Well guys, many thanks for your nice comments to these pics, I really appreciate this! Let me try to answers the quiestions: Ken, This area is 10 years old and the walkways wouldn't be cleaned by a vacuum cleaner. The thing is that we always started with a very clean field and most of the time it will be clean then the rest of the year,otherwise we will sweep the dirt away every 2 weeks. The weed mat is made of cocos which will do it's work for 2 years. dietsjm, the spruces names at your mentioned pics are: #5 Picea omorika 'White Tips', in the U.S. as 'White Tops'. #7 Picea omorika 'Aurea' #9 Picea abies 'Dablice' ricksample, I hope you've big wings and a great condtion because you've to fly all the way to The Netherlands ;0) My nursery website is edwinsmitsconifers dot com Donn, 1.the irrigation is overhead via sprinklers. 2. the potmulch is a cocos mat which works very fine because it covers the pot against weeds and moss for 95%, I've to give less water because of less evaporation and it looks nicely uniform. 3. The groundcover is made of a woven synthetic cloth that avoid bore rooting growth. 4.The pottingmix is a mixture of different types of peat, added with pumice and clay. 5. I've no ferts schedule, there's a controlled coated fertilizer which is also added at the pottingmix. Because of it's coating, it will come free bit by bit during the growing season. baxz5oh, the layout construction is simple, the underground is a white sand bed which will avoid that all will freeze up. The gradient of the beds are 2% and in the middle of 2 beds there's a pvc gutter for the water drainage which come's out at a water basin for reusing. Indeed, there's a huge difference in evaporation between plants in pot with and without a cocos mat. Because of this pot cover, there's less evaporation so also the water giving is less. novaplantguy, unfortunately I've to tell you the same as I told to ricksample, my nursery isn't in the U.S., it's in The Netherlands...so if you want to visit me it will not only be road trip, you also have to go overseas ;0) Indeed, the yellow one's in pic #6 are Picea orientalis 'Skylands'. severnside, the one's at pic #7 are Picea omorika 'Aurea'. For you my nursery isn't that far away ;0)

I am addicted to that game. I heard about it from someone that said she was hoooked on to this game. I didn't belong to facebook so didn't know about it. Then I got talked into joining and next thing I know that person invited me and there I became a farmer. I found out after I had been harvesting my own crops that you get more money if you hire from the market. Of if you are like so many that they have their spouses that have a farm too and so they hire each other and then friends too. You will find that they go up really fast doing that. I worked sweat and blood, didn't buy coins why? spend your money in buying coins, earn them. Also its important to have lots of neigbhours too so you can go up in levels that way too. And you not only receive gifts from neigbhours but also you send them out too. That is important too. Yes, its nice to have ones that can send you things that you can't get or buy as there are only a few trees you can buy and to get the others you need neigbhours to send them too. Also the new things that have come out makes it even more interesting and fun to get to those levels to buy them. I am on level 28. I worked very hard, I even had to sell animal to earn money. Also when you click my neighbours, they will at times have you go and tend and visit them and so you earn money that way. I did it that way. I wasn't getting jobs, then I got tiny bit, got one job that I reliazed why spouses and friends were so far ahead and had tons of things on their farms because they were making huge money from them. As I have the full size farm, you have tons of crops that come in and so people get to know when you go to the market to hire. I like to not touch my trees as they don't rot and the fruit on them are so colourful and makes it pretty on the farm. But last night once more this gal wouldn't leave them alone and I kept saying do not touch my trees and she couldn't care less and kept on. I finally clicked ignore and vanished her. And then again in my storage shed where the harvests go into I sold those and then found number one and again another tree harvested. I went huh? Then I got upset and tired and bad day yesterday and logged off of facebook. Came back on and guess what? Another number one in storage shed, more fruit trees again harvested. I didn't like it and to be so rude and disrespectful to do that to my trees. They had huge crops to harvest and so they didn't have to touch my trees. They earned plenty with the crops alone. I had my trees done when I had small farms as I needed the money desperately to plow and seed as that costs money to do. I found out about the wrench icon on top of page on right side and click on it and got lots of things on it. You can hide your trees and buildings as then you can do crops underneath them that way, more land to use. Also checking out farms, I wondered how they had their crops together without the spaces that I did. Same wrench icon I found out stopped the spaces and so got more put in that way. You can freeze your animals. Its fun as the farm sizes grow for you in figuring out your farm the way you like it. Its your personally. Its fun checking out other farms to get ideas and see what they are at and have on it. I love how some really get creative with their crops and spell things,etc. and patterns too. Wow! Also you can do buddies, that is useful when you go to harvest as you will find out you will get booted off here and there. YOu will be busy harvesting for someone and then next thing you know you are booted off and can't get back. But if you made them your buddy you can click on buddy list and click on their farm by their name and get back. Its happening alot especially with huge farms. Also if they hire too many to harvest their farms, that will happen alot then. I will try to hire 3 people when all my crops are ready to harvest. Watch out for the hoggers, some are so fast in harvesting crops and others like me are slow at harvesting. I had this guy that was buzzing bad in the market and I got hired and went good, got away from him and I have this area to harvest that I picked and was enjoying myself and relaxed and then next thing I knew this guy too my harvests. I was upset with him hogging like that. He had already done tons and didn't need to take the bit I had too. Warning its addicting if you sign up to facebook and get invited to play it. Be warned too the larger size farm, the more you have to work on it. One thing is by that time you can buy all the seeds you want of all in the store. Pumpkins take 4 days, onions are 3 days and for me they take too long. Peas I like they take 2 days. And then there are ones that are 2 to one day. I was told to buy potato seeds so that way you have them coming in daily. Do not buy when you start out anything in the store as you need all the money for your plowing and seeds. Unless you are wanting to spend your own money and buy coins to buy stuff. I find its better and nicer to earn them the good ole' hard way by working hard to get up there and to earn the money yourself. It took me forever to buy the white farmhouse which costs 300,000. And I just bought a barn and silo. And the new things that came in I have been buying. Also loving the flowers too that finally have come in. We have been waiting forever for those to come in. I thought the pig was so cute too as its so funny all of a sudden it will fall over on its side sleeping. Too funny. You can click on the animals and the dog will scratch, wag its tail and other animals do things too. It also took me forever to buy the small pond. First came the white farm house. Now the new things are so cheap to buy. I love the river and bridges. Pathways, I blew all my money on dirt pathways as I was building them up around the farm and each time it grew in size, had to buy some more. Enjoy and hope you can work on it so you grow fast to get up to that large size farm and buy so many things that you can't when you are on the smaller sizes.

Interesting, Dave. My involvement with classification and nomenclature (nothing to do with plants) was at a time when numerical taxonomy was becoming recognized. As such, there was quite a debate about the validity of numerical taxonomy versus classical taxonomy, as I'm sure you know. I gather cluster analysis has some of the same philosophical underpinning as numerical taxonomy. I'd agree, however, that it's to demonstrate that veronica and veronicastrum can produce hybrids, rather than to fall back on any type of classification system that makes it possible to argue that they may be able to or may not.

Your picture did not post. I stripped, sanded and refinished my oak harvest table last year. Although I am happy with the result, it was a much much bigger job than I thought it would be. More expensive in terms of materials, took a lot longer, and very challenging to get the colour and finish right. I don't recommend it. I think there are ways to fix a scratch that don't involve refinishing the whole table. There are companies like Furniture Medic that can do something like this.