What I thought was the matter, Aqua, he got hacked, uggh, didn't think he'd come out of the blue asking for money to get him out of Spain cause he was robbed. Jedonne, our trades went well.

This has to be one of the strangest, baffling thread I have read on GW since joining more than 10 years ago, made all the more baffling by receiving and email from digginginthedirt. An email that she sent me, telling me about this thread started by Idabean and telling me that I am missed on the forum. Digginginthedirt, thank you for informing me about this thread, and I didn't respond to your email as it stated that I couldn't respond to it directly as you didn't want your email revealed, so I assumed that you didn't want a response from me. At any rate, I can not fathom why I would be missed on this forum since I rarely post here except in the spring about my annual spring plant swap that I have hosted for more 7 years. After the swap, I check in the forum for about a week or 2 to respond to anyone that had posted on the swap thread about the swap and then I'm gone till the following year. I rarely even check in on this forum after that point, until the next spring. So I'm wondering if I have been confused with someone else. As for your OP Idabean. I can't even begin to figure out where you got the idea that I was having any back surgery this past Spring, let alone when I would have posted anything about having any back surgery this past year, because I never did post that. It's been several years now since I had spine surgery and I sure didn't have any last spring. The last time I posted on this forum was last April. I posted an apology for not being able to host my annual spring swap last spring. Specifically stated "life getting in the way" and nothing that I could do to change things and that it couldn't be helped and hoped everything would be back to normal and there would be a swap next year. . I never said anything about any health issues, surgeries of any kind, least of all "back surgery" and it's beyond me to figure out how what I said, Idabean, could have been misconstrued to mean I said I was having back surgery. Maybe you have me mixed up with someone else? It definately wasn't me that had any back surgery. Sometimes life gets in the way of things. You know what they say about the "best laid plans of mice and men".... At any rate, I'm fine, no back surgery, usually post on this forum in the spring for the swap, and then gone again until next year for the swap. Post on various GW forums when I am inclined to do so, which ones? It varies, as new ones peak my interest and others wind down for a while. Thanks, though, for thinking of me, concern for me, but I'm still thinking that you have me confused with someone else that was having back surgery or some other type of surgery. Fran

Sounds like you've opened it already, not that it makes that much difference. I wouldn't download any attachments without scanning and depends on what email you use, but I use Yahoo for a lot of things and they're pretty good about scanning for viruses. Set your settings to read it in text rather than HTML and you're far safer for reading email and not having "plants" grow. You seem to recognize the person so I would go ahead and check a little closer. It's not like it's something totally strange to you. Another option is something like PopPeeper. Set to text only and read the email through there. You have very little to fear opening a email in a text only mode. Another option is use a disposable account and respond to see if you know the person or not. If it's trash, it'll go to the junk account rather than the account you use more often.

Rosaprimula, I totally get that feeling although I don't have that many years in experience and not quite there yet in age. I did a lot of stuff from seed and cuttings at first but the past year or so I started becoming more 'lazy' and impatient on plants for my garden that I just started buying plants from the nursery and just planting it. Seeing established, nice and dense gardens from people in this forum makes me want to achieve that asap. But with self propagated plants I have to wait many years until I see any progress. Rouge, is that a seed grown one? If so you got lucky! It's so bright I didn't even see the white flowers until I zoomed in the pic Diggerdee, I rarely ever see any bleeding heart seedlings around here. Not sure what the difference is between the ones you see and I see. Can't say its climate either since you're not that far from me. But with this one I sowed it on flats and left it alone for the whole winter. Maybe I should've winter sowed it for better results