I have trouble with those who blame "greed" for the crisis. It's like blaming gravity for a plane crash. Greed has always been around and it's government's role to make sure it doesn't get out of hand. They failed...miserably! There were five government actions/inactions without which none of this would've happened: 1. Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act (a Depression-era banking regulation act that limited banks involvement in risky investments) in 1999 2. OTC/OCC blockage of state regulations against predatory lending practices 3. Failure of the Fed to enforce HOEPA 4. SEC regulations changes that allowed the five biggest investment banks to increase their leverage limits from 10 to 40 times 5. Failure to designate Credit Default Swaps as insurance policies, requiring reserves against losses Lots of lenders and home owners did really stupid, greedy things. But the government would have prevented them from doing so if they'd done their job. And for those who would love to use this as an opportunity to foist the blame on one political party or the other, recognize that BOTH sides have LOTS of blood on their hands. The Republicans fought against banking regulations and the Democrats wanted poor people to be able to buy homes they couldn't afford.

bonjour, je dois rliser un jardin avec des essences miterrannnes pour un centre de formation aux miers du patrimoine et je voulais vous demander, selon vous quelles sont les essences propres un jardin miterrann, les caractistiques d'un jardin miterrann... je voulais demander cet avis des amoureux des jardins miterranns car ils connaissent mieux les ambiances, les sensations qu'ils apprient dans ces types de jardins. Sinon, j'ai commencfaire des recherches. D'abord sur la dinition de jardin miterrann, qui est un jardin oles plantes sont adapts aux conditions climatiques et pologiques de la rion en question (ici les alpes maritimes). ensuite, j'ai lu le livre de Heidi Gildemeister "Jardiner sous un climat miterrann", qui est tr bien... et donc le conseil serait un choix de plantes indiges, cad des plantes qui aient ll'origine, qui n'ont pas introduites par la suite par l'homme. Et donc ces plantes sont totalement adapts aux secs... contrairement aux choix de plantes trop standardiss dans nos jardins tel que le plumbago, les lantanas et le bougainvilliers... quand pensez vous? votre avis m'intesse... voici des exemples de plantes indiges pour terrain rocheux : buxus sempervirens, cistus, lavandula, rosmarinus, thymus, acanthus, achillea... @+ jen

bonjour, j'ai deux grimpants dont je n'ai pas vu les noms dans vos échanges : tout d'abord, Sombreuil, rosier ancien, magnifiques fleurs très pleines, d'un blanc crème particulier, et surtout d'un parfum à se damner. Bien remontant, c'est un des premiers que j'ai planté et il m'enchante toujours autant depuis 14 ans. Il se bouture très bien, un de ses bébés commence à s'épanouir cette année et ce petit miracle me rend toute bête à chaque fois que je passe à côté. Mon autre merveille c'est Albertine. Il n'est pas remontant, mais ces fleurs anciennes et surtout ses boutons rose saumoné léger sont magnifiques. Lui aussi est très parfumé, une senteur poudrée que j'aimerai pouvoir capturer pour la porter en parfum.... A bientôt Citronelle

Thank you for your comments! I do actually plan to grow them in pots for their first season, but I'm not very good with pot culture; it is so labour-intensive. So after the first season I'd prefer to plant them out. In my garden, noisettes seem to all act very differently. Narrow Water, Jaune Desprez,Belle Vichyssoise all grew quickly and well as obvious climbers. Crepuscule , too, though that poor thing had to cope with awful soil.I've got about four plants of what I assume are all Blush Noisettes (one of these was supposed to be Ornement des Bosquets,another Belle Vichyssoise,the third I'm not sure, but I wound up with four that all seem to be Blush Noisette...) and these all grow like shrubs, but many people say that that is what BN is supposed to do. Then there are the frustrating Deschamps and especially Fellemberg. Both of these seem to refuse to put on any size ,though they do try to bloom a lot, so maybe if I keep on pinching off buds they'll eventually do something,(unless it's just the bad soil issues again). Bougainville seems to want to be a shrub, and is basically following the growth habit depicted on Vintage's site. I, too, so wish that the site could've been maintained, Carol.