Kite, Rhizo's right about ivy's being difficult to grow indoors. Rhizo, before I continue, I have a question for you. Although Hedera Helix is hardy, are variegated types as hardy? English and Bostons even thrive here in IL, but I've never seen any variegated types, not in this part of IL..Boston grows on brick, but don't know if they redden naturally or from sun and chilly air. What do you think? Kite, did you want to grow outdoors or try indoors? Do you have a cool room? Enclosed porch, etc. The cooler the better. Variegated Ivy is a beautiful plant, especially types with deep variegation. But Variegated need more sun than strickly green. Low light causes spindly growth despite color. If you place your ivy in a bright window, w/cooler temps, 'away from gas heat,' ventilation, and spray the leaves daily, it should do fine. If the room is hot, dry and stuffy, Spider Mites will attack. In winter, water less. Don't keep soil constantly wet, it needs to dry between drinks, especially if your winters are always gray. I withhold fertilizer during winter, but depending where you are in Tn, if days have more sun than clouds, 1/4-1/2 strength will suffice. Is your ivy hanging or staked? Toni

Depending on who you are with very likely. One of mine does this every 2 weeks to ensure the address is actually live and not abandoned. Yahoo does it too but less frequently so I must be a good guy with them ;~)

Karen , the forum will only allow a certain number of responses within a given time frame...like 10 minutes. It's to stop blasting on the forums. The way around it is to just slightly change the words in "Subject of Posting" just on top of the message box you post your responses in. See what I did. I add a few //// to that space and all is well.

There was a time many months ago where GW wouldn't let me place an in-line link to other websites, but I've never had a problem adding one separately beneath the post in the separate fields for 'Optional Link URL' and 'Name of the Link'. If that's where you were trying to place them, are you sure you didn't reverse them and put them in the wrong field?