I have 8 of the double knockouts but none of the singles. Wish I had a spot to plant an entire hedgerow of the single knockouts. They are workhorses that never stop. I have been told that Mid America is a top notch vendor, just like Schreiners is. As it stands now, I have to wait for all my daylily orders to come in so I can finish planting them and then I can do finial placement of my new garden section in the backyard. Depends on how much space I take for daylilies as to how much space I have left for the iris. Right now I am thinking I have lots of daylilies and not so much iris. So take more room for iris. I have totally lost track of how many daylilies I have anyway. I do the same as you, just keep working. I am tired today though and not going to do any more right now.

Hi Indymom, I envy you! I too am a mom and this week is spring break for both of my kids. There is no way that I am going to find time this week to plant all the hostas that are arriving. I try to sneak out during the 2 year old's nap to plant one or two. If I tried to work in the garden with my 2 year old around she would "help" and probably stomp down all the hostas. This is exactly what happened when she "helped" in the veggie garden.

I see painted buntings every now and then most years but haven't seen but one this year. Last summer we had both painted buntings and indigo buntings visiting the bird feeder and bird baths. It was our first siting of an indigo bunting here, and that indigo bunting came every morning and evening for quite a while. Carol, We have a molded birdbath in the Peter Rabbit Garden (of course it has a rabbit molded into its base) and it used to fall over pretty often so we put a rebar stake in the ground to secure it. It is splitting too, and I am going to try to patch the split with silicon before it becomes a big crack. I wish people would not leave their animals to fend for themselves when they are away for several days. That is so cruel. Your description of how ugly everything around there looks this year sounds like it looked here last year---it looked so bad that it was almost beyond description. We aren't quite that bad here yet, though it certainly is rapidly moving from green to brown/wheat/tan everywhere. Our KBDI is 80-100 points lower than the KBDIs in most of eastern, northern and central OK, so we aren't as dry yet as many others are. However, every day it is deteriorating so fast that it makes my head spin. I don't know that I've ever seen things go downhill so quickly here, and it almost all has occurred in the last 4 or 5 weeks. I forgot to mention the dragonflies. They like little muddy spots, puddles of water and wet grass so I wet down a specific area for them every day and they flock to it and have dragonfly conventions until the sun dries out that area again, which is usually in just a couple of hours. Dorothy, We have a big silted-in pond in the woods that sits northwest of the big pond. When we are lucky enough that the big pond is full and overflows, the runoff fills that old, silted-in pond. It has been years since the silted-in pond, which still has a depth of about 5-6' when full, has been full. I guess the last time it was completely full was April 2009, but most years it has some water in it for a few months. It is really popular with the wildlife because it is hidden and I think they feel safer visiting it than when visiting the big pond in the pasture because it is in a much more open area. We still have some frogs around, but they're extra quiet this year. They only croak and carry on when we have rain or very high humidity. Dawn

Well that just goes to prove that there are no new ideas only recycled ones. I thought this was my original recipe. I made it up one day when I didn't have time to fuss with dinner and it turned out good so I kept making it that way.