Thanks again to petzold, you've responded to a few of my posts, and it is nice to see a willingness to help! I was afraid that GW was not very active, but now I see that it is in fact "alive" My thanks also go out to gardengal! I have seen your responses in the landscape design forum, and you seem to be quite knowledgeable...as do many of the folks in that forum. I have found a wealth of information there while reading many of the older posts....newer ones too, but the older ones seem to have more follow-ups. I plan to continue learning from everyone there and perhaps one day I will seek counsel myself. So, OP=Original Poster, very good to know. Perhaps "operational plan" is when you prepare to extract/implant plants/features around the garden, sort of like an appendectomy or perhaps an augmentation. ....maybe :/

Asclepias--plants in the milkweed family BST--black swallowtail bidens--a group of flowers in the daisy family; attractive to butterflies BS--Black Swallowtail cat--caterpillar, the larva of a butterfly or moth comma--a type of butterfly cremaster--the 'stem' of a chrysalis eclose--the emerging of the adult butterfly from the chrysalis or pupa frass--caterpillar excrement, like bird droppings on a smaller scale frit--fritillary, a type of butterfly GF--gulf fritillary gregarious--Caterpillars having a tendency to group together or live in a colony GS, GST--giant swallowtail GSF--Great Spangled Fritillary hibernaculum--web enclosure made by hibernating caterpillars host--the specific plant a caterpillar eats HP--host plant id--identify, identification instar--a stage of caterpillar growth; the skin is then shed like a snake io--a type of moth ladies, lady--painted lady butterflies looper--a type of moth caterpillar LTS--long-tailed skipper meconium--fluid expelled by a butterfly or moth after eclosing NABA--North American Butterfly Association OE--Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, scientific name of parasitic spore harmful to Monarchs osmeterium--smelly protruding horns used by swallowtail caterpillars as a defense ovipositing--laying eggs peacock--a type of butterfly PL--painted lady butterfly pod--as in seed pod PVS--pipevine swallowtail queen--a type of butterfly question mark--a type of butterfly RSP--Red-spotted Purple butterfly skipper--a type of butterfly soldier--a type of butterfly sulfur--a type of butterfly TS--Tiger Swallowtail USDA--United States Department of Agriculture white--a type of butterfly zebra--a type of butterfly

Bloom Characteristics - sp or spid = spider - spv = spider variant - th = throat - fr or frag = fragrant - vfr = very fragrant - wm = watermark - dbl = double - uf = unusual form -ext = extended (blooms over 16 hours) -noc = nocturnal/night blooming Plant Habit - dor = dormant: foliage dies back to the ground - ev = evergreen: foliage remains partially or completely green - sev = semi-evergreen some signs of green may be visible in cold weather Ploidy - D or Dip= Diploid (has 22 chromosomes) - T or Tet= Tetraploid (has 44 chromosomes) -re = Rebloom -hyb = Hybridizing, hybridizer, hybridized S or SF = single fan D or DF = double fan Season - ee = extra early - e = early - em = early midseason - m = midseason - ml = late midseason - l = late - vl = very late EMO = early morning opener FFO = first flower opening CV = cultivar bc = bud count

Glad to see you MM. Did you have to change your name to MM for some reason? My name hasn't changed pretty much ever since I started being here. Except I had to add an S because my name was taken by me but I couldn't convince them that was the case. :-).