When you visit the Florida Botanical Garden in Largo, also cross over the foot bridge to Heritage Village (a link on the FBG website or http://www.pinellascounty.org/heritage/ ). They are both awesome. And free! "Come visit this 21-acre living history museum located in the heart of Pinellas County. The natural pine and palmetto landscape is home to some of Pinellas County's most historic buildings. More than 28 historic structures and features, some dating back to the 19th century, include a school, church, sponge warehouse, railroad depot and store as well as a variety of historic homes and farm structures." These is not far from the 30-mile-long chain of off shore islands "the beaches", nearest being Indian Rocks Beach which is perhaps the least over-developed... no high highrises, nice little eating places, cotteges... also there, and free: the world's largest seabird sanctuary http://www.seabirdsanctuary.com An hour or so away in downtown St. Petersburg, in the waterfront park system, is the "largest outdoor collection of palm trees in the world" as I think I have heard it advertised: the Gizella Kopsick Palm Arboretum. (free) http://www.stpete.org/parks/palm.asp Have fun! Irma

Ariel 73, This is off-topic, but was mentioned in your post.... One of my children has some learning disability. He qualified for a McKay scholarship and has been going to a private (Christian)school for a year where he has made straight A's. This scholarship is NOT income-based, only disability based.(Not knocking home schooling, either. But I'm a single parent and that would be too much for me.)McKay scholarship pays for extra tudoring and school uniforms and bus transportation. Sugarcane52

It is in St. Petersburg, down on the waterfront. It is an incredible museum. They have 96 of his works and he is the only artist shown in the museum and it is the number one attraction in St. Petersburg. The best thing about visiting there are the docents. They are incredible! They must take a test on all 96 paintings and know them all. However, on the hour-long tours, they show you maybe 20-25 of them and tell you what they know. There are lots of symbolism and double-imagery and it helps if a docent explains. So, you could take three different tours in the same day and hear completely different things each time. The paintings are fascinating and Dali was a genius. I loved every minute of it. See link below. Just by chance, we attended one of their Coffee with a Curator lectures. The lecturer was their head of security and the talk was on Art Theft. I learned SO much! Art is the third-highest stolen object after money and weapons. Dali is one of the most, if not THE most stolen artist of today. I can tell you that Dali Museum takes security very, very seriously. Carol Here is a link that might be useful: The Dali Museum

Hi Gary Thank you for trying to identify my cutting and for the jewel orchid name, I grow mine in pots but I saw them at the Bok Tower gardens as a shade ground covers. I have a good morning picture for you, I have this plant in my bedroom and is flowering today... Hi Kathy I hope that you are feeling better every day.! I am sure that is not a croton, the leaves are different and has the shape of a small tree and the gardener that I asked and is very experienced would know that. I should of take the picture.:) it was used in a row of the same about 6 ft trees and different plantings underneath, everything was looking beautiful and elegant at the same time. Silvia