Thanks for the positive feedback. I have been logging lots of hours in the garden this spring, moving things around and weeding, etc. A thick layer of mulch definitely helps with the weeds. I love the topiaries. I first saw one last year at an upscale nursery around here called Chalet. Now they are in a few other nurseries and very expensive. I ordered the turtle online from www.simplysucculents.com. It came planted. Much cheaper than the local nurseries. I am trying to accessorize the garden this year, hence the spiral stakes and the turtle. My son has his crocs on the wrong feet in that picture! He is cute and quite a handful. He and his big sister like to play with worms, so they have had a lot of fun this spring as I moved things around. The bunnies have not touched the iris--well, maybe one stalk that came down mysteriously. They are dining on the asters (I think blue dome) and the liatris. I spread some bloodmeal the other day and I bought some Liquid Fence yesterday. The problem is that we have had so much rain with mnore forecast, so I haven't had a chance to use it. Also, the rain has definitely been trying the garden. I am impressed by how well it has held up. We might get hail tonight, so I am a bit worried. Rachel

Thank you very much for this information. I just printed it up. I have not been able to post pictures and was going to ask for help. Someone suggested TiniPic as an easy site. You don't need to register or anything. But I didn't know which tag or how to get it in a post. I'm going to try your suggestions. Thanks, Jane

To imbed images in your GardenWeb posts there are three steps: 1. Digitize photos 2. Upload pics to the internet (hosting site) 3. Link to the pics Digitize Many people have digital cameras, which automatically digitize their pics. You can also have your photos developed with a company which will save your pics onto a CD. There are other photo developing companies which will upload your pics onto an 'album' created for you on their web site. A last option is to scan your pics manually. Upload to the Internet Most of the free image hosting sites have disappeared but if you'll check the properties of a photo inserted into a GW message (place cursor on pic, select right mouse button, then select Properties> you can see which image hosting site that person uses. Another way to find image hosting sites is to do a search for "free image hosting". There are many free image hosting sites but very few allow direct linking - that is, allow your pic to appear from within a GW message. Once you've chosen an image hosting site you'll need to follow the instructions on that site to upload the images from your computer. Generally it involves creating a userID, creating albums, then navigating thru your computer to specify the location of the pic(s) you want to upload. Link GardenWeb allows HTML coding within the body of a message. The format of that HTML is: [img src=""] where you use less than symbols instead of the [ and ]. Type that exact code into your GW message but put the URL of your pic within the quotes.

The photo issue was due to THAT site - had nothing at all to do with Houzz or GW. And I seriously doubt any major changes are going to be happening to the GW side of things or that it's going to be "dumped"......all the garden forums are still very active and functioning as normal. The 'search' function on Houzz still works for me.......but you do need to be in the forum where the original thread was posted. I can't remember if that is any different than it always has been, tho. If you can't remember what forum, then I agree doing a Google search is probably faster and more efficient. As an aside, the conversational forums really do not have a topic they focus on, compared to the gardening forums or most of the home forums so it does make it more difficult to locate old threads if you are not absolutely certain which forum they were posted to originally. For example, if I was hunting for an old thread about hydrangeas, I'd look in the Hydrangea forum first. But I would not necessarily have though to look in the Harvest forum for a thread on vanilla..........just saying :-))