Hi JG, welcome to our group. Gaillardia seeds are easy to come by. If you see some growing anywhere just pick a dried up flower pod and start rubbing it between your thumbs other fingers and you'll have a hundred V-shaped winged seeds in your hand in no time.... I planted some nemesia and bacopa this year. Both are doing very well. V, interesting that you still have nemesia going, I fell in love with this one this spring, still in the pots and two of the three are still alive in full shade under the canopy of one of my live oaks. This amazes me since I was led to believe they would not make through our summer heat and humidity. Tom Nemesia

Be very careful of Roundup around your lilies, even if they didn't get enough drift on the foliage to kill them, the Roundup can cause damage that will spoil their appeal. I think you're on the right track with your weeding, then follow it with mulch. There are all kinds of weed supressing mulches available, I choose to mulch with compost or composted steer manure to slowly feed and condition soil while covering weed seeds. You can also use a pre-emergent like Preen with the mulch if you wish to do that. The biggest step you can take in controlling weeds is never, ever let one go to seed. Eventually, if you stay on top the weeding and don't let any disperse seed back into your beds, you'll have the payoff of much less weeding in the future. If you haven't had time to weed, at least grab that flowering part and break it off...

My ex wore his ring to work one day- a no no for plumbers- and he thinks it fell down the drain in the back of Safeway. Whatever. I gave my band that matched his to my bro. They disliked each other so bro and I thought it would be funny. Bro used it to go to bars in San Fran. He would use it if creepy guys tried to hit on him. He lost it after putting it in the pocket of his Member's Only coat. Yes it was 1986. I kept the engagement ring and took the 1/4 stone out and some emeralds from an antique ring I purchased while married and on my 21st birthday made myself a ring to celebrate my divorce. I still wear it and my dh of 20 years does not care. I still have the setting and was told it would be worth not a lot because it was a mix of white and yellow gold. My husband was married before also. His ring cracked just after he learned she was having an affair with one of his old friends from school. We still have it. I could probably take the two, along with my gold crown I had removed and make at least a few dollars, ya think? I did keep one item and still have it. For our first anniversary I went to an antique store and purchased an Elgin 5 ruby pocketwatch guts and had it set into a gold case. It was really cool. I had engraved "for all of time" on the back. He never really appreciated it or me so I kept it when I left him. He understood. I paid $50 and had to save every dime to buy it. He gave me a little heart ring with a chip in it. I still have it too. Thought of giving it to my dd but I think I would rather sell it and buy her something else. I took watch to an appraisal show in town a few years ago. They told me it was worth about $300 and that they would buy it but really suggested I hang onto it as it would appreciate a lot. Even if I sold the case separate from the guts, the guts were pretty unique. They said it was still valuable even with the engraving. I still have it and will probably get around to selling it. Should take it in again just to see. There are not a lot of master watchmakers around these days but there are a few in town that are reputable.

As Andrew has suggested, they seem to like food and plenty of it. I give mine Organic Extra, but I'm not completely sure that it has enough nitrogen. Cant beat homegrown compost with plenty of animal manure IMO, and that applies to most plants.