Kitchen forum (I've been planning my kitchen for years...SOMEDAY everyone will be through college!) Flooring forum (2000 sq ft of nasty tile in the basement...MUST be replaced with something. Eventually.) Laundry forum (for when you need a new washer and/or dryer...the laundry obsessed are just as insane as the rose obsessed...and even more opinionated!) Landscape Design (My other favorite...I hung out there before I started hanging out here. Not for everyone...but you can learn an ENORMOUS amount.) Don't know why I'm so parenthetical this morning...and eliptical! Must be my headache.

If you click on the "Forums" tab at the upper left, then "garden forums" it will take you down to where you'll find the various ones. Here is the link to the houseplant one. Kim Here is a link that might be useful: Houseplant Forum

Great stuff! I read all but the one by/of (?) the funny Australian woman. I'd read the Dogs in the Carcass story before, but it's funny enough to bring tears to my eyes the second time around. It's got to be made up - you find the things that just don't pan out when you read it closely - but who cares? The squirrel story is great. The gardenia post is hilarious. Wish I'd read it BEFORE killing several gardenias in my cool, foggy California coast garden. Did anybody besides me notice that ALL the responders who grew gardenias easily were in hot, humid climates? Gardenia plants shouldn't even be sold in other climates, but as long as people will buy them, they will be for sale. I wonder if there's a similar post about Daphne odora anywhere. That's another famously suicidal plant. I couldn't prevent two out of three of those from committing suicide (also in California), with the one surviving plant deliriously happy, and absolutely thriving. Same location, same treatment for all three, all three the same variety. It's enough to drive a gardener nuts. I haven't tried those here, and don't intend to. Plants have to be very tough to survive here. Just the idea of planting a daphne or gardenia here is enough to make me snicker. Thanks for the laughs! Jeanne

Pretty petals...500 roses! I have en entire back yard that doesn't have a single flower/shrub, etc., ..but I'm pacing myself. :-) Rose_crazy - the soil is all that but there are still chunks of that deep red sticky clay. I can't recall any place that has yellow roses down here....but I have seen other bush roses (nothing this pretty I don't think!) Let's hope they adapt and I can keep the happy! Diane...thank you! The yellow/purple combo has become my favorite and my son had no idea when he bought the Get Mees. He just knew I needed plants and his "new tradition" he said was going to be to buy perennials each year. (I like that tradition!) Your Get Mees look great. Sylvia - we'll have to swap notes as we go. When did you plant yours? How's she doing? Sheila-I hope you do, too! :-) I hope I do, too! Thanks for the welcome, all!