modar - I painted my dining room in my last home dark burgundy! Deep, dark red, not purple-ish. My DH thought I was nuts, be he did his best to keep his mouth shut, and he ended up loving it! It was a small room, and I think the color warmed up the space and made it feel cozy and rich at the same time. We got lots of compliments. I chose Georgian Brick for this house because I was trying to coordinate with my brick fireplace and brick floors in another room. I love the color! Good luck with your choices, bloomin...

thanks pinch me. I was practically crying when the granite came in wrong. the other day I called my Mom to tell her that there were problems with the Reno. Before I got another word out, she said "they cut the granite wrong, the tile color is wrong, the lights are in the wrong place, they ordered the wrong faucet and I hadn't even talked to her about what was going wrong. as she said, with remodeling if something can go wrong it will. lol

Mine were good the first few years after I bought them ( maybe 2004 ?) Then the tree shade got more dense. They are not reverted or anything, I can see some variegation: it's just hard to see the difference between very very dark green, and very dark green. :( Even at their very lightest, though, they never looked like lecorps picture above.

Pulease...you guys. I am laughing so hard. I can think of so many forum members who make much better bouquets than I ever could. The thing about RR and Ascot is you just need a lot of blooms to stuff in a vase--the blooms do it all for you--plonks for the lazy. I just looked up Jude a while ago to see his parentage, if possible. No, it can't be...Abe Darby is a parent. My little runt Abe which grows next to my 8+ft tall Jude. Something is wrong here. Diane