clairdo, thank you thank you. So that's what that darn stuff is I've been constantly pulling out of a newly dug area that I'm putting off planting until fall, can't remember having a problem with it before. It grows fast in dry soil. You saved me having to post a photo of the stuff and get an id. Those petunias, stephy, are gorgeous, as are the pansies. I really like the pink and white petunia.

gmom- Yes it is a coconut. I think she split it with a saw. She had all kinds of tools for rocks as she was a rock hound. Possibly she used some of them. Scooped it out then glued it together. Painted it, glued little cork feet on it and thin leather ears. Pipe cleaner tail. Go for it!! Good luck.

Wow, I can almost smell it!!

Thank you all! I didn't mean to offend anybody here! There is a distinct flavor and texture difference between plum and prune. Plums are more juicy and Clingstone, [the stone is usually attached to the fruit] and not used for drying. Prune need longer season to ripen and are free stone. Also, shape of Plum is round, Prunes are longer to a point both sides. In German Prune is called Zwetschge, Plum is called Pflaume Eric The grower from whom I got the scion wood from called it Empire. Konrad