Very healthy looking plants. Nice job.

LOL!!!! Your echies are soooo big & lush!!! I know what you mean, I hadn't started out to build a collection either. They make me so happy though =D

I hope that you had enough of a celebration to make it a memorable day, Joan Eileen, with loved ones and/or friends. Good wishes for a fine year ahead, as well ... with some satisfactions, some happy times and a few challenges to keep life interesting. It's a poor day in which one doesn't learn something. ole joyful

My spray mix is more of a stew. I use and rotate among propiconazole, chlorothalonil, or tebuconazole, if I can get it, along with mancozeb, if needed, some harpin, aspirin, spreader sticker, sometimes insecticide/miticide, and sometimes liquid fertilizer. I have even added deer repellent, which does not usually work all that well. Usually the anti-fungal spray works reasonably well unless we have had a late, hard freeze, which we did this year. Then the plants are so badly injured that they have little or no disease resistance no matter what is in the spray mix until late in the year, if they recover. I lost a bunch of plants this year, just like the Easter freeze of 10 years ago. I hope this answers the spray question.