I, too, love the smell of my floridanum's leaves, and it's been a very tough, forgiving plant -- I never brought mine inside all winter, just covered it in its container -- but I don't try to smell the flowers either! Nice picture! Jim

Many people here use photobucket, although there's been a little wierdness lately with the format change. I usually use tinypic.com which is a photobucket subsidiary and have no problems there. When I control click on the Sorry. icon and copy the image location I get http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/timmaz6/2013 TimMAz6 site Using the image source commands doesn't work either but if I try to open the link the photobucket sign in page appears. Maybe it's a public vs private site issue? Claire AHA! While I was writing my post you edited yours so the photos are now visible. This post was edited by claire on Sat, Mar 2, 13 at 11:49

I would be very grateful, if someone,could send me some seeds ,or better cuttings,of this little gem named "Illicium floridanum " (the red or the white one)! Thank you in advance phil

pH of 7.4 is just a little above neutral, so not bad for many plant species. BTW, if compost from an area having more or less neutral pH soil is tested for its pH, it will generally be right around the same range as the area's soil. Some folks think compost is always highly acidic. In fact, it rarely is, and then only if strongly acidic feedstocks were used in its prep. +oM