but recently new technology has gotten the best of my family and found my husband was deleting emails through his new phone, Maybe it would be best for you to have your own private email addy just for Garden Web and trades? Below is a link to all of your posts here on The Seed Exchange. You can rule several out, but possibly reading through them will jog your memory and you could email them. Here is a link that might be useful: posts for momgardens1 at Seed Exchange

@ bboy: What does "sported to a white" mean? Does "sporting" in a plant become a trend? (@ Ken: No picture yet, kind of busy.) But! Right next to this flower has bloomed a second, fresh WHITE! flower. The rest of the blooming flowers are the lavender. And no, they are not fading to white, they have bloomed white..

Either is fine but planting it in early to mid fall (in this or warmer climates) will give it a head start on next year. If it's a container grown plant, it's not potbound, and you can keep it properly watered in its new location, you can plant it right now for even more of a head start. However, if you're transplanting it (non-container grown) or if it's potbound and you think you will have to work the roots when planting, it would probably be better to wait just a little while until the weather starts cooling off.

Your friend might want to try keeping the plant indoors year-round, if there's some sun there in the summer too. This could encourage blooming and would presumably also keep it from being pee'd on, Note that urine is an excellent source of nitrogen, so if the dog has been frequently "watering" the soil in the pot, your friend needs to be careful NOT to add any fertilizer that contains nitrogen (which is pretty much all of them). A lot of plants don't flower well if they're getting loads of nitrogen, so the dog pee could be the reason why this plant doesn't bloom -- especially if she's adding any other fertilizer. If she does move it indoors, though, or if her elderly dog reaches the end of his days, the plant might eventually appreciate a little fertilizer.