I think X is the only letter where I don't have one. Lots of W's though. WESTBOURNE GOOD OLD DAYS is my favorite W! WILD RED HEART WONDER OF WONDERS WORTHY CREATION WORTH IT ALL (left my garden last fall) WHICH WAY WILLIAM AUSTIN NORRIS WISEST OF WIZARDS WAVES BECOME WINGS WINTER SPRINGS WARRIOR VICTORIOUS WONDER OF IT ALL WIZARD'S WISH WESTBOURNE LITTLE LAMB WINTER TREASURE Debra

Pandora's Box is indeed super cute. We picked a few up a year ago for $3.99 each! PB1 PB2 Paradigm was new last spring. Paradigm, wider view Patriots, divided and moved 3 yrs ago Patriot 2 3 large mature Paul's Glory are wonderful growers in various lighting conditions and of course they get lighter in the center as the season goes on. PG1 - almost no direct sun PG2- morning sun PG3- full sun into the early afternoon Piedmont Gold - 5 or 6 years old ... great colour and shape but I expected it to be bigger last year. I think it may be too deep and/or too close to the cedars and big blue. Will have to dig it up, replenish the soil and move it a bit when the eyes show this spring. Piedmont Gold Flower Plantaginea - always bright and cheerful until the deer show up in September. Plantaginea 2 Plantaginea 3

Those are some nice plants everybody. The Paradise Joyce is amazing. I've had mine since 2007 and it has about 5 leaves on it. I guess sometimes you just get a dud. I am also noticing how far ahead most of you are in the season. My 2 Paradigam's have no varigation yet. It still have tulips blooming. It is a weird year after such an early start to spring.

Kashka is gone... After a rough weekend of episodes where her breathing was horrendous and I saw her looking as distressed and scared as Ive ever seen an animal (or human) I called the euth vet -and still ..even after what I saw this weekend .I felt such deep ambivalence about it because even today there were still also periods of her sitting up and looking at me with that cute alert calico face I know so well and just for a moment Id get this flash of - aha, I've got my cat back. Just for a moment. Its like at times I would see a cat weary, ready to die... and then a while later I'd see a cat trying to live ... wanting to live, wanting to eat drink but having a hard time of it because of the breathing thing and . Trying to purr but even that was problematic for her. she was pretty seriously dehyrdrated and Ive read that dehydration isnt a particularly bad way to go, but drinking was one thing she could sort of do .. so ihe choice was becoming more and more either she dies from a horrible slow strangulation due to thr lung thing - which could take hours, days, or euthanasia. Which is to say, there was no choice.... what alternatives were.there. Ok I keep reminding myself of the reasons...good humane reasons.... but then why do I feel so awful? I so miss my kitty This post was edited by kashka_kat on Mon, Jul 29, 13 at 22:51