countrycarolyn: I won't give them a haircut then and leave well enough alone. The main thing is to get them planted, will give them a month for the roots to work on down although it sounds like they're tough and could just have stuck them in the ground without repotting. ladyrose65: You confirmed the dianthus, too. Where did I get the raspberry seeds? I've been all over everything, search engine here, google advanced, my old computer fired up twice and got into my mail but it hangs now. I can't post real names and didn't find the raspberry trade, know it was somebody on this forum. In my mail I did find mastergardner2003 but she sent me the currants; I found conniejw who designed that beautiful space in front of my garage with some special software she has. I know it wasn't they. This name sticks in my mind of having corresponded with, brandmulvaine. It might have been she but I couldn't find the trade emails. Also I traded with Carol (hosta) but know it wasn't raspberries. It will be prob 3 yrs before I get any seeds. Was going to buy some at amazon but they wanted $9.95. But I'll post a link where the plants are much cheaper because I might have bought from there if I hadn't found mine. Oh yes, I'll keep the sprout pics and may take more later if they look promising. northerner_on: Strange error, not so much here but what I went through trying to find that raspberry exchange. I'm not sure I sent anything in return; if I did it might have been alyssum and lupines I had a ton of that I bought. Now the lamium, that is not a pleasant prospect because my yard is a total mess. It's already worked it's way through that small garden space and may smother some of my plants and working north into a bare spot. I've got a terrible invasive behind the garage and want to cover the fern and do roundup on the whole mess. Then I'd like the lamium there if I knew how to transplant it. Evidently it roots easily, grows a ways, puts down roots, then more with more roots is how it travels. Yes I have two other lamiums, one variegated and one plain, I think, with pink flowers. They haven't been such a problem at all. I just ripped them back a little when they were threatening my new brunera, have had several years now, haven't gotten into the lawn, seem to want to move toward more shade. So thanks so much everyone for the help and advice. Now the hard part. Getting them in the ground in the right places. My backyard is pockmarked from tree chunks falling last summer, and I shouldn't even walk in it but do very carefully. Am 69 and fell when the lawn guys were here but easy fall. The tree people last year wanted $800 to fill the holes, nothing doing after spending $3000 to have the tree taken down which was cheap for that. One of the best tree companies wanted $10,000 included stump removal, no way. but if I break something, maybe I'd better get some topsoil and pay somebody to fill them in. I want to be able to enjoy this again without all this other stuff to mess with, and just because things are difficult now, I don't want to give in to a sense of futility. Here is a link that might be useful: Bristol Raspberry Plants

STRAWBERRY CANDY looks great. I have a mini row of them in the backyard and they always put on a great show. Nothing wrong with Stella. Who can knock lots of blooms?

Cindy: When your SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS blooms, do post a pic. I've got that one too from Curt but it is not a star performer here yet. Debra: This many blooms this late has to be due to the amount of rain we got over the past month. I don't recall this much showing at this late date. Mantis: yes, earlier pics of GEECHEE were better but just shows how much a late opening with cool temps can do to a daylily. Celeste: I've admired your pics of COUSIN SUZANNE. The race is definitely on here too! Linda and Kay: I'm so thankful to get these blooms this late in the season. I'm always on the scape hunt because I just never know what will show itself. KIOWA SUNSET has always been a favorite of mine. It is registered as a EE but here, it doesn't start blooming till early July and the scapes are taller than 23" as registered. Well, the weather turned and we are already up at 60 degrees F here this morning. Rain, rain, rain so I guess that is why our temps moderated. Julia

Yea Chad-that WILL be an issue but thats why it is next to the porch,so I can add on and secure it to the house(-: The 2 varieties I like are the New Zealand purple and the Ricin "Zanzibar" -the latter is the big leaved one (-; Sometimes the leaves on the Purps do look like cooper but it is difficult to capture on "film" All the other Castors are normal sized,the 4 big boys jumped out quick and with the help of a week of 80s in March they broke out of the seedling stage fast-one of the nice things about having all the protection laying around from the palms is that I was able to use some of it on the Bananas and Castors. At one point my Abyssinian grew like 1' in a few days because it was hitting the 90s in the cover- Also-the 4 biggest Castors were planted (by at least)April 6 and I think that is a month earlier than "normal".