thanks carol... guess you are right... i did do some image-search with your suggestion and it looks like a match. cheers.

If you can get to Edmonds, you can dig up tall sage and other plants from my overgrown garden---and I means lots. I've been in bed for 2 yrs. and have just now emerged from illness, thank god! I also have herbs that are growing everywhere...and perennials by the hundred. My new husband has gamely tried to keep things in hand, but, on my first day out---Thursday--,I spent a frenzied hour pulling up errant plants that had overgrown (sometimes killed) plants that I'd lovingly raised from seedlings and cuttings. I vastly prefer to give my plants away to someone who will enjoy them, but I don't yet have the stamina to do what I would have done in the past--potted the plants and sent them off to their new home. But I freely give anything that I have to anyone who loves plants. I have so many "starts" surrounding all the perrenials, it makes me weep.

Generally salvia endemic to California do not thrive in New Jersey. In particular they require cool nights and resent a lot of summer rain. There are plenty of other salvia types available, however most prefer full sun and dry soil. In part shade you could grow the annual Salvia coccinea and pineapple sage to mention a few. Salvia miniata, Belize Sage, grows well in shade but need to be brought inside in the winter. A few other New World Sages which grow well in New Jersey are greggii, microphylla, guaranitica, subrotunda - the list goes on. If you are particularly interested in salvia check out A World of Salvias on line and also Robinssalvia.

The bedroom ones are "pole top panels" can i hang those with rings? JCPenny shows pole top panels hanging from rings and clips. However, I wouldn't do it, because I fear that there isn't enough structure at the top of the fabric to prevent it from sagging between the rings over time. I find that what you see in photos often doesn't work in real life. Tab top drapes look beautiful in catalog photos, curving in and out, but in real life they tend to droop. The rod we wanted to buy is one of those big carved wood things that aren't adjustable. I would also need to buy it in a 8' width. Window is 78.5". 8' is 96". so it would hang over the sides 8.75". Is this alright?? I know it will give the illusion of a wider window but if i tie back the curtains will it look funny? That actually isn't much of an overhang. I have an 84 inch wide window and the rod extends 1.5 feet beyond each side. As for the tie-back, it depends on how much fabric there is to pull back.