Ted, Not from experience, but what Marie has said sounds very true. I am sure once it is more established that next year it will reward you with it's true colors. Oh! By the way. Is that a seedling growing in the same pot with the one in Black pot in photo? Don't now why I noticed, just neede to ask. Rick

Coffee Sushi The Bachelor/Bachelorette shows George Clooney-I don't get why everyone thinks he is so great Wearing Ugg boots, with shorts, when you live in LA (or a warm place) and it's 75 degrees out! People who are glued to their phones/blackberry. You aren't the president, your messages are not critical to the rotation of the earth! Rye bread Sour cream Soda & iced tea Violent Horror movies-I'm not entertained by seeing blood & gore. and lastly, no one likes this, but it goes on here at the KT...people who try to intimidate you and talk over you to prove their point. They'd rather talk you to death then ever admit they were wrong.

carol Here is an old and bad pic of a phal flowering for the first time on the Cassia roxburghii tree Note how small and few in numbers , pathetic leaves ?? This particular plant was always grown in a pot in the shadehouse where it always double spiked often with 3 with a minimum of a dozen flowers at least 4 inches across !! This was the first flowering on the tree skipped the first year have grown this particular plant for well over 20 years . It is flowering again has 3 this year way below standard but it is right on schedule, long ago lost the tag on the variety but it's a hybrid . Note the orientation of the leaves and the lack of a cup where they join?? Has always only kept two leaves but in a pot were pointed up forming a cup. about 3 times larger. It is exposed to too low temps,not enough water and when the tree goes deciduous in Jan way too much light lol The interesting part at least to me ,is that the roots are well over 6 feet from the plant. At first they grew in both directions but over the last year are growing down ,upwards have been aborted . Two have reached the ground and I can't wait to see what they do next lol In keeping with the subject of this post note that the leaves are growing down and no chance of collecting water with the reduced cup but is certainly not upside down ?? Might mention that a pink on the limb to the right{out of the pic) is spiking this year for the first time . Looks way below par so far . gary

I've been biting my tongue, but it's not working, so please forgive me horning in here. :) Your textured golden walls are beyond beautiful and unique, just as they are. They are Devine! " ... the color both the painter and man at paint store said we should use ..." They do not get to vote! Nor do I, but I can serve as a cautionary tale. I live in an old, tired, far-too-small home. We went to the considerable expense to remove the only bathroom, to the studs, and replumb it. The new 7x10 floor plan works perfectly. Except... I begged and pleaded and delayed the project trying to show how and why a walk-in/roll-in, non-curbed shower/wet room would be better than the too-small, awkward bathtub with shower head I was forced to install. I could have had a 7x4 shower in the same footprint. Nope! Carpenter and husband said "you must have a standard bathtub" ... and the resulting odd 2' hole to the left of it. I have arthritis in my feet and knees. I knew I would not be able to safely step into the 14" high tub for long. Now, four years later, I'm facing hip surgery. I've already fallen twice trying to step over the tub to take a shower. So, do I pay to have the bathroom stripped out again to get a useable and sizeable shower, or do I give up the slightly bigger bedroom to have a walk-in shower installed there - on the opposite end of the house from the 12x12 room that will then have to become our bedroom? I have not used this bathtub once in five years. It has injured me twice. I do not care one iota about a mythical future buyer or what is oh-so-trendy. I need a large walk-in shower. Ditto for the 9+ Ft.-wide LR window I had to replace but was "not allowed" to install a smaller, 85" window that would have allowed a better use of the 15' long room. "They" should not get to vote on your decisions for your home. I think grey is an appropriate dull color for battleships and coffins. I do not understand it's saturation of the decorating world. But, I do not get to vote either.