Mike now I envy YOU! I have a variegated maroon looking MG and I have only found ONE seed pod! I think they do not produce any :-( But yes...next year your fence will be covered by all the seeds that start growing from the ground up lol VERY PRETTY Lucy

Amy, there are different cultivars of Leptospermum scoparium that could have different bloom times. I believe 'Red Ensign' has a flush of fall blooms and then blooms again in spring. maybe that's the one you're seeing. wanda

My Old Glory is in a tub with two other fairly golden hosta. Until yesterday, it sat in this location where it gets morning sun and all day sun actually. But now I moved those golden hosta into the Back40 for safety beneath a shade covering. Not UP yet, but it soon will be. Meanwhile, I'll take another photo of Old Glory to give it individual attention. Yours is looking might fine.

FOAS, you have some valid and thought-provoking points. Shark's fin issue is a very simple issue. Shark's fin has no taste, and it is becoming known that it also has little nutritional value, and as a matter of fact eaten in large quantities, may even cause sterility in men. Shark's fin is popular in China only as a status item to the older, and now very wealthy but still not very educated generation. The next generation will have not much interest in shark's fin at all. Overall, endangered species is a complex issue. Land animals can be hunted to extinction very easily, but not sea animals ( excluding ocean mammals). Keeping in mind that I am not advocating eating endangered species at all. At some point, the law of supply and demand will take over. The remaining few sharks, skates, or any other sea life, will be $5,000 a lb. What endangers skates is a combination of over-harvesting and bad fishing methods from fishing other species (Bottom dredging fishing). At the end, over population and pollution will be more of a problem to skates and sea life than anything else. Eating skate wings is not a popular thing here in the USA to worry about. The eating habits of fish here is very wasteful of natural resources. Filleting a fish throws away a great deal of the fish. There are many fish we consider trash fish. We really need to learn from other cultures to conserve food supply. We basically waste 1/3 to 1/2 of our food supply because of bad eating habits. It is a crime considering the global food supply situation. "----- Overfished and overfishing thresholds are set using a unique system based on three-year averages of skate take in annual fisheries-independent surveys. In 2005, the barndoor skate was downgraded from "threatened" to "endangered" on the IUCN Red List. This might lead Seafood Watch to rank the status of the barndoor skate as of "critical conservation concern"; however, its latest biomass index shows a rapid and significant rebuilding trend which started about 1999 and lasted through 2006, and biomass is currently at 62% of MSY. The species is no longer considered to be overfished and overfishing is not occurring. The stock status of the barndoor skate therefore ranks as a moderate conservation concern. The latest biomass index for the winter skate shows that the stock has rebuilt to 93% of MSY. Given the recent increase in stock biomass, winter skate is not overfished and overfishing is not occuring. Seafood Watch ranks the winter skate stock status as a moderate conservation concern.-----" dcarch