LOL Karen! Too funny! Is that like the regifting rule that you need to rewrap it? :) I looked around and tried to guess what you might like to even us up a little. I have a senecio that's a succulent called hot dog plant, not hardy, and a little houseplant that has adorable bulbs with freckled leaves, used to be scilla violacea, now it's a manfredia, i think. I also have some walking iris pups i could pot up, a pot of variegated french lavendar, which is ratty but will fill out nicely this summer, but isn't hardy, and some of that ornamental red leafed yellow flowered oxalis. Also, i could bring one of my pots of the puberula that i got at bb's, which i found the tag for that said z8, and is just labelled rosebud sage, if you'd like. BTW, I lost that cool sage that looked like a variegated koyame but plan to get more when i get down to bb's. Dana no worries- it's a really small start. The dirt's gotten hard & dry again, just like that. If it's happy it'll take off and go, though. I've had mine for oh, about 14 years. Deb, Karen & Alicia. I feel awful having to report this, but i was digging up those small rosette delizy starts and not a one of them had rooted for real. Dad gummed things really fooled me- they were stuck in but good and had new growth, but no real roots. So i went ahead and got them out of the ground and into little pots. They were well healed, nice & bumpy, and looked to be beginning the rooting process. I can either bring them and you can see if they'll root, or I can keep them here with plans to bring them come fall. Your choice- just let me know what you want me to do and if you want something else. The mother bush is getting ready to bloom and not really big, so i hate to do cuttings now. They supposedly do much better if taken after the first flush anyhow, so i may attempt to root more after that in june.

Hi- writing from Nova Scotia. I'm afraid I have nothing to trade that you are looking for but are you interested in exchanging the orchids for money? Bill

Hi I just googled Maxillaria and found that there are over 570 species ranging from central Mexico to Bolivia with several endemic to the West Indies !! I thought I'd seen M tenuifolia growing in Costa Rica but it lists it as possible south of Nicaragua so i must have seen another type lol Thought it odd at the time as it was located in a high mist forest very different than florida climate for sure . Mine that I grow as in the previous post is starting to spike right now in spite of the incredibly weird winter this year . The plant has never given me any problem so I've tended to ignore it but if memory serves it usually flowers during spring. Noticed on cultural notes that "Easy to grow but appreciates a winter cool down with a drier period but not so dry as to cause the bulbs to shrivel Any window but north in the US." That would certainly describe my conditions except for this year . Good luck with it!!! gary

Patti, Normally poppies only transplant well if they are very small, so your success might depend on how large they are. Vitexes transplant well. I must have done something wrong. The car is loaded (and all the plants actually fit inside it, even with the canopy in there too), the food is made, the door prizes are sitting on the counter for us to grab as we walk out the door, etc., so we're all ready. This is not normal. I don't know if I can function tomorrow morning without having to run around frantically doing last minute things. Tim did ask me if I was going to run out to the garden first thing tomorrow to dig up one more thing that I just thought of. I told him nope, I'm done. I had to work all week on getting stuff done in case we got the rain they said was coming today. So far, no rain, but all the pre-Spring Fling preparations are complete. See y'all tomorrow! Dawn