WOW gol_vols!!

You've really been pounding out entries into the plant database! You go GIRRRLL!! They look great and I'm sure they'll be appreciated by all. Makes me feel like I should get off my lazy butt and help ya out a little!

It's a labor of love. But thanks! (And offers of help are definitely welcome!!!)

Vols, did ya know that there is a Daylily named "Orange Vols"? I got mine from Oakes Daylilies and it is terrific. Also Schreiner's has a Bearded Iris named "Tennessee Vol". The picture is beautiful...orange of course. Quite a team you have there.

Oh, please don't tell me that - now I'll have to search them out!!! (And we REALLY can't tell my husband - the real VOLS fan of our family- he won't rest until he has several of each, LOL!!!!)

Vols---you're the lucky one!

I wish there were something for us fans just north of you here in the Bluegrass. Has anyone heard of a blue flower for us Cats fans???

Hey go_vols: Imagine your neighbor's response if you obtained enough orange flowers and actually planted them in such a fashion as to recreate the UT logo in your front yard!! You'd have the Knoxville TV stations coming knocking to take pictures.

I'm ROFL!!!!! Dave, please don't ever tell my husband your idea - he does NOT need any more ideas when it comes to incorporating UT into his decorating dreams!!!!

True story - we were looking at model homes and one had an interesting clerestory window on the front of the home over a large picture window; wonderful lighting flooded the room (a study). He thought it would be cool to paint the room orange, and have an artist put the UT logo smack dab in the middle of the back wall, so the light could hit it every day and everyone could see it. (Oh he had night-time lighting ideas, too........) AND HE WAS SERIOUS!!!!!

I actually did plant orange (okay, yellow-orange) and white pansies along the front walk - I didn't do a checkerboard pattern, though. And I probably WILL try to track down the Tennessee daylilies - some for him, his sister, and his mama (it's a genetic thing, obviously.)

On a more serious note, PoppySue sent me some Tennessee Coneflower, which I had just added to the plants database. The Stones River battlefield is only about two miles from us, and I think that's the only place it's growing "naturalized" in Rutherford County - one of three places in all Tennessee!

I have an area in the back of our yard that should be perfect - light shade, under some tall cedars, with plenty of bedrock (is there ANY place in Tennessee, other than Memphis, where bedrock is NOT more common than soil?) Anyway, this area backs up to patureland, so hopefully some of the seeds can spread throughout the pasture, and we can do our part to help preserve this beautiful wildflower. (Even if it's not orange-colored!!!!)

Bravo Terri !!!!!!!

Would love to help ya...just been a bit busy, that darn school business!!! Can't wait till 2nd week of May, thats when it will finally be over!!! Woohoo!!!!

But in the mean time...I'll try to give you a hand...seems I had more time for it late last fall early winter.