Mary, Cosmos bright lights grow 3-4 feet tall. I've grown them before, and they flowers don't look like these. My cosmos diablo plants grow only about 18 inches tall, 24 at most if they get too much rain or water. The original seeds came from plants that my grandmother had about 40 years ago and my mother and I kept them growing all these years. That's why I collect as many of the seeds as I possibly can and trade them in the fall or offer them for BEAP. I should have plenty of balloon flower seeds in the fall, both the taller one that is at least 12 inches tall and the one that is about 6-8 inches tall. Faithfulone. Glad to be of service to get you of on your way with WS. Isn't it wonderful? There are so many different varieties now of cosmos. Sounds like you will have tons and tons of room to grow all the different varieties out there. Fran

Karen, that's the first blooms I've had in several years with gazania. The rabbits go crazy for it. Now if I could plant a bed of just gazania and the rabbits would stay there, I'd be happy to grow them for them. There a couple more buds in there on different plants so will have to see what other blooms I get. The purple one is different isn't it? Leisa, I have sporadic luck with snapdragons. Never have problems with just the regular dwarf ones, but fancy name ones give me a problem. those are bicolor kim from thompson and Morgan. had tons of seeds but only got about 10 plants out of them. All I do is sprinkle the seeds on the top of the moist soil in the container and put them out in March. I never cover the seeds with soil. Paula, my monkey flower seedlings went into 8 inch pots. The monkey magic is a real dwarf one, only about 6-8 inches tall and I have it in part sun. I've found that full sun is too much for them. Some varieties prefer shade, some sun and some do better in part sun. I have the monkey magic and a taller all yellow one that I also keep in part shade in pots. I never put them in the ground. Lynne, the monkey flower seeds are al but dust size. I'm hoping to have enough for trades in the fall. e-mail me in the fall to ask me if I got lucky and have enough for even a small trade. I love the cosmos daydream, been growing it for years and it always blooms the same, just like my pic. Hey Drippy, miss you up here, how's the weather doing down southern way? Do you like all the heat and humidity? Alberta, thanks, haven't seen you posting for a while. Will post a few new pics later tonight. Fran

LONG but I wanted to tell Jeri all this about my floor in case she is interested in it or her husband is. Jeri, I was so surprised at how much grain Brazilian Cherry has also and there are more boards with more grain I wanted to send in pictures of but I knew that I sent enough pictures before I would bore all of you. I think if you go with a sawn cut engineered or a solid wood plank that is 5" wide (that is what my BR-111 planks are and fit together very tightly IF you have a good installer like my second installer since I floated the floor so 3-M tape was supposed to be used for 1 hour), you will see all the grain. When you walk on the floor, it feels like a solid hardwood floor and you can't tell that it was floated. I floated it for the tiny bit of give and for the extra insulation using the Floor Muffler with the Ultra Seal. I was afraid that gluing it down wood make the floor colder (I have little dogs that walk on the floor so I was thinking of them) and would be a harder surface to walk on. No one can tell so far that has visited that it is engineered with 3M of real wood over plywood. I had wanted Brazilian Cherry for the longest time but kept trying to fall in love with other wood species due to the change in color and fear of it getting too dark. I was amazed that if you leave all furniture off and open all the windows for about 3 weeks that the wood gets richer and darker without being too dark. I have not seen any more darkening up but if there is any, it is subtle since under the TV stand and under the cabinets when moved, there is no color change that I can see. The wood was so brown when I first opened the boxes that I was disappointed and had wished I spent more and went with the Santos Mahogany that I love and still love (Was more money so that is why I went with Brazilian Cherry since the two woods are so similar) but it sat in the family room for awhile until I found a painter and a flooring guy to install it so maybe exposure to oxygen quickens up the darkening process? I also am in an interior townhouse and most of my lights are not overhead but floor lamps if that makes a difference but I do keep all the blinds open in the day time with my big windows in my family room and the floor has not darkened up more and under the TV stand (has wheels) is the same color. The wood in person is very neutral and is brown and orangey brown with a few boards being a reddish-brown. At night with the lights on, it looks more red. It is always beautiful in color and very interesting with the varied grain and goes so well with my cherry desk and credenza and looks nice against the putty cabinets, the Bone White walls, the taupe sofa or any other color that I have near it. There is an amazing abundance of grain with the floor so interesting and not boring which shocked me at first since I had wanted a floor with little grain like I saw in the 3.25" board samples I had here but now I am liking the interesting grain. I chose Brazilian Cherry since it is good with dryness in case I am sleeping and do not have the humidifiers on in the winter time until I wake up. So far no buckling which is good. The wood is very good with dog pee which I know from my experiments from soaking wood in dog pee and now from actual use with my little dog Lexi marking. It cleans up easily and does not turn black. She has been very good since I got the floor and is now marking more outside in the back yard and only once in awhile needing to put her scent on the floor and does not go back to the area that I clean so that is good. I bought the wood from TrueHardwoods.com and no one locally could match their price but I did find two other online stores with similar prices for the 3.25" and the 5" widths. I chose TrueHardwoods.com due to my neighbor having such success. Again, Jeri thanks for the compliments.

My goal is to finish the PaB I-spy, provided that the squares come in the next day or two. If they don't, no problem: I will have the goal of finishing the second row of blocks and sashing for the "green tea" pattern quilt I am making with a "fishy" batik print and beige and blue fabrics. I couldn't find out where this pattern came from; just saw a picture of a quilt someone had made by that name and loved it and copied it.