Yes ,the mower is in like new condition,this is when Deere made a decent walk behind mower.

I searched for Cimifuga and found this thread. Oh, Wendy, that is just wrong! Six years and you get one little bloom before frost. Seems this plant, like some others, want a very particular place as similar to their natural growing situation as possible to perform well. It's not as easy as it might seem to replicate a good woodland setting above and below ground...and we can't change the atmospheric conditions where we live/garden. I'm going to have to accept that I can't have so many of the plants I'd like because I just can't give them the situation they need. I'm not there yet as I still search and drool over these gorgeous plants. I was investigating this plant again because I had a couple native plant nurseries tell me it wouldn't mind pretty deep shade with only flickers of filtered light all day except early Spring and late Fall. If it didn't bloom it wouldn't be worth it to me. The conditions I have aren't even near optimal and don't want to knowingly invite more plant unhappiness...theirs and mine. Hope you got a few more blooms to enjoy, Wendy.

So much good information here. I am in SW Florida and the nighttime temps get into the 40’s enough during January and February that I think they get enough cool temps. I know there iis a hotel in Naples that has them as a mass planting and they bloom. My first year here Iost my best biggest Clivia to crown rot. Now I use a fungicide regularly. I have repotted all into an orchid mix of Leica, bark, charcoal for better drainage. I have discovered with care the plant can come back from crown rot because the roots are still healthy and a new crown is formed. It has actually taken two years so might not be worth it. They have tried to bloom but the stalks don’t grow above the crown and they start to rot so I have had to remove the blooms, and spray with fungicide to save the plant. I think I haven’t been fertilizing enough so I’ll do better and see what happens next year. They need so much more care here than they did in WA, but, after having them for forty years, I have to keep trying.

Camp, there’s finishing tasks at hand, for which weather does drop the curtain ready or.not. But there’s finishing the design, carrying out the vision, achieving the artistic aspiration one had for a space. I think that’s what garden_ho is bemoaning becsuse it really is never done. Although - I visited Copperhead in Millbrook, NY yesterday for the National Garden Vonservancys Open Days and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more finished garden. There were still new projects underway but the gardener host seemed relaxed with what she’d created. It took her forty years and I suspect much labor and money. I found myself comparing it to Opus 40 across the river in Saugerties, a massive stone works made by one man from a quarry. He set out to create it in 40 years and fell into it snd died on the 39th. I am sure the stones will last far longer than the garden If we are gardeners we persist, knowing all this. We can’t hrlp it. It must be better than being a chef..