I guess we're getting unreasonable in out old age - not wanting to spend money on crummy films :-) It's funny - I love Johnny Depp and have most of his movies, but it's his acting I love - I never thought he was cute! George Clooney is a perfect example of the man I'd love to run away with :-) Back in the day, the big love of my 14 year old life was one of those guys in the band Duran Duran. I can't even remember what his name was now - not the singer, the guy with the hair and the hat... My brother got me the big box set of Monty Python's Flying Circus for my birthday, so I think we'll be satisfying our movie urges with that for awhile. BP

I know it has happened on some forums. I guess it hadn't happened here before. No panic. Just not a really happy camper when I came here and it was all gone. We have these FB pages because we were in a bit of a panic when we heard Houzz was buying GW several years ago. Some forum members started the FB pages as a way for all of us to stay in touch if something happened to GW. It is nice because now we have multiple ways to communicate.

I’ve complained about the same thing. It’s when I started to notice that taller monarda were harder to find unless shopping online, and every nursery was selling small mounded ridiculous looking bee balm. In a way, I selfishly enjoy it just because many of the perennials that inspire the most, “What is that flower?!” comments from neighbors are the tall huge perennials that you just don’t see as much anymore. As others have said, many of them are native cultivars and many have fallen out of favor. But trends change and there are two competing trends now. More millennials are gardening now. (My generation.) And many millennials tend to rent and or live in cities. So that has spurred nurseries to sell smaller compact plants. Who wants one 6’x4’ plant in their 2x4 flower bed when they can cram in a dozen tiny guys. Also marketing. Most of the large perennials look dull and downright terrible when small enough to be sold in pots. Unless you really know your plants, you‘d pass them by for the small already flowering plants. Most gardeners or the dreaded phrase, “yardeners“ choose their plants by what they see blooming at the nurseries. Only then do they mayyybe read up on it online. Nurseries commonly treat seedlings and nursery potted perennials with growth inhibitors to keep them small as long as possible. A counter trend is also in full swing though. That is the trend toward natives, native cultivars, xeric, and prairie style gardens. This style focuses on pollinators, water-wise plants, closer planted and larger plants to minimize seas of mulch, and emulates natural American prairies. oddly, this trend started in Europe and they’re responsible for many cultivars of American natives. What was weedy to us was exotic to them. Many nurseries online now supply these huge plants and I’m seeing more and more in brick and mortar nurseries. Some of my favorite large perennials: Maximilian sunflower, lemon queen perennial sunflower, herbstone rudbeckia, giant rudbeckia, veronicatrum fascination, joe pye weeds, cardinal flower, larger echinacea (not the mini fluorescent orange ones), and swamp milkweed.

Hi vgkg.. No, nothing was disturbed. But all 3 of the potted tomatoes have cages around them, so a bird could sit on some of that, to get the worms. I wonder......I don't think hummers would be interested, but my hummer feeder is about 15' away from the tomatoes and downy woodpeckers frequent it. So maybe they got them? It's all very strange. Even the tiniest cats are gone. I miss them.....