I have a brug that changes colors as the flower ages, not sure of the name, and I have a variegated brug with white flowers, and just bought the double brug from Logee's greenhouse. I'm looking for large flowered and scented brugs, also need care info for insects for brugs. And how to keep my cats from using the trunks as scratch posts, besides declawing, lol.

Oh,stinkhorns are horrible! I have the orange ones. I think they came in with some mulch I put down last year. You need to dig around the stinkhorn and find the underground tuber. Use a plastic bag or disposable gloves to remove all the bits of the tubers. According to our extention service, there is nothing you can do to prevent it. You can spray the area with a fungicide, but it probably won't do anything for the stinkhorn. Just keep up with removing them. You will be able to smell them before you can see them. They are really driving me crazy. Linda Leaf

Cynthia, I don't know. They are supposed to be hardy to 20 deg., but I lost my purple ones at 28 deg. last winter. The white ones came back with no problem. Since you have a greenhouse, I'd take some cuttings now, and root them to keep in the greenhouse just in case. They root very easily and very quickly. Jim

Hmmm.. I certainly don't have great advice to give here, but I will tell you what happened with me. I had my first cat for 7 years (she had moved cross country, and a few different apartments with me) and she was my one and only. Until one day at work in a barn I heard a little pathetic "mew-ing" coming from a dark corner. I searched real hard (the barn had no lights, only natural daylight coming in through the door, and the cat was black and about 2-3 lbs) until I found her. Against the advice of my boss (who owned the barn) I went inside and got some food and some milk to give to the starving kitty. I kept this up for about 2 weeks, and during this time my bf (the boss's son) started to like the kitty as well and asked if we could take her home with us. I knew my one and only cat would certainly not appreciate it, but my heartstrings got the better of me (the area was well known for kitty road kill) and I agreed to bring her home. Once there my precious cat, who up until now had been queen of the castle, displayed her nasty side and I have never seen so much hissing coming from what I though was the gentlest cat in the world. I was the young PUNK then because I knew nothing about socializing cats and how to introduce them to one another. I just plunked Kitty down in the same room as Jelika and watched what happened. Lots of growling/hissing/swatting and who knew what happened when I wasn't home (working on a farm is no 8 hour a day job.. I/we were gone a minimum of 12 hours a day, 7 days a week). But when I got home they both seemed to be in one piece still and eventually... eventually the hissing/growling/swatting subsided. This was 12 years ago and up until sweet Jelika passed away in April, they still occaisionally swatted at one another, but more often than not I would find them curled up together on the bed. Jelika would always sleep by my side, in the crook of my arm and Kitty would sleep by my feet (if on the bed at all). Kitty always wanted to be where Jelika was. Even though I had 2 exact same cat beds in front of the fireplace Kitty would always wait until Jelika left hers and then promptly jumped into that one. And even to this day, with Jelika being gone, Kitty still waits whenever I fill up the food dish, I presume to see if Jelika will want to eat first. She waits until I tell her it is ok to eat, because Jelika isn't coming back. Even at the end though, I think Jelika wanted to prove to Kitty her "ownership and first cat status" over Kitty, because most times when Kitty would sit on my lap, and Jelika got wind of it, no matter where she was or what she was doing she would drop anything and come over and jump up HIGHER on my lap (she would usually end up on my chest somewhere, because one lap is crowded with 2 cats) effectively hogging all the attention/petting and cutting Kitty off. It was kind of funny and I never knew that a cat could give an "evil eye" until I saw Jelika looking at me whenever I would give Kitty a petting. She would always come over and assume that since I had 2 hands, I should be using the free one to pet HER. I certainly don't NEED 2 hands to pet Kitty! I guess I'm telling you all this because I don't think it really matters what you do or how long you separate them or leave them together. The first little while will be a little rough, but eventually they will learn to like each other, and find comfort in each other. I guess I've never done anything "properly" or to exacting standards when it came to my cats, but as long as there is enough love to go around, it will always work out in the end. Good luck, and please don't send Jayden away to a shelter where he may end up in a home that is not even half as loving as yours. Mokanee