Thank you, me too! I like to put the pots of plants where I think I want them and take pics. Then mull it over for a day or so to make sure that's where I want them before I plant them or else I end up digging them up and moving them. Which I've been doing a lot of lately anyway. lol I drive myself batty I'm already way overboard with how many plants/bulbs need to be planted and then I start digging up already planted plants because A. wrong placement for size B. clashing of color C. not thriving in that spot D. just because... lol And the noid in the 1st pic is actually an amazing color every hour it's a different color. It is iridescent and just striking my mother in-law gave that one to me. I just planted it 1 month before it bloomed and the poor thing had been out of the ground probably 3 months! I thought that was amazing. Not very good substance though. The 1st blooms falls got blown off with a slight breeze and became a flatty. It had 3 blooms and they all 3 looked different. I don't know anything about it but I'm hoping it's at least a rebloomer. We'll see... Rena'

Jim, You can tag an image into the body of the thread by using an html tag like this. "" To embed a link in the body of your message, use this form. jim's link Don't include the space after the in either of the examples above. The problem with your link is that you did not post an image but rather a link to a picasa webpage that contains images. You can individually link your photos if you use the image url like this. DarJones

mary...thanks for the kind words and yes the slugs and snails are big and hungry over here,took me 2 years and much stress to get on top of them and even now im still looking at new ways of controlling them.My usual attack is to water with 'slug it'in early spring before any sigh of life and then again when the hostas start to appear....also slug pellets(starting to use ferric phosphate pellets now)which go down from early feb and all the way through the season...will use liquid 'slug it' every month or so as well....then not forgetting going out before dark and picking the odd ones. HOSTA VIRUS X was going to start a thread on that subject as i bet only the specilist hostas growers over here know anything about it!....theres no doubt in my mind that if i visited every garden centre in the country nobody would have a clue what im talking about!....ive not come across it yet or i dont think so,but ive always got my hostas from good sources.there must be many about with the virus but as hostas dont rate as a high selling plant in garden centres then im not sure how much of a problem it will become over here

when a pod fully ripens, take a pic, and we'll be far more able to tell you what it is. it's unfortunate that you didn't get what you wanted to grow, but if the pods are tasty (and hot) it wasn't a total loss. write it off as a learning experience. it may well be a bhut hybrid, some of the pods look like they might have some bhut somewhere in their lineage, but they also look like there's some hab in there, but they're awful long and skinny for either of those varieties. I feel bad for your situation, so if you PM me your address I'll send you seeds (for free) that will definitely grow into a bhut (I know because they come from my plants that are definitely bhuts), as well as some other tasty superhots that in my opinion are better tasting than the bhut, and well worth growing. almost all of my seeds were sent to me for free by people on here, and postage is only a dollar.