Well here is my Lil Pinkie daughter or as I understand Lora's "Lil Pinkie x Double Record" SHE IS SO PRECIOUS AND BRIGHT! (Oh God, I looked at this photo and absolutely love it. Looks like she is hugging the purple hyacynth!) From 2010-2011 Amaryllis I have to say Arif your color may be a bright pink like mine, with the naked eye...I am just having trouble getting the camera to capture true colors. Mine also comes out more a coral shade, but in person mine is a deep/bright PINK shade rather than coral. I just can't get the camera to tell the truth. I am pollinating one of these with Trentino(a trumpet)...what do you all think about that mix? Arif, it is such a joy to be enjoying sisters of the same created by Lora-God Bless ya girl, wherever you are for making friends and happiness happen! From 2010-2011 Amaryllis Alana, thanks for your offer. I imagine my blooms will not last long eanough to make it happen. However, if you have a Rozetta to spare I would gladly partake. Maybe Arif can make us a list of what he would like and I can again make a package for him with all our contributions!! Also, alana I know knot what Lora did to create the original Jewel, but I found her email and am going to ask her to stop by! Kristi, your Jewel combos sound WONDERFUL! I hope they all take!! Please keep us posted. I have a Jewel, I have not tried sexing it...lol

O NO F4F!! I'm sorry! I mist daily too, I hadn't thought of the misting, I'm sure that doesn't help things. I am really starting to think that it is just the MG potting soil. Seems like everything I potted using that one bag got it first, then it spread to other plants, maybe from me cross-contaminating while gathering fallen leaves and checking for dryness, etc. I always try to be so careful when i buy potting soil, make sure no buggies flyin around it, and people probably think I am nuts when they see me smelling the bags for mildewy smell. This bag seemed to be fine. Well, I hope I didn't spread it to anyone else, lol. But maybe it'll help others to pay closer attention to their soil if they haven't been, and now they'll know what to do, after all there are SO many helpful links in this thread. Thank you all again for being so helpful! Karyn, yes the peroxide was diluted. Believe me, if it croaks, I'll be bawlin and you'll all know about it, lol. Wow, 71% is totally outrageous. Yeah, it probably is a 2 year thing since that seems to be how it's going here. I need a wind-turbine or 2. Someday when I have a nice big house and land I will have them, and solar panels..screw the elec comp..go green! Daniella

I find that the hummers do use my M. fistula so much so that I actually leave a raised 4'x12' bed of it in the late spring and early summer the hummers and butterflies use it while the annual red salvia is getting ready. Once the salvias and agastaches are blooming, I tear out most of the M. fistula plants so the seeds don't mature and put in other things. Come next spring there will be plenty of it to fill the bed all over again. I think it is a worthwhile plant to add to the "natural" part of a critter garden. I don't even mind the pulling out part since the fragrance of the plants is pleasant and my sheep gleefully eat the plants. spiderwoman

A lot of those things you can start outside in containers. Check out the WInter Sowing Forum for more info. The coneflowers might bloom for you from seed this year if you get them started soon. Are your poppies annuals or perennials? If they are annuals I'd start them now (outside in a container). I've got some tiny poppy sprouts in the ground already. If they are orientals (perennial) you can start them whenever since they won't bloom the first year anyway. Same with your geraniums. If they are annuals start them right away and if they are perennials they can wait. Hope that helps a little. Here is a link that might be useful: Winter Sowing - sounds crazy but it works