great! I love the pink impression shot, the flowers must be amazing! Mine did well this year (3rd year) even with the miserable care I've been giving them. Unlike my other tulips they seem more interested in flowering again rather than multiplying.

Wow! What a gorgeous crabapple. Are the blue masses behind it the pansies? They really look sky blue. Love the blue and pink combo, too. Oh and Gottagarden - those Pink Impression tulips have gotten even BIGGER! I can now fit my fist inside one comfortably. I'll try to get a pic before they blow. I truly hope these stick around. I've never seen anything like them.

Lrae - yep, we were cross posting! Nancy, yes, it is really that pink - and even better like Juliet's picture shows (SHE is the reason I bought this one). okbt - a lot of my daylilies have diamond dusting, but NONE of them compare to how PP is. I can see her shining from far away. I still have some newbies to go, so I might find another one... Chris - I got two whole buds on CC. But, to be fair, she just went in on March 31. I was just happy to see that it was the right CV, and to get a glimps of that happy bloom. I can't wait until the eyezone thickens up a bit. I look forward to seeing yours! Thanks Kathy! Uh, Juliet, You, my dear, are the reason I bought this daylily! I just fell in love with it. I think it was on that post where you shot your beds from the upstairs window. I am so excited that it is blooming. Three fans, three scapes. AND if you can believe it, last year, after it was planted, I slid down the little hill where it is planted and broke off all three fans at the crown. Didn't seem to mind at all, grew back big and strong. No spring sickness on this one, but I am having the darndest time with Awesome Artist. I am starting to think it has a viral infection. It has made three good looking scapes, which didn't even get to branch out - they turned yellow, brown and died. The leaves are also yellowing, but in a weird way. While the outside leaves look ok, the middle leaves (not the new ones, but not the outside ones) are yellowing badly. AA is right next to Cantique and Clothed in Glory, both of which are doing fantastic and have super branching and budcounts. So, I know it is not under/over watering. I checked around the rootzone, and there are no air pockets either. The roots look ok. Weird. Ever see anything like that?

That's an interesting observation, steve_mass; I suppose the aims of posting can be very different in other forums. In the Building a Home forum, people often want to be able to post a building plan with enough detail so they can read the dimensions (small text). It also may be their first post so Tiny Pic is often recommended by that forum as the easiest way to get photos online. In the New England forum a thread will often get long with photos posted by many people. One big photo will disrupt everything after it, making the whole thread difficult to read. Close detail isn't necessary, even for plant identification since the ID is likely to be more a case of identifying a species, not a specific cultivar (hostas can be very similar). Picasa is very popular here in New England, possibly because of the enthusiastic support of some of the regulars (as well as its many fine features before I get flamed). Including a pic in the message is the gold standard, but this is a pretty relaxed forum and I think people would rather see a link in the box than not see a pic at all. Claire