Sami, I don't doubt the books and tags state that the plant can be in up to 5" of water. But I think the people who write the books and tags are talking about established adult plants. Water lilies too, when first potted up, are best kept at a shallow depth [about 6" water coverage] for a week or so, then progressively lower to their final position in the pond, a week at a time. This gives the new lily plant time in the warmer layers water to establish it's self. If you have not had Marsh Marigolds before, you will as Beth says, be delighted at the beautiful yellow flowers they produce in the spring. I wait about week after they have flowered and cut the stalks back to two or three inches above the crown, as the plant gets a bit tall and unweildy after the flowers are gone. The remainder of the year it has nice bushy green foliage, but is not too tall. Enjoy your flowers, "Horton". P.S. I would transplant those plants you have out of the two inch pots as soon as possible. Marsh Marigolds are rapid growth plants and will need lots of room in their pots for the roots.

Some of the smaller ones may be Bullfrogs but most of them are Green Frogs. I always send the Bullfrogs a little further down the road near the other side of the lake. One of the bigger ones is very BRIGHT green. I would love for them all to stay but I am worried about the load on my pond through the winter. I know a lot of them will leave on their own but I also wonder how many actually make it.

Hey Pelham, I wrote a reply to this message a couple of days ago but for whatever reason it did not go through. I will try again :) I had a similar situation with my 3 Duncan Grapefruits this winter. I had a bout with scale all winter long speading from my fingerlime to ever Citrus I owned at the time. The Grapefruit trees took it hard, one loosing 70% of it's leaves and the other lost about 50% before it was all said and done. I also aparently had 2 spotted spider mites whic from what I was told was causing the majority of the leaf loss. You can tell if you have them by looking for little spider strings on the tree. So here are some questions and suggestions. 1) Have you cleaned off the tree of all scale and erradicated them all. If not, even though a lot of people may scorn me for the reccomendation, I reccomend 1-2 Tablespoons of Malithion and 1 tablespoon of Petrolium based horticutural oil. Please be aware that you may loose a few more of the old leaves from this because it weighs them down, however they were most likely going to fall anyway. I have a feeling you may not loose any since a storm really ripped them off the tree. If you have any of the leaves that fell off still lying around you may want to put them in a flatbed scanner and scan them at about 1200dpi and see if you have any spider strings on them as well, if you do, this will justify this treatment a bit further. 2) I would reccomend a good fertilizer to encourage growth, don't burn out the roots, but a good kick may help it out. 3) Re-apply the Malithion about 1-1.5 months later again to make sure the scale (& mites if applicable) is dead, dead, and ohh did I mention dead. Use 1 teaspoon each this time instead of 2 and 1. You may find that the scale may wind up making the tree grow many more leaves than you ever thought it could. Once I killed these suckers off, for every leaf lost I got at minimum 8 leaves and a new shoot off the tree. BTW, my Dunacan Grapefruits are planted from seed, not a graft, just as a note. Hope this helps ya out. VTY -Mark

Georgia Peach, I posted this on a movie board as well and The Collector was suggested there too. The film came out in 1965 so it could fit. Other suggestions are welcome. The Nabokov question is solved too. I checked him out on Wikipedia and apparently he was a distinguished entomologist and had several species of lepidoptera named after him, as well as a genus of butterflies. The unexpected things one finds out from reading books!