To get this off the top of the list; and to help you... I would guess you could have more success if you advertised locally in Melbourne. I think we do not have a mountain of Melbourne people on this site.

Jean, Rita is a class AA enabler. Her garden is so ell tended and her photos are so beautiful, that you want to grow what she is growing. Mantis, thanks, I got my faithful and /true from emmerich after waiting a year it was not available for whatever reason. It always photographs the same here, but the eye is larger in her pictures which is why I wanted it...sometimes it takes several years to get "the look" though, we'll see. I really like it with the colors and it has bloomed much more this year. Anika, it is one of thoses whose look changes with temp and with moisture, I suppose...it does have a bit more pink evident, but it is always there. I moved the clump there in fall before last. The first year I had it it was patently unhappy. (3 years) Thnaks, Rita, that's the fun of it, isn't it whan there is more than one beauty. High prais efrom you, Debra, thank you. My roman Cohort was moved this spring, so the blooms are not quite their usual size...I expect return to normal next year. It is a beautiful bloom. kay

Marilyn, I think I'll just let them be. I've got two doctors' appointements today, and still have to set out several plants in the garden. I don't want to have to take time out to worry about running the Mama off. Thanks for the link. I'll check it out this evening.

alisande asked in regard to my Phoebe McCoy: "Jemdandy, how did you learn so much about your g-g-grandmother? Interesting! She looks so at peace in that photo." After I inherited her photo, I did some serious research on her. My break-through came when I traveled to the city library of Winchester, TN in the county where her mother eventually arrived with the Franklin(s). I found a well reserched article by another genealogist that gave me the lead on the origin of her parents in NJ. The best information of all was how and when Jemima (mother of Phoebe) met her husband-to-be and his correct name, Hugh McCoy. The story continues below: It was during the Revolutionary War. Hugh McCoy, a Scotsman, was not a military man and had gone to a seaport town to attend to some business when the Brits grabbed him and said, "You are in the Army now". (He was conscripted for war with the American colonies.) Hugh McCoy was shipped across the ocean and placed in Lord Howe's army at New York. Hugh was wounded and his commander took him to the house of Franklin(s) in NJ to recuperate. While there, his term of enlistment expired and he refused to re-enlist. The daughter of John Franklin, Jemima, had caught his eye and captured his heart. He asked for her hand in marriage. [To date, this is the only source I have found for my Scotish lineage. These Franklin(s) had immigrated from Acton, England.] Using land warrants from the War, these Franklin(s) and their married daughter, Jemima (Franklin) and Hugh McCoy, removed to Burke Co., NC where they aquired land. After Hugh and Jemima (Franklin) McCoy had about 6 children, Hugh supposed that he may have had some property comming to him in Scotland. He embarked on a voyage back home. He and the ship disappeared. It was presumed he had been lost at sea. Several years later, these Franklin(s) (and Jemima and Phoebe) voyaged by wagon train through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky and eventually arrived on the Elk River in Franklin Co,, TN about 1808. Jemima had married for the second time and outlied her 2nd husband. She married for the 3rd time and outlived that husband by a couple of years. Jemima and her second husband is buried on the family farm. I was privileged to view their headstones and dates on these stones were very readable. John Brown and Phoebe McCoy married in TN, but I have not been able to find any documentation. I do have the birthdates of their children who were born there by calculation from data in Illinois. Also, strangely enough, I know where and the date of Phoebe's demise but can not find anything about her burial.