OK, I grow wallflowers with spring bulbs, especially tulips (which I plant deeply and leave in my sandy soil from one year to the next so they are fairly reliable at returning. In the UK, they are in bloom around May, so I also partner mine with early hardy geraniums (I really like primrose wallflowers with the common cranesbill, Geranium pratensis and G.sylvaticum). I have a few clumps of them growing with common primroses too. The other plants I mentioned are not wallflowers but are flowering in mid spring with similar 4-petalled flowers and will make good companions. I could easily imagine growing them with little clumps of violas, forget-me-nots, short campanulas, and, my favourite, overwintered love-in-the-mist. Yes, they do have a tendency to flop about a bit - you can cut them back hard after the first flowering - it looks quite improbable because the stems are silvery and bare.....but leafage will follow, along with a later flush of flowers (some autumns). If they do well for you, you could try growing single colours from seeds sown in May. The little plants will grow over the summer, ready to be planted in autumn, where they will overwinter and burst into fragrant growth the following spring. A lovely clove scent, warm and very welcoming. You could plant your packs about 8 inches apart - they will spread out but not much - they continue to grow from a woody base clump, branching higher up the stem - I never bother to stake mine as they rarely get taller than 16inches or so and even if they flop, the flowers will still stretch upright to the light. Wallflowers have always been a traditional cottage garden favourite and, as such, they will look well with scrambling, rambling aubretias, arabis, nemophila, limnanthes and annual flax - not a tidy or formal plant.

It's neat, being able to cut lots of stems. Like Bonnylynn, I was out of state when lots of mine were in full bloom. And the rain didn't help - seemed to be constant whenever I was home (I work full time), and then with the wind destroyed the blooms on my peonies. The roses opened while I was away, and many petals on ground when I found them opened up. But I've been having "bouquets" on my desk at work, as well as at home, since the daff's were in full bloom. We had a weather threaten to kill anything that wasn't brot indoors, so cut off some of the daff's. Was sure surprised when many others opened nice outdoors within a week. Tulips gone now, but had many. And the azalea bushes - wow! This year had LOTS of blooms, and cut some from stems "sticking out" from the rest of the bush. They mixed well with other things. This year also had some alyssum basket-of-gold (a perennial) bloom (winter sowed last year). Lots of blooms brot in to work. Right now I have a mixture: sweet wm., penstemen, bachelor button (w/s)(first bloom this year - but lots more buds about to open); alyssum - white (w/s), burgundy gaillardia (w/s last yr), and a cream color iris. Cut the iris on way to car to get to work this morning, and added to the others already on my desk.

Hi, all, I happened to jump on and see these recent comments. We actually had the blistering problem on our windows and made some comments higher up in this thread. Looked like a bad contact paper install that looked like the pics at the top of this thread. I was able to figure out the local dealer that the windows were purchased from who in turn brought Andersen into the loop for an inspection. My local dealer had seen this issue in other homes. It is not due to water, sunlight, etc, etc. It is a faulty glue job by Andersen!!! DO NOT LET THEM TELL YOU OTHERWISE! And the whole window does not need replacement; just the jambs. We had a rather large house with many windows. The rep at first had said they would replace the jambs and they would provide material but we would pay install costs. We argued with them that this was ridiculous and was clearly an Andersen issue and the rep quickly flipped during the inspection visit and agreed to pay for it all. We also got them to agree to pay for any more jambs as we suspected the issue would show up on ones that weren't obvious at the time. In the end, Andersen provided parts, our local dealer did the install with removal and cleanup and we were good to go. Thank goodness as we took advantage of the market and sold the house last spring. So be persistent! Andersen most certainly knows this is a defect. P.S. Our windows were just out of warranty at the time but was not an issue with jamb replacement.

Yes, I know the post was really detailed. I waffled about whether to put that much detail in it, but felt like I'd covered the basic ideas/options myself but kept running into obstacles that I tried to outline in the post so folks maybe would understand the problems with most of the options I thought of. It was not my intent to make anyone's head explode. Thanks to all of you for your ideas, however. I do appreciate it. Igloochic, I hadn't really thought of hanging glass...that's an interesting option. I do like the Asian look of shoji which might work, maybe in a shutter? Marti8a, I love that pic...they were my first choice, but don't know if I can get a 9' span. Think I will have to visit a decor store that sells shades and see what they say. Thanks, again