You're welcome, I'm sorry it's not working for you. It shouldn't make a difference but what browser are you using? I use IE for GW and Firefox for most everything else. Can you make another post and include a link to one of your pictures that you would like to post and I'll give a try and see if I can see what's happening? Greg Southern Nevada

If there were a filter for regional advice only I wouldn't use it. I enjoy hearing from people everywhere on a subject. No, of course, some of the information from CA or FL or TX isn't relevant to me but I still like knowing what their growing conditions and challenges, and their solutions to them, are in comparison to mine. It's how we learn new things about each other and roses. Many a warm climate grower has given me good advice on a variety of subjects. And during this past scorching hot drought of a summer I did use some of their tactics in keeping my roses hydrated. You never know when a piece of information you previously thought didn't pertain to you will come in handy! Knowledge of any kind is always a good thing! The wisdom to know what is usable for you and what isn't comes with time and experience. But if you never receive the knowledge in the first place you've already lost out. To all my warm climate rose friends, please feel free to give me your advice, help and answers on any of my posts! And I hope that you don't mind my sharing my cold climate experiences on yours. If so, my apologies in advance.

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I've been MIA this week, dealing with heating issues. It's too bad GW didn't follow up on Nan's suggestion for a regional calendar for the New England forum. One of my goals was to have the info here on GW so we wouldn't have to remember to check elsewhere. Searching the existing GW calendar by state produced a bizarre result: all the same ads which previously had shown as located in New York, Moscow, London, etc. now showed as being in New York, NH, Moscow, NH, London, NH, etc. There do appear to be a few authentic event listings, but so much garbage to wade through I find it useless. If nothing else good comes from requests for a regional calendar, I hope GW wakes up and cleans up the existing calendar. I agree that Katy's idea of a moderated post is brilliant. Doubt that a standardized email would fly  probably spend as much time reminding folks of the format as actually gathering information. Nan's blog seems like a reasonable alternative. I've checked out http://newenglandgardenevents.blogspot.com/ and you've done a great job! Did you get a sense of how much work is involved to maintain it once the learning curve has been climbed? My only experience with blogs to date comes from following a link to one when someone posts it, but am willing to learn, am comfortable with techie stuff, and help if I can. Will continue the discussion on your new thread, Ana Here is a link that might be useful: thread re: New England Garden Events blog