Hi deanforestglade, To answer your first question, as I said earlier, its a tedious process. If you right-click your mouse with the cursor on the photo, and then click "properties" in the pop-up window, you will get something like this: "http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i29/jaro_in_Montreal/AbieslasiocarpaCompacta002.jpg" This shows that the photo is stored in a personal account at www.photobucket.com Other forum participants may use different photo storage facilities, but it always comes down to the same thing: you need to store your photos somewhere else than this conifer forum, and then include a link (html code) in your post, that picks up the photo from wherever you stored it. Why do people put up with this crazy scheme ? Beats me -- especially when there are other forums where you can upload your photos directly from your computer (such as the UBC Conifer forum, at the link below). Maybe its because the other conifer forum doesn't have all those wonderful commercial adds slowing down your computer, every time you flip from one page to the next ? :O) As for the photo editing, personally I use Correl Draw. But there are lots of other graphics softwares available -- some I think even come with your digital camera... Good luck -- hope to see your photos soon ! Here is a link that might be useful: UBC Conifer forum

Thanks for all the photos. Dax

The "Pinus monticola" is mislabeled. Needles too long and orangish, flaking bark completely wrong.

Sluice, Nice photo's of a very beautiful garden! I think the Cryptomeria japonia 'Nana' made a reversion a while ago because the plant you show us looks like a "normal" Cryptomeria japonia. The 'Nana' is a true dwarfform which is a flat topped bush with juvenile leaves.