Dredawg, is that a Japanese Maple? Such beautiful color. Btw, how did you imbed your pic? I do it a bit different then the instructions on here. I do it this way. I copy the direct link from Photobucket. Come here to post and use this: I put a space between I'll put the pic here now. My phlox in August. Kat

I never thought I could do it but I did!!! Here is how I did it, mind you I am using a MacBook Apple Laptop YMMV. I opened an account on Photobucket added my pictures there into an album. I eventually ended up making several albums so I wouldn't break the chain of linking to the photo once I wanted to add more pictures. Once I had the photos over there in photobucket I went back to Garden web and went to the message I wanted to reply to and put my cursor on the message and clicked on it as if I was ready to type in a message then I opened another window and went to photobucket and clicked on the photo I wanted in my message on GardenWeb. Over to the right there is a list of htttp, html codes in a box, click on the HTML code until it turns yellow or blue in some cases that means it was copied to your computer now close that photobucket window and go back to your still open message window to Gardenweb. It should still be open if you were careful to have two windows open at one time. Ok, now all you have to do is go along the top of your computer to the Edit tab and click on it to drop down the menu. Where it says "paste" click on that and it should copy a big long code into your message box on GardenWeb. Now you have the big long code in the message box and you can add what you want to say just after it. Just type in what you want to say in your message BE SURE YOU HIT THE PREVIEW MESSAGE BUTTON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE BEFORE YOU SUBMIT MESSAGE TO BE SURE YOUR PHOTO HAS COPIED. You're not going to see the photo until you click preview message. Now you should have your photo embedded in your message. If you want to add more than one photo just keep doing the same thing until all your photos are in your message. I never thought I could do it either but I can and it's so great to be able to upload photos into my messages to better show what I am talking about!! As far as people who seem to do collages and all sorts of neat story boards I still can't do that, lol. Thanks and I hope that helps!! gr8

Ingrid, I'm back with some more about Dahlias. The day is done, and now I can relax. They are pretty easy to grow here but there are a few things they need. They need good drainage with enough deep watering during the summertime. We are fortunate that we can leave them in the ground year round, rather than dig and store the tubers. The snails and slugs like them. Once they get going they are usually ok, but when they first emerge, I need to use bait. I use "Sluggo plus". The tall ones may need staking. Don't give them high nitrogen fertilizer. I throw mine some bone meal, maybe once a year(if I remember to). That's it. They really are nice, and they last a long time cut. I took a few quick pics this evening of some in bloom. Lisa

Thank you all! I’m so worried about this Houzz re-boot business. It’s been such a dream to log on and see everyone’s gardening progress, follow interesting threads that range from the every-day to fine points of Rose botany and history. It’s a little heart-sinking to think everyone will just disappear. I’m hopeful Houzz will resolve the problems enough to keep folks tethered, or that we’ll find another posting site, like the one Jeri found. I’ll be sending a message to Houzz later tonight and will post it here for folks.