The Victorian style of gardening was dead, dead, dead right around 1900. It survived in public parks and railroad stations but most people had come to dislike it intensely. One of its chief features was the bedding-out of annuals, both flowering and foliage plants. I am now seeing some of these foliage plants, like coleus, so popular in the 1800s, popular again. Huge foliage plants such as cannas were also big with the Victorians and scorned after 1900. William Robinson and Gertrude Jekyll began a revolution in English gardens. They advocated naturalistic planting styles and perennials. They also wrote books. Jekyll designed gardens for the very rich in England, never stirring from her hidden home at Munstead Wood, which I have had the great good fortune to visit. Jekyll was inspired by English cottage gardens but her gardens were planned for the upper class. Her books were very popular and well-to-do Americans bought them with enthusiasm. However, American gardeners soon found that English garden books do not translate very well in our climate. A whole new garden literature, most of it written by women gardeners, arose. These books were, I believe, the largest influence on American gardens from 1900 til WW2. They generally showed naturalistic groups of perennials in geometric beds. Borders were hugely popular, as well as the style described above, so often with a sundial at the center. Sorry for the long post!

sushipup, I have never seen in the test forum how to post multiple pictures to a thread. It seems that this is the most common problem on GardenWeb. My photobucket account lost half of my pictures. Is there a way to post multiple pics without using a photosharing account? Why not? Why can't you load multiple pics from your computer picture file? Did I miss something?

Compare it to Alocasia reginula 'Black Velvet'.

Complete and utter junk. As are all of the ”budget” ranges. The lowest that you want to go forcreliabilityband ability would be Kitchenaid, Monogram, or Bluestar. Plus the same budget as the range for the venting system and required make up air system. You cannot srparate the teo in the budget. If your busget nax id 4K, thats a 30” GE Profile range, and a lower CFM hood that won’t trigger the requirements for MUA. But it will be overwhelmed at the more challenging cooking sessons.