lavendargrrl I am so pleased with it that I picked up another one for the front of my house for a garden I am about to plant in the front of the house. I think I should change my forum name to Hosta Horder lol. :) Thanks for all the comments and pictures, would love to see more photos.

I don't have a ghost story, only one that makes you go "hmmmm". My best friend from college, Robbie, comes to WI to visit about once a year. He grew up about an hour from where I live but now lives in California. About 25 years ago, Robbie's older brother married a wonderful gal named Kay who quickly became a dear SIL to Robbie. I met her a couple of times and she was a sweet, down-to-earth, funny, loving person. The family was devastated when Kay was diagnosed with brain cancer, but she survived for several years and went through several treatments before passing away. She and her husband had one son. It's been about 15 years since Kay's death and every time Robbie visits, we talk about finding where she was buried, since Robbie would like to see her grave. He didn't remember much about the cemetery or church, so a few years ago, during his visit, we walked for about an hour through a cemetery about 10 miles from my house, since Kay and her husband lived in a small town near here. No luck, and Robbie's details are so vague, I didn't think we'd ever find the grave. Well, last fall he visited and I asked my boss if there was another cemetery in another town nearby. I didn't think there was, but she told me about one. We went there and as usual, Robbie thought this was "the one" and said he vaguely remembered her grave being near the back of the cemetery near the perimeter fence. We drove into the cemetery and found it to be very large. We drove down the main road and Robbie looked and looked for anything familiar. When we got to the end of the road, we could see that the perimeter fence was a ways away and the graves weren't even close to it, so he was doubting this was the right cemetery, either. Well, he told me to turn at the corner and then finally he said to pull the car over so we could just get out and look around. I hadn't even had time to get out of the car before Robbie checked out the closest headstone and found it was Kay's. It still amazes me and I'm certain that we had some kind of "help" finding the exact location after all those years. Here is a link that might be useful: a lucky break or what? :)

Hello, I am new to this forum, so please forgive me if I am asking an irrelevant question. I was wondering if anyone is currently growing the roses Free Spirit or Orange High Noon that I might be able to obtain a cutting from? Or if anyone knows how to acquire either of these roses?

Thanks so much, dandy_line. I'll be looking forward to your next comment! Because CS is a seed grown variety and not propagated from cuttings, I was hoping to hear that someone was getting colored echies like the parents! Hard to believe but I've had an orange volunteer and a peach volunteer through the years, not from CS but other varieties of echinacea. This year, I have a huge plant from Sunset, which has been taken over by all pink from seeds dropping and this year, lo and behold, are two white ones in the middle of all the pink!