Hi Bonnie, Long Ago is working on their site, so the page being down isn't surprising. I know she's like Burling in that she's a one person operation. You can imagine trying to take care of hundreds to thousands of plants; propagate them all; handle all the "chief cook and bottle washer" duties for the business and household, etc., AND mess around with a web site. It will get there. I don't know who will have stock ready first. Remember Long Ago is on the east coast and doesn't ship west of the Rockies. Burling is less than three hours from you. Actually, I prefer receiving young plants during weather as we're "suffering" right now. Replanted in a larger pot, in good soil, placed in filtered sun and kept well fed and watered, most will grow like mad with this heat. It sets the stage for the perfect opportunity to push them by keeping them disbudded. I'm impatient when it comes to pushing plants. It drives me crazier for them to just SIT there, appearing to do nothing. Kim

I agree Amy. There were so many colors in the K-mart line that attracted me. I can't say that about the Lowe's line. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't the same. I'd be curious to know more about Ms. Ashcraft. (And how did you learn she developed that line, you little paint sleuth? ;) This made me think of something. If someone like a Martha Stewart has a line with their name on it to be distributed by Company XYZ, are those precise formulas copyrighted or 'reserved' somehow for a time? I mean, I know color is color and anyone can create about anything, but why was there such a difference between K-mart and Lowes? Atlantic comes to mind. A very popular color. But I never saw it at Lowes, not even under another name. Why not carry some of those sure things over into another distributor, e.g. same K-mart colors into Lowes? Is that because the agreement with K-Mart was for specific formulas and part of the agreement was no other company could distribute that precise formula under the MS name for xx years, or something along those lines?

Susan_on, would you be able to share the recipe for the homemade concoction you spray with? We have problems with mice at our camp every fall/winter. Currently, I put moth balls in the campers and cabins when we close camp in the fall, but then we are left with the smell of the moth balls to air out in the spring. Would love to hear a good alternative! Jemdandy, the heck with thoroughly cleansing! I hate the filthy little buggers so much, that if I catch one in a trap (which happens a few times a year at the camp), I handle it the same way that I do dog droppings! I put my hand in a plastic bag, pick up the trap, pull the bag down around it, tie it shut, and straight to the garbage! Yep, I know I spend more on mouse traps that way, but I just don't want to rehandle them after they've caught a dirty disease spreading mouse! I know, I'm extreme, but I sure don't like 'em! Never have! I found a dead mouse in the spare bedroom the other day, right out in the middle of the floor. That was sure a puzzle. We live in an old, turn of the century (1900) house with an unfinished basement. We've been here five years. We do get mice in the basement, and other 'livestock' (a chipmonk once or twice) too, but have never seen a sign of one on the main floor or upstairs! All I can figure out is that maybe he came into the house in a box of something??? But even so, how did he end up dead on the floor? We once lived in a house for a number of years without any real mouse problems. Then, one winter they got really bad. Some came into the house, but the worst part was the ones that were in the walls. We could hear them there all the time. They actually chewed a few small holes in the ceiling panels! Poison, and lots of it, was the only way we made a dent on the populations. I wonder if someone burned down a barn in that neighborhood!

My deepest sympathy to all that have lost your fur babies; It took me 20 yrs before I could bring myself to get another dog after losing my last dog. I had her for 20 yrs. She was just a mixed breed that adopted me. Showed up on my door step and I started feeding her and she became family. Now the deer .........I wish I could shoot in my neighborhood. I have heards and they love my gardens because I love the plants they love to eat......Hostas and Daylilies. There is a orchard on my property so when they are done eating their veggies they go and eat the fruit for desert. I picked up some of those electric fence poles and going to try those this year. I hunted for years to find a house I could plant and never run out of space. Found what I thought was my dream property of 4 acres and I have been plant restricted because of deer, groundhog, rabbits, squirrels, racoon, even a skunk last year. It seems like I cannot win.