Best lookin' utility pile of soil I've ever seen! Mine would be crawling with bindweed EEW! I do love how they volunteer in the strangest of places. We have some that seeded and return year and again--and we have NO idea how they got there. It's right on the property line, with bedding rocks on one side and our lawn on the other; it's not the kind of place that they ever would have been planted or flowerbox nearby; it's kinda of a "utility" area on the street-side--you know, the gate opens there, and that's the staging area for mowing, etc. Still, those sweet purple and yellow flowers bring a smile to my face, and I pay special attention so that they don't get any drift when I am out pounding on the bindweed with my lawn-safe weed killer (hey, I'll organic garden everything else but bindweed is my nemesis, and however much chemical it takes to keep it under control, I'm gonna use!). I've also got some big purple violets that keep volunteering year after year--hubby even has hit them with the round-up a time or two, but they're tough buggers. Good thing they're pretty; if they were as invasive as the bindweed, I'd really be out of my mind!

I think it just depends on what you are ordering. The reason that I don't order more often is the shipping charge, not the price of the item. I find their things to be of high quality and they have items I can't find anywhere else. When Jo posted this, I placed an order the next day and it arrived in 3 days. That is fast from any dealer, but three days from Maine is pretty remarkable. I ordered 7 regular size packages of seed and a small bag of inoculant for legumes. The package was very light and the normal shipping and handling would have been $10. That's too expensive, and I know of several people that will not order from them because of the S&H, and many times that stops me from ordering as well.

Nice link Bourbon! I do know about the Champaca. I've tried sprouting the seeds a few times without any luck lol. I may just order a plant. Its another one I would have to put in the greenhouse though and I am running out of room. One of the reasons I started adding more roses is to have more color in the yard during the winter months here plus I don't have to put them in the greenhouse like many of my plants. I really need to move further south! Champaca is also called The Joy Perfume Tree. Chanel no 5 is supposed to mimic the Ylang Ylang tree. I am probably gonna get shade for this but I don't really like Chanel no. 5 lol. I do like the smell of the Ylang Ylang tree. Something must get lost in the transformation to perfume. I haven't smelled the Joy perfume yet. This is a great website to search and read about tropical plants. I have only ordered seeds from here because a lot of their shipping seems high but its a good resource to read about stuff. https://toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/garden_catalog/cat.cgi?uid=Michelia_champaca I also have a couple Michelia figo aka banana shrubs which I can leave out in the winter here. It smells just like bananas and vanilla. They aren't as widely grown in North FL and they were when I lived in Louisiana but they should be.

I lived in LA during many of those years and his reputation was well known. I personally found it so off-putting that I couldn't watch him. The Tonight Show wasn't popular among people I knew, for many for the same reason. It's true that there are a lot of "not-normal" people in show business, on both sides of the camera. Many of the "in the camera's view" ones fit the description of talent and attractive outsides and empty-headed insides. There are many normal ones too who people think quite highly of - Tom Hanks comes to mind and there are many others.