What I bought from Bloomin' Jungle was listed as Morgan's Festival (sport) but Bloomlovers has photographs of Morgan's Festival and it appears to have no bustles. I guess BJ is selling a sport of Morgan's Festival. MF isn't listed in FC2. The sport hasn't bloomed yet but has blossoms and looks like it will be purple. (Edit) The sport has bloomed and I'm not sure this was one of my better purchases. I tracked down the original listing and this is what it says: (The auction says Morgan's Festival Sport) "Morgan's Festival (C Eros) White wasp. (most photos purple) Medium green. Semiminiature this one is purple with some white edge and reverse" The plant is rather large and the blossom is just a regular wasp and it's red-violet, just plain red-violet. It doesn't look at all like the Morgan's Festival on Bloomlover's. It looks more like it reverted to something. I will try to track down the leaf of Morgan's Muskaan when I am poking around in them. I seem to forget that they grow up when I order leaves. Bloomlovers has a photo but it's not so great. Diana This post was edited by quimoi on Wed, Oct 22, 14 at 18:11

Very nice set of photos you have there. I really like Blues Music and Flamingo Parade. Vickie

All of us here are well aware of how beneficial they are in gardens, but they can become pests if hundreds or thousands of them decide they want to spend the winter indoors with you.....so just be aware of that when cold weather is approaching in the autumn or winter. I just take the time to gather them up and release them in the barn or the greenhouse. When you let them stay indoors, they can create a stinky situation after a while, so I'd rather not let them overwinter in the house. If you have pest bugs around that the ladybugs like to eat, they ought to show up on their own, unless you live in an area where pesticide use or something else drastic has either killed them all or driven them away. I usually see about two weeks of fairly heavy pest insect population growth before the ladybugs show up, lay eggs, and give you tons more ladybugs. The larvae don't look at all like ladybugs----they look like little gray alligator-shaped or dragon-shaped insects----and sometimes people don't realize that they are the ladybug larvae and kill them. It is the larvae that really devour tons and tons of pest insects like mites, mealy bugs, leafhoppers, scales and aphids (and many others as well). If you've never released ladybugs before, be advised that often they simply fly away shortly after being released. There's a couple of ways to encourage them to stay around: 1) be sure you do have pest insects for them to eat. If you release them before the pest insects are present in sufficient numbers to feed them, they'll just fly away. They won't stay if there's not a big enough food supply to feed them and their children. 2) You can Google and find recipes for wheast or you can buy some wheast from some of the same places that sell ladybugs. This is like fast food for lady bugs (and also for green lacewings) and helps encourage them to stay on your property if there's not yet enough pest insects to eat. You mix it up and spray it on the plants and it gives them a food source to feed upon before the pest population is sufficiently large enough to feed them. 3) Release them in the evening and, if you wish, release half of them one day and the other half the next day. Scatter them around the yard or garden instead of just dumping all of them out in one spot so that they won't feel like they are in an overpopulated area. Lady bugs are great. Yesterday I saw the regular orange ones, and also some pink, red and black ones in my garden. They were particularly busy on the corn and cabbage plants. Finally, to encourage them (and other beneficial insects) to show up in the first place and then to stay, it helps if you are growing plants with tiny flowers that they can use for a food source (pollen and/or nectar). I usually have the following growing in my garden for the ladybugs: calendula, coreopsis, sweet alyssum, dill, fennel, tansy, statice, silver tansy, marigolds, yarrow and cilantro. Outside the garden there's also wild carrots and dandelions in bloom. I also tend to let lots of my other herbs go into bloom periodically (lemon balm, catnip, catmint, an onion here and there, etc.) for the beneficial insects. They need water too and if there isn't any available, they'll leave to find it. Right now, with all the torrential rainfall in Oklahoma, we have lots of standing puddles of water, but I usually keep shallow pans and a birdbath filled with water for the beneficial insects, with the bottom of the pan and birdbath filled with pebbles so the little ladybugs can perch on the pebbles to drink without drowning. Normally, once you've attracted local ladybugs to your garden, or once you've successfully released purchased ones and had them stick around, you'll never be without ladybugs again. Even when it seems like there are not many nearby, they are there, even though they won't show up in large numbers until there's a sufficient food supply available for them.

I always liked that dude. He had a voice that many people would kill to have. Great actor. Seemed like such a "guy next door" type. One I would have enjoyed meeting I'm sure. I enjoyed him as Col. Potter but his acting ability was so great, I remember his first appearance on M*A*S*H as a bigoted nutcase. Probably couldn't do that show today, but it was hilarious and he was great in that role. Rumor has it that the picture of Mrs. Potter was actually his wife (at the time). Just a tidbit of unverified trivia. RIP Harry. You and your type of talent will be sorely missed.