Cindee, I don't think dead trees would rot here in Phx like other places. Such a DRY heat, and almost no rain. Plus I'd probably set one in cement instead of in the ground since it wouldn't already be there, LOL. But....I'm really liking the smaller bottle bushes a lot. Awhile back I was wondering about getting lengths of copper pipe, or even PVC I'd paint, and putting them close together but angled out, for a bottle bush. Looking at some of the new pix, it seems the pipes were fasten together in a 'bundle' then shaped outward for the branches. I like that idea a lot myself. Obviously PVC wouldn't work, but the copper would bend. Anyway, I'll eventually get my blue bottle tree, and now with the mini bottles I bought off eBay, may have that in my fairy or gnome garden! Daisydal, the Sandman lost my address years ago! LOL. But I know a lot of you on here don't sleep well at night, and some of you also have Fibromyalgia. So we might as well spend our midnight-to-dawn hours on here looking at GJ stuff. Works for me! Thank you for more sweet compliments, Everyone. And daisyme, I'm the one recieving such a great gift with the photos and talent being presented me to put in an album! I add photos fairly often, but only post when I put on a bunch like while ago. So y'all be sure to bookmark and check the album occasionally. Tho most new pix come from this forum. I'm putting together another album soon, ponds and fountains. I'll still leave the ones that are in our album, but also put them in this new one. hugs, Karen (ME...note the clock on the wall...LOL)

Stores and garden centers will sell whatever the public will buy regardless if the plant is suitable for the area. Blooming tree roses sell. People will buy most any blooming potted rose without considering it's hardiness. These same people consider a dead plant to be their fault and just buy another one the next year. That's the basic reason so many think roses are hard to grow. We can't really blame the garden centers or big box stores. The ones that don't give the public what they want soon go out of business. That's why I stopped buying hybrid teas wholesale for resale. I felt bad knowing people wouldn't take the proper care of them and they'd fail to survive our winters. I now only offer those hardy shrubs I grow and root myself.

Try a good soapy spray bath for your Guavas . Add regular dish soap to a hose end sprayer and have fun . Next month try an Ultra-fine horticultural oil spray . Third month - try BT - Bacillus Thuriengensis. Repeat as needed . Safe and easy to use . Follow directions on the bottles carefully . Very environmentally friendly - except to soft bodied pests .

Whether I'm a perpetual "poo-poo"er or pragmatic, perhaps it's a fine line! Or they could be synonyms. :) I don't begrudge people going and seeing these people for entertainment purposes but as I have repeatedly made clear, I object when these scam artists take advantage of people who have lost loved ones and need consolation. That's where I draw the line. They're no better than the Bible scam from "Paper Moon". A wrestling match is hardly the same in this respect, though the analogy has some merit. The difference lies in the lies and the use of the lies. Does anyone REALLY believe they sawed the lady in half? At least Copperfield doesn't charge the lady to put her back together! Do people really believe the elephant, Leer Jet or the like disappeared into thin air? Oh, but Copperfield is REAL, isn't he? I can't think of anyone who has gone to a wrestling match hoping to talk to their child who was tragically killed a month or two before. Going for the entertainment and being aware of your senses is fine. Believe in wrestling or believing in the BDIU doesn't really matter unless there's a scam involved. I hardly think, Lydia, that if someone were to say they're off to rape the mentally challenged or bilk seniors out of their retirement fund, that you'd simply say "have fun"! At least I hope not, but then again, I'm not psychic so... ;) Some people believe that soap operas are real. Harmless but what happens when they set up a fund to help "Little Jimmy" in that soap opera and cash in on peoples' need/desire to help? That's a big difference in my mind. Many people used to defend the seance mediums like some here defend John Edward. Are there some mediums, fortune tellers, astrologers, etc that were/are real? Possibly. Go to one for fun? Sure. But really, having a president running a country being guided by one is scary if not sick. Personally I want to believe that there is some sort of afterlife. Way too much reveng to be had for just one lifetime! I also believe I've been contacted by the "dead" on occasion. I also think that some things are coincidence and some are nothing more than a dream. I'll admit I've gone to my mother's grave and talked to her. I'll talk to her even when I'm not at the site of her life container for that matter. Something like that giving comfort to a person is harmless when not abused. So I guess it's the ethics and morals prompting my "poo-poo" rather than disdain. There's a lot of times I've known things would happen, just knew it. I think most everyone probably has the sense in them if they recognize it and can separate it from the rest. But no, I don't think I can chat with the dead on a daily basis, I'm not that big of a fool. But I do think I could scam these people on par with many of them, which my morals forbid. And I'm certainly sensible enough to realize that much can be coincidence too. I would find it interesting to go to one of these things in person or at least see one recorded and unedited, but I can't in good conscience contribute financially to this thing any more than financially support a spammer. And the biggest thing, I possibly could be convinced, but I'd still need an explanation then as to why he needs to "cheat"! I still can't understand why billionaires need to cheat on their taxes though. BTW, nobody has been able to answer these questions for me: If these people truly are the psychics they pretend to be: 1) Didn't Dionne Warwick KNOW her Psychic Friends Network would go belly up? 2) Didn't John Edward know the people would find the microphones? Wouldn't one of the dead folks tell him? 3) Why does John Edward need a GPS? (or any of them but he brags about needing it) and lastly and probably most importantly, 4) Why won't one of them tell Natalee Holloway's mother where her body can be found? We know her mother is very willing to pay big bucks for info and I would think with the greed shown by these scammers they'd line up to grab it if they could. Or for that matter how about finding Jody Husintruit, Jimmy Hoffa, Amelia Earhart or even Bin Laden? And good night nurse, why not help poor OJ look for Nicole & Ron's murderer? He searched the golf courses unsuccessfully for years, as promised and could use some help. Hey, they could even do a reality show "Find The Body of the Week". WTH, maybe they should just testify at the trial to start and we would save a lot of money. The dead person could identify the murderer. And hey, once and for all he/they could tell us at which Michigan McDonalds Elvis works! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go "poo-poo"!