KyleWee wrote: > I have zoysia sod in my lawn. It has done very good so far. Here is a link that might be useful: zoysia sod info Kyle, welcome to the site. I see you just joined. It's great to have you here! :-) I agree with you; I like zoysia a lot too. Just wanted to gently let you know that you seem to be promoting a commercial web site that is your own. GardenWeb understandably frowns on that. It's no big deal, but we'd all appreciate it if you wouldn't do it again :-) A public "whois" search of the web site shown in your link, LandImpressions.com , brings up the following public information. As you can see below, the "Organization Name" for LandImpressions.com is "Kyle Weerts." Your GardenWeb user ID of "Kylewee" appears to be a shortened version of the web site's Organization Name. Domain Name.......... landimpressions.com Creation Date........ 2007-05-09 Registration Date.... 2007-05-09 Expiry Date.......... 2013-05-09 Organisation Name.... KYLE WEERTS Organisation Address. PO Box 61359 Organisation Address. Organisation Address. Sunnyvale Organisation Address. 94088 Organisation Address. CA Organisation Address. US ====== Like I said Kylewee, it's no big deal. I'm sure many of us are glad to have a fellow zoysia lover on board :-) You might want to read the following part of GardenWeb's policy regarding self-advertising. By the way, please do continue posting, because as a zoysia business owner, you probably have lots of great, wonderful information that can help other great folks here. And I'm sure the folks here can help you too :-) Here's the reasonable policy: If you sell anything, or have a ".com" commercial domain, you are considered a business for the purposes of this document. If you have a business and post to the forums, please read this page in its entirety. If you choose not to, you will nevertheless be held to the consequences of ignoring what is outlined here. Advertising, in any form, is strictly forbidden in forum messages and on member pages. This does not mean that as a business owner you cannot use the forums or have a membership. It means you cannot use forum messages or your member pages as a means of advertising. Even our paying advertisers are not allowed to that. If you have a business, mentioning the name, providing a link, giving the phone number, etc., are all forms of advertising. Linking to an informational page or image at your site where items are sold is an advertisement. Linking to a site that in turn links to your business is an advertisement. If you post such a message under a pseudonym, it is still an ad. If you link to it from your member pages, it is an ad. In sum, if at least part of the reason you are posting is to let people know about your business, it is an advertisement. This is exactly what our paying advertisers are trying to do: get people to their site or business. GardenWeb offers a range of advertising options that include a very inexpensive listing in the Garden Bazaar Directory. Therefore, there is no excuse for even the smallest business that wishes to advertise not to do so legitimately.

I used to live there, but never got into caladiums. Although it's almost required that you have some in your yard! The Festival was alot of fun, even though I took someone in a wheelchair and didn't get to go to the Caladium Farm. That looked like it would be an awesome E-ticket ride for people who garden. Miles and miles of rows of color, just driving by them makes your mouth drop open. Doing the tour would certainly be worth it. Except this year Fay may have made it very wet there. I remember one year some disaster made them close the farms. Someone here will surely report on that, I imagine! Susie Hi Denise!

Charlie, there are mostly TriStar and AllStar in there, just planted this year from whatever jumped into the cart at Atwoods. Then there are a few other types that survived a very serious disease that struck over the past few months. It's the dreaded Giant Fluffy DogButt disease. Very tragic. Paula, I quit smoking in... 2005? And proceeded to gain 70 pounds. Oink! So, in 2006, I decided to de-lard and began my quest for fitness. I lost all of the weight, got fairly into shape, and ran a few races. Then, I got pregnant with #6 in 2008 and gained another 70 pounds! Ack! So now that baby is a year old, I'm back to losing and lifting and running. Or trying anyway. LOL I hope to be completely back in shape & delarded by my 42nd birthday this summer. Dawn, yep, I'll be wearing my Vibrams. Love 'em! By the way, three of the kids are running the 5k, too, so I'll probably be bringing up the rear with whomever is the slowest. (Gives me a good excuse to be slow. ;-) ) Diane

Irma, the bulbs for sale from one of the farms were cheap, &5 a bag and you could pick any variety that were shown in the pictures, except the ones that they run out. The paper bags I think had a dozen but I really did not count them when I planted them. One of the most informative things were the short movie that we saw before getting in the bus. The bus was also interesting because you could ask any question about the caladium world. We even took home the local newspaper and I learned even more about the history of the town, the caladiums, the family farms, etc. When driving through Sebring and the entrance of the town there were a lot of stands and caladium vendors but I did not stop to look there.... June, you have some pretty patch of caladiums, nice variety! The bulbs that I bought from the farm were really taken care of, in the short movie we saw how they process to sell them, making sure they have a good size and no nematodes. They explained how they fumigate the land also.