Hi, aliska. Are your coreopsis seedlings or actual plants at this stage? Do you think it would hurt to spray Liquid Fence or a soap/cayenne spray on seedlings? I just don't know how tender they are. Tomorrow will be their third day hardening off (early a.m. sun, porch shade the rest of the day,) and I know I'm going to have to put them in the ground any minute now, they're so tall (almost 10") to be growing in 1 1/2" - 2" peat pellets. Don't cut worms cut plants off at ground level? (I need to look those up.) They'd have had to climb up the stalks and bite the heads off, then climb back down again, if they were worms/caterpillars. Plus, as I think about it now, I'd really love to walk out there one morning and see a worm digging up peat pellets buried to a depth of 2 - 3 inches. The idea of that just cracked me up. I think a sight like that would actually make all this hassle half worth it! LOL Again, Moonflower is a type of Morning Glory, or at least in the same family. Most poisons are hallucinogenic, from what I remember. I think that's why whatever's eating them is spitting them out after they've chomped down once or twice. They're smarter than a lot of Homo sapiens. Good idea about the marigolds. I picked up a number of dried seedpods at WalMart last week. Once I get my shelter set up, I'll have to sow those in among my Moonflowers. I agree with you re. the chipmunks burrowing under the netting. To me, these are just a series of deterrents and I guess I'm hoping the more they have to contend with, the sooner they'll give up. They could all bite through it easily enough, anyway, because it's only plastic mesh. Oh. One last thing. After brainstorming this afternoon on the phone with my SIL, I finally came up with a workable solution for my problem. I've got tons of overgrown privet in the little woods part of my back yard. I can cut green (therefore pliable) switches and use them, criss-cross fashion to support the netting. I could sharpen one end and stick that into the ground, then notch the other end so that it fits over the chain-link fence wire, bowing it between the two points. I think the curve and tension will hold it in place and give it some strength. It won't have to stay there for long because my plants seem to be extremely strong and healthy. Now I just have to find out how flexible those switches can be without snapping. I really appreciate you guys reading this and giving me things to think about. I love this site! Thanks again, Lauren

First question is, what kind of siding is that and does it need regular painting? I see gutters and so are they fully covered with leaf guards? I'd hate to see you blocking the second story interest of the windows . These are important to the appeal of the mult-level roofline. The single window nook between the main house and the garage is begging for not a crape myrtle but perhaps a nice vitex that isn't insulted by harsh pruning should you need to get behind it to paint. It's airy looking in form and wonderful for lighting of the small white holiday type or simple uplighting. The breadth of it's branches provide dappled shade to annuals and it doesn't mind underplantings. Garage wall is begging for some dark lump medium height evergreens (holly rather than boxwood which are suffering from leaf miners/virals). I think it's important to not cover the break between the two grey tones of the garage. It is visually interesting with the stark white break. Is that shredded hay or dormant Bermuda grass lawn out front? Do you have a edging planting bed on the lawn side of the sidewalk? The chairs on the front porch and pairs of windows behind them say you don't want anything even mid tall fronting porch in the beds. But, you might want to extend and curve the left porch bed around the side of the house.

I looked at the paints you posted and if you want to paint green above the sink and stove, you will need to have it directly relate something else in the Kitchen scheme. This would mean you would need to find a glass tile that has the green in it or go with a totally neutral backsplash like the 4x4 tiles you are showing with the glass tile. A viewers eye will look for a relationship between the paint color and the backsplash or other features in the room and not find it. Even if those colors exist in an adjacent room, the relationship needs to be clearly there in the Kitchen. In this case, I don't think matching accessories will get you there either. Now for a little design editorial. I think the basic design concept that you should bring colors from one room to another throughout the house is a good one, but has been overused. The theory is that having each room relate makes the house flow. Whether that works or not really depends on a lot more factors. The premise is that each room should not be a completely different color, yet in some cultures it is the norm to paint each room a completely different color and looks quite wonderful in context. Okay, enough of that. In effect, you do have a color relationship between your rooms already and it is your basic neutral Khaki. There are some advantages to keeping the backsplash completely neutral if you want to use accent paint colors. You can change your color scheme very easily without having to change tiles. Basing your scheme on the neutral allows you to paint accent walls while the overall effect remains pulled together. Either choice is a good one. It's what works best for you. If you decide to keep the glass tile as you originally selected it, and still love the green, try to find somewhere else to use it. I used my green in the Laundry room.

4 oz martinis! Four-tune cookies. lol Your party sounds fun, I love a good theme! Rolled meatloaf, filled with 4 different ingredients. It's really good. Rolled Meat Loaf 1 pound ground beef 1/2 pound ground pork 1/2 pound ground veal.... (I used 1 lb.pork, don't eat veal.) 1 egg 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs 4 drops hot sauce 1 T. worcestershire sauce 1 onion, chopped finely 1/2 tsp. oregano salt and pepper 1 pkg. frozen chopped spinach, cooked and drained 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese 2 hard boiled eggs, chopped 6 thin slices of ham To prepare the meatloaf, mix together the first 11 ingredients, until just mixed, don't overwork. Spread the mixture out on a sheet of wax paper, in a rectangle of any size but it needs to be 1/2" thick. Layer on the spinach, spread evenly, then the chopped egg, then the cheese and finish with the ham slices. Roll up the meat loaf with the aid of the wax paper, jelly-roll style, starting at the short end, and seal the edges, and fix where it rips open, which it will! Place in a baking pan, 9x13 or so.... Bake at 350º for 1 1/2 hours. Make sure you removed the wax paper!