Bernard, see my comment to Deanna about how to put a name on a picture. That program might work for you if you only want to add names and best of all it's free. Regarding spreadsheets and keeping track of your plants - as with the hostas themseleves, I'm pretty over the top with pictures of the garden and plants. What I do is 1. Save pictures off my camera in a holding file. Rename the entire contents of the file by the date, numerically by month, day, year. 2. Move pictures from this file to other files depending on what they are. - family (all people pictures) - Nature (anything away from my house) - Pets - Garden (excluding individual hosta pictures). When you scroll through this file you follow the season. Of course I take so many pictures I have a sub file for each month but normal people wont need to do that. 3. The remaning pictures will be (after everything else is removed) all of individual hostas. I add the name in front of the date and put them in the Hosta file. This sounds more confusing than it actually is. I can go to the hosta file and find pictures of that hosta for the whole year. Because you've left the date behind the name it is sorted automatically from spring to fall. I have a spread sheet for the names, year, color, size, nursery and whatever other information I want to keep. I hope this makes sense to you. Myrle

This thread always strikes a powerful sour note with me. As a retired geek, I cannot more strongly suggest that folk use the more proper program for data manipulation, known as a 'database'. Yes, 'spreadsheets' have evolved to handle many 'database' aspects, but are really aimed at 'number crunching' and they do that better than 'databases'. I'll mention that data crunching and comparison and tracking is what databases are designed for, which is why when you go to any and almost all data websites, such as hostalibrary.org, the back end is a database. For reasons too complicated to enumerate here, there are many too easily fallen into pitfalls in spreadsheets that will 'munch' your data. Accidental use of sorts is the most common problem here, but again, it's difficult to explain briefly. This knowledge is gained by me from hard and expensively learned mistakes from my work as a geek before retirement. Yes, database ability is a little more difficult to attain, but eventually it will save you hours, days, even years (yes that happened to me) of lost or munged data. So please tell me you don't use your email program to file your pictures, get my point now? FWIW, hh

Bonnie plants...gag...when I see their massive 18 wheeler I get sick. Same with Chef Jeff. I only buy local starts or seeds from Baker Creek or SSE or Tomato Fest

I see this was so many years ago, but I would appreciate a copy of the spreadsheet if it is still in circulation :) acroy25@yahoo.com