Dorothy your weather is even worse then ours. Even thou I had to move everything in the shed again too. Then I just covered some seedlings popping out of the ground, canna's and other newly sprouted perennials up with pots and milk jugs. Even the Dats are growing along with some brugs I had left in the ground. Gross my fingers for ALL of us that have bad weather again after thinking we had spring already. Man were we dreaming or what lol. The wind is here SO bad that it had knicked off lots and lots of leaves from the Candida double white huge brug on the patio. Is back inside again. I should have left it outside and rather loose some leaves then limbs lol. DH would not listen that he has to watch it too when we carried it in and so it went :-( Eloise you know if YOU come and say you got to move it in, then the weather really goes downhill for the whole world. I mean someone got to get a headstart with the angel babies right! You know I have talked to many folks and many have lost lots of cuttings. I am with you. The best success rate of rooting and growing a cutting into a brug plant was when I let a side shoot or what have you grow out long enought to make a cutting out of it and pot it up in the summer, put it in a pot in a shady place and voila...Success!! Barb yes it is a pretty one but you know that one has shown the slowest growth from the 5 I have. Oh gosh not long and that number will be up to 15 lol Lucy

Thank you for all comments. New arrivals are alive. One of them is bad shape and two don't have leafs at all. But the rest - roots are growing, jippii.. There is white new parts in roots and new leafs too. Tick Tock and Ice Age Trail are like they haven't made long long travel. After couple of years I shall have hostas to divided. Hopefully there is hostamania in Finland and I can earn some money back what I have spent:)

Ann T, I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only person who thinks sourdough is too "sour". I tried and tried to get a viable living starter and after I did, I didn't even like it very much! I haven't baked bread in a long time, Elery's been on a diet and since he loves homemade bread he has asked me not to make it . Since neither of us care for store-bought bread, it sure cuts down the bread consumption! Sandra, Grandma only baked basic bread during the winter, when the chickens weren't laying eggs and we didn't have an overflow of butter. All other times she made the rich farmhouse white bread with butter, eggs and milk, some sugar. I really have to make some bread soon. It won't look like Ann T's but I don't care, LOL, I'll eat the end piece off the loaf before I ever think to take a picture. Annie

staph culturing often takes longer... i had a severe, life threatening staph infection that took more than 10 days to finally get typed exactly and all of those samples were done in hospital. i was furious to say the least as i used to teach medical microbiology to medical students at IU. next to my expertise in plants comes microbiology. after they finally ID'd my staph type i calmed down (internally as i did not want to make anyone mad lol) LOL as i knew culturing gram-postive rare types has to go thru multi stages of testing :-) do some research on what the possibilities of what you might have is and how it is cultured and tested. in my case i was soooo sick sooo fast dr's immediately started treating me w/ different antibiotics (while waiting for tests) that only added to my susceptible immune system. my system was soooo taxed from the staph that treating me w/ something for strep sent it into overload, taking immune strength away from fighting staph to working on what little strep may have been around. BTW basically everyone has almost all bad infectious bacteria in their systems, just not at levels high enough to be harmful or often even detected. because of that when you are treated w/ incorrect antibiotics (for an undiagnosed bacteria) your immune system puts up a fight, albet a small one often, but that creates a energy diversion adding to the severity of a real, undiagnosed, infection. i would also like to add that right now in this country there is a very big problem causing a panic at the CDC involving 4 patients who brought a particular variant of drug resistance into this country from India called NDM-1. medical personnel are supposed to be watching for patients either on or getting new scripts for antibiotics as these people are the only ones getting infected. do a search on NDM-1 and decide if you want to even get antibiotics for something if it's minor. this particular variant is our new superbug and if it doesn't kill you and they can save you w/ drugs used during the 50's & 60's that were banned, you will need new kidneys and a liver after treatment (the reason for banning). this is a common problem in India because believe it or not they abuse antibiotics even more than the US does because of their lack of potable water! ~ liz