Hi Amazin , sorry I'm new at this web stuff ( mostly just a lurker) and couldn't find were I wrote to you the 1st time ... me feel so dumb with this puter stuff... but yes I have 9 begonias and 6 are from Logee's, some are named and other are ( pass a along's ) ..... Named ones= Begonia " Richardsiana" B." Snow Capped " B. "Tea Rose" B. "Hot Tamale" B. "Good and Plenty " B, "Tiny Gem " B. " Silver Queen " The Richardsiana has in pass week took a big flop , and so not sure whats up with it , taken it back into house , hope it was just heat stroking from 100 + daze we have been in for pass couple of weeks here in nastyville , so not sure about it. Two other's unknown named ones but pretty just the same and last one I think mite be B. " Sophia Cecile " not sure. I see you have " My Special Angel " have been looking at it in the catalogs . sorry I'm so long winded.... but sure there must be something in your long list that we can work with . P.s. I wont make it to any plant swap so..... not sure how we would do this if we've a mind to ???? But thanks for your time and effort if thats the only way .

I think that is a great shot. And, I know the feeling on the luck part.

I have a string of bananas that is also similar. I propagate it the cuttings just like Rina said she does. A fun new trick I learned to keep the cuttings in place.... cut a paper clip in half and use the U shape hook to keep it in place without having to burry it too deep. :-) David - we have some similar plants - I find that my perle von Numberg requires soooo much light or it gets etoilated very quickly. I think your first pic is of Graptosedum , 'Ghosty' - that is what I think I have too - and that one I think likes lots of light too. Your 5th pic looks like my Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy' - which I just beheaded last night because it was quickly growing and dropping lower leaves. I'm not sure if that is normal or what - but I plan on repotting it soon. Right now I have it sitting on a little cup so its up right and the cut can callous before I repot.

BKay, my most favorite is clematis florida sieboldiana, but that died and I have my name on a waiting list to replace it. Then of course I have jackmanii, which has lasted for years. It is in the container near Our Lady of Grace and blooms amidst the passion vines. I discovered a great source online for all sorts of clematis, and I created a whiskey barrel with 4 varieties which have yet to bloom. Until they bloom I won't go to the trouble of noting their names....but for you I could look for my order...although if they are not outstanding you probably would not be interested in knowing. I've meant to also share a bit of local information with the Hosta Forum. It seems that growing hostas in Mobile is not exactly an unheard-of thing. My friends who have a nursery background grow them, and they tell me a neighbor of theirs has quite a few. These are all IN THE GROUND, and come back every year. Plus MY two neighbors, who have about two each--which they think sould be split every year or so. I try to head that conversation off at the pass, as it were...because I have no desire to split anything. I will, however, find them other hostas, and as my garden gets more crowded, PERHAPS give some of my duplicates...unless it be the Squash Casserole family, or some of my beloved fragrants....you can never be too thin nor have too many hostas! However, I am moving pots around at this time, since the time has come to take out the two aged pecan trees which keep dropping limbs on my garden, and I know sooner or later one will take ME out with it. After the rains of the last few days, most leaves are fallen and the place is a MESS, but just the right time while the garden is in distress to wreak havoc with the trees. Then I can complete my remodel efforts by replacing the old wooden gates that the cement trucks and the dumpster essentially destroyed, and heal all the old compacted lawn issues. By next spring I expect to have all signs of change, all overgrowth of the shrubbery, back under control. Yesterday was a significant day here. It maked the end of exactly ONE year since the remodel began. Essentially, it has been complete for a while. BUT, the carpenter called yesterday and asked if he could come today to add a shelf around the dining room, up high, which will house the LED rope lights for my romantic dimmable lighting for dining or watching TV. Yeah, I hung the TV on the wall of the dining room, and made it swivel so I could watch/listen while I cooked. The window seat is a most welcome addition, since I sure do not like to sit in a dining chair to watch TV. I gave away the big (to me 42 inches is big) TV and this one 32 inch is great in a 12 foot square dining room. My DH began the remodel saying he did not like a bar, but since the first night we've eaten there instead of at the table....so I made the table smaller and no complaints. Turns out he LOVES the bar. He also built me a garden bench which has quite a humorous story attached to its design and execution, and well worth the telling at another time. I failed to get the picture of its metamorphosis from his interpretations of what I said until it was actually complete....and it involved 5 90 lb bags of cement and holes three feet deep for a two-legged bench. Sigh....engineers can be so DIFFERENT from us "creative types."