Hi rhizo, This you are right. I just wanted to be on the safe side incase my fertilizer does not work for all. In fact, what's weird is that I feed all my plants the same fertilzer that a member here made me with everything neccassary in it.. I think I butchered the word!lol Anyways, and it seems that a couple of trees here and there will still get faded leaves to yellow. Especially a couple in the smaller pots. I have a small ponderosa lemon all of a sudden with lower leaves turning yellow, the older leaves,the two nearest to soil at the base of trunk, and who knows why, even though I feed them all the same stuff.But this plant is still green the rest of the way up. All my others are so green and healthy. Maybe it could be anything. Even a change in window sill temp. But my idea was to douse it with a made up gallon of all these things together to see if anything in this mix as a test subject for that plant being a guini pig would take care of the problem. If not, then I figure it could be anything else from winter sun, to a draft, to a skip in watering,or just a natural thing for older leaves to die off, and not fertilization problems since all other trees are so happy. Do I sound stupid, or should I just not worry? Did I make sense??lol Thanks all

Joy: The seller's name on the LA is Wormman20030, his actual name is Marvin Wilkins and he is from Falkner, Mississippi. I bought from two different vendors in February and March. Remember, I am in Texas and in February I am out in the garden while some of the rest of y'all are looking at snow. I knew they could not dig daylilies in snow and asked when they did ship, and they told me mid April which was fine with me. The other vendor send a beautiful shipment in April but I heard nothing from Marvin. I believe is was the beginning of May I sent him and email and he replied that he was a one man operation and would try to get to it the next week. Weeks went by, and nothing. I sent another email which was ignored. I finally got fed up, left negative feedback, and later took advantage of the mediating service at LA to request a refund. It is extremely hot here in Texas, too hot to plant. I continued to hear nothing from Marvin and wrote again to the LA. They said that Marvin had written them (but not me) and told them he was going to process a refund and all I had to do is provide a Paypal address. (Let me put in a plug for the LA mediating service here, I was upset, they were patient and understanding) I sent him my Paypal address and again, heard nothing. No emails, no explanation, no refund. I feel that from February to June is an unconscionable wait without explanation. If something was wrong, he could have emailed, he was well enough to email the LA, but has ignored me. The money is not a lot to some people, I understand that some people spend thousands on daylilies and I wish I could, but it is enough that I can't afford to buy more daylilies this year and of course even if I could, it is too hot to plant. I felt that since I have been talking about this incident it is only fair to mention the vendor's name. I would more than welcome him to come here and offer an explanation; as of now I have no explanation, no daylilies, and no refund. Some very nice people have taken their time to email me with the names of vendors who they feel have integrity; after getting over my initial hurt I think I will use the DA again but under the guidance of some of those more experienced. Some points were made that there are good, hardworking vendors that sell quality plants and I agree because the other vendor was like that, so my beef is not with the LA, it is with Marvin.

I bought one of the first type (shown above) this weekend as a second feeder only because a bully male showed up last week and was completely monopolizing my Artline glass crystal lantern feeder. The hummers found the red one within 5 minutes of me hanging it up. I chose that one, which happened to be the cheapest one at Walmart, because it had no perches (as opposed to the continuous loop kind on all the others they had, which are known to trap hummers), and because the base comes apart for cleaning. Also, the flowers are at a good angle for the hummers to feed. My Artline crystal lantern, with its T-shaped individual perches, is the best feeder I've ever seen and everyone who sees it asks me where I got it (it was a gift so I don't know!). It's easy to clean (base comes apart too) and the bottle is thick clear glass. I love it.

There was a program on Channel 13 not too long ago, titled "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life". If you can get the book or DVD or whatever, by all means do so; it's a real eye-opener. Dr Daniel Amen (pronounced Ame-en), the psychiatrist/brain expert who hosted it dished out an amazing amount of solid information about the brain, how our diets & lifestyles affect our brains, & *how our brains are the most important 'things'* for our health & quality of life. He showed brainscan images of healthy brains & not-healthy brains, & said that the researchers had to scan 3000 people to get images of 90 healthy brains! The non-healthy brains were dramatically, disasterously damaged by alcohol, Alzheimers, smoking, crack cocaine, stroke, heart attack, inhalation of toxic fumes (don't go to work painting cars!), & probably some other stuff. The markers for brain health were diet, exercise, & refraining from bad stuff. Diet was to include fish & fish oil (people who live in countries where lots of fish is consumed have much lower rates of suicide & depression), Omega-3 fatty acids (the brain is 60% fat; don't eat any fat & you'll starve your brain), avocadoes, walnuts, blueberries, broccoli, green tea (lowers the risk for Alzheimer's), spinach, tuna, oatmeal, turkey, red bell peppers (have a whole lot more of the good stuff than green bell peppers). Exercise oxygenates the blood, making the brain work more efficiently & be less susceptible to depression. Learning new things keeps the brain young; if you're a gourmet cook, learning a new recipe won't do it, you need something *new*. Learn to speak Chinese or dance the Tango or built a ship in a bottle. He said that he'd no more diagnose depression than he'd diagnose chest pain; depression is a symptom, & the underlying cause has to be addressed. Several things that we can adjust very easily will help our brains. Gratitude: Every day, make a list of the top 5 things for which you are grateful. Gratitude gets the brain into positive habits. Challenge & correct negative thoughts; thoughts lie! When you catch a negative or obsessive thought, say to yourself, "oops, that's just my brain" & replace the thought with something else. Depression makes people feel more pain; Pain ages people & makes the brain function less well. Treating depression reduces pain. interesting stuff, sorry it's so disjointed. My plan is to type up my notes; I'll post when I've got them all together & email them to anyone who's interested. just writing out my daily gratitudes has helped me a lot.