Very beautiful and full of whimsy, too! I love the daylily gardens that have lots to look at that enhances the daylilies. Of the few daylily gardens that I have had the luxury of visiting, my favorite was the smallest on a city lot of 1/3 acre. Their daylilies were incredibly beautiful, but the companion perennials that were interplanted amongst them made them all the more majestic and I was just in awe of the total and complete "garden picture"! Thanks for the tour! Jan G.

Proudgm, you can save any pics to there, if it's in PB already then there is a link that says "copy to my album" and it will put it there. As far as other sites, I know there is a way to upload them to PB from your album, I think you would just put the web address in it, I've never done it before. Also as Tracy pointed out above: Vic, one thing I would like to add about setting up your own photobucket account is that you can create your own folders for it too. I have several different sub albums in my account for family pics, garden shots, then sub albums for each of my individual gardens, clematis, lilies, daylilies and then keep a separate album for all web art I find that I want to use again or edit/personalize. I like keeping them separated so if I do a search I can find what I'm looking for pretty quickly. It is a pretty neat site and they just recently expanded some of their editing tools so you can add comments and funny designs to the pictures too. I've started part 3 so we don't have to wear our mouses out scrolling the page : )

Thanks everyone, it was fun sharing my trip with you all. I will try to get the other few photos of the garden posted tomorrow evening, won't have time tonight. Mantis, I don't think AAFC was orangeish, so it must just be the sun, perspective and/or picture showing it that way. If it's blooming when I go back, I will take a closer look at the coloration.

Hi Mary, " Do you think that adding boron to the zinnia nutrients will help with stem strength? " I don't think so. Boron deficiency causes death of the growing point. Actually, those curved stems in your photos would seem to indicate that your stems must be rather strong just to support a heavy zinnia head with such a curved structure. A straight stem is the most efficient strategy for supporting a zinnia head with a potentially weak stem. I am not sure what is causing your zinnia stems to be so curved. I am curious about that, myself. There is a lot to learn about zinnias, and that is an ongoing process for me. I don't add any special nutrient to my outdoors zinnias to increase stem strength. Maybe I should. However, I am using Benary's Giants in an attempt to add genetic stem strength. My outdoor zinnias do have a problem with our Kansas winds. Typically a strong wind, usually associated with a storm, will blow my zinnia seedlings over to lie on the ground, and then the new growth rises vertically from that position, resulting in an "L" shaped main stem. I do use zinnia cages (like tomato cages, only re-purposed and redesigned for zinnias) to brace my selected breeder specimens, but I don't have nearly enough cages for all of my zinnias. There may be soil components that contribute stalk and stem strength. Calcium might be one, but I suspect there are others. I do add a small amount of Potassium Silicate to my indoor nutrient solutions, because silicon makes strong cell walls which in turn makes from strong stalks, stems, and other plant structures -- possibly leaves and flower structures as well. Outdoor soil may contain enough soluble silicon to help. Rice farmers frequently use commercial fertilizers that are fortified with silicon, because rice stems need the strength to hold heavy heads of grain above the water that the rice field is flooded with. Fortunately it doesn't take a lot of silicon for my indoor zinnia growing activities. I might experiment with adding silicon to a few of my outdoor plants, but I would need to find a much more economical source of silicon if I wanted to treat my whole garden. The silicon product I use is called ProTeKt, and you can find out more about it at this link for ProTeKt " I promise this is the last about boron. (For a while... :-) " We can discuss boron or any other nutrient at any time you want. ZM (not associated with any product or vendor mentioned or linked)