Haven't been here for a couple of days, but Karen, I think your 'Blue Edger' is showing classic signs of Hosta Virus X with the "ink bleed" along the veins. I think a chat thread is good except that when we are chatty we are so chatty that I had to scroll a loooong way to comment on a post that was way up. So if it's general chat, it might work but when we get a lot of different issues in the same thread, it gets too long and too confusing to follow, especially if someone misses a day or two.
