I love date palms and wish I had the space for them. If you're growing them for fruit, the little Sphynx Date Ranch store in old town Scottsdale usually has small named offsets of fruiting types for sale, but again those are for culinary trees rather than ornamental. I see the ads in the paper all the time for Moon Valley Nurseries and their giant date palms, so they might be worth calling to check prices. If you find a good place, definitely post it here, we'd love to see, and who doesn't love a good bargain. :) There have been several threads over the years on this forum about folks trying coco palms, and sadly almost all end in failure as they struggle in the hot summers and get serious damage in frosty winters. If you give them a try, let us know how it works out good or bad. I do love palms and wish I had room for more. Take care, Grant

Prairiemoon2, Several years back I recall looking at the furniture shops in Gardner, MA and finding many, many brand names at discounted prices. Sorry I can't be more specific, but try googling it. This forum has taught me lots about furniture, such as how to determine whether or not the construction of something is of quality. I have learned to avoid places like Crate & Barrel for pieces like recliners, couches etc. Best of luck.

Those are the same fabric - Chiang mai (sp?) also referred to as the dragon fabric. You may show two different colorways though. You can find that fabric for way less than $100/yard. It's very popular and all over the internet. Search Ebay and Etsy. I know there are many etsy dealers who make/sell pillows using that fabric. Someone here posted a chair in that fabric the other day. Marcolo?? Curious as to what you are wanting to use the fabric for? tina

Thanks for that, Digit! I will now be posting pics again—even if they only look like ugly links! I have SO many things blooming in my yard already I’ve been WANTING to post some pics! But have more I need to download/upload (never have figured out which is which!) into the computer first—that I hadn’t bothered since I “couldn’t” post them anyway! Will do it in the next couple days! I don’t have a google+ page! And I don’t intend to ever have one! If I sign up for google+ my WebAlbums will be TOTALLY messed up—as I discovered when I tried to help somebody, last fall, try to figure out how to use Picasa and WebAlbums! It’s a total mess in WebAlbums in “+”, and as near as I can tell, once you sign up for it it’s TOO LATE, and the “new and improved” version (NOT!) is all you have access to anymore. As a matter of fact, if some of your pics really did “disappear,” I wonder if that had something to do with it! I haven’t “updated” Picasa for a couple years either (I just keep telling it NO when it pleads with me to update it!) ‘cause I’m afraid that’ll somehow get me into the google+ version—and I won’t be able to opt out of it again! I REALLY don’t understand why these companies keep trying to “improve” something that’s already working really, really well! (google maps REALLY screwed up their “maps” too, IMO! But I still have a link to Olde Google Maps—that still works! If they ever discontinue the olde maps, I don’t have a CLUE what I’ll use for maps! Bing, IMO, is at least as bad as the “new” google maps! HELLO out there! STOP “fixing” things that don’t need fixing!!!) (And my avatar on FB, which I haven’t signed into for a year!, is an airplane! And that’s the only place I have an avatar at all!!!) I don’t know why you didn’t “need to” change your setting to “enable” PMing, but maybe that’s something else they’ve changed recently—like putting in the ability to enter your zone (tho I’m gonna leave mine in as my “last name!”) When I went to that page I had to change the settings to get them right to enable PMing. Maybe now it’s the default when GW folks get into the houzz site. But there is SOMETHING that needs to be “fixed” for David, because there’s no “message box” visible on His Page, and until that’s there, nobody can PM him. I’m sure it’ll all get straightened out! We are, gradually, getting back to “our old GW!” Never would have believed that when I showed up here the first day and went—SAY WHAT????? I’m really impressed with the admins and all they’ve done! As for me! Maybe I’ll take some more pics tomorrow! Skybird