Roselvr-------I've been drooling over the pictures of the twins room and furniture--- she should have named one of those little girls---"Rose" don't you think ?? Those cribs are beyond gorgeous-----almost makes me want to have a baby----TOO LATE----lol Florence

mjj, Nice shooting that is - you can see the Albuca-ness in them, I find. That is a mess of anthers, isn't it? I like your composition of it, too.

((Hugs)) I've been where you are at with so many pregnancies (only have one child to show for them), but no IVF experience. It is so hard, but I have to say with the only pregnancy that made it almost to term for me it was also the only one that just showed a sac that early in the pregnancy and nothing in it, but my OB at that point said it was early and could go either way. Well a week later we had a heartbeat. Although at that point I couldn't get excited at all still as my previous one had a nice strong heartbeat at that time too and then nothing at 9 weeks. Pregnancy to me was just a huge roller coaster of emotions and constant worries. When is the next US, when are we past the most common point of having losses, 12 weeks to measure the neck fold to check for downs syndrome, when are we at 16 weeks to start progesterone shots and incompetent cervix monitoring, 24 weeks when the baby will be saved if born early, and then weekly onward. Then when the baby was born a whole new set of worries. I was a very high risk pregnancy though. My DH didn't get attached at all to the baby until she was born (he made up for it then) and was very distant during the pregnancy. I think his way of dealing with anything going wrong. You are right though, you will always remember this. I wish the u/s this week will show a little seed or even a heart beat and you can at least get a chance to try to relax and enjoy pregnancy instead of the constant worry I experienced. This post was edited by lyfia on Fri, Apr 25, 14 at 8:39

I purchased a Queen of Sweden on sale last year that very clearly had RMV, but figuring it was very unlikely to spread to my other roses I thought, "no harm, no foul" and since it had been on my list and was right there in front of me for cheap, I grabbed it. I toyed with mentioning something to the nursery as it was clear that most of their stock of DA's had RMV, but since there I was buying one anyway I didn't think my complaint would carry much weight. I also overheard one sales person recommending to a customer to prune back his roses hard in the fall (!) so I wasn't going to try to get into the more complicated business of root stock health with these people. So far this spring, my QoS has yet to exhibit any signs of the virus and looks identical in emergent foliage to my other roses, so time will tell on this one I think. O/T - Lisa, thank you for posting the pics of your MR with the chartreuse companions! Even with not taking into account the leaf variegation, I quite like that combination. I need to replace the floppy nepeta currently underplanting a row of Mayflowers along my fence line. Mayflower is very similar in color value and bloom form to Mary Rose I believe. I was thinking of another blue companion, but now I might need to go lime green instead.