Sultry Jasmine: I feel so lucky to have such a great Greenhouse close by, especially one that is family owned. I love going there & feeling like the dollars I spend stay in our community which, believe me, is a pretty chunk of change when it's all said and done. Everyone who's asked about fragrance: they are both fragrant, but it was hard to tell how much so yesterday because everything was so wet from all thera rain we had off & on. As some of these buds open I'll come back and comment about the fragrance. One thing I can tell about them though is that TPW's fragrance reminds me of Golden Celebration's fragrance.. Sort of fruity & crisp & very yummy. Olivia had more of a floral musk, but again hard to say how strong yet. Marlorena, this is something I've never come across before, "mona lavender", i don't think it is actually in the "lavender" plant family though. I know it is an annual plant in my zone & the sweet lady I met in the aisle where they were being displayed told me that she grew several of them in pots on her porch last summer, they only received indirect light & they bloomed all summer long. I snagged up 2 of them to put on my porch under the same conditions. They don't have a fragrance, but I love the flower color & the foliage, they feel very exotic. Here is the tag: excuse my dirty pot, I just transplanted it! Jessica

Hi Hyn Patty, this one was grown from one of KO's seed (Elegant Ballerina) I think it turned out much better then the mother/seed I purchased... I actually got 2 like this from one packet of seed & the others were similar to the mother plant. I sold off the others & kept the 2 bolder stripe ones for my collection. I love this flower too, the stripes are beautiful & it just screams tropical to me. I would love to try & breed a double of this flower one day. Below is a photo of the mother/seed I purchased from Mr Ko's website. Maybe you should buy a packet too. Rachel :) This photo is Elegant Ballerina & is taken from Mr Ko's website, to show the seed I ordered!

Good to see you around here, DG 🙂 Fighting with critters over blackberries and the last of my tomatoes right now. Birds and (I think) rats as well 😕 I made some tomato sauce yesterday from all the damaged fruit I managed to salvage - almost a quart - and I have a couple of pints of berries I need to make into a cobbler. Waiting for a second flush of Rattlesnake pole beans - still have a few pounds in the fridge. I have pots and pots of perennials, shrubs and a pine tree that need to go in the ground, but I can't decide where, and it's getting so dang hot out there, I don't want to do anything but stay indoors in the AC. Our neighbor has a ginormous Kapok tree that recently, finally, finished dropping a couple million seeds encased in gallons of white fluff that coated our (and others') yard and I'm still picking fibers off everything and pulling the resulting seedlings whenever I come across them. They quickly form long, strong taproots and can be really hard to eradicate if you don't get them early. At least the rain helped wash a lot of it down - it was floating in the air and coating everything until the rains came. Advice for Floridians: DON'T PLANT A KAPOK TREE!

Progress is being made and I’ve found someone who seems willing to work to solve the problem. The valley was redone and he mention it was a mess of nails under the shingles. The leaking was drastically inproved but still had some leaking during heavy rain and seemed to coming from the area just right of the window will all that caulk. i replaced window and rhe wood next to it and the flashing was redone correctly behind it Gutters were installed on the upper roof and the left end of rhe lower gutter capped and additional punch out to allow more drainage if back up. ifnit doesnt work we’ll need to look at valley above as well but its been raining the past two days and its been dry inside. Will need to paint new window to match the storms but i think the window style fits. i saved the old window but so far i am happy