Thank-You, Joe. Funny when I think how many times I tried starting Larkspur from seed with no luck and this year one just appeared. I probably paid them too much mind in past years. Sometimes best to leave nature to itself .. Thanks again , donna

Candy, I've bought and sold on eBay since 1999, and rarely was a thing broken. Your package probably was insured, tho the post office should have mentioned if so. Most sellers on eBay are really nice to deal with. I think I've only left negative feedback twice in all these years. IF the plate was packed good, it really was the PO fault and not the Seller's. That being said about my good experiences as an eBay,... last week I recieved TWO out of 4 things broken. All were packed very well and I think PO is handling things way too rough right now. (it use to be UPS I didn't trust with fragile things). If y'all remember, I was delighted to get some new Cherubs. Finding them damaged upset me. For the PO to pay the insurance, they take and toss the item. I told the sellers that I was going to keep and glue the the items (each had one clean break and was easy to glue luckily) Neither could be replaced by the Sellers as they were estate finds, and I didn't want the PO to trash them. Both sellers offered compensation but I turned it down as I felt it wasn't their fault at all with their good packing. Had they packed carelessly I'd have let them know in no uncertain terms. Last week I think I commented, when buying Cherubs, that I had no idea why I was surrounding myself with this little things suddenly....I think know why now. hugs, Karen

Hello Kvetchlambkin and Susanne thanks guy's the greenhouse is fantastic right now with all of the blossom's opening up I wish you guy's where here you would absolutely love all the scents. Kvetchlambkin that's to bad that you can't purchase grafted citrus from in your area . It sure is nice purchasing exactly what you want on line but you just can't beat purchasing them in a store , dragging the tree's all off the skid making a huge mess checking for the best one and searching for that tree you've been searching for forever. I tell you that my heart rate elevates so high when going through a skid of citrus in a store nothing like it . Kvetchlambkin Meyers are very finicky with their environment especially if it's been outside all summer actually all citrus are but the Meyer really has a hard time adjusting I almost lost my 14 yr old Meyer last winter . Try to give it lot's of light as much as possible and watch the watering. Place a fan near it for circulation. Hello Susanne bugs Lol scale they can spread in there but it's funny they seem to hit some tree's worst then others . Last winter I had scale but they didn't do any damage to the tree's . During the summer the scales seem to just dissappear. Scale is the only pest I seem to get during the winter . Night time temperature that I would love to have all winter is 55-60 but it's not easy keeping those kind of temperature's when it's minus 30 outside. I have lights in my Greenhouse on at 6.00 am and I shut them off at 9.30 pm which coincidently is my bedtime . Susanne your setup is beautiful your doing everything right you shouldn't run into any problems. Give them lot's and lot's of light , you can drop your night time temps while the lights are off you want to mimic the outside and use lot's of fans for air circulation great for the tree's and helps with the over watering issue . Get a feel for your tree's in their pots, water them then remember how heavy they felt after watering if they still feel almost as heavy days later don't water remember the surface might dry but a couple inches down it could be very moist . The tree's will be very slow to take up water for a few weeks after bringing them in so make sure not to over water . I have faith in you Susanne you will do just fine . Brian

I've never seen bedbugs except for the pictures on the web. Kath, I hope you had no hitchhikers. You certainly took plenty of precautions, I bet you'll be fine. One of the conference rooms at work had been infested with them. The managers wisely selected a different room for meetings for about a month. The exterminators were in on the day they were first seen. Speaking of bugs, today, I am finishing up debugging the tropicals that spend summer outside in prep for bringing them in for winter. We are supposed to get into the thirties Friday and Saturday evening. I used to always use a systemic, but this year I am trying something that I saw on Facebook. I am submerging the pots and as much foliage as possible in soapy water for half an hour. I am wiping all parts that cannot be submerged with the same soapy water, then rinsing when I pull them out. In theory, this is a great idea, but I have been using more and more lightweight foam pots to save my back. Foam pots float :-) I've been settling for allowing them to float sort of sideways and rotating the pot so all areas are submerged at some point for 30 minutes. We'll see if this helps with fungus gnats. I only have the 4 biggest left to do today, I got 8 smaller pots yesterday.