Nancy - Grown in part shade the seedling has a bud count of only 8-9. The neighbor's trees have grown taller and wider, and most of my seedling bed is shaded now. When I started these plants three years ago, the bed got nine hours of sun a day. The seedling is a three year old that bloomed for the first time last year. I don't know if I'll be able to prepare the new beds for selected seedlings. I fell about 10 days ago, wounding my elbow in several ways. I probably won't have full use of my right arm for another couple of weeks. Debra

Ann - Eye surgery is on my list of things to do someday (when I have some spare money laying around) so I envy you a bit. Won't it be nice to see clearly again! You should plan a visit to a garden when it's done to celebrate and enjoy how well you can see. We cleaned out some very thorny brush in the fencerow over the weekend. My neighbor's black locust sends up shoots from its roots and I hadn't cut those back for awhile. The thorns on those things are HUGE. We lost a couple hedge trees in the ice storm in '07 that are still sending up thorny shoots from the stumps as well. After the ice storm, we used a tractor to pull out the stumps from a couple other hedge trees and should've done that with all of them but there was just sooo much clean up to do at the time and it didn't get entirely finished. There were lots of other little scrub trees coming up that needed to be cut out and weeds of course. It sure looks a lot nicer now. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Bonnie - you can start on my garage now. : )

And Happy` Labour Day to you Pawprint and everyone else at the Table. We spent the day driving back from Cannon Beach in Oregon. Drove down last Thursday for my nephews wedding which was on Saturday. The weather was gorgeous which was lucky as the wedding was on the beach. Fortunately coming back today the border line-ups were short. The drive is long enough.

Did copper canyon daisies originate in your area? I have white Brugs in the ground that do well even on the north side of my house but my pinks don't look anything like yours. I have one yellow in the ground on the south side in a protected area that doesn't bloom well either. I am an organic gardener and try to not use chemicals,. What do you fertilize with?