Cathy, We have been in a constant sate of renovation for 15 years. It was actually built in 1874. It's a two story with a huge attic which is going to be my guy's room someday(I have three daughters). It has and old limestone foundation, so the basement is good for nothing but the furnace and such. We could really use some storage space. It's 2300 sq. ft. but only has two closets in the whole house. Once the attic is finished that will add anohter 600 sq. ft. but I'm sure half of "my" room will become storage. All of the trim work was painted when we moved in and the hardwood floors were carpeted. We have stripped all of the trim and pulled up the carpet. Our large barn is in dire need of a new roof and foundation. My wife has been like a dog on a bone lately to start fixing it up. The other two barns are in good shape and I use them for my machinery and to clean my prairie seeds. I have seen that PBS special, very good!! The White Indigo blooms from early June to late June. That stem was regrowth on a plant I cut earlier, I'm trying to find out if you can cut more than once and still have the plant make it back the next year. I think I'm cathing up to you, it has now been nearly 4 weeks without rain. By the time sunday gets here we will have had 90+ degrees for 9 consecutive days, that hasn't happend since 1988. I have been watering my shrubs with soaker hoses and my annuals with a sprikler 24/7 for a week now. I've been concentrating on the shrubs because I have large finacial investmetn in them. My suns and Zinns look o.k. but they are definately stressed. Well, I'm off to do my rain dance in the moonlight. Steve

Thank you so much! I really, really wish Indian Paintbrush was native here...your pictures made me want some even more! April

This is the one I like: Wildflowers of the Eastern United States Author: Duncan Hardcover: 380 pages Publisher: University of Georgia Press (June 1999) ISBN: 0820321079 Also, less of a field guide but indespensible for cultivating wildflowers is the excellent book: The New England Wild Flower Society Guide to Growing and Propagating Wildflowers of the United States and Canada Author: Cullina Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (April 15, 2000) ISBN: 0395966094 Happy reading, Joseph

You can request a list from Australia of all the plants catalogued at Dinden National Park.They will send you the PDF file in quick time. I got it,but it's very large and I don't have the stamina to search for this one. I requested the file for the previous Dinden Park forum entry,but thankfully someone else beat me to an identification.You know that plant with the beautiful tubular blooms that turned out to be a parasitic mistletoe.There are some related species of that mistletoe that latch onto and parasitize related mistletoes.What an incredible world huh! Parasites parasitizing parasites.