Oh my goodness am I on a roll here or what? First of all Ria by all means send me the smaller ones so you don't have to pay alot of postage. Besides they will probably ship and tranplant better if they are smaller. Maybe I can get more smaller ones if you find some place on the side of the road to dig them up. LOL Karen-gardenpaw, I would dearly love some of your ferns too. As far as I'm concerned I can use as many ferns as I can get my hands on. So by all means I would be very pleased if you would share some of your ferns with me too. Linda, I can't wait to get the bird of paradise plant from you! YIPPPEE Karyn1- I've never been into one of those markets but I guess there is a first time for everything. LOL What the heck is malanga roots??? did you by any chance have the opportunity to check and see if you had any bromeliad pups of ANY KIND? I'm so excited about the project that I'm working on and I can't wait to get everything and share the photos with everyone a little later in the year. I tried to download my camera to my computer and I'm still having problems doing so. ( I'm so computer stupid/dumb it's unreal). I wanted to share some of my blooms in the iris beds with ya'll. I know alot of you would be blown away. Unfortunately for me, it may take me a week before I figure it out. Either that or I'll have to go to Wal-Mart have it put on a disc and then send them in emails. That's about the only way I know how to do any of that. LOL Kylie-I can't wait till you can go to the post office and pop that puppy in the mail to me. I've been drooling every since all of you have said you would be more than willing to share with me. Thank each of you from the bottom of my HEART! Love Ya, Marian

Thanks all. I feels great to know that I can have such a huge variety of plants out in the yard next year. Eloise I hope so. Because that is really one think I suck at. Growing things from seeds INDOORS. Now when I just throw them out in the beds. Man just look at the picture of the day today what happens lol. Actually I suck at more but I will not tell...oh man that sounds REALLY REALLY BAD roflmao. I swear it was a very innocent thought!!!!!!!!!lol About the space in the house. Decided along with being frightened that the cuttings will freeze to death in the garage. No isolation and lots of cracks :-( House is 40 some years old and went through 7 years of neglect. Well anyways. Son moved out and I will use his room just for that. Oh Mikeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee looks like I got at least a GREEN room. Even if I do not have a GH. Theresa I will take a picture when I get my new camera from Santa Claus..grins. Hope you all get to grow a lot of new things also! Lucy

Congratulations Gill. Grandkids are wonderful. Mine help me pick up leaves in the garden and in return I dig the sand forts at the beach. also, unlike your own children, when you have had enough you give them back. And-- they don't get root rot. Enjoy your trip. Congrats again. Bill

"Baaaahhh haa ha ha ha" in the words of Woody from Toy Story! ure funni chicagoans!! I wish I could use your example, but alas, I'd be writing this from prison. Don't get me all riled up here :) I am a high school teacher in an urban district. Spell check a misspelled definitely and it magically becomes defiantly. As in "i defiantly oppose raising the age of getting a drivers lisince," in a persuasive essay. Soapbox?! Not me, not tall enough. I have been known to stand on my desk waving a Harry Potter wand to dispel "Capaspellitis Erroneous." after reading 1st drafts to make a point. Students are no longer capable of even capitalizing "I". Never mind to, too, and two. There, they're and their. I blame, for the most part, OK 50%, Bill Gates and his evil empire. Spell check and grammar, not grandma,check to be specific. The other 50% would be texting. I actually see l8r instead of later in formal research papers. Most of which are torturous proofreading nightmares!!! But wait there's more. Can you read this? One student actually brought this to me to prove his point about his spelling issues! I could read it but "defiantly" it did not help his GPA. A+ for effort though :) Cna yuo raed tihs? if yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid, too. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulatcly uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig hhu? Yaeh, and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! Qoestuin - Can thsi be doen in ohter lnagugues? Snapsih, Fenrch, Iatilan, Gerek, Rissuan. Chenise, Jaapense, Herbew, Aaribc? Great post!