I can believe that it's National Mail Order Gardening month. The catalogs are pouring in. However, the trade organization of organizational products is obviously not on the ball. Nowhere in your list did I see a National Organize Your Life week although that's all I've seen advertised in the newspaper circulars for the past few days.

G'Day Fusion! I didn't think any Americans would remember that now-famous phrase from our legend Paul Hogan (Hoges). You are more than just a pretty face, Fusion! I've never done crossing before but this season I am going to have a go. First in line will be OSU Blue which I will cross with a number of other top-tasting varieties to try and blend its color with the superb flavor of others. Got nothing to lose, eh! As well as that I'm growing out a number of plants of a cross between Stupice and Cherokee Purple. The cross was done by Paul in MD who 'gave up' a couple of years ago as he didn't come up with anything worthy of further pursuit. He made the cross in an attempt to inject the superb flavor of Cherokee Purple into a new variety with the earliness of Stupice. This season Down Under I am growing out RL and PL plants as F3s. It's all part of the fun! Life's too short not to grow out potentially interesting crosses! LOL

Hi Verandah, Greathawks and brissi555......I just happened to check the Australian Forum for tropical plants, is anyone still cultivate Plumerias/Frangipani ? I was actually in Brisbane for a month, visiting one of my sister and her families, she lives in the area of Chermside! Did any of you buy Plumerias at one of your local nurseries or from a website ? I'll be curious to know because I have 10 of them, here in the San Francisco peninsula. Well...good to know you....maybe you can check the GardenWeb Forums/Plumeria !! Hopefully I will find you in the near future, Annamaria

This sounds like something I have heard about from over in Australia. I have yet to find exact details, but from what bits I have gathered it sounds like once a year they have an 'Open Day' where people all across the country open their gardens to the public. I don't know if each territory has their own dates, but I have heard gardeners in Brisbane, Sydney and Perth talk about participating. I think they do something like this in England too. The more I heard about it, the more I started looking to see if there was anything like this in Florida, but never heard of one until now. Though this sounds a bit more narrowed or specialized.