Actually, I didn't know, Patty, thanks! I had pretty much given up looking for it. One question on this one (Summer Love Clematis). I read somewhere that it's parent is Sweet Autumn. I have also read Sweet Autumn is invasive for some people. I wonder if Summer Love has that characteristic? That was another reason I hesitated on tracking it down any further. I added a few to my list since I posted, definitely. I finally got that chocolate mimosa that I have been drooling over for a while. Baptisia Dutch Chocolate Cotinus (got Royal Purple & Golden Spirit-yeah!!!) Finally found a Silver Heart Brunnera After much debate, finally settled on Chocolate Dragon Persicaria out of the many "dragons" that are available. Picked up a Salvia "Amistad" at a local nursery today, to come home and google it and find out everyone and their brother wants one - score!!! Black & Blue Salvia (always wanted one) Chocolate Eupatorium Verbena Lavender Frappe (very low, lacy - supposed to spread 3 ft in the first year!) Corydalis Blue Heron (love!!!) & Canary Yellow (ummm, verdict is still out, the grower sent me a very frazzled plant) Chuck Hayes Gardenia (yeah, finally found a local one!) Coppertina Ninebark (huge 1 gal on discount!) Misc Heuchera/ellas Misc Clematis Geranium Double Jewel Geranium Tshelda My debauchery knows no bounds, apparently.

Lenette, I top dressed the pot with compost and time release fertilizer this spring and have been giving them the same weekly miracle grow or bloom booster as the brugs and once a month epsom salts. They are doing really good this year. They must have liked the conditions in the garage over the winter, lol. My sister's plants all look so good and one of her brugs I gave her is blooming. It has been raining most afternoons here and she waters too, lol. I am going to take out a loan and get a sprinkler system, lol. Just kidding I wish I could. I told her I wasn't even thinking about the yard being in the pics and that my grass was brown and crunchy and she laughed. Hubby has been trying to revive it and all he is doing is making mud and running up my water bill, lol. I think I will give up on it and try to reseed it later. It was already pretty weedy and this drought has done it in even with watering. THe whole neighborhood looks like that except the people who have an inground sprinkler system and my next door neighbor and his manual sprinklers run day and night no lie. He just moved them around every couple of hours, lol. Well I can't get to my nephews tomorrow to take cuttings. He is out of town and the gate is locked so hopefully I will score in New Orleans or I will have to take cuttings from the business landscaping and get arrested, lol. Lots of blooms going on everywhere in Baton Rouge.

Actually, his job was pretty boring. His normal work is as a bill collector. This week, there are are so many downed and dangerous wires, that pretty much everyone in bill collecting and meter reading is being conscripted to do 'wire watch'. He spent 16 hours by a hot wire, alone, just making sure no one stepped on it, drove over it, or otherwise put themselves in danger. Trust me--the bill collecting stories are MUCH better--LOL. Those who need machines for health issues, and who have filled out and submitted the appropriate paperwork are considered priority customers. They should have been the very first ones taken care of after the storm was over. I doubt any of those are left now. And as of last night, there weren't too many more customers still out. I'm hoping that maybe this was the last of the OT for now. At least, there's a 3 day weekend coming up--IF there's no more overtime. But I will pass along your comments--in a bit--thank you for them. He's been fed, had a shower, and is just going to lie down for a few hours.

Malcolm, thanks for the head's up on the possibility of black spot on Grandmother's Hat. I will be sure to put it somewhere where it can get good air circulation. I hear a lot about people growing GH on the west coast and not so much about it here but it sure is pretty and worth trying :) How high has your climbing Devoniensis got for you there? I bet it is exceptionally vigorous on Fort rootstock! I haven't been to FL Southern College's rose garden yet. I should definitely plan a trip down there sometime soon! As far as grafting the only thing I have tried grafting is citrus. I would like to learn to graft on fortuniana. I don't know if the nematodes here are as bad as in Central or S Fl but I know we have them in the sandier areas of our property because I have had root damage on certain brugmansias that are susceptible to it. Come to think of it, I also did some grafting experiments with some other members of the Brugmansia Grower's International several years ago. We were trying to graft brugmansia seedlings that we intentionally planted that were either full or partial albinos to regular green seedlings lol.