Well thank you all!! Best photo is an outstanding compliment, seeing as there are some great photographers here on this board! :o) And enablers too, I must say! Kathy - I think that is the best photo I have of Strawberry Candy. I finally got a new camera, and if I set it on the "baby" setting, I can really get the true colors of some of the hard to capture daylily colors, such as Strawberry Candy. It is not pink, but not orange... and "bright coral" sounds so blah! lalalandwi - you are going to just love IPT, blooms are on the smaller side, but they are just so darned cute with the yellow wire edge. For some reason, daylilies with that feature really seem to capture me. IPT is another daylily that makes me all giddy when I see it bloom. EMMA TOMLINSON MCHUGH is one that I looked for, for a long time. Very different, but the pink is SO intense. Maryl - CIG is one of those flowers that kind of has a stippling effect that makes up its overall color. For me, it took a while to really get good blooms, even though the plant took off like a weed. It opens well, and has great branching and budcount. Sharon, IPT was really light pink the first year I had it. This year, the color has darkened up some, but it does fade a wee bit in the HOT Texas sun, so I get lighter flowers in the afternoon. My photos from last year were remarkably lighter, but I think it was because the clump was not established. 2008

Wetsuitor: The only ones I dug up this year were 4 washies and a sago palm, each of which would take considerable protection here including heat. I will be leaving those in when they get 2 big to handle, but the washies seem to take root distubance very well and overwinter well indoors. There is of course some set back and it is slow to get growing in the spring, however I'm not ready to get into an elaborate heating system yet. I'm trying to work out my kinks this year on a trachy. Plus my wife would kill me if I had Jim's setup! I live in maybe the coldest winter 6a in America. This will be my 3rd winter here, the lowest low each of the past 2 years is -2, and -8F, HOWEVER, it is the norm to go 3 weeks at a time never getting above freezing. Last December and January, we had 9 days that got above freezing during the day, and most of those were in the 33-38F range for highs. We also had 2 3-weeks seesions of consecutive below freezing weather. The other problem is that I generally don't see grass from Dec.1 to mid-March, it never gets warm enough to ever melt the snow. Last year I lost 2 decent sized trachies and a sabal palmetto, and my minors and needle that survived received considerable damage, the minors burned 98%, the only things left were the emerging spears. Needle had spear pull with surving pups. That was with frost cloth wrapped unheated leaf cages, which provided 0-30% damage and no losses the year before.

Paul, LYNN ANDERSON is a nice rose, but she doesn't repeat very well for me. She tends to grow about 6ft tall, and makes a nice plant for the back of the border, but the bloom production just isn't there. Could be my crappy soil, and the fact that she's in a somewhat shady spot too. Altho I have other roses near her that bloom well. So I dunno? Maybe the others aren't as fussy. And maybe she just needs some extra fertilizer and mulch to be happy. You may have better results in your situation. Thanks Florence!! Hey Kate! Yeah it was nice to get some of the potted ones in the ground. And some of them are already happier than they were in the pots. But this morning I see the deer have been back! Auuggghhhh!! Guess I'll have to spray my repellent today. Dangit!

these are all flight attendant co-workers...Three are already retired...the rest of us are still pluggin along...with a combined total of 162 years seniority...The girls on the back row right are Mom and Daughter...how cool is that to have your daughter working along side of you! I'm the one on the bottom row...second from left! The lady right behind me was in my training class and we lived together after we started working for a couple of years...we've been buds for 32 plus years! Lydia I posted a couple of weeks ago about trying to find bowls to work for Chili and Veggie soup cause I was worried my plastic bowls would melt...They worked fine along with the 10 ceramic ones I found at Kroger of all places!!