northerner,so glad to hear you didn't get discouraged! I didn't realize how lucky I am they are doing so well,until I started this thread!Thank you! Susan,I could snap pics all day in that bed! :) I just got my new camera for Christmas,isnt it exciting? Every Morning I get up and walk the yard with my camera,I take pics of just about everything! I recently discovered some Monarch cats on my pots of ws Milkweed,I have captured some awesome pics of them shedding. I also have some Swallowtail cats in various pots and gardens with Fennel and Dill. I have been snapping pics of those guys like crazy! I cant wait to show you guys the pics of my cats,they are special to me,because around here,you dont see many,due to the large amount of birds/wasps.I am hoping to change that, (not by eliminating birds,but with plantings...lol..I just realized how that sounded....lol...good thing for the preview option! ),and so far it looks like my first attempts are working out pretty good! I am doing lots and lots of Milkweed and Dill/Fennel next year,along with some other host plants,I just recently read about. My goal is to attract the Harvester,I would love those cats to hang around eating these awful little *#!*# aphids! I would love to attract them all here,but I guess I have to attack one goal at a time! ;) shemeows,I will have lots of seed I am sure,if you would like some just let me know. I will be cleaning them and offering them for trade this fall. I am keeping some individuals for a couple people,but the rest will be a mix,I am not sure if they will be true or not,being they are all together. I am going to collect seed from the shorter ones and make them their own mix and the same with the taller ones. I am definitely keeping a nice amount of seed for my self also. I still have seed left from the named ones,those I will plant separate next year,to help try to keep the seed true! Thanks so much for all your compliments,they mean alot to me,I really love taking pictures and I am so happy I have such a wonderful group of people that appreciate them,and of course who have their own collections of great pics,that I can appreciate! Thanks!:D

Have no idea,but it's beautiful. TFS Kathi

Thanks for the nice comments everyone and I will try to keep upwith posting only thumbnails. hostabuff - click the link. I had posted the instructions for lisasmall a couple of weeks ago.... Thanks again everyone! Alexa Here is a link that might be useful: rock plant markers

I have to put an addendum here.....for those who use PBase and want to make clickable thumbs as described above. The reason why I had a problem with thumbnails in my other post "Window Shopping" here in the gallery.....after I so carefully explained how to make clickable thumbnails only to find they didn't work for my PBase links LOL....I consulted with PBase to learn that their location of the URL for the thumbs..... as I described above ....is not reliable as the thumbs could be moved to another server....which is what happened to mine and why they didn't show up properly. They have another system for making a thumb URL, using direct linking to the original photo but with "/small" before the dot jpg. In other words, the second half of the code string is the same as the first only with the addition of a slash and the word "small", here shown in red: I hope that helps make it easier and sorry if anyone using PBase tried to use the above and found it didn't work. It should be okay now. SharonCb