What a GREAT idea for a thread! Currently the only two non-av plants that are blooming is a moth orchid that has been blooming solid for about 10 months, and an unidentified episcia. :) No pics of them, but I totally get what you said at the very beginning where people say "Oh yea, that's nice." I have two large windows full of plants, and people walk in and go "Oh you have a green thumb!" And then change the subject - and I'm like, "OK, never mind I won't tell you about them! They are all different and amazing and have a story, but that's ok. Let's talk about the hardwood." LOL. So nice to have a group of people who appreciate the diversity and amazing therapeutic qualities of houseplants.

Two of my flowering crabapples (all volunteers) have fruits now: Some aren't quite ripe yet: Winterberry fruits are turning red. They'll be more dramatic when the leaves drop, before the robins decide they're ripe. Pokeberry continues to ripen. You can sort of see miscanthus and panicum behind the poke. Panicum 'Cloud Nine' next to a miscanthus, in front of the winterberry: Cotoneaster fruit are turning red: And Yucca 'Color Guard' always looks good with the cotoneaster: All of the miscanthus seedheads are wet and stuck together so I haven't tried to photograph them. Sitting here on the deck engrossed with the posting, I just noticed that Viburnum 'Summer Snowflake' still has a blossom. My other doublefile viburnum is way gone by so there's nothing to pollinate the Summer Snowflake. I'd love to have more viburnum fruit now. I wonder if a second Summer Snowflake could pollinate the first one. Claire

Well, I think most everyone around here knows, though we are respecting his/her privacy until he/she breaks silence. It's a very young person, barely able to even legally purchase a lottery ticket. Social media w/the younger generation has probably already outed the person. A friend in the know says the person was checking lotto ticket while grabbing coffee in the break room at a local manufacturing plant, realized he/she won, and abruptly left work. It's a media frenzy around here with good, fun news for a change. We joked last night that at least now people will be able to spell our town without asking twice. :)

OK, I have a new issue related to our "whole-house ventilation" that we have been discussing. Our continuous powder room fan (exhaust-only ventilation system that does not meet Indiana Code for "shall provide outdoor air at a continuous rate determined by table" M1505.4.3) is "y-ed" into another full bathroom exhaust fan - all 4" QuietFlex flexible duct as it exits through the roof of our house ~ 35' run... We just discovered the Broan continuous exhaust fan is 110 CFM and requires a 6" duct. The other bathroom fan is a Broan "can fan" 70 CFM which requires a 4" duct. I would think the "combined" duct would have to be larger than 6". Also, when one fan is running, air comes out of the other fan - exhausting INSIDE our home. I sprayed air freshener in one bathroom with the fan running, and my husband could smell the air freshener coming through the exhaust fan (off) in the other bathroom. When we took the cover off the powder room fan (with fan off) and ran the fan in the other bathroom; there was enough air forced into the powder room to cause the fan to spin. When we turned on the powder room fan, we could watch the fan slowly change direction as the powder room fan began to exhaust air. We found the same situation in our Master Bathroom, where the toilet room fan and the shower fan are "y-ed" together before exhausting out of our home. Again, we could feel air coming OUT of the shower exhaust fan when running the toilet room fan and vice versa. How messed up is this? Exhaust air is not allowed to recirculate back inside the home is it? If two 70 CFM exhaust fans are supposed to use 4" ducts, wouldn't you need to increase the duct size if you "y-ed" them together...if doing that is even allowed? Is it time to move forward with a legal claim against my builder for breach of contract? We have found over a dozen code violations!