Welcome ZGoddess! We're very happy to have you here! We would LOVE to see pictures of your projects. A good number of us use photobucket to post our pictures. If you create an account and upload your photos to that site, then you can just click on the "http" tab under each picture and it will copy the link for you. Then you can paste it directly into your post. Hope that makes sense! I look forward to seeing your work!

Annette.... Growing fig trees is probably one of the easiest, and most delicious things you could do. Decide whether in ground, or containerized. Decide on location. (Full-sun, and heat, is good) Figs grow/develop on new wood, so prune if you must to control growth. Read postings on this forum about when/where to prune, and pinch new growth. The winter will be your problem. If containerized, and heavy...buy a dolly @ Home Depot and roll the plant(s) around. Read postings on winter storage/dormancy. Buying a twig/small, rooted-cuttings is a waste of time. Get a bearing-age tree, and you'll have fruit this year. Check your local garden centers for good trees. Twigs die out if not grown perfectly, and in the long run, you'll get more bang for the buck by starting off with a larger plant. I grow my 6 foot tall, single-stem trees in large storage tubs (with drainage holes), and all branches are grown at the top of the long bare trunks. I roll the trees around on dollies. This saves the back, and I'm hernia free. If you can store the trees (containerized) in an unheated garage or dark, cool, storage shed you'll probably solve your winter problems. Buy a short-season fig variety. If at a bearing age, and growing vigorously, pinch back new growth to 6 leaves on each branch for earlier ripening of main-crop figs. You'll be chowin' down on figs by September, or earlier! Seriously, this forum is the only place to get good, solid, up-to-date, fig-growing information. If you are going to buy figs through the mail, stay away, no...run away! from Ty-Ty, and Willis Orchards. Why?...search this forum. Also, west-coast nurseries are known for selling fig trees with mosaic virus. I learned the hard way. I personally have grown only one short-season variety called "Atreano"...which makes a very large, golden-yellow fig that's really sweet... if, ripened correctly. Do a search for this excellent, smaller-growing fig variety. It's a good start. Deer might not be a problem, but birds could be! Hope this helps you decide what to do. Read everything about growing figs on this forum, then decide how you will want to grow the tree(s)...then, go shopping. It's fun, and you'll be hooked. We were all normal once. : ) : ) BronxFigs

I saw a great looking pink annabelle. I don't know what kind it was, but it was light pink and the flower were small, but the color was outstanding and they were not sagging. I wish I took a photo of it, but I did not have my camera with me. So, I looked at Invincibelle Spirit and maybe I am a terrible person, but why does everything that is pink have to be about breast cancer? I don't want to think about cancer. My husband has cancer. I don't want to be reminded of cancer each time I look at a flower. Therefore, I will not get this Invincibelle Spirit. I wish the one I saw was different. The light pink is nicer then the color on the website which is too dark. Just look up the website, I am not posting the link. I really like incrediball. Mine is doing great. The flowers are huge and don't sag. I don't care so much if the flowers are big if they don't sag and are a nice color.

Thanks Teresa! I just checked out the Indy Hosta Society website about the convention. Of course that happens to be the weekend I have to head up to South Bend for my brother's wedding. But according to the website it looks like its open to the public from 1 to 11pm on Wednesday June 20th. Just might have to drag my husband up there after work. We do have our 2nd anniversary coming up the following Monday -- there we go an easy anniversary present for him to get me, more hostas. And thereby inching closer to Ken's prediction of 30 by the end of the summer. LOL!