I'm coveting your camellias, Bill. ;-) I was in Japan a couple of weeks ago and got to see not only the cherry blossoms in peak bloom, but camellias too! They were absolutely everywhere - lining the roads, in gardens, they were stunning. Most were pruned into a barrel-like shape, just loaded with flowers. I came home and immediately looked to see which ones might grow in my garden - if I had a spot for one. Which I don't. :( Here's a pic of one I took at the Buddhist temple in Narita Is the pink flower an aquilegia? If so, I can't believe how much further along yours is compared to mine - I have 6 leprechauns and I doubt I'll see flowers before next week at the earliest. Anyway your garden is so lovely! Mine is new - we had the overgrown mess that was here when we bought the house almost completely ripped out and redone last spring, so I have a while before it's filled in.

Ahhh you guys are lucky ducks with no real regular frost! We have anywhere between a few light freezes to several 20's F depending on the year One winter since I've lived here, we had a few nights in the upper teens. That was the year a tree limb fell on my gh and I lost a lot of stuff grrr. Our day temps usually bounce back up to 60's to 80'sF in the winter. tropicbreeze my 3 sausage trees were started from seed 7yrs or so ago now. No 'sausages' here yet either. I have to cut them back to get them in the gh. I started bending the tops over instead of cuttimg last winter to hopefully encourage flowering. They lose the leaves in yhe winter so idk if they will ever flower here. One year one grew into the ground and broke out the pot. So I tried to dig up the root and there way no way to get it so I just kinda cut it off at the bottom of the pot which was really the bottom tree trunk. Well it grew new roots just fine and even tho it was a cold winter here, with 20'sF temps, the roots left in the ground started growing a new tree in the spring!! I never thought they were that hardy lol. ~Sjn

They're looking great after having trees on them and all the other activity. And all standing tall, too. I'm sure you're on the lookout for those fallen petioles. Hopefully, no more! HL says Joy Ride is a M/L so yours looks on track. I really like it and want one when I see yours, but I have Waterslide so that's close enough. Can't have them all.

Suebelle, The file suggestion is good. I noticed when starting a post if I include the pics in the first post, it isn't always going smoothly so I normally start the post with text then post the pics in the next posts. I used Chrome browser on a computer, and they have a max limit of posting 10 pics per post. Here are my tests (11/5/2019 @ 9:35 PDT): Each pic is < 1 MB - Posted 5 pics with total size: 4.1 MB: no problem. - Posted 10 pics with total size: 10.4 MB: no problem. MB: megabyte Some other websites or apps use some types of image compression programs, and that is why when you upload your images you don't need to resize them. I'm not sure if Houzz uses this type of compression program or not. If they do, it hasn't been working correctly for users. Until they figure it out, just resize your images to less than 1 MB/each. Sometimes, even with small file sizes, Houzz has some problems with their servers, so just wait and try it later. Good luck. Helen