My list: 1. Asperula Blue 2. Balsam white 3. Brachyscome 'Little Missy' 4. Browallia 5. Campanula longistyla Isabella Blue 6. Cerinthe - any blue 7. Ceratotheca triloba alba 8. Dicentra exima (white) 9. Elschscholzia california 'Wrinkled Rose' Globularia any low blue Linaria triornithophora âÂÂRoseaâ Lobelia any cascading blue annual or perennial blue like L x gerardia (spelling?) Nasturtiums - any by color (no mixes) prefer trailing/climbing, pale/white Nierembergia blue Pelargonium (Scented Geranium) - any Pennisetum glaucum 'Purple majesty' (Ornamental millet) Penstemon speciosus Plectranthus - any, especially aromatic (already have argentatus & barbatus) Plectranthus amboinicus (Cuban Oregan) Plumbago white Salvia canescens var. daghestanica Salvia chamaedryoides - would love silver leaved form Salvia coccinea white Salvia cyanescens - white, as well as blue Salvia patens 'Patio White'; as well as 'Patio Blue' Salvia rubescens - has silvery leaves/ red-orange flowers Stachys albotomentosa Stachys citrina Thyme - any Torenia Deep Blue This post was edited by primrose1x3 on Sat, Nov 30, 13 at 18:16

I am seeing a family of 8 visit often and they are getting bigger. One is definitely lighter with orange beak and feet. All too little to fly now. I am wondering if it'll fly? I am thinking one of my domestic geese laid an egg on the island and the Canada goose sat on it and laid her eggs? My domestic white geese don't fly, so if this one does, it'll be a real treat if we continue to see him/her :) The above photos may be domestic, but domestic geese don't fly and Tracey above said she watched the flock fly in. My three families have been back each year for the past 3 years. Would love some feed back. Thank you :)

"One study showed about 6% of the water in the leaves were from fog in some trees. " Right, so the notion that they "need" this source of moisture is romanticized pseudoscience. Just because something happens, doesn't mean that this is the cause of everything else that happens. If they could merely subsist on the fog, then why haven't they reached 600', 700', or 800'? In fact since their range goes up to 2500', the right magical fog clearly exists at that altitude, too, and trees at ground level should be able to reach 2800' at least! LOL. Any moisture loving plant can grow better, or faster in a moist climate. Duh on that. But to specifically say that these trees can only reach that height because the fog is the _only _reason they can reach that height, is the height of absurdity! If you plotted standard deviations of soil moisture and drought with tree heights around the world - guess what you'd find? The places with plentiful, consistent soil moisture and rainfall are going to have the taller trees...and the places without tropical storms the really tallest trees. The sugi of Japan top out a bit above 200' - as would the redwoods of California if they had monsoon thunderstorms and typhoons to deal with. And guess what happens in climates with very consistant moisture that don't have the tropical waves and ridging/troughing - well they are maritime climates and by definition will have fog. The fog is associative, not causative, for the tall redwood trees. The only competition is Eucalyptus regnans, which, guess what, comes from moderately elevated areas with consistent rainfall and atmospheric moisture. (my brief google research suggests Tasmania is not known for thick summer fogs, but it is certainly wet, and w/o California's summer dry season. In fact, its native range _doesn't_ include the NW coast which is probably the foggiest part of Tasmania.) And guess what their upper limit is in spite of being morphologically completely different from conifers? About 400 ft! The fact is you won't find many other places in the world that have soil moisture as consistent as redwood coast, and the right temperature parameters, and the right absence of storms, lightning and high winds. But if you did, they could also reach 400' there. This post was edited by davidrt28 on Fri, Jan 2, 15 at 23:59

Work of a piliated woodpecker on a dead basswood (but there are living sprouts from it surrounding the dead part). Look at the amount of "sawdust" on the ground. While living in VA, I saw one in winter on the ground chopping into a fallen log. After it left, I went and looked at the log, and the chopped up part was littered w/frozen carpenter ants! It had discovered and chopped open a big carpenter ant nest and feasted on them.