Quting Babyg: "Also, pluerries were at the farmers market I went to this week in L.A. Are all of the pluerries sweet treat aka pixie sweet 2? Or is there a pixie sweet 1? Or other varieties of plum x cherry?" The ones sold at the Farmers market are sweet pixie (United States Patent PP23211). They are a cherry x (plum x cherry) cross; they are also marketed as verry cherry plums. Here is an interesting article: "Market Watch: Plum-cherry hybrids find a sweet spot June 30, 2012:By David Karp : Special to the Los Angeles Times" http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/30/food/la-fo-marketwatch-online-20120706 "I had no idea until I read this post that pixie sweet and sweet treat were the same thing. Can anyone confirm?" Yup, they are the same fruit. In fact, Craig from Dave Wilson Nursery stated on the forums that sweet treat pluerry is patented as "sweet pixie 2"; (United States Patent PP23796). Quoting Bardy: I think Patty S. posted that her Peacotum had unusual leaves the first year and looked better the second year.Maybe the discoloration is unique to this variety. My two peacotums had unusual leaf discoloration last year, too; but this year, it went away.

Outside, You mean something like this? Pluses versus my connecting option: gives MBA total privacy and other BA more privacy, gives MBR access to 2nd BR, may allow double sink in MBA. Negatives: No longer possible to put luggage bench in MBR closet, kind of awkward, does not give BR2 access to MBA shower. My take on it... I think the vast majority of the time this will be for a couple by themselves or a family. Two unrelated adult couples would be spilt between guest quarters in the main house and here. So that, coupled with the fact that, unlike a Jack and Jill, it is fine to just leave it locked all the time if you wish, has me leaning toward my penultimate iteration. Getting a double sink it not important to me; it was only important back when I had one bathroom upstairs. Also, I can get rid of one of the doors in the MBR by making it a sliding closet door accessed within the BA. Then I get a nice big wall space directly opposite the bed. When Magdalena comes to visit, I can put a nice big flat screen there!

Rachel Cross: 'Happy Child' ...but if you can't find it, 'Gina Lollobrigida,' Charles Darwin' and 'Golden Celebration' are similar. Thanks for the comments everyone! So the flowers last longer than I initially posted. From opening bud with unfurling petals to final petal drop, it is a little over three weeks for me. The flowers are self-cleaning, I deadhead to get more blooms but should leave some next time to see if they form hips. My daytime temps have been in the 60-75 range this month, but quickly warming up! Summers reach a high of 98 for about one week. I'm thinking it needs lots of water because the flowers are the size of cheese danishes and there are so many of them. I will gladly provide water when each flower lasts three weeks. The inner petals are dark velvet crimson with the outer guard petals fading to mauve and lilac pink. Good fragrance from beginning to end. I'm hoping the bush itself will improve -- rather straggly looking. I had initially planted half my new bareroot roses in the ground until they got attacked by gophers. Now I have to dig up the rare ones and rebury them in cages. Most of my Austins are in pots now for protection and until I can observe their colors, research their eventual heights, and figure out their permanent locations. I bought a bunch of new varieties this year that I'm unfamiliar with, as well as old favorites; about 30 different Austins. Today's MW color corrected pics (the inner petals are actually much darker blackish red, like Tradescant or Papa Meilland):

Some of the new Miele DW sold in the USA(G6935 for example) now contain a heat exchanger. This technology has been in use in the EU for a while now. With the heat exchanger( as best as I can understand) it saves the heated water from a prior step - such as a wash, then uses this water to help heat the next batch of water that needs to be heated. So in the EU with a cold fill it could be that the DW will preheat the last rinse water with the heated water from the wash, since the first rinse will use cold water, and the last rinse will be heated. In the manual for these machines and probably in all manuals it gives the electric and water consumption for using a hot fill or a cold fill. What you see is that there is less electricity used when you use a cold fill vs using a hot fill(assuming you are heating your water with electric) so as far as energy savings the Dw uses less electricity to heat it's own water than you use when you heat the water in a household water heater. The clean machine cycle comes to play here because at some point you would want to keep the exchanger clean. I guess if your model has the clean machine cycle I would use that if you want to clean the DW.