Plan! 1. Continually assess for future cramming. The next couple years will still be very busy in this regard. This Spring for example, I sold, traded or moved over 300 specimens. 2. Allow those that mix well to 'grow into' eachother. As long as the plants are very slow growers, or only have minor 'collisions', I'll happily allow them to 'mesh' together i.e. nature. This will take a lot of thinking and planning, but considering how much effort I've put into the first two years of gardening, I feel more then up to the challenge. 3. Any VERY large specimens that can't stay will go to a local botanical garden, with whom I am partners with. I'll either be paid in cash or in trade(more plants!) with which I can sell or plant at friends, neighbors, etc. The botanical garden is over 90 acres, so we have a lot of space to use and he's already asked me to plan for a future 'conifer walk', a 5-10 acre section full of mainly large dwarves and other larger conifers where visitors can walk a series of windy paths through these wonderful plants. 4. Some plants *will* have to be removed, outright to conifer heaven as Ken likes to say. The idea here is that I can keep whatever looks great and not worry when other plants don't. 5. Gifts. I've found that most of my plants are more then happy being transplanted, provided I dig a decent sized hole and then give them 3-6 months to establish. With the plants I've already moved to the rock garden at the botanical garden, we've literally had a 100% success rate of transplant - and that's over some 100-150 plants. Plenty of conifer lovers, friends, family, neighbors, etc. that would be happy to take my 'removed leftovers' and plop them into their yard. My current total is somewhere between 1150 and 1250 different conifers - a total of about 1600-2000 once you account for duplicates. Eventually in 15-20 years, I expect I'll have 400-600 on my property and the rest will have been moved, died, given away, sold, traded, etc. If you want to worry about me, picture me trying to water these gazillion plants as a full-time firefighter!! Now that's the hard part! And don't be sorry for your opinion. It's allowed(and has been repeated here), and I'm taking it all into consideration, even if you do have monkeybrains! -Will

Wow, that windmill looks fantastic! The Zinnias filling the frame are a great summertime shot. At least the girl in the swing photo can't complain about your perspective there.

Melati, you captured the beauty of Ebb Tide in a way I have not seen before. Stunning photo! I have to tell you that several years ago I came across a picture of this hosta on the Internet and wrote it down. When I arrived at Hosta Fever for the first time back in 2012 I asked about it but Cindy did not carry it. I forget about it but from time to time, it pops into my mind. I'm so glad you posted this...to remind me that I should look for it. Thank you for sharing. :-)

The only reason I sprayed a few days in a row was because I followed what another person online said they did and seen good results. The progression of the shot hole stopped after those few days of spraying. No more leaves have turned yellow and died, even the leaves that are remaining with small spots/holes still in them. My concern now is if the tree this season would "re-sprout" new leaves on the branches where they have fallen off. Because since this tree is of a small size still it doesn't take much defoliation to appear "bald" there are only a few branches with leaves still on them. But the branches appear to be very much alive still, after pruning a couple and seeing beneath the bark. But being were in september now I have already accepted i'm not going to see any new growth of leaves this season it appears here in the Mid-Altantic. I'm just hoping that these very same "bald" branches dont permanently stay bald when next spring comes.