Hi Jannike, you're welcome! Yes ma'am, Annie is a seedling I raised way back "in the mists of time"! I think your hospital project is a lovely one to take on. Eventually, one should take care of the twenty foot span, but I'm sure you want it covered faster. I would suggest two, to three of them. Own root climbers take their time, unless you're looking at once flowering types which put far more energy in to growing than flowering. The more heavily the plant flowers, the slower it grows, generally. Some flower more as smaller plants, while others grow instead of flowering. Annie and Renae are the former types, so you can cover the space faster with one or two more plants, but one will eventually take care of it for you. I would consider the twenty foot span as three, six foot spaces, then plant one plant in the center of each one. That leaves only six feet for each to provide coverage and color for initially. If you'd prefer fewer, divide it in half (two, ten foot sections) and plant one in the middle of each, spreading out their growth to cover the five feet on each side of the plant. If you select Renae for that spot instead, I would still suggest the same treatment. If you choose a budded plant of some other climber, I would suggest only one, planted in the center of the span, as budded plants usually push growth much faster than many own root types. Not all, but most, particularly climbing types. I do think the lack of prickles will be a lovely trait for that situation. The lack of prickles is why I planted Annie Laurie McDowell where I did in the garden pictured on Help Me Find. It's right inside the gate entering the rear yard where people will come into personal contact with the plant. It is where the gentleman sits to smoke his occasional cigar while tossing the toys for the dog, so not biting is a great thing. And, she flowers virtually all the time and smells wonderfully. Ironically, she's also the only rose the dog gnaws on in the entire back yard. Eight other climbers on the walls and he gnaws Annie and the lilac. You should probably check with Burling about her timing with the plants to see what will work best with the hospital's timing. Good luck! Kim

My husband and I had a local contractor "redesign" a plan I found at a big-box store. The redesign included screening. We love it, but we learned a lesson. Some of our screening was damaged the first winter by winds and blown debris. If we had thought to have glass on the outside (similar to combination windows), we could probably have prevented that. Of course, that would have increased the cost and limited the fresh air. All in all, the damage was minor, but you might want to think about it. We chose a square design, partly because I like the looks, but also because it gave more actual square feet than did the octagons or hexagons. That's a matter of preference for you, as it seems that you prefer round. Whatever you do, good luck! A screened gazebo certainly allows for some peaceful relaxing.

Thank you for the specific information everybody! Going to look over the options and view the websites for different sights this weekend and see what interests my daughter as well. I really liked Seattle, Boston, and San Francisco when visiting there myself. I guess we'll have to see what is available in hotels and air travel too. I have been looking at those resort places here in TX though, but I ruled out Hyatt's Lost Pines. Too close to home for wanting to pay for staying there overnight. I drive by there everyday and it is less than 20min from the light at Riverside off 71 in traffic to get there. I was looking at the ones in San Antonio, Galveston, and Woodlands. Edit: If anybody has any specific hotel recommendations my budget is pretty open as in I'm willing to pay higher than the average rate, but don't want the really really high ones as I don't think with as little time as we'll spend in the hotel room that it is worth it. I generally prefer a 4 or 5 star hotel. But really what matters more to me is that it is clean, family friendly (as in allow children) and close to everything and transportation since we won't have a car. This post was edited by lyfia on Fri, Aug 2, 13 at 9:32

Since we started staying two weeks on Isla Mujeres, we rented privately-owned homes. We have stayed at Casa Roca Caribe several times and loved it there, although it's mid-island in one of the colonias so may not be to everyone's taste. Most visitors stay on the north side of the island where the best swimmable beaches are and for being in walking distance to downtown. We really enjoy being in an honest-to-goodness Mexican neighborhood, though. http://www.casarocacaribe.com/ Not sure of your budget, but there are many hotels to choose from in a variety of price ranges. Privilege Aluxes is very popular: and for a more boutique stay, Casa de los Suenos: and Villa la Bella: are gorgeous little gems. In all of our travels to Mexico, we have only done AI once and would not do it again. Especially on a place like Isla, you want to be out and about, and with all those restaurants (I think at last count I heard 138 of them) in such a small area, you are spoiled for choice. These pictures make me long to be back on Isla. Alas, no vacation for us this coming year as we're working towards paying off a mortgage. I'm not sure what other flight options you might have, but flying AA from DTW to CUN, you'd have to go through DFW. That might make for a long trip just to stay 3 nights, but then again, the weather on Isla in January-February should be heavenly. In Florida? Probably not so much. DH and I went to Clearwater in February and just about froze to death.