Tiffy .. there are so many kittens out there this year .. I just cant believe it. But if you really want to give someone a chance in life .. adopt an older cat. Many are put to sleep because kittens are so cute and the shelters run out of room for everyone. Or they become ill due to over crowding. Dont purchase one at a pet store!!! The shelters have so many. I personally have 7 cats of my own .. three of whom I have raised since they were only a few days old. But the rest have been rejects from the shelters .. older cats who no one wanted. They all get along no matter their age .. they just need time to introduce themselves to other pets. I tend to have a soft spot for the underdogs so many of my cats have had issues. One of them named Mouse was a wild cat that was found in the bush in Northern Ontario .. a hunter found and trapped him .. he is so beautiful. He actually is a purbred Ragdoll. Mouse is the cat in the back of the photo .. Meshoo is also a stray Ragdoll .. they have the best personalities .. so calm and regal. All they want to do is love you!! I have a crippled cat .. and actually I named the kitten after him .. Taz senior is now 17 years old and doing well. I hand raised him as a foster kitten. Then he developed issues with his balance. The shelter wanted to put him to sleep but I was having none of that .. so I took off with him :o) I never did foster for that shelter again :o) If they had put him to sleep I would never have found my best friend .. I just love him to death!!! He is mommys boy. Its odd how I have such a strong bond with him .. I have had many cats but none like this little man. He is my world .. odd .. but true. Fostering any animal is truely a labour of love and boarders on insanity :o) Since April I have been up every two hours feeding and stimulating kittens .. thank god I dont sleep well to begin with :o) A friend of mine adopted one of my kittens this year .. guess what .. he gets her up at 5 am to feed him :o) He got into a routine when he was little and because I have had so many little guys this year .. he use to get up with me at feeding time ... he would even wake me up if I missed the alarm by pushing his head into my face :o) Poor Debbie .. I hope he has out grown that bad habit :o) Well I am off to feed the new zoo crew .. they are so cute :o) Laura

Annie . . . Thank you for your info. Well . . . I believe they are brugs, but until I see a bloom, I won't know for sure. But the previous owner (who gave them up because she had to move into a situation where she could not take them with her) said they were Angel Trumpets. After finding this site, I asked her which direction the flowers grow and she said down, so I enlightened her about Brugs vs Daturas which she did not know. She says that one of them is salmon colored, one is peach, and one is yellow, but I don't remember which is which. As I stated before, she said that she has never smelled anything from hers. I will be waiting for your pics. As for my neighbor and her problem with baby brugs popping up all over her lawn, hers was definitely a brug because the huge yellow flowers hung down over her fence and, because her backyard runs along a narrow, one-way alley that is heavily used by neighborhood vehicle traffic, people complained that the flowers kept hitting their cars. As a matter of fact, I got all the way to work one day, got out of my car, and found a blossom stuck to my car antenna. I got the impression that the babies were more like runners than seeds. I was just over there and she is still pulling them up as she sees them. Karyn . . . thank you for the pics. The leaves on one of mine (the one with the partially severed Y) looks like your first picture. Some of the larger, lower leaves are somewhat jagged (sort of like a big pointsettia leaf as Annie described), but not all of them are like that. I can't see enough of the leaf in your second picture, but the flower sure is beautiful!! I will spend some time looking at pictures that people have posted on this site to try and get some idea of what I really have. Annie . . . How do you smell the leaves? Do I have to snap them? crush them? I get very close to mine because I am constantly looking for evidence of blooms, and I have not detected any smell at all. My leaves are all smooth . . . none of the plants have hairy leaves. If someone could tell me how to post pictures, I will do that and maybe someone can help me identify exactly which I have. Oh if I could only get a bloom!!

Here's a mystery JJ when I bought it a week ago (maybe Desert Sunrise) We have had zero heat so here it is today

Kate - I was so grateful for some good, soaking rain. I didn't go outside and dance in it, but I did do a little dance while I was inside watching it rain. I'm glad you liked Hoopla. I really like that one a lot, and the other purple lovers here never mention it. Maryl - I used to grow Buzz Saw, and my seedling is much bigger - 7+ inch blooms on 34-inch scapes. It has a few teeth and tendrils but not as many teeth as Buzz Saw. Also Buzz Saw had a yellow cast here. Julia - I'm glad you remembered the name of your good near white. Debra