I want to add my two cents worth about my disappointment with the way Org. Gardening has turned out. I have read it for decades and am now reluctantly giving up. Garden Design is useless. Love Fine Grardening - yeah, it's lots of pictures (I think the best photography of the lot), but really good articles and advice. I have volumes going back for years - that's the one I keep. And I share them a lot w. new gardeners and friends. It's easy to locate specific articles with useful info. Also like Horticulture a lot. And I have just become a "member" of New England Gardening Club - primarily for the magazine People, Plants and Places - which is really quite good, but also because with joining comes a discount card for many NE garden centers and nurseries. This advice is only useful for NE, obviously - but if you are in this region check it out at newenglandgardening.com. I also belong to the Americal Horticulural Society and their magazine is excellent - that's an expensive join, but I get free entrance to many botanical gardens and so it pays me to do this (besides which, it's a good org to support_) I know this is supposed to be about least favorite but, hey, it just leads one to think about what one DOES like. sorry if this is incorrect

If we are doing combos allowed, then, I want a smattering of the extinct Cottage Living with a hefty dose of Renovation Style. This months RS the Before & After issue with the brown chairs on the front has the house my house wants to be........but never will.........Joan's house in the article "The Rescuers". Red

Oh, I do miss Woolworth's! There is nothing like it now. I got out a magnifying glass and read the journal entries. Ineresting juxtaposition between the idyll illustrated in the article and the unhappy domestic scene described in the handwritten pages. She must have given permission for the journal to be photographed, but I wonder if she gave much thought to the pages that ended up being published? I love the beautiful papers and journals, but for me, pretty much useless - minor arthritis makes it difficult for me to write much. I am very thankful for my computer with its friendly yet unphotogenic keyboard (and spell and grammar check ;) I'll share half a muffin with someone.

As bboy said, 1 is a Portulacaria (I think probably Portulacaria afra). It is Elephant Bush, Elephant Food, and various other nicknames, and is sometimes called Dwarf Jade, but it is not truly a jade -- jades are in the Crassula genus, a different genus of succulents. [Though they resemble each other, Jade plants and Portulacaria afra are not in the same genus, not in the same family, and not even in the same order. They are distant cousins at best.] Here's some info about P. afra: http://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=1314