I don't know what they do in the USA, but in Germany carnations are a big thing from the florists. They sell them as a bouquet, like long stem roses, They put a metal banding around the flower, just below where the flower petals of each flower would come out, and that keeps them like that for a very long time, couple of weeks or longer. I love carnations. At one time when I was a kid and my Mom threw out an old bouquet of carnations, I got together with some friends and we plucked the Petals off of each flower and spread them out to dry. And then we stuffed them into a cornpipe and tried to smoke this stuff. Ahhh, let me tell you. I've done some stupid things in my life!!!

What variety is that datura? It's so pretty. The milk jugs are used for winter sowing. You cut the top half almost completely off. Poke some drainage holes in the bottom, fill with soil, plant your seeds then put the top back on. After that you ignore it until it begins to warm up. Some seeds will have already sprouted and be a fairly good size while others will just be coming up. The first year I tried winter sowing I had a couple hundred containers on the deck and I had put too many seeds in each container not realizing how high the germination and survival rate is. I had thousands of seedlings and couldn't bring myself to compost the extras. I ended up potting them up and put an add on Freecycle. I got rid of everything. Freecycle is a great way to get rid of extra plants. I even had people come over and dig up an old lily bed that I wanted to get rid of but didn't want to dig myself. I put an add that said "free daylilies, you dig" and got loads of replies.

Sal, Thanks for sharing that with us. I watched every one of them. He is really a very talented man. And his Louie Armstrong made me tear up too.

Hmmmm, I wonder... I copied and pasted it when I first put it up this morning and it worked just fine. You can always just type "Terry Fator" into your browser line and several sites will come up for his performances on this TV show. Sal