One of these days, when I decide to start my own nursery, I know what I'm going to grow... I'm going to call the site of my endeavors Gilligan's Nursery. Plant list: Vodka Viburnum Black Velvet Daylily...description involves something about yellow Corona 'n' Limemound Spirea, and it's sister plant, Tequila 'n' Limemound Spirea Miller Lite Lilac Jack Daniel's Potentilla Budweiser Yellow-twig Dogwood Pabst Blue Ash Busch Mountain Ash Mandevilla...Bougainvillea...Panch Villa? Windsor Willow Southern Comfort Spirea Buschmill's Irish Birch Berberis x bacardi Captain Morgan Magnolia The theme song for the plae will be sung to the tune of the song, "I'm too sexy" I'm too sexy for my shovel, too sexy for my shovel, so sexy it bellows. I'm too sexy for my rake, too sexy for my rake, so sexy it aches. I'm too sexy for my sod, too sexy for my sod, so sexy I'm a God. OK, OK, so we got too much sun on those days we laid 1800 yards of sod a day. At least we had fun. Best thing I ever heard: a description of myccorhizae that compared it to Athlete's Foot, except good for you, er, your plant.

wow! that is severe pruning even more than the Serena way...it's like one/third of its original size, hee-hee! Something which I have done before...but man, I never thought you'd prune it down that much! I thought I was the only one doing that major of a lopping off... But it does like very aerated and well spaced and since your Platinum is growing so vigorously I am sure it will still end up being quite the giant...especially with all the goodies that you keep feeding your roses with. My roses are bushy monsters right now so you would definitely be hacking them down, but I just let them overgrow themselves and only hack the top parts off... I figure 1st year roses I'll just let them become one massive forest...They're so dense right now, I'd have no idea where to begin! boy, I'm such a chicken-lazy one... I hate to lose that wonderful bushiness and have let my roses become fat, wide and massive...

Took me a while to get it. I'm just slow that way! LOL! I can't believe the things you do with a paint program!

Tomuch2chus and Flwrs_n_co, thanks for the info about real bikers. That's great! I wonder if it's specific to the culture or if it's from being present in the moment and aware of what's going on around them? (Probably both.) Nice to know this is real and that the writers weren't just wishing. I've gotten pretty good at issuing orders that sound like suggestions, but that whole noticing and acting upon it thing is just so sexy! (Some of you may disagree, and others of you have gems who do exactly this, but when men ask me for advice about how to get on the good side of their women, I tell them they should do some of her chores (e.g., clean the bathroom) to her standards.)