Thanks for the input everyone. Oh good! I will go ahead and post then! A question though...how do you get a table (on a Word Doc) to post??? I previewed part of my copy/pasted table and it did not come out at all. Anyone know how to do it? Before the list I included a page of explanations and guidelines/directions on how the list works and what format to use when adding another item to it, etc. I might have gone a little overboard on that part (hey! It was a long spring and I couldn't get outside, lol!). If anyone has any suggestions on how to make it better, what should be added, edited out, or amended I would love to hear. I appreciate any and all feedback. ;-) -Karen, didn't even really cross my mind about having information from the professionals, just home gardeners. I've also specified that no commercial seed should be listed for that reason. I agree with you that knowing your garden is important and being able to perhaps see that something might not have truly dehybridized but only cross-bred with another plant. I included a space in the list for people to make such a note if needed. -Sharon, that is too bad your columbine turned out to all be the same. And especially since you bought them from a good commercial source!? Aquilegia are known to be little "hussies" since they cross-breed readily in the garden. I actually even made a note of that fact on my list just as a forewarning. -Barbara, absolutely!! I'm glad you think it will be useful enough to be able to use in your class. Hope you and everyone else will be able to add to it as well! -Barbe, I feel the same. I always try and make a note on my exchange page when I doubt or am not sure something will 'come true' from the saved seed. -P.S. I'm still unsure about how to go on with the list. How would everyone add to it? Should it be something like the 'Zone Wars' thread where there is a person with the master list that adds to it as people post their information? Any other ideas about how to go about doing it are welcome. I would be fine with updating the list with everyone's findings periodically. I might end up being busy with something this winter, so if there are any volunteers that would be willing to help keep a the master list updated if I couldn't that would be wonderful. Once I figure out how to post the list I will do it right here on this thread. Then we can iron out any kinks and such before posting it on its own. Thanks SO MUCH for the encouragement and feedback guys! ;-) CMK

Thanks! I feel better now knowing that the proximity of the rose roots won't overwhelm the clematis' own root system.

If you look at both pictures again you will note that it isn't so much that the colors are so garish in the first-the combinations of the intensity is wrong. In the first it is the light pink (Nelly Moser?) that throws the whole combination off. When using intense colors, everything has to be intense. The idea works well in the second picture because they used similar intensity of color, not just the colors they used. I always found Clematis to be quite fussy about PH of the soil, more so then any other plants. They also like their roots cool so planting something at the base of them or covering with a rock or pot worked well for me in my (then) hot, humid summers.

I was going to say panels, too. I don't see white being that great with the cream and I think the stainless might fight the wonderful copper...Unless you maybe include some stainless accents in your backsplash, maybe also on your hood, to tie things together. Have you chosen a range? You could go for some color or cream if you went with BlueStar or LaCanche with color choices...Maybe they have copper?