Dame's Rocket has a beautiful, strong scent, and blooms quite early--around the time the lilacs bloom, or a couple of weeks later. It's a biennial, and if you started seeds this summer they might be ready to bloom next year. I wintersowed some, and had great germination.

I'm answering both the question here and the one in your other thread. We got one of the stock granite vanity tops from HD and it came with the backsplash (sidesplash extra, but we didn't need one). The colors are very limited, but if you like something they have it's an excellent deal. We got it with a coupon and for a 24" vanity with attached sink it was $176. Now we are doing another bathroom and none of the stock colors would work for us, so we have to go with a remnant from a granite yard. Nicer piece of granite, and got to choose the exact piece, but for a 30" vanity top without sink it is going to be $580. So it will be about $650 with the sink, which BTW is still cheaper than going with special order from Lowes ($699 and up), and you get to pick the exact piece you're getting, so it's worthwhile to get a remnant and have it fabricated.

Update time, I think. Original purchase: 100 shares at $16.64, which later became 400 shares due to stock splits, so original price per share became the original $16.64 divided by four, to be $4.16. Current price per share ... about $80.00 (though I could have sold some or all of them earlier for something over $100.00 each). I can live with that. Originally paid annual dividend of 10 or 12 cents, taxed at lower than usual rate (1). Where the earlier message went off of the rails: Annual dividend had risen from the 10 or 12 cents to $3.08 when the share price was over $100.00, and was later raised to $3.48 ... at an even lower tax rate than earlier. When the share price fell over the cliff, the annual dividend stayed at the same rate for a time, then as share prices began to rise again, was increased again to about $3.76. Actually, that was a while ago ... it's now $3.84 per share, and if I can arrange to stay alive for several more years, it may go as high as the $4.16 that each share cost me, 46 years ago ... (or maybe my [middle age] kids collect, after I'm gone). I can live with that, as well ... well, I can as of the present ... but who knows about the future? I included the matter of the increasing dividends in the earlier message to illustrate to interest-earning addicts the matter that, while, over the long term, stock prices of quality companies tend to rise ... so do the rates of dividends that they pay. ole joyful 1. Employment earnings (with few offsetting tax credits), or the pension that has in the past ensued for quite a number of people, but these days for fewer and fewer, (with small offsetting tax credits) and interest earnings (with zero offsetting tax credits) ... ... is the kind of income that most folks earn. When the tax level on dividend earnings was cut even more (while the tax rates for the corporation that had earned the profit also has been going down) ... I said that it was our prime minister taking care of his rich friends. Which is also not relevant to the issue at hand - but this addendum isn't part of this main story, either, is it? o j

I find cheesecloth is not a good filter. Just look at it, the mesh is not fine at all. I have never found straining through cheesecloth to do very much good. I your case, my theory is that the solids were starting to clump together which was clarifying the rest of the stock. By straining, you broke up the solids and dispersed the particles through the stock, making it all cloudy again. I would try reheating the stock, then taking a bit of it and at least trying the coffee filter. For the rest, were the solids tending to rise to the top? If so, maybe letting the stock cool and then removing the top layer would work. Otherwise, why don't you be my guinea pig and try the gelatin clarifying method? I'm liking this - you do all the work and I just wait for the answers! See the link below. This post was edited by johnliu on Fri, Nov 1, 13 at 18:15