It has been cooler than normal this spring. Cypress vines finally sprouted. Milkweed is growing slowly. Ordered Fary Tale Pink daylily from GordonHWild. I has been raining in Missouri so I don't expect to get them for while. Got out my old SLR camera last weekend. Wish I could afford a digital SLR...maybe by next year they'll be cheaper. Decided I just need quit talking about it and to start taking pictures. Fertilized the brugs yesterday. I'll put some epsom salt on them this weekend. Oakland hasn't had the veriagated brug they had last year...I'm going to keep checking...should have got one when I had the chance. Isabella has got some inch long buds on it already.