Put me in the "not much" category. Nashville, TN, and the drought is taking a huge toll. But, as someone else said, this is really separating the mice from the men. One huge standout is Milkshake Coneflower. I bought them on sale at Lowe's last year, for a dollar, and they were just this side of crispy. Soaked them in a tub, then kept them well watered until fall. So, so worth it. I have five or six planted in a group, and they are just amazing. Another that is doing pretty well is ornamental oregano Herrenhausen. Blooming right now, planted right next to the street. Haven't watered it at all, and it's still hanging. I've been surprised that the Knockout roses have performed right through this without missing a beat, and without supplemental water.

Daniella, I think your right about your coneflowers. I have some that look the very same. From everything I read it said to discard the plants and others that show symptoms. It is my understanding that it can be passed on to other plants by bugs eating or gathering nector from one plant and then spreading it to the next plant they feed on. Makes sense to me. They also said it's spread by some kind of weeds in the flowerbeds. I'm like you I read so much about it my head was spinning. After reading about it I pulled all mine up. Let's just say I decided it was something I didn't want taking over my other plants and flowers. It is considered to be a SICK PLANT and therefore should not be shared with other gardeners unless they want the infection around there other plants. I don't want any, I also thought mine were UGLY. Everything was GREEN stems, leaves, flowers, just too much of a good thing. I like vivid colors on my coneflowers. LOL Good Luck and Happy Gardening, P.S. I wish I had known before you didn't know about Birds and Blooms. I would have sent you a stack of my old ones. Your kids would have loved to just look at all the beautiful photos of flowers and birds. I gave them all away at the plant swap.

Okay, I think I've got the picture now. Your choices of conventional door bottom-freezer fridges are:indeed limited. (a) If you want a standard-depth conventional-door bottom freezers (CBF) with around a 21 to 22 cu. ft. of rated capacity, I think you probably are limited to products by Samsung and Whirlpool ((Whirlpool Gold, Amana, Kitchenaid, Maytag and some Kenmores). The WP products are 32 5/8" wide. This is true for both conventional bottom freezers (CBF) and the French door mdoels (FD). Top freezer models are slightly narrower at 32 1/2" wide. I just checked my KA FD which has the same hinge side clearance as the WP CBFs and found that it needs about 1/4" clearance for the hinge end of the door to open without binding on a side wall. That, of course, would still leave you with the door handle hitting the wall and keeping you from extracting the right side crisper drawer from the fridge.. At least, it does when the fridge is in place. You could roll the fridge out into the room to where the door would be open wide enough to extract the crisper drawer. My new KA is pretty easy to roll out on a hardwood or other smooth floor, so that might not be a big problem for occaisional cleaning. (Also would allow you to vacuum out the coils in the back, something I have to do because the household beast sheds like crazy at some times of the year and also has been known to misplace rodents who then hide in there.) (b) Samsungs 20.x cu. ft fridges are slightly smaller in capacity than the WP CBF fridges but also only a skoonch over 32 inches wide. Still gives you the door handle propem, though. (c) IIRC, GE and LG models (and the Kenmore versions) would not work in your space as they are all 32 3/4" wide or 32 7/8" wide for the CBFs and FDs. That's wide enough that the hinge-side of the doors to bind on your wall. You wouldn't be able to open the door wide enough for the handles to be an issue. (d) If you got a 21-22 cu. ft. CBF by WP or Samsung, you could remove the door handle from the fridge compartment door. That would allow you to open the fridge compartment door to 90 degrees against that end end wall. That would look funky, to say the least. (e) Not a problem for the freezer compartments as those all now seemed to be drawers that pull out rather than compartments with swinging doors. (f) There is the alternative of reversing the door swing which is why I asked if you had countertops or a table across from the fridge to put things on when you take them out of the fridge. What you've got now is a door that swings left to right against the wall. You could reverse the swing, so the open door swings right to left into the kitchen. That open door would then block you from pulling stuff out of the fridge onto the adjoining counter next to the fridge but you could put it on a counter or table if there were one behind you along the opposite wall. Not as convenient as piling to the side, of course, but the door on a standard depth fridge will clear countertop so that you can get the crisper bins all the way out. .f there are just cabinets behind you, then this arrangement will not work. (g) A 30" fridge would solve all of these these problems seems to be what your fridge space was actually designed for. The capacities all range from about 19 1/2 cu. ft. to 20 1/2 cu. ft, though. (h) I just tried a search for "zero clearance refrigerator door hinges" which turned up (a) commercial coolers (which most people would find unsuitable for home use) and (b) refrigerator drawers. Let us know how you resolve the dilemma because it may help others.

the shorter side (5ft only) Got any ideas to improve?