Hi Bill, I feel so bad for you, all of those beautiful plants, must be tough cutting branches and throwing them away, and heart breaking. All that time giving to them, you must have hope for flowers from the young ones...yes loss of cuttings plus Aztec Gold that hurts. I have never seen this one bloom, I am re-doing my small back yard, digging up now an area now that has morning east/south light to plant celidine in the ground, no more in west sun. Learned that lesson too hard with burn. Yes, hurt losing my plants, butttt am easing my hurt going back to a hummingbird/butterfly, garden, where my plumeria garden was..... in the west sun.!!! with dasies and 2 plumies that may make it. so will float along. guess will try and find a grower locally that has some plumies in bloom, only hybrids and go again. I have never started plumies in March or ? when or what to feed. I started in May last year. Not 55 degrees yet to plant celedine. Karen B.

It came as a bonus pack in a national round robin trade several years before I grew it, and it was only labeled "Baby Beefsteak". At the time there was no info available; I grew it out and lo and behold, it looked just like a baby beefsteak. Whomever labeled that pack of seeds once upon a time called it as they saw it. Very practical. It's a wonderful tomato, I've described it well on the package, it looks just like a baby beefsteak but is more juicy and tangy. I liked them so much I've grown them a few times and have shared their seeds with the name they came with. I'm very serious about tomato variety names. I don't change the docmentation that comes with a home-saved OP; I think that's hugely unethical. This year I'm doing another growout of a variety that came to me a few years back only labeled "Purple Heirloom". This is a yum YUM tomato. I'm also doing one again that I named "Big Pink Volunteer" which volunteered from a bag of compost I bought at HD. It makes awesomely good big pink maters, hence the name. The history will be on the label. Should the season go well I'll have seeds of Purple Heirloom, Big Pink Volunteer, the ten USDA/GRIN tomatoes I'm growing and several others available on the site by late Autumn. It's a fabulous set of tomatoes in the garden this year. I'm definitely going to have to buy at least one more set of pidgeon holes ;-) Hope this helps, T

I agree that modern black frames aren't really suitable for those wonderful cards, especially with the old world look of your bathroom. They look like traditional Russian pollack art. I'd think about framing them in groups of three or four or perhaps even six (well that might be too many), in a brown-y tone. You could match the mats to the wall color, if that looked good. Something that won't clash with the mood of the room, which sounds lovely. I agree with Amysrq about framing. We also collect art and have some very nice pieces (IMO, lol). But I've also had professional framing done for calendar pictures, postcards and $5 posters. Unlike sofas, rugs and paint jobs, art lasts forever, and makes a nice little inheritance down the road. Just my opinion, though.

Hello again! I finally bought counter stools-The Turner from C&B. Carters5, the windows are Windsor Pinnacle glad. We are happy with them so far, but both my son and DH have allergies so we rearely open them. leela4, the shelves are from Elmwood;I've linked the website below. They are very, very rustic. I was worried how they were going to look, I didn't expect them to be so beat up with splinters, holes etc. But once they were up, they looked great. We wanted to create the illusion that they were 'floated'. We used L brakcets, cutting out the drywall and screwing them straight into the studs. We then mud over them and painted. Here is a link that might be useful: Elmwood