Happy to hear their cheerful little faces are making you all smile, too! I know just what you mean, Rita, in the UK they were kind of alright but the same problems; I seem to remember they would not start flowering well until rather late in the summer unless lots of glasshouse heat given in their youth; and then the frost would get them just as they were starting to look good. Here, also, it has been easy to get somewhat sniffy about them, given their ubiquity and habit of self-seeding in with the native stuff, but this excercise has really reminded me just how very useful and worthwhile they are.