Hi shadowblue, Welcome to Garden Web and The Seed Exchange I thought you might like to know there is no email link on your Member Page, thus no way to email you. Please see addressing newbie and newer member issues for complete instructions on getting your email link set up. Also included in that link are instructions for setting up your garden zone (if known) and your location in the one box provided for the garden zone. By filling in your location there, it will be displayed on your Member Page, and will also automatically be shown each time you post. See, I am zone 5/6 S IN. Knowing one's location is very often good info to provide when trading and often necessary to have when asking or answering questions. Happy Trading! Stop on over of the Conversation side of The Seed Exchange. There's a lot of good info to be found there as well as a bunch of friendly chatter. The link to Conversations is just above the list of threads here on the Discussion side of the forum. Sue...resident busy body

last year's pic

Rita - I don't know about "magic touch".....I think maybe it's just luck?! HA! Marg - Yes spring bulbs do give some colour to a garden in early spring when everything else is looking rather shabby. We have a free compost centre where I live. I go out there a lot and have found so many things there that people just discard. Last year someone threw out a bunch of hyacinth and tulip bulbs along with some grape hyacinth bulbs so I brought them home and planted them and that is where these hyacinths came from. The tulips also have buds. I will get some pictures of them when they bloom. It'll be a total surprise as to what colour they are but I won't complain as it doesn't get much better than free! ngraham - Yes that hydrangea is new. I got it half off at Home Depot. It is HUGE and for 8 dollars it was a bargain. I had one the same at my last house and it came back faithfully every year and always had the bright pink blooms. I have two other hydrangeas already, an Annabelle and a Summer Lace. Jason

Well, one advantage you have, ksgreenman, is that you don't have to dig down several feet deep and wide to move the wrongly placed rose to its new spot -- which also has to be dug 1-2 feet down and across in order to transplant the first rose. So far this spring I have had to transplant 2 roses, and I've got 2 more coming up here in the next few days. All you have to do is carry the container to a new spot if you don't like the old arrangement! : ) Kate