california wonder purple pepper mini brown bell pepper shungiku edible chrysanthemum wonderberry, soy bean/edamame crystal apple cucumber tiny melons (that can be trelissed) sweet potatos cherry tomato-any color-rainbow mix would be awesome first pick tomato juane flammee tomato mammoth red rock cabbage strawberry spinach viking purple potato red brussel sprouts

Well, I try to avoid reading those wish lists, since they tend to make my own wish list longer. As I try to restrict myself to solid colored hostas, and some streakers for breeding purposes, this is what I have ordered so far: Arctic Blast Barbara May Cherry Tart Chishima Iwa Clovelly Empress Wu Fluted Fountain Fujibotan Glorious Hacksaw Hyuga Urajiro Marrakech Neptune Maya Swingtime Montana ÂGinrei Purple Boots Purple Haze Red Dragon Ruffed Up Sahara Nights The RazorÂs Edge Totally Twisted I'm also always looking for species or any plant collected in the wild I don't have yet. Love from the Hosta Mill, Rob

Hi Pipdog and Jaqueline5, I found the fabric for my shades at Hancock fabrics. Its a linen/poly blend that looks like plain linen. I trimmed them with gray velvet ribbon I found online. My window treatment woman said she has seen that fabric so many times--I'm sure the have it at Calico Corners or whatever fabric chain you have locally. It is translucent while still maintaining privacy. I DID line them with a sheer fabric for added privacy and body. Both Smith and Noble and Restoration Hardware have "Relaxed Roman" shades and both have several linen colors. Smith and Noble does the trim, too, but probably not velvet. Here is a closeup, more true to color: I also did them in the adjoining closet, but with navy blue trim. I love them! (Don't bother with cord-free or continuous-cord. The basic ones work beautifully.)

I sometimes color co-ordinate them, but they aren't matching sets. I may have a couple of matching sets...but so far back in the linen closet that I never use them. A couple of years ago I bought a storage unit that belonged to an old woman who had kept stuff in storage for 15 years, but moved away and told me she wasn't going to pay on it any more. I had bought some nice antiques from her, so since I knew where her storage unit was located, when they had an auction, I bought it. I had offered to buy it from her but she wouldn't talk about selling. Anyway, I did get some very nice things out of it....and lots of the old sheets that I love that reminded me of the ones I got when I got married, back in the mid 60's, but they were yellowed from age and she was a smoker. So I put them aside and was going to throw them away, but I decided to bleach the hell out of them. I put them to soak with some Biz and some bleach...and then used fabric softener and they came out spotlessly beautiful and soft as can be. I love them. It doesn't matter to me that my sheets don't always match. I wouldn't buy a used mattress but it doesn't bother me to buy used sheets. Oh, and the reason she wouldn't talk to me about selling that unit....I came across a big box full of letters she wrote to her boyfriend. XXX in content. ;)