thank you...checked it out online and it is the foxtail lily(eremurus).

Yes, that's it exactly! Just got one at my favorite nursery; thanks rosemariero

Oh the JD Robb books are terrific!! The perfect romance in that the male character is rich and handsome and they really love each other. Humour thrown in as well, when she hates being treated like a female and abhors having to wear anything dressy. I love the futuristic things the author comes up with. Glad you gave it a try Susan. Have you read any of the "numbered series" Stephanie Plum stories by Janet Evanovich? Very funny!

(May I pause for a really big chuckle here ...?) Truly, I have been using regular Cheer powder in my Asko and Miele (all 220v) machines for well more than a decade. Back in the day (c 2002-ish when I discovered this forum) I used to report using regular Cheer powder here and received almost universal condemnation ("it's guaranteed to ruin your machines, foster bio-flim, leave dirty clothes, mold outbreaks, scale on my heating elements, ground down bearings and water seals in the machine, etc.") And you know what? NONE of those things happened, except that I got tired of being harshly chastised by all the "experts" here so I became quite cagey about what I did use. I generally described it as just a "plain-Jane, big brand, non-HE powder", and refused to be more specific than that. Cheer is a great powdered detergent and I have nothing but praise for it. The only place I can reliably find it now is at Target, however. I orginally choose it because it was low-sudsing, long before there was such a thing as HE formulations. Those of you who have signed on to FL bandwagon more recently know only about HE stuff. Prior to that you looked for the words "low-sudsing", if you wanted a good product for FLs. All those holdover, pre-European invasion FL machines needed low-sudsing for the same reasons we need it now. Cheer powder was one of the mainstays in those days. That it also has enzymes and no OBAs and excellent rinsing qualities makes it just about perfect for me and my water chemistry and my wash habits. It's also quite inexpensive, and I find that I can use much less than called for, but that may be mostly a function of my water chemistry, YMMV on that. Anyhoo, welcome to the Cheer-powder fan club! I hope you will be as pleased as I have been. BTW, I have "cured" a couple of cases of stinky (bio-film/mold) machines simply by getting their owners to wash a couple of loads per week in hotter water, using Cheer powder almost exclusively, and generally less than a full dose at that. My only worry is that if it gets too wildly popular some product manager at the factory will notice and think that it needs "improving" to furtherr increase sales and alter (ruin) the current formula to fancy it up. L