lesmc--well, your one image is lovely, if that helps! LOL If you are restricted to one image per post, you are using the forum's method rather than using the photobucket method. If you uploaded your pics to photobucket, then you go to your photobucket library and click on the desired photo. Then on the right, locate the HTML CODE (make sure it is the HTML CODE or this won't word!). Click on the HTML CODE (it SAVES automatically). Then come over here to the forum and PASTE the HTML CODE into the Message Box. (You will have to click PREVIEW to actually see the pic.) Done that way, you can insert as many pics as you desire. You can also type before, between, and after each pic. Hope that helps. Kate

Hi, Polina! I found this: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg0419464218891.html I was wondering if you could help me, Polina. I mostly collect violets from Russian and Ukrainian hybridizers. I enjoy reading their websites. (I see your posts on Fialki.ru; that's my favorite forum.) Most of the time I can figure out translation on these sites, but one has got me stumped. Fialkovod, the name of the violet store in Moscow. What does it mean? 'Violet Gadfly'? I wish I had time to learn the Russian language! ~Samantha

Thanks, timber! FN - I also posted this in the Fruit and Orchard forum, and someone mentioned woolly aphids, too. I've just been hosing them off every morning. Is this enough? Now the damage from the cicadas has already caused a branch to break, because it became so thinned out. This tree is only a year or two old. Should I try to kill the eggs in the slits with Neem oil or something else? Or if I let them be, will the larvae damage the branches even further when they hatch and come out, or if they feed on the wood or fruit? I did cut through two fruits with the gouges, and there was nothing inside. No tunneling. Someone in the other forum suggested it was bird pecks as well. Do we need to place a net over the tree? Or put some reflective tape? Or a fake owl? Thanks!

Forgot to say these instructions are for PHOTOBUCKET! www.photobucket.com