Oooh, thank you Jannie! I would have missed that completely! I just bought some recently too. Trish

I adore Irish Cream, on the rocks. It's my drink of choice. I can honestly say, I don't care for Bailey's Irish Cream, lucky for me, coz that stuff is expensive! In my area they sell a brand name called Ryan's. Sells for half the price of Baileys and tastes better to me. Now I'm going to check out that recipe.

I got my SDLMR from Burlington. She sent beautiful roses. The shipping was fast and reasonabley priced.( I do only live 5 hours away) Somehow I think she gets things right. It's the vigorous one I'm after, that's for sure. I will look up both possibilities and try to determine which one I have. As for your magic mix, Nic, I am really impressed so far. I love having a wheelbarrow full ready for a quick potting up. I got a little carried away with ordering, so it's great to just be able to pot up a band or two at a time when time and energy permits. You may remember that my Homedepot didn't carry the dehydrated manure. I ended up buying some on Amazon so that at least some bands followed your recipe exactly. (Anything in a square container used the Bovung dehydrated manure) The one thing I did different was to add moisture crystals to each container. Things can dry out rather quickly here. I even went to Starbucks and collected bag after bag of used grounds and used them as mulch.. So I tried to follow your method as closely as possible. You have really helped me along. Thank you, Lisa Ozmelodye, thank you, that's good to know. I see that you garden in a warm climate as well. What coffee roses do you grow? Do most cope with the heat alright? Lisa

I absolutely adore that blue hutch in your kitchen and the sunroom ceiling color. Amazing! Seeing the tones in those and the floor/cabinets/counters, I would chose a fairly neutral tone trim color like BM Simply White. If the tone has any warm reds it could read pink (our engineered cherry floors did this to us) or yellows it will emphasize the counters. Since your floors have an orange tone (at least on my monitor) and that's opposite on the color wheel from the blue hutch and accents throughout your home, I recommend not encouraging or contrasting that color. Essentially, adding more warm color tones like Cotton Balls would make the warm tones even more dominant and adding cool would provide contrast, potentially making the warm pop more. A neutral tone will let the two coexist without dominance. Threers is right about lighting too. My husband rebelled at daylight lights in most rooms, but our kitchen was the one room that really needed it. Higher kelvins can wash out some of the warm tones, which can make the colors better go with the rest of your home.