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Cactus & Keiko, thanks, you have all reassured me that things are alright with my big baby. Cactus, I tried to not let it get below 55 on the cold nights, it usually stayed more like 68. I built a frame and double layered it with plastic dropcloths, then tucked a digital thermostatic control electric heater under there with it. I just had to be careful to turn off the heater and open the plastic on sunny days. I can tell my family thinks I'm a bit nuts to baby this plant like I do. They're more of a farming mentality than a gardening bunch. But this plant gives me so much joy in the summer that I think its worth it. When I got it from NSE, I was also skeptical about its small size. But I practically shoveled heat, light, and fertilizer down its 'throat' and it couldn't help but grow. My hubby would make comments related to that big plant from Little Shop of Horrors. "Feed Me!" I have a small koi pond. When I do water changes and filter cleaning, I water my plants with that water. All the sludge from the bottom of the filter box would go directly on top of the borneo's soil. Yum-Yum! Keiko, I hope its trying to make a baby! It made 2 babies last year, one of which I traded to another gardening friend. I hope it will get even bigger this year because its starting with a huge bulb, wheras last spring there was hardly a bulb at all. I'll go right now and mound up some yummy stuff around the bulb. I was a little worried about the effects of bright direct sunlight on it. Again, thanks!

Thank you all so much for looking! I live in a hidden neighborhood so not many people see my gardens. Funny thing about the color of that shed... when I moved in it was brown and very run down looking. My neighbors (love them!) are very...observant, shall we say. (I think they keep a log of my comings and goings. haha) I slapped one stroke of that green on the brown shed and they were over making not-so-subtle comments about the new color. They liked it once it was done, though. I think they just were worried a wild woman had moved in across the street from them. Yes, plantmaven, that is an astible. I have several, but that is my favorite. It gets so tall. I do cut my hibiscus back to the ground each fall, lilyfinch. Don't yours grow up from the ground each year? Or are they sending new shoots from an old stem? I don't really know all that much about hibiscus, even though I have quite a few. Schoolhouse - yes, I had been eyeing that fountain for awhile, wondering where I would be able to put it. I think you really need a wall or backdrop of some sort for those flat backed ones. I run an extension cord through my garden (under the mulch) and under the grass pathway. It's a little hard to clean the fountain when it gets clogged, since it needs to be pulled away from the wall. Definitely not a fountain for someone who minds maintenance. I'm going to a pond shop sometime soon to see if they have any ideas to keep the debris out.

All your comments have made my wife's day. She is the photographer and when she is taking pictures, she spends a lot of time composing the shot and then takes a multitude of pictures. When we purchased our digital camera a couple of years ago, she wanted a camera that "felt" like a D-SLR. We could not afford a real D-SLR. We ended up choosing a Fujifilm FinePix S6000 fd. When she takes flower shots, she uses the SP (Scene Position) setting and chooses the flower icon under Scene Position. This is the subsetting of SP that helps take the best flower shots. She uses that setting for any close-up shots. When taking the actual shot, she looks through the viewfinder rather than the little screen on the camera, and holds her arms tight against her body for stabilization. She patiently waits to try to catch the second when there is no wind and the flower is as still as possible. She also holds her breath when taking the shot. Last summer was actually her first summer of taking daylily pics. It was quite entertaining to watch the contortions she would go through to get "just the right" composition. She likes the pic to be of the flower and not the dirt behind the flower or whatever else might be distracting from the beauty of the flower (such as the neighbor's chain link fence), and that can take some creative positioning. Most of our plants are fairly small yet and don't have enough foliage to be a good background. She is even contemplating using a potted daylily to cart around as a foliage backdrop. She loves the challenge though.