You definitely want to get it out of the bag. The trick is to get it to sprout (since it's almost early spring anyway! :D), so you need warm temps (75-86F seems to be the going rate) and a sunny location. A cool trick learned from the Chinese is floating the tuber in a planting pot filled halfway with soil and a few inches of water. Yep, just let it float in the water above the soil. You have to change the water out every few days, though, so it doesn't get stinky and start rotting the tuber. After it sprouts (3-4 leaves), hold the tuber down on the soil with a rock. It has roots that will grab the soil and secure it there. You keep adding water to the pot as the plant grows, until it's big enough (6-7 aerial leaves, which arrive after the little floater leaves) and warm enough to put in the pond. Hope that helps some. :) Brenda

hi yvette...Daylilies in general are not invasive. They will spread but they don't become a pest. What you are calling TIGER LILIES are NOT Tigers. Lots of people call them that tho'. I call them "DITCH LILY". they grow everywhere and I believe the correct name is FULVA LILY. And they are the worst invasive thing I've ever seen. Don't plant them anywhere that you don't want to take over. There are more colors of the other DAYLILIES than you canm coynt. With blooms from 1" to 8" and from 8" high to 6'. Those are HEMEROCALLIS. You can devide those by just cutting the root ball in half or thirds with a shovel. They are quite strong. I devide mine in the fall. The others are LILIUM. They have bulbs. Also too many colors to mention. They are winter hardy up to zone 2b I believe. Which is like Santa Clause land. LoL. I agree the ORIENTALS are the most fragrant. As for looks my favorite is a Trumpet Lily which I can't think of the name right now but it's 9" deep by 8" across and white with a dark yellow center fading to pale yellow tip. Of course you MUST have some STARGAZERS. There are close cousins of Stargazer which are not but they will sell them as such. One is called EXPRESSION. I believe the second pic is called TOM PUCE.Have fun.

Sydney, Any news? Did you get a new camera? September 26 is day to mark. Why? Photokina will start that day. Photokina is a large convention in where all the camera companies show off the new lines, makes, and models. Some companies are already making announcements of what they will be showing. I see your price range and there are a lot of good cameras in that range. It seems that to meet your expectations you might look into getting a camera that allows you have manual controls over the camera. Do you want to stay with Point and Shoot or would you like to move to the DSLR range? Some things to think about: a P&S camera is compact and it easier to part from if you move on to another camera. If you go the DSLR route, you are just not buying a camera, you are buying into a system. Unless you have money to throw around you will most likely keep that camera a lot longer. You will have to buy lenses for the camera body. In most cases the lens can cost as much, or near, as the camera body. Therefore you find yourself dedicated to that company. There are some very nice entry level DSLRs out there. Nikon had the D50, I played with it for a while, but I decided to pass. I had the Canon XT Rebel, but I fell in love with the Olympus E500 so I gave the Canon to my wife. I can expand later if you want on these cameras if you want more info. Check dpreview.com you can find just about any camera there and it has customer ratings as well. Unfortunately, the best advice I can give you right now is when it comes to cameras, most salesman at retail stores donÂt have a clue, honestly, they donÂt. So donÂt listen to them. I get angered at times when I hear them make recommendations based solely on the amount of megapixels a camera has. This is just FYI but my current cameras are: P&S - Canon PowerShot 620, Olympus SP 500 UZ DSLR - Canon 300D XT/ Rebel, Olympus E500, Olympus E1 Zitro

I've used a 3 fold display board so it's free standing on a table top. (you can find them at Staples or craft stores)You could cover it with nice wrapping paper or light wt. fabric(?). Use wide ribbon or lace around the edges Check out some wedding scrapbook pages to get some nice ideas for a layout. Use paper to put mats behind photos in wedding colors. There are lots of die cuts in scapbooking section of craft stores (or make your own using graphics on the computer and then cut them out) or maybe you could scan them and use photo transfer paper and iron them on to the front of a table cloth. I hope this is helpful! Good Luck! Here is a link that might be useful: dmarie