Sangeeta, the azalia food will work great. I wish you had a pic of the leaves. When u say it looks like two leaves are together it reminds me of a Kaffir Lime. I'll see if I have a pic of mine and place here on gw. I do not use those husks..I believe in the old-fashioned way..well-draining soil. I use all purpose, sand and peat..and a couple handfuls of Perlite. I mix my own soil, Sangeeta..mostly because I've over 400 plants, and using pre-mixes soil is either too heavy or too light..It's cheaper in the long run..believe me..(S) If you're interested in using the husks, maybe someone else will answer. I've too many plants to worry about keeping the chips wet and they probably dry out fast. I do enough watering as it is..lol.. Good luck w/your plant..I'll look for a pic. Or if you have one can u either post or send to me via an email? If you'd like me to take a close up of my leaves, let me know..Toni Here is a link that might be useful: RE: RE: Help- Tangerine with no flowers yet

Field trip works for me, AD, if Lavender is interested! I'm sorta out of Colorado right now, and I did look at the pics when they were first posted, but didn't have time to reply before leaving, but the very first suggestion I'd have would be to start getting rid of the snow-on-the-mountain---the green and white leafy stuff that's under the tree (if I remember right) and clearly spreading all over the place-----which is exactly what that stuff does. Other than that, I agree with what others have said---get rid of as many weeds as you can (and snow-on-the-mountain definitely falls into the weed category in my book!), take care of the rest of it, and keep trying to identify exactly what you have where. There are a lot of good plants in there, and even the neglected looking ones should come around nicely with a little TLC. If AD whats to join me for a field trip and you're interested in identity on a bunch of the perennials, Lavender, let us know. Overall, you have the start for a really great garden there. Bedtime---will be driving most of tomorrow again---and will once again be computer incommunicado! Skybird

My heart feels for you Ceph. I had it easy because we were married in Vegas and the nice little chapel we were at did all the leg work. We did have to make some choices though and one was the corsages. We did get corsages for all immediate parents and my grandmother.... including my husbands step mom. Although she is not him mother, she does plan an important role in his life. The bottom line is this is your wedding. You need to do what is right for you...no one else. When you look back on things, how will you feel about choices. Will you regret not doing what your gut originally told you to do? Will it matter about the flowers or will she think the worst no matter what? Do you think you will be going through all this effort to please with no result? Some people just won't be pleased no matter what you do. Interesting side note, my father's significant other showed at our wedding. My dad passed in 2002 and I felt like I should invite his SO not thinking he would show for the wedding. I received his RSVP at the last minute. I was very nervous- my dad's SO's name is David. Now you can see why I was a little nervous. I didn't know how he would behave because - let's say- everyone knows when he walks into a room. To my surprise, he was very tame and when we did the toast, he was the only one the mentioned my Dad in a very respectable manner. He disappeared after the wedding. He didn't come to the dinner and I haven't heard from him since. I did sent a framed picture of him, my husband and I to him at Christmas. In the end, I was very glad he was there. I think I 'm telling this story just to say, sometimes people surprise you. I hope you can have that same kind of experience.

These are propagated by cuttings taken in summer when new shoots end terminal growth and the terminal leaf has attained full size. Use only the long slender shoots. Use the entire shoot, cut the base off squarely, then make 1 or 2 shallow 1" long lengthwise cuts on the side of the bottom end of the of the cutting just barely touching the wood under the cambium I cut off 1/2 of the end of each leaf. Dip the cutting end in the strongest dosage suggested for rooting compound. (I use liquid). Provide bottom heat in sand and maintain either mist or high humidity. The process can take up to 90 days to get adequate roots. Pot up in fertile potting mix as soon as the roots attain good size and harden off slowly.