WOWSERS!!!!!! Geez, did you ever have a great day! You're making me kick myself. The neighbour put out an old wheeelbarrow for the garbage man to pick-up last week and I thought of it and then told myself I had too many things on the go. WHAT WAS I THINKING??? You can NEVER have too many things 'on the go'! Good stuff. Do show us your wheelbarrow when the plants get in there!

I hope Latisectus will be cold hardy T7,the main problem besides knowing what it's tolerance is(and this is directly related to planting out!)it seems to grow quite slowly along with Martianus,Oreophilus,Takil(?)and Nanus. I think they all pick up speed as they age. I think you really need a Trachy that can AT LEAST produce 4+ leaves during spring/summer/fall and that number may have to be adjusted to mean after spear pull! Otherwise they may go into quick decline. Max seems to think Takil IS noticeably hardier than Fortunei but my little babies have at least 5 years before I would begin thinking of planting them out,their drawback may be their slow growth in cases where recovery is needed. Vic I watch E-bay Sometimes you get lucky,like a few years ago when I got a Takil-oops Naini Tal,great palm for 7 bucks but not Takil. I think this guy said the Nanus is 5 years old. I believe he said he has a bigger one! There is another one on E-bay,to much and to yellow. I am looking forward to getting my Nanxwags this spring! I would love to see your collection sometime!

I supposed the woman at the nursery must have been considering "cooking" to be eating the chiltepin peppers whole or something. Reading numerous recipes as we speak! Hoping it will be a very heat tolerant plant, too, because of where it is native to. Josh, I went to a place outside of vacaville. Morningsun Herb Farm. The only bummer was that they sold the last Spanish Spice right before I got there, which was one I really wanted. Oh well, I will wait until I fit all of these into my garden to worry about others!

I am waiting for the mailman today. I did a very naughty thing. I tracked down the person I bought the amazing stained glass from last year. I ordered a lot more. They had to get it out of their crawl space and sort it for me. I say it's naughty because I already have thousands of pounds of glass. But I wanted this glass and my DH agreed so . . . it should arrive today. So yesterday my husband went to Lowe's to get a trailer for the riding mower because we are spreading granite on the driveway. I asked him to get me some GE Silicone II for windows and doors (clear), and SIKA Latex R. Well, he bought some other GE white caulk or something, and they didn't have SIKA so he substituted a big jug of latex additive of which I already have a bunch, so I took it all back. I had to literally climb the shelves to finally locate one small tube of the GE Silicone II for doors and windows (the workers there brought me the silicone for showers and tubs and it was white). Anyway, I finally found this one small tube and they are now out, so I will be hunting for more. But isn't it amusing when the DHs can't find what's on the list, they will invariably substitute? And the glazed look in the eyes of the workers at Lowe's and Home Depot when you start trying to explain what the purpose of your purchase is? Too funny! So hopefully I will start this up within the next two-three days!!! Here is a link that might be useful: Silva's blog