Patrick: Yes. I keep it in a bathroom so that when I towel dry off, I am staring at that plant all whole time. It seems to love the very humid bathroom conditions. Thanks for all the kind comments and help. I just love this one. When I first bought it, it did not have colors like this at all. So it is all taking me by suprise. Boy can Hoya become addicting based on just leaf shape and colors alone! I hope it flowers too. I think it might, if I keep it in that spot. I was debating if I should summer it outside then bring it in in the fall. But it will get full east sun from now till fall in that window. Hi my dear friend Pug!! Thanks. I can't wait to get more..Hint, hint..;-) Paul: Thnaks again. Mike

I think Julia in NY wins the prize for naming my NOID. I received an email reminder from Ebay today about a daylily I had saved, and at the bottom of it were several other listings for plants. One had a photo of a daylily that looked just like mine! It was Crimson Pirate. So I googled images of it, and man! It is my daylily. My only wonderment is its dormant habit. Mine not only comes back and blooms year after year, but it even keeps a few leaves all winter. Stella d'Oro never bloomed after the year I planted it. So I'm curious if others in Zone 9 have success with any dormants and if others in my zone grow this wonderful old daylily from 1955. Is it possible that the breeder did not know that its habit in a mild climate was more like a semi-evergreen? I'm also curious about this breeder, H. E. Sass, according to Tinker's. Anyone grow any of his other cultivars? Sherry Here is a link that might be useful: If only sweat were irrigation...

I also bookmark direct links, in other words I made an html document of active links that I keep on my desktop. These links are what I would call the "front door." When the direct links to gardenweb forums I have bookmarked started showing up blocked with the "advice" screen, I took a more circuitous route, by going to http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums  and clicking on the specific forums listed there. That is what I would call the "back door." I have hesitated from altering my permanent html document by changing the urls, out of a superstitious fear, or maybe out of the knowledge that it might well be a waste of time, since I do believe that gardenweb's days are numbered. If GW does become cannibalized entirely by Houzz, I hope to see some of my fellow gardeners on one of the other forums. "Following" seems redundant to me. I only frequent a handful of gardening forums, and I'll see any comments there in threads that interest me. It also seems vaguely invasive to me, both for the follower and the followee, sort of like one of facebook's innovations.

Try posting this on the Conifers forum for some expert input. This is not a landscape design issue.