Sstrutt, probably your best bet is to start with is yellow daffodils and red tulips. That's what most people seem to want. Van Engelen (prices for wholesale ARE the same as listed online) and Colorblends (online prices are about what "true" wholesalers charge small-volume retailers) probably provide the lowest prices for small-volume retailers. Most of the "true" wholesalers have a huge dollar minimum which makes it difficult to make a profit unless you have a large, loyal bulb-buying clientele. Don't forget to factor in the time and packaging materials into your final retail prices--and if you can't beat local merchants on price, you may be in a fairly precarious position. That means you may actually lose money. I used to work in the nursery business, and it just isn't easy keeping an "ordinary" locally-owned nursery running. I can't tell you HOW many times I heard "I can get that at Wal-Mart for HALF the price." You have to have some other attraction that will keep people coming to you and paying your prices. In our case, it was that we helped our customers choose and care for appropriate plants for their gardens. We spent a LOT of time with each and every customer who walked in our doors.

Wow, racism and unprovoked snark are not attractive anywhere, but least of all on a gardening forum. (Harry, I see you just beat me to it -- allow me to elaborate on your point.) Like most rose people, I find the Dr. Huey phenomenon amusing, and it does usually arise from people being clueless (but it is a handsome plant, so at least it's not like growing Italian thistle or some such in your yard) but I think these last two posts (plan9 and eahamel) are way off the mark. First, I doubt the folks living in the house in the first photo are passing their yard off as a great horticulture. The majority of homeowners, I would say, could care less about gardening (as is their right) and thus only do the minimum, or have more pressing concerns. If they were making such a claim, pointed critique might be in order (even then, in most cases, it's kinder to say nothing at all, unless it's part of a garden judging show). Otherwise, it's rather low and pointless humor, plus I am sure all of us have had garden ideas that didn't work out so well. Either of you care to post photos that prove the brilliance of your own garden design? Second, blanket assumptions and statements about people based on race are inevitably wrong factually (I know some pretty good "Hispanic" gardeners...) and repugnant in any case (gee, maybe even some of the people on GardenWeb are "Hispanic"...). I also know of some white and Asian mow-and-blow outfits that are clueless. In any case, I don't see what being documented or undocumented has to do with gardening. Lastly, my elderly Mom was once an excellent gardener whose garden has declined along her health and there has been a lot of Dr. Huey among her roses in the past few years, which she finally allowed me to tackle this spring. Care to make fun of her? Debbie This post was edited by catspa on Sun, Apr 21, 13 at 10:48

Too funny.... the pasta w/ fried lemons and the bananas foster bread pudding are the two recipes that looked good to me! lol! Alisande, have you ever tried the shrimp w/ lemon & linguine recipe that was floating around the cooking forum? that's a keeper and somewhat similar. Alice, a bananas foster bread pudding sounds like the perfect match to me. I've recently tried white chocolate bread pudding and it was delish! the recipe looks very easy... you should try making that too. :)

I'd say to post pics of your bathroom, but the photos don't seem to be working right now! I'd think almost anything would work with Revere Pewter, but your bathroom colors also need to coordinate with the flooring, tile, vanities, etc. So what would look good with white tile is different than with beige tile. If people can see what you're working with, you'll get more specific advice. Once the photo feature is working again! I do have a few pics on the reveal thread with my bath in Healing Aloe. http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/4871618/bungalow-bathroom-reveal?n=8