I'm sending 5 packets of white and yellow daffodils[5+ bulbs each] 4 packets of white and orange daffodils[5+ bulbs each] 7 packets of orange fall crocus[5+ bulbs each] 9 packets of white and yellow narcissi[15 + small bulbs each] 10 cranesbill geranium Broody 2 hosta Frances Williams 10 daylilies Happy Retunns 10 daylilies Scarlet Tenegar 3 daylilies Condilla 5 daylilies Little Business 5 daylilies Little Bumblebee 3 daylilies Dog Mare 5 daylilies Siloam Red Ruby 3 daylilies Grape Magic 4 daylilies Mini Pearl 5 daylilies Pinicch 5 daylilies Prairie Gem 5 daylilies Siloam Tiny Mitz

Goodmorning Everybody ! :) I heard from my swappers last night...:))) Mariann I have a couple of surprizes for you...We love putting surprizes in our boxes Regina started it.. Chell you are so creative and your writing is so much fun to read... I bet the boys loved playing pirate.. I can see their smiling faces now...What a great idea to make a hideout.. They will always remeber their hideout mom made for them... Norma I havent traded with you but I am sure you went way above in sending her nice cuttings..I seen pics of what you send...They are awesome boxes..:)) Please dont be sad..:)) Regina howdy :) I am so sorry about Mark having to have surgery and the heart condition would just send me into heaven.. Wow I am so glad to read it all went well...Shooo My heart sank for a minute...He will be all healed for college this fall..:)) You empty nester dont go through what I went through...Stay busy and call them alot... I miss my kids so much it hurts sometimes... Dogs are okay but they cant replace our true babies...I love reading about chell and her boys... It makes me smile so much... Frances lol You poor gardener..ahhah You need a break from mother nature..Really..:)) Oh big snakes yucky... I would be screaming... I love chippies...They are so cute...Havent had many around with a cat now...Kiki has brought home two gardener snakes...He was very proud of himself... Yesterday I was getting ready to go out and play in the dirt...The crows or blackbirds were screaming...It just like a scene in the movie the "birds"... It creeped me out really bad...I couldnt see what they were yelling at.. I watched tv...Than got bored and went coleus shopping..lol The master gardener sale for the next county over is tommorow... I cant wait to see what they are going to be offering..I have never been to this one...Oh I almost forgot..I heard from the master gardener I met...Looks like we are building another gh..lol She wants to do it closer to fall since everyone is busy with their gardens...I am glad we could help her..They are a pain to build.. well I gabbed enough lol must be the strong coffee and I got a lot of sleep...:)) Have a good day everybody..Barb

OK, because you asked me to post some follow up photos, I made a note on the pot with another tape label so that I won't loose track of it and forget. Also, here are a few more photos of what I did after the original post. I trimmed the branches and sliced off the bottom like I said I would do. I oriented the slice under the caudex to an angle to make the plant tilt over towards the smallest, weakest branch of the four. Three branches are a better number visually than four in this case so I'll simply remove that tiny nub. Here is the view of the bottom of the obesum seedling after I sliced it and after super glue has been applied - shown here still drying. I have left the side feeder roots though I will trim them back slightly to encourage more of them. Here is the plant back in it's pot, tilted over. That lower nub I will probably remove. Cut branches at the top are also sealed with super glue to keep them from drying out and dying back further. New buds will branch out from there. Over time I may continue to tilt the entire plant over more and more but it depends on how the roots look. I may also cut into and hollow out some of the caudex later for blast old tree trunk effect which would also be sealed with super glue. But I'll wait until it's getting nice and hot to decide who will be my test subject for that experiment. Later these branches will eventually get wired and shaped.

Haha, Irina! I wish big, fat juicy leaves was a guarantee. DS African has leaves just like this and you can't get babies off those leaves to save your butt. In the years I have had mine I have managed to get two babies and that's it. I keep trying! It's pretty slow growing too so it's not like you get extra leaves to spare easily either. Have you grown DS Africa? Almost nobody has it. I'm fairly certain it's a polyploid. Thank you Whisst and Rosie! I had another DS Africa seedling I was also evaluating that is also very dark, big flowers but with frilly edges and white splotches in the lower petals with really nice yellow throat markings. I thought I lost it (and I did) by accidentally including it in a mass of plants that were sold off by my Atlanta AVSA club for me before my relocation. Turns out Kathy Spissman kept it or put a leaf down, bless her! Else I would have lost that promising seedling. I'm trying to get it back now.