I am LOVING those birdhouse water features. I'll probably have to have one! In fact, I'm going to gather up stuff to make one.......soon! Wish I'd bought that lavender chair at the yard sale,would have been great for one,but I wouldn't come off $10 for it,and she wouldn't take less,lol! Oh well,I'll find one in somebodys trash for free and paint it lavender! Love your site,always something new to see and drool over :)

interduction is introduction! One suggestion if you are sincere is to give specific information for your area. There is much generic advice covering the U.S. but little specific for any given area. When I started my website years ago I tried to give advice for zone 5a growers as thee was little available elsewhere. Since then many books have been written and thanks to sites like the Rose Forum much more cold climate rose growing advice is available. Join a local rose society to get as much local information you can. Grow lots of different varieties to improve your knowledge and test/try various methods so your readers beneft from your mistakes. Don't copy others. Make it personal. A simple Google search can get most of the information people need so having well rounded local information in one spot would help. Visit rose gardens across the state and country for hands on experience. Put some authority behind your site. By joining the American Rose Society and becoming a Consulting/Master Rosarian you let people know you know what you're talking about. Check out my site. I get lots of e-mail thanking me for the information there, most from zone 5a rose enthusiasts. Here is a link that might be useful: Rosenut's website

Hi Tiffany. You wrote: .......... I don't know who Jpaz is .......... I am a lover and grower of cactus & succulent plants, Tiffany - just like you. I was responding to this solicitation, "I will appreciate any comments and observations' That is correct. No offense or disrespect was intended, you know that's not my style. I most sincerely apologize if any was perceived .......... No offense taken, Tiffany, and no apologies necessary.. I would appreciate any corrections to anything incorrect that I said about nomenclature. It's my goal to not say incorrect things, just to call plants by the correct names, according to the info out there about what the correct names are, and how they are sometimes changed. Very mysterious stuff .......... I like that last observation of yours, Tiffany, for many mysteries do seem to sometimes accompany the assignment of names in cactus (especially) and succulent taxonomy. The trouble is there is no central "clearing house" or authority to determine what is the official nomenclature to be universally adopted and used by the cactus & succulent community. Over the years I have seen so many classification systems (that often involved drastic name changes) - each with passionate advocates - come and go. Sometimes that advocacy has led to deep divisions (I particularly remember Britton & Rose versus Backeberg) among C&S enthusiasts, even in the same clubs. Rather sad I think. As for me, I adapt to the nomenclature being used by any fellow enthusiast I am conversing with - life is much simpler that way, besides, the plants don't care what we call them. Leave it to Shakespeare: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." BTW, Jeff is an old friend of mine JP

Greetings from the world of brugmansia, where it's always "Happy Gardening"! with Jeri and Eddie!! Jeri tells me that our website is getting some last minute fine-tuning. jeri works with (i.e. pesters) the designer night and day, tweaking this and that...who knows? She has assured us that worldofbrugmansia.com will be fabulous, even if we have to wait a little longer. Jeri says she would have been done by now but, as usual, she was getting no help from Eddie, who can't seem to leave the greenhouse...always something interesting going on in there! Who knows? Jeri says the website will open in stages and the first stage will be an open forum intended to give brugmansia growers a place to share knowledge and ideas, pictures and experiences...there are so many topics of interest and we know that you, the reader, are uniquely qualified to report, inquire, and debate and share all of the best (and sometimes, the worst) from your world of brugmansia! Eddie's collection of angel trumpets will debut in stage two, according to Jeri. I don't think he really knows how many different ones he has, (he claims he knows EXACTLY, thank you) but they'll be presented in a beautiful gallery display designed to entice you to add to your own collection. Eddie says the brugs will be of finest quality, robust and rooted, shipped in the container, and he will strive to make sure every one that goes out is at least 12 inches tall, since a larger starter makes a more beautiful tree. In addition to coordinating the website, our Miss Jeri is busy as a bee with her hybridization program, which she runs from her fabulous home in south Florida. Jeri will present her offerings of brugmansia cuttings in stage three, after all of her little seed pods have ripened and been collected, so she's anticipating this to happen in early summer. Jeri and Eddie are both driven to collect more and more for their hybridization programs because they see the possibilities of it all and they have a deep curiosity and boundless energy when it comes to breeding angel trumpets. The results have been great so far. We're all getting ready for "the next big thing"! Two other ideas being considered for www.worldofbrugmansia.com are a live chat area for stimulating conversation, pithy comments and simply fun back-and-forth for brug lovers, growers and the people who love them, and, lastly, we'd like to investigate with you, our reader, the level of interest and concern on the topic of brugmansia heritage preservation. Many brugs are being lost over time and we are hoping others are as concerned as we are with saving brugmansia heritage. We're open for suggestions and comments. From my world to yours, Jeff. Contact me at NC brugmansiaguy@aol.com for ideas and suggestions on newsletter.