Hi there, Go to the home page~scroll down to the very bottom,you will see in small letters(on the right hand side) (member pages)once you are there it will give you choices, choose~edit my exchange lists. Choose this and you will be able to add or change what you have to trade and create your want list. Great luck!!

Thanks Krista, Karl, HoovB, Petaloid, John and Jim for all your thoughts and input...Karl yes, I am hoping that Gemini will deepen in its colors at least with the leaves, but ugh, Gemini has about as much wisdom and common sense as I have. Instead of storing up chlorophyll in its leaves and tender stems, being patient, strengthening and taking its time to develop and mature, Gemini is trying to send up another flush immediately. 10 p.m. on New Year's Eve: A baby blossom bud emerged 3/4" above its sheath of leaves (fully extended "neck"). I predicted 4 other buds as well, because I started seeing the tell-tale signs of the 2 5-leaflet tender enclosed "prongs". As soon as I see a split 2 5-leaflet stem fork outwards, usually a baby bud is nested within the "sheath". New Year's Day Another 4 flower buds emerged. I give Gemini its 2nd Gardenville feeding (got delayed by a few days). January 2nd I have another one flower bud nested and emerging, and 6 very suspicious pronged stems to deal with. Total count will be 12 flower buds so far (6 definite). Sadly my house is way too large and drafty for me to do any humidity control via Karl's suggestion so all I can do is cross my fingers and shake my head at this craziness. I am expecting blackspot to strike any moment because it is a pattern of Gemini to get sick whenever it goes through a spurt of blooms. I dare not decrease the h. oil/Greencure at this point like I originally intended. Predicted survival of buds into mature blooms is only 20% at this time. Leaves and stems are way too soft and pale to support blooms!!! Why Gemini is trying to send up another flush is beyond me! Gemini is as kooky and insane as me (sigh-I think it is a "mind-reader" LOL). Jim, still no problems with spider mites... John, I have a fragrance-sport Gemini that consistently had a wonderful scent while growing outside and that is the one HUGE thing that I miss terribly. But my sport Gemini is also a BS magnet-Sport as well. Gemini is supposed to be known for its health and beauty, but mine flunks the BS test whenever it goes through a flush...It gets extremely sick and ugly, but it is also a fighter rose as well and a few weeks after the flush it will make another comeback. Tomorrow I will post a sample photo of the baby flower buds. P.S. Eluane gives everyone a puppy kiss. She is glad HoovB and Petaloid are mentioning her instead of stupid Mama fussing over some messy rose, LOL!

runktrun, what great posts and pictures. Somehow, whenever I do volunteer work I feel like I'm repaid in greater benefits. I look forward to the day when I can do volunteer gardening. We moved to this house in 2007 and began total renovation (kitchen ell was ripped out to the studs). Our son and his wife bought our old house just 2 miles away and didn't want any of the plants. I hurriedly transplanted a lot of plants to a temporary bed where most of them still reside. The new addition of a screened porch is on hold and that's exactly where I want to do the most landscaping. Since the holding bed wasn't prepared properly, any bare ground was quickly filled in with wild sorrel and misc grasses. The vegetable garden is plagued by creeping jenny as well as 'witch grass' which has underground runners. We also have goldenrod and queen anne's lace. This year, in addition to the vegetable beds, I worked on a shady garden between the new garage and the old barn. My husband built some brick steps and placed rocks to terrace the steep slope. The top of the garden gets a fair amount of sun. further down the slope is semi-shade. Transplanted hostas are doing great as well as other plants. The north side of the barn (part of our future backyard and screen porch area) was cleared of nasty weeds. Ferns are doing well against the barn but I had higher hopes for the rest of that area. Why didn't I plant buckwheat as soon as it was de-weeded? It is now grown up to grass. We'll have to work on that. I have more hosta and lilies to transplant next year once I get that area properly prepared. We are about to tackle renovating a circular bed left by former people. I added some new plants but the area was already infested with weeds so it was difficult to keep up with it. 4 large old hostas were removed. It looked nice in the spring but next step is just to rip everything out, mound up the bed and make sure as many witch grass roots as possible are removed. It helps that my husband has a small backhoe. I vow to do a better job edging the beds. It helped once we removed the rock edging that merely made it more difficult to mow close to the bed, requiring more work for the weed wacker. I love garden tours. This year we made a special vacation to Maine so we could go on the Camden House and Garden tour. We loved one house in particular, with more modest gardens and wonderful whimsical folk art. While it is nice to see huge gardens that require a staff of horticultural experts, I'd rather see gardens that the average homeowner can manage. Unfortunately, mother nature rewards my lack of deadheading and weeding by sending lovely birds to enjoy the insects and seeds. Last week during lunch we watched a bluebird and a goldfinch share the small granite bird bath. My husband has promised to build some official bird houses for next year to encourage more birds. We hand one feeder and suet near the kitchen window where I have planted a compact viburnum and creeping cotoneater for the birds to enjoy. As soon as we can figure out where to put it, I have my eye on a Adams crabapple which is currently on sale at a local nursery. We have a white house so I want a dark pink flowering tree. The summer isn't long enough!

What an amazing trip you had and to be able to spend that much time traveling with your sister must have been so special. Your family is really spread around the globe including Ulli's daughter being in France. The pictures were so varied and so cool. I liked the kangaroo on the bike ontop of the car at the bike race. And the scenery is breathtaking. We have friends who live in Australia and split their time between Canberra and Sydney and they have been to see us several times. Someday we'll get there.