Thank you again for your comments! Couldn't check the forum yesterday, was such a good day, I was cleaning my daylilies, couldn't do all though. Well, it's cold here again, only 50 now (at noon) Do you find that your Clara Curtis daisies are very invasive? Oh my, it is! This April I divided it and gave away almost everything, except for 2 tiny plants. Well, look (I also like mirabilis and give it some room behind Clara C.) As for why mine are ahead of yours, maybe because it's colder here and they wanna flower while they still can? :) I actually don't remember them flowering after frost, I need to pay more attention this year. And couple more pics from today Volunteer petunia - last year we grew such petunias in a pot, obviously a seed fell and now opened it's first flower :) :) And Beautiful Edgings today

Once again, THANK YOU to all of you who were kind enough to post your comments. I feel like there is less and less for all of us to share this time of year, so I try to find things to post so we can all keep talking... I miss all the daily sharing of pictures and conversation. gonegardening...Yes, DH does yoga as well. He was really enjoying his quiet time there by the lake, it was so serene. Kay, Jean & Judy... Yes, Irish Hope is very beautiful but it is probably on it's last season here. It barely survives my winters and is a magnet for japanese beetles. I hate to see it go, but I rarely see a bloom without beetle damage. I hate shovelpruning something so pretty! Cindy, I thought the same thing, that the red leaf in the golden ferns was kinda neat. Sometimes simple things make good subjects. CTC, the Prairie Sun rudbeckias re-seed themselves each year. I like the green centers too, because it sets it apart from other rudbeckias. Linda, Rita, Ellie, Ginny, Nancy...thank you! Fall is my most favorite season but it is also the shortest. If only I could swap it around with winter, and make Fall the longest...LOL. Celeste

I have these plants. What do you want me to bring you ? I don't want to bring everything, so would love for everyone to let me know what they're interested in. Please email me directly instead of posting here; I may not come back to check here often enough. Please email soon, since I only have until tomorrow to pack up the truck. one large bay laurel ice plant lyre leaf salvia salvia involucrata airplane plants old man's pipe ardisia butterfly iris liriope purple heart trandescantia angel trumpet sideoats gamma grass vinca bulbine coral bean mexican honeysuckle pavonia rock rose canna ficus pothos starts potato vine dioscorea bulbifera carrolina jessamine night blooming cereus mexican flame vine ruellia brittoniana dwarf and tall, pink and purple ruellia squarrosa salvia coccinea, white, dreamsicle, red walking onion redbird cactus rose of sharon yellow flag iris turks cap red pregnant onion var. artemisia large elephant ears sedums hot lips salvia datura milkweed asclepias society garlic brazos penstemon hibiscus lindheimers senna red yucca banana eyelash salvia blepharophylla rudbeckia yellow begonia artillery fern african hosta common kalanchoe tickseed kalanchoe var. kalanchoe christmas cactus jade alamo vine native carrion plant/starfish flower crassula asparagus fern variegated and vick's plant plectranthus oxalis chives cussus quadrangularis aloe vera jewels of opar pink passion vine queens crown / coral vine trumpet vine butterfly vine arrowhead plant haworthia native lantana pride of barbados lady banks rose old pink climbing rose cast iron apidistra I only have one specimen of some of these, so the first person to contact me about it will get it. Thanks ! patty

WHAT THE HECK?! When I made this last year, I bought the "hot" version of horseradish. I made it per the recipe and found the jezebel had a nice bite. In fact, I was afraid that family would object to it being too hot. I just bought a fresh jar of hot horseradish and two bags of cranberries, figuring on a double batch. Added 6 T of horseradish and found it dull. Fast forward, I added the entire 6 oz jar plus the rest of a jar of "regular" horseradish that was in the fridge, and even my heat-wimp wife says it doesn't have any zing. It can only be the horseradish, right? I'm debating between buying a root (never used the last one), making horseradish from scratch and starting over, or just giving up on it this year. Either way, current batch is headed for the trash. At this point it tastes more like dull horseradish than cranberries.