I just checked in to see if the thread that never dies is still here. I have little greenies. It is so exciting! TomnCath deserves a humanitarian award for the work he is doing. He is a sweetie pie, who makes many people dance with joy in the back yard when they have success. I am grateful.

Annie, I think you are the sweetest person and you KNOW I think that :). That really is terrible about your cat. I have owned some and prefer they stay inside when I do BUT I know they would rather be outside. I would LOVE to have Iris 'HI' it is very pretty, but you don't have to send me anything you know that. I am going to TRY to get some postage to you for those other too plants you offered maybe when I get things settled down a bit, tomorrow I am hosting an in person swap here at my house. THEN the last week of this month I have a shipment of plants coming in for the 100 Limit Plant Swap. THIS is why I haven't been replying to much to this thread although I have read it when I had time. HA, what's THAT? Lisa, that is super about all those irises from Larry, it really is great and whenever I can get postage to you I will because I would love to have some too just so Larry will have some growing here! I hope it makes him happy to KNOW you are sharing with others an spreading them out I know if I was losing all of my stuff like he is I would want them to go everywhere. Not to be lost like that. I think it is terrible the place is being taken down, I HATE to hear about places like that getting destoried, I would have loved to have known that is went into a historical catagory and saved! Hello to everyone else, wish I had time to address each of you. Ok well, outside is calling me and I have a couple more threads to check before I can get out there. :) Fran

When you delay going to the doctor (to find out if that pain in your right side is really your appendix) two hours while you water the baby (mostly tomato) seedlings, move them to the basement, and set up the timer and the last shoplights so they'll stay alive in your (possibly extended) absence. When you spend hours of your recovery time writing and printing labels with not only the variety names, but detailed descriptions for the several dozen extra seedlings you're giving to the scholarship plant sale. [It wasn't ever very painful, but the CT-scan impressed the radiologist, the appendix impressed the surgeon, and I didn't get home for 3 1/2 days, which is ... not normal. (I'm convinced it would have been a day or two less if only they'd ever let me sleep.) The seedlings did quite well in my absence.]

Tom, I think I live near you and can bring you all you might want...maybe come see them growing? I have a zillion in the sunny areas of my yard. Started with 2 pots getting morning sun, one died. 20 years later, zillions from where I started throwing epi trimmings on the ground or into a very large pot. I think they must have sun to bloom and like the base in shade of some type. I water those in pots regularly, but ignore the rest, and have no in-ground system. My asiatic jasmine ground cover spread (from 2 pots in shade and being watered) thru the contingent shady area and then into the sun. The epis followed them there. Perfect for them! a foot deep ground cover for shade. (Served the same purpose for dwarf azaleas that I thought would die when the trees shading them were removed.) Most of mine are 3-4 feet long, so this year I plan to chop a large area of them down to 1 foot. Only one of my plant-growing neighbors has wanted any of mine of any size, age, shape. Don't know why... cuz I love them! Although, I wish they fed or hosted butterflies! [Correction, April 29,2021: yesterday I say a monarch seemingly sipping nectar on an epi in the shade.]