Hi Jennifer, I have 2007 Tecoma Stans aka Esperanza. Interested in your Erysimum perofskianum - Gold Shot Wallflower. Thanks, Katie GW: katie88

Lrae, lost in love is even more beautiful in the garden. Always fresh for tired eyes. I'm glad you like them.. WellJan, as I told Lrae, LIL always is bright and fresh , however, I do think you are right about the rain. They were so bad last year and I am surprised that I only lost 1 or 2. Looks like you may get some rain by wednesday. It's going to miss us... Thanks my friend.. Now shame on you Nancy for blaming your addiction on me! Hehehe!! I don't sleep much at night ( a sleeping problem with nothing to do with dls.) but get very tired and have to rest. I spend each morning taking pictures, labeling, etc. Well over a hundre pics in a days time and then sizing and preparing them for Photobucket...whew! Chris, I have posted a picture before of LIL. It's 4 or 5 years old in my garden and you know how I love to show my snaps. Glad you like it... Ann, please don't hurt my babies feelings. I have a seedling patch with a couple of hundred in the back of my hous. Well, maybe 400. I have a garden to the side of my house, ( a patch ) that has about 550 registered cultivars. On the other side I have a patch of about 500. In the middle of my front yard I have a bed with all of my spring newbies. Below the house I have a couple of row and a seedling bed ( LSB) lower seedling bed. I have a cattle watering tub at the side of my house that is my tub seedlings. At the side with the patch , I have two large seedling beds (SSB & SSB2) side seedling bed and and annex. At the top of the seedling patch in the back of the house I also have a seedling bed( TSB.. top seedling bed. ) SG is just seedling garden. I have seedlings behind the manure pile, under the birch & in my flower bed. I have Jan seedlings, Royce seedlings and my own n my flower bed. I don't have anyones seedlings in the patch except mine so as no confusion. Now I sleepy. Have a good night...Ellie

Thanks for the info, Marcia! I agree with the description below as it was just too stunning for me to pass up. It has bloomed non-stop since I brought it home. "Yellow bells, or Gold Star esperanza, has become a hot plant in the past couple of years. As a testament to its showy nature, people are buying it despite not knowing much about it." It grows these "pods" which look like long string-beans. I cut them off thinking removing them may encourage continued blooms. Hope that was the right that to do...!

Laura, Oops, the link didn't work and I know I looked at it right before I hit submit and it was there then. Let me try it again and we'll see if it 'stays' where I put it this time. Don't become too discouraged. We still have the rest of June and all of July, August, September and October--and probably November...before the first freeze comes. You still have tons of time to get tomatoes. Y'all still have reasonable temps and heat indexes up there, so tomato set should still occur....unlike here (my time to whine) where I have been driven in from the garden today by a measley old high temp of 90 degrees, but a heat index of 101. One-oh-one. What did we do to deserve that? Texas is getting the rain and we're getting the humidity, and that doesn't help the dry soil at all. I want to trade my weather for somebody else's weather. Your plants ought to correct quickly if it is waterlogging. Dig a trowel down into the soil right between two plants and see if it has that mucky, sour swampy smell of soil that's been wet too long. --If it does, you'll have to wait it out. --If it doesn't, your soil is already drying and your plants probably need a good feeding to boost them. I'd run straight to the store (or the garage or garden shed if you already have some plant food in it) and get them some Miracle Grow for Tomatoes or, even better, one of the Bloom Booster fertilizers like the one MG makes or Super Bloom (my favorite, and my Lowe's here carries it). Feed them to help them recover from the overabundance of rainfall. In this case, because you want a quick boost for them, a synthetic fertilizer is preferred to an organic one because most organic ferts are slow-release, and you need fast-release in this instance. The plants ought to take off and go mad with growth if their problem is a lack of nourishment due to previous waterlogging. Their leaves will untwist and uncurl and return to a healthy green. My plants last year took about a full month to start looking 'right' and growing at a fast rate after the waterlogging began drying out, but they made an amazing comeback and I bet yours will too. If you feed them, and see a general green-up or new growth, but the old growth stays twisty, then let's worry about a virus or something. Right now, though, without seeing your plants and based on your description, I just think they're hungry. It could be the heavy rains washed available nutrients out of the soil or it could be the roots have been clogged with water and couldn't take up nutrients or it could be both. When you feed them, wet down the ground and wet down the foliage so they can maybe absorb some nutrition both ways--via the roots and via the foliage. Don't give up on your tomatoes. Those plants WANT to grow and produce fruit, but the excess moisture has stopped them. All they need, most likely, is a good feeding and several days without rain to allow the soil to dry up and you'll be back on the road to 'happy times' in the tomato patch. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: TAMU Tomato Problem Solver