Thanks for that info maryv. I have Tomato Soup and it seems to be a better grower than Tiki Torch. My one Tiki Torch is tiny! It came back very small. I expected it to grow some over a year's time. It looks like it will have just 2 small blooms. They don't look anything like the tag. They are tiny blooms! I can't say enough good things about Razzmatazz. I've got a four-year-old plant that just keeps on coming back better each year. I took basal cuttings of it last fall and all of them came up strong too and are already fuller and better than Tiki Torch. My Coconut Lime cutting is back and blooming about 15-20 blooms this year! It was rooted last fall as well. Somebody is lying when they say these plants were tested for 3 years. I have no doubt these would fail a trial.

Yes, I upload them to photobucket and then copy and paste the middle selection of html code "Tag" under each photo right into my posting. Have fun! There's instructions in another thread on photo posting as well. I think you may also upload directly into the gallery with limitations. minibot Here is a link that might be useful: photobucket

O.K. How do you get your plants to behave like that? My tithonia is well over 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide. My purple zinnias are as high as MY head - 5'8" - and they would be 9 feet tall except that they leaned over in a wind early on and rerooted along the ground so it looks like the bed is full of snakes. Same thing with my cosmos...stalk snakes! I have celosia that is 5 feet tall. Is that right? We won't even talk about my cannas. My morning glories are blooming...30 feet up in a tree! And all of a sudden I have huge white mushrooms everywhere that are 8-10 inches across - it looks like somebody dumped a set of china across my back garden. All your plants look like little girls in pinafores with polished shoes who say "please" and "thank you". My garden looks like something out of Dr. Seuss. How do you DO that?

Not that you won't get good advice here, but there is a Fruit and Orchards forum where some very knowledgable folks who specialize in fruit tree issues hang out. Here is a link that might be useful: C'mon...let's visit the Fruit Tree Forum.