Hi Tom, Do I have any left? I have so many columbines I can't eat on my patio table and summer's over so they need to find homes!!! I have 5 of the William Guiness, how many would you like? (5 yes?) I'd like to try a cape fuschia. If you can spare some seeds of C. aramdi, evergreen clematis I'd love to have some. Would you like some Blue Butterfly Dwarf Delphinium? Slugs (or some other creature) ate every blasted leaf off of every seedling & plant of these that I put out this year and I must have planted at least 30. I have two left in pots that I won't feed to those culprits. thanks! Andrea

I have several in my collection. The beaches around Lake Superior have been fairly well stripped of agates - from so many folks of like mind - over these many years. The large ones I have are all OLD, and were given to me - the largest I've ever found, and this was 12 years ago, was only the size of my thumbnail. They are GORGEOUS, but they seriously discourage rock hounds out for agates up there now on public sites. If you REALLY want to do some beach hunting, you'll need to stay at a place with their own private beach and get permission to "look around" for them. The further north you go the better luck you'll likely have. -Marie

So when Superior Walls started many years ago anyone could install the walls. Today that is not true. Only the franchisee can install the walls. I purchase my walls from Great Lakes Superior Walls out of Grand Rapids Michigan. The have a number of crews and when completed the crew certifies the install. They also have a site guy name Lon that inspects all the installs when completed and he also comes and makes sure all the blocking is installed on the walls as bracing. Hope this helps it's a great product that I have personally used to build 200 to 300 homes since 2000. Jim Moline

I'm a builder and building inspector and have installed or inspected close to a thousand precast 'superior' walls foundations. Superior walls are stronger than block or poured concrete walls being engineered to 5000 psf or greater. Because of the density of the concrete, the walls are tested and listed to be installed without waterproofing or dampproofing. Superior walls and other similar types of precast foundation systems come pre-insulated. Superior walls come with built-in "studs" that make up the walls. There is no therefore no additional requirement to frame walls with Superior walls if one wishes to finish the basement. These studs and plates come pre-bored for ease of bolting on plates and pulling wire cables. Wall sections can easily be cut to add windows or door openings after installation...or bored for utility installations. Dollar for dollar pre-cast walls are much cheaper than conventional walls, are stronger, and afford the easiest installation. And while pre-cast wall systems, like block or concrete foundations walls also cannot be installed on frozen soil, Pre-cast concrete walls provide the most consistent, lowest risk, and safest winter installation possible. In my experience, pre-cast walls systems are superior to block and concrete without doubt.