Great little FT, I have it's big brother. I can't keep smaller ones and favor larger Bonsai anyway, I'm away too often and have to depend on friends to water my trees. This is a little Water Jasmine I've been messing with for about 3 years, 5" pot, tree is about 7" tall. I like the tangled mass of root. Blooms with a compound purple flower. Bob

Trying to comment I live in Alaska. Have had to take on flock that was being fed by woman who passed away this summer. First about 50 ducks now down to small group. Winter right now so guessing food is scarce. They eat the sunflower seeds that fell from bird feeder until I read about woman passing. Hoping they all survive but not trying to encourage to stay. Wildlife people say don't feed them but have over 2 feet of snow and other birds showing up. Hard not buy their food. Love to see them but they are spooked to see me at the window after this summer them stalking, staring at my house. School bus glad they don't stay all as they were stopping traffic this summer. Hoping for their survival. Loved all posts here. You guys are awesome!

GoldenPond, Yep, your on the right tract. I don't let my ducks out untill 8:30-9:00am, and their eggs are layed. Sounds like we have the same set-up. Sometimes they decide to stay out all night(naughty little kids) and I hear the girls 1/2 to an hour after sunrise laying their eggs under my bedroom window. That makes up for staying out all night because......We LOVE Those Eggs!!!!!!!

awww, thanks so much everyone! My little E is actually very gentle with her toys and small animals, never bites ever! but she tries to herd the rabbits in my Dad's fenced backyard LOL and makes a funny owr-rowrrr complaint (not really a bark or howl but some unique puppyish wail of bewilderment) because the rabbits refuse to cooperate like sheep. I don't have any fence in my own backyard so thankfully she is a good girlie and will stop herding the rabbits when she has reached the edges of my yard. Carol the tree rose is Gemini. It is supposed to be an ARS award-winner in terms of the beauty of its petals, its shape and color, abundance of blooms and disease resistance? but again, the sudden ice storm winter damage we had did cause it to develop canker. On hindsight, I love beautiful hybrid teas but to me, fragrance is very important, I now know that Gemini only has very light fragrance. But yes, it is very, very strong and it has even 10 more new stems this morning on its basals, not to mention multiple babies on other stems! I am thinking, will it soon overtake my Lincolns? Even my potted/transplanted Lincolns have only a fraction of the number of stems of my Gemini. Rebecca, happily the thick cluster of stems right below the black canker have all sprouted and leafed out already. None have developed the black rotting that my other sick ailing tree rose developed.... The sick tree too had a bud right below the canker that overcame the bud and got into the bud union within a single day. There is actually a very sad story about my other tree rose. I am working on another post for next week about the special roses that have passed on that have taught us so much... It deserves its own place in my heart and its own separate post...