Obsessive plant collecting that sounds familiar. First obsession roses, the truly disease free roses of course. Very easy to grow and if mail ordered on their own roots. Well, even I couldn't kill them. Next obsession summer blooming clematis. So that whilst the japanese beetles are are eating the roses you'll have pretty blooms with little effort after suppling something for them to grow on. Third obsession daylilies, ones like Going Bananas which bloom a nice soft yellow and continuos bloom once they start. Healthy foliage as well. They grow petty much by them selves.Plant obsessions aaargh! Any way your right about some geraniums. I use geranium Rossanne in back with Clems they hide the bare stems. I see the flowers but the foliage isn't right up front where it might be annoying.

Ok..since I signed in as SheriLynn with two capital letters, it seems that their server is now case sensitive and won't recognize the capital letters. I had this problem with my website once. I think it had something to do with Apache. Anyway, the web host fixed it...and I didn't have to do anything. As it is now, even though I can ONLY sign in as SheriLynn, only 'vasheri' will show up as my fka name. So it goes the hiccups in web life.

Thanks, Duchamp. I will look at that Blue. This corner bedroom has windows facing north and east, so lots of sunlight in the morning, shadier in the afternoon. I need a warm blue - afraid the wrong blue will make the room too cold, though don't want to do a yellow because the bathroom (a buddy bath that joins the guest room) is a warm BM yellow. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Sujafr, I am familiar with the BM color viewer, but the room was too small in the picture. I was oping a GW member might have a picture they could upload,

Annie, I just ran across a few new recipes for rhubarb candy. I bet similar to your zucchini candy. Martha has one she slivers into thin strips and curls while still soft out of a low oven. I dehydrated slices last year for my granola. One batch was rock hard but did better second try. And this year I will sugar or maple syrup a little. I'm getting fineCooking hard copy now. Just skimming the new one. Two rhubarb recipes. A rhubarb fennel apple strudel, and a few sheet pan tarts. A roasted tomatillo/poblano salsa. So similar to the one I just made but I added rhubarb. I was off magazines for a few years except for the NewYorker and NYTimes weekend, but this one has been a good run so far. Nothing like a rest in the hammock outdoors with a magazine.... The 'rock hard' rhubarb was a good replacement for citrus all winter, after soaking in a bit hot water for a few hours. I made a batch of ginger, apple, rhubarb, grapefruit juice Sunday. Frozen into ice cubes for my tea.