see if that helps with sleep & better skin & my vitamin D deficiency. Will report the result later. Both vitamin A and D is known to help with hormonal imbalance.