Geeeezzzz, I am enjoying this new pc and high speed internet. Wohooooo!!! And so is Ana and Em by the way for they can play their online games now and won't have to wait for foreeevveerrr for it to download. I had to shooo them away from the pc and remind them to go to bed! Jodi, that project is lookin good girlfriend! So...when can you come by here in VA and let's do my garden...lol! Oh and please bring your hubby along so he can fix my pc or retrieve my stuff in there. I lost EVERYTHING! Booohoooo! I on the other hand stopped putting bark mulch on the beds sorrounding my house. Earwigs thrive on them and I had a very bad infestation of them these past years. With the little ones AND the new puppy (digging and chewing) going through mommy's flowers, I have been avoiding spraying fungicides/insecticide/miticides. So far, the weather here has been good to the ammies and I have had no need to spray...yet! The 90s temp. did made the ammies leaves turn a little bit pale/yellowish green. But hey, that's a lot better than seeing red spots. They would green up though after a good drench of rain. I have sprayed at least half lesser than I sprayed last season. Oh and one more thing I LEARNED this season. VIRUS ALERT!!! You will not believe how much virus infested bulbs are being sold to us here in US. And we have been paying $8-$15 (average per bulb) for GARBAGE!!! I really should start a new thread on this. Xuan...How are your seedlings doing? Did the old seeds germinate by the way? Inform me too if anybody is going home to Vietnam so I can send you some stuff too. I'm currently seperating seedlings and potting them up in their own cell packs. They have grown so fast and big after being continously grown under lights last winter. Their bulbs are almost as big as the 2 year olds that I put to rest last winter. Unfortunately, I won't have indoor space for all of them this winter. So they should grow as much as they can now and then they'll be put to rest this coming winter. I have some very interesting crosses this season too.

ok- here's my list so far. i have put a question mark behind anything i noticed was missing from the other's list or i never received confirmation on. Root/deb: ebony spleenwort, jap painted fern, cymbularia, zuke seeds, for lamium, foxgloves, tara ginger, black stem ee?, white malvas? Brenda: georgia blue, columbines (not cana), for hardy fuchsia, black cohosh Ralph: zuch seeds, melon seed, aremenian cuke, cutting of phygelia, caneberries, white nicotiana, kiwi cuttings (they turned black with the frost, but may re-leaf by then), marion stewart cuttings, jujube cuttings, pomegranate cuttings, persimmon cuttings?(also black from freeze) for waterperry blue, Tiarella 'Chocolate Mint' & 'Snowflake', Disporum, and EE 'Black Magic', Heucherella 'Strike It Rich Gold', batface cuphea Alicia: veilchenblau cuttings?, carolina allspice, plumbago, cherry bells, camp cross, wineberry, black & red raspberry, buddleia for cinnamon fern, swamp cyrilla cuttings, roof iris, azaleas, royal fern?, styrax cutting, ruellia?, s. roemeriana? & s. coccinea seeds Nancedar: yellow tb iris, sib iris, apricot daylilies, hyperion dayliles for mini irises, selengella, shade sedum & native sedum, Dogridge/krystol: vinca!, apricot daylilies, nepeta, hosta seedlings? for rue seedlings, boulders Magick: berry plants, kiwi cuttings, mulberries for hostas, peony Ais:wood phlox, for jap anemone, John: plects, for jungle gold, but we can swap whenever Moka jo: sedums, lemon/lime thyme, asclepias seed, ice plant, for yellow/red yarrow Amyflora: seeds- poppy, larkspur, nigella, 'buttered popcorn' ranunclus, hellebores for adele for blue stockings monarda?, contraband girl? Tanya: wineberry, black raspberry for stripey & pineapple toms, peach iceplant Dana: swap lizrads; for ellen's blue buddleia cuttings? Cutter: mock orange cuttings? for rice paper plant? Shari: chartreuse & 'john creech' sedum, gold coin plectranthus, iris cristata, 'aloha' cutting for miscanthus 'little kitten', rudbeckia 'goldsturm', grape penstemmon please let me asap if you notice anything amiss. thanks! tam

Julia - Hillbilly Heart was my best budded daylily four years ago - before the neighbors planted a cherry tree in back of it. It still does pretty well in part sun, but I really need to move it to get the best performance. Kay - I know you're excited about your Maryotts order. It's going to be in the mid-90s here for the next seven days, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do about planting them. I have been working on extending an existing bed, so I may plant them in the ground and cover the area with a shade cloth. Even potting them is risky in this heat and humidity. Debra Debra

That is a lovely rose, Jane. I simply drool with envy over that and also Claire's lovely climbing roses, but I fear I am a zone too far north for roses to really do well. My neighbor has a few, but she grows them next to her house foundation (now that is a thought of a way I could grow some!) and she covers them during the winter months. I believe that most winters here (because of our altitude) reach conditions closer to zone 3, although we are supposed to be zone 4. I do have some micro-mini roses, because my Dad sends me one every year on Valentines day, and they typically last outdoors only about 2 years on average. Covering them during winter doesn't seem to increase their cold resistence or longevity. I laugh about my orange garden! All my other flower beds contain multi-colored specimens, and that garden was supposed to as well, but only orange flowers have survived there. Marigolds over-ran and choked out the red geraniums intended to share their pots, and pink and purple flowers met a similar fate. Anything orange thrived, so rather than read my orange flowers the bill of floral civil rights, I just gave up and let my bigoted orange flowers have their little gated community. I give them disapproving looks from time to time, but no longer try to integrate hapless blue, red, or purple blooms. I know what will happen. I really, really want to try growing a tithonia/Mexican sunflower, Pixielou, but I fear I am a zone too cold for them to ever flower. The plants in my orange garden would definitely embrace tithonia, but I don't think it would really fit there. I'd like a row of them along the back foundation of my house, but with sun only half the day, they'd be at an even further climactic disadvantage. Still I keep eye-ing them. Maybe I should start them early in pots. And lo and behold, as soon as I saw the photos of Indian pipe I was struck with nostalgic longing, not having seen those since I was a kid. Then what do I spy on a walk around our wooded path, but two Indian pipe fungi growing under a pine tree! I didn't have time to get the camera, but there they were! I wonder if this is a particularly favorable year for Indian pipe here in New England.