I'm resetting to default, Robert, and again welcome your posts, but Dean's request to be dispassionate about these things...hmmm, IDKAT (I don't know about that) = if we're not passionate about TPOO (These Plants of Ours), we wouldn't be here, NCP (n'est-ce pas)?. Dean, Great word! You do mean #1, yes? despatch - 3 dictionary results des�patch â âÂÂ[dih-spach] Show IPA �verb (used with object), verb (used without object), noun dispatch. Use despatch in a Sentence �Related forms out�des�patch, verb (used with object) un�des�patched, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Dictionary, � Random House, Inc. 2011. Cite This Source : Link To despatch Explore the Visual Thesaurus � Related Words for : despatch communique, dispatch, send off, expedition, expeditiousness View more related words � World English Dictionary despatch (dêÃÂsp�tÃÂ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide] � vb ( tr ) a less common spelling of dispatch des'patcher � n dispatch or despatch (dêÃÂsp�tÃÂ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide] � vb 1. to send off promptly, as to a destination or to perform a task 2. to discharge or complete (a task, duty, etc) promptly 3. informal to eat up quickly 4. to murder or execute � n 5. the act of sending off a letter, messenger, etc 6. prompt action or speed (often in the phrase with dispatch ) 7. an official communication or report, sent in haste 8. journalism a report sent to a newspaper, etc, by a correspondent 9. murder or execution Here is a link that might be useful: Despatch

Thanks again to petzold, you've responded to a few of my posts, and it is nice to see a willingness to help! I was afraid that GW was not very active, but now I see that it is in fact "alive" My thanks also go out to gardengal! I have seen your responses in the landscape design forum, and you seem to be quite knowledgeable...as do many of the folks in that forum. I have found a wealth of information there while reading many of the older posts....newer ones too, but the older ones seem to have more follow-ups. I plan to continue learning from everyone there and perhaps one day I will seek counsel myself. So, OP=Original Poster, very good to know. Perhaps "operational plan" is when you prepare to extract/implant plants/features around the garden, sort of like an appendectomy or perhaps an augmentation. ....maybe :/

Okay, let me say we go to the HOSTA SPORTS, and you choose from the list on the left, GOLD STANDARD (97). It shows the family tree of sports from Gold Standard, with the little color letters being like for example, Captain Kirk (yg) I know that means "yellow green" But which part is yellow and which green? Is the first letter an indicator of the middle (or leaf) color, and the second the margin/edge color? Like yellow leaf green margin? That's part one of the question. I could not find a KEY there to explain their lettering system. If you go into the descriptions of the names of some very changeable hosta, there are a bunch of letters which HAVE to mean something. WHERE IS THE KEY? What do these mean, when they are used one after another to explain the pattern of color change for the shape-shifting hosta? Let me give you an example of the complicated hosta, such as one I was puzzling over today: I was checking sports of FRAGRANT BLUE. specifically, SECRET LOVE. It's leaf color is shown with the abbreviations: bl,(y>w)e Now that just blows my mind!! I got Secret Love in a pot in my garden, but I could not look at it and with this abbreviation know what the heck to expect, or even figure it out... I can see that bl = blue? y = yellow w = white but they put the ( ) around it, and then wind up with the e = _________ what.....???? So if there was a key somewhere on the website, I could make a stab at learning it. Someone put a whole lot of time into adding that tiny little box of information for a whole bunch of hosta, and I know it could be useful, if I knew what it indicated. So do you need a link to MyHostas.BE Sports? Thanks, Ken. Here is a link that might be useful: myhostas.be sports index

This is so funny. I will print this out and give to an old chum for her to read at the doctor's office waiting room. She is very, very busy but, this will make everyone in the waiting room laugh. Time and a place for everything and this is a gift of laughter.