It seems to me that now and then I do see very rude posts here, and they don't all come from the same poster. I understand how people sometimes can feel left out and that there are cliques on forums, but often it's a subjective impression; when people post for a long time on forums and know one another by first names and have an idea of everybody else's preferences, it's easy to perceive that as an exclusive group. I don't belong to any group anywhere and don't want to - I enjoy all the posts and appreciate when there is good humour and tolerance of others, coming from a society where that was often quite lacking at times with more serious outcomes than a bit of a huff on a forum. How about we all wipe the slate clean, forget the past and enjoy all our wonderful plants in the present. And I don't apologise if that sounds like a lecture, I love y'all.

Ariel, I am glad you are coming. You have some really cool plants to trade. Your yard must be amazing. I would love any of the items below that are available. I'm sorry the list is so long (Please feel free to edit it) but you have such neat stuff. Please let me know what you would like from my list. - Any bananas - Helianthus angustifolius - bulbine - yellow/orange - chinese rain bells - salvia- coral nymph - salvia iodantha - orange tulip ginger - green mountain ginger - Kewense ginger Thank you, Judy

Hey Alison, 4 0r 5 in a pack of tomatoes will be fine with me, I'll just try to get them on a trade!!! I'm good at killing plants too.... You not only do braille, but eat sausage, corn, beer, (my kinda girl), I was wondering???? what order was this? latin, beer, label, then you label, beer, latin, then you laabbeell, beeerrr, llaattinnnn, then eat the latin corn, drink the sauage beer, and then you label the latin beer, and beer the label latin, Beeeeeeerrrrrrr, laaabbeeel, Hic, hic, Latttiiinnnnnnnn. I just wanna be able to do this right! I gotta go lay down,,,,, hehe, can hardly wait til saturday hic...

One of my pet peeves is those who don't understand that both "i"s need to be pronounced at the end of specific epithets named after people. This is necessary in order to keep the epithet in the genitive case. The failure to pronounce both "i"s probably comes from a misguided instinct to preserve the stress in the same place that it naturally falls in the person's name. Pronouncing both "i"s usually displaces the stress one syllable forward, but that is correct. If you say "Rhododendron thom-SOHN-ee-eye" for [Rhododendron thomsonii] then it sounds like you're saying "Thomson's Rhododendron" to someone who's had a bit of Latin. If you say "Rhododendron THOM-son-eye", then it sounds like you're saying "Thomson Rhododendron"...something's missing.