Arlene: I'm so jealous of your gardens. Every one of them is beautiful. Takes your breath away just looking at them. You definitely have wonderful tastes, lots of landscaping talent and a big green thumb!!! Simply beautiful! You also have great photography talent. Although, there is one pic in particular which scares the heebeegees outta me and that's the very first pic of that BIG UGLY wheel bug. UGH!!! OMG!!! I had to google it and read some very interesting info on it. I've never seen one around (hope I never do either....I'd never go out in the garden again!!) Thanks for posting that pic too, though, as I found it interesting, although that bug is one UGLY SCAREY BUG! Bree

This has to do with pictures that belong to other people and websites where people are paying for the bandwidth that they use. Like cell-phone minutes, sort of. If, for example, you go to my website and see an orchid picture you want to use on your website. There are two things you can do. First option is to simply copy it to your website. If you don't have permission, that is simple theft of intellectual property but is not an actual out-of-pocket expense for me. Second, you can put the full URL of the picture in you web page. That is not only theft of the picture, but doing it costs me money, because every time it is loaded by anybody in the world, it uses my bandwidth. Insult to injury, so to speak. FYI, on Snapfish using Firefox, if you put the cursor over the picture, right mouse click and select "Copy image location" you will get the full URL. Paste that in the browser and you will see the picture. Snapfish probably wants people to see the photos on their page not included in other web pages. I see their point since they are selling a service. It may be your picture, but it is their bandwidth. BTW, I am incredibly easy with giving permission for my pictures if they are copied and I am given credit as photographer. Ask, tho, non-commercial purposes only especially not eBay. ;-> Back to posting pictures. If you have your own pictures on your own website, then add links all you want. Use a photo editor to reduce the size. I do many of my pictures 432px (6 inches) wide with a quality level of 4 (the low end of medium).

Hi, Margaret, I looked at the pictures, and have some thoughts for your plant. It appears to be way too dry. When wick watered plants go dry, just refilling the reservoir usually won't re-hydrate the potting soil. The wick itself needs to be 'primed'. You can do this by taking the pot off the reservoir and setting it in a bowl. Then, pour nice warm water into the bowl, and let the pot soak until the soil is wet all the way through. This may take up to an hour. Then dump out the excess water and put the pot back in the bowl. Remove those dead leaves on the outside, they are not going to magically spring back to health. After a couple of days, you should re-pot this plant. It is way too small for the size of the pot, and I can see a lot of fertilizer buildup on the sides of the pot above the soil. To determine the correct size of pot to use, measure the diameter of the plant (after you remove the dead leaves), divide by 3, and that is the number of inches in diameter for the correct pot. When wicking, watch for limp plants, and check the soil. If it is dry, and there is water in the reservoir, you know the wick has stopped working, and you will need to 'prime' it or repot if that fails to get it to work again. That is the most obvious thing I see. I don't think it has root rot or critters. Barbara

This is a tricky plant, kinda looks like a baby tree, but not that hard to get rid of. The key is to get them pulled up before they make seeds. If you can stop the seed cycle, they'll go away. As far as weeds go, this is one of the more interesting ones. As soon as the seed pods are ripe, they POP, this is called explosive dehiscence. Touching plants with ripe seed pods can also cause them to explode. So, once all of the seeds that have exploded from these plants have sprouted and been pulled, your battle will be won, although it can take a few weeks of vigilant pulling each spring for a few years. Now that you know what it is and looks like, you can be on top of things so you don't get another infestation.