Loveley gardens jkom51! I'm originally from the East Bay too! Pleasant Hill, and it's nice to see some of the stuff we grew! Loved the purple Iris, my mom always loved the Ballerinas, had them in every color. I now have that variegated vinca in my garden, I love it. I'm trying to acclimate myself to gardening in the Pac NW. It's a whole different Ball Game. (Still wear my A's hats up here! :o) Thanks for sharing!

Hmmm, I checked out the new Idaho Forum. There are no posts on it! ( I am a native Idahoan) Here is a link that might be useful: Gardening in Idaho

That's why the current one is now links instead of the full text. It should be much easier to find what you're looking for b/c there is far, far less text to sift through. Look at the subjects of each post to find your topic and click on the link that takes you directly to that topic...and only that topic. I'm hoping this will be easier fore everyone to use. Here is a link that might be useful: Read Me If You're New To GW Kitchens!

Actually I remember it from my class and I did have a link at one time but have since lost it. The stats are forever engraved in my brain though, since we were tested on them: Spay before first heat cycle gets you less than 0.1% of breast cancer later in life. Spay after first heat cycle, risk goes to 12%. Spay after second heat cycle, risk goes to 25%. This has only been figured in dogs as far as I know. But the short story is spaying after 2nd heat cycle increases risk of breast cancer over 250 times vs spaying before first heat cycle.