I've been looking at the leaves on the seedling oaks that are coming up around here, quirky, and I'm wondering if many of these are really laurel oaks - the leaves look just like the ones in the above pictures for the entire little tree. I can't speak for willow oaks, but I don't believe water oaks are short lived and weak wooded. I have a LOT of them, and they withstood Hurricane Katrina very well - I only lost two big ones, they were uprooted, not broken off like loblolly pines. I've got some mighty big ones that must be old, and, although they lost some limbs, what big, heavy trees didn't? Sounds like more misinformation out there! Sherry

I don't know if it's just a regional store, but Ellis Pottery had a really nice selection of figural terracotta wall pockets. My favorite one I had, though, I bought at a garage sale. It was big and shaped like a woman's head. Looked really pretty with flowers in it. But when hurricane Rita knocked down my carport it got broken. That really made me sad. Then after I moved to Oklahoma, I went to an estate auction and to my surprise there was an identical wall pocket to the one that was destroyed in the hurricane. I had to pay $22 for it, but it really made me happy. I like to put trailing flowers and asparagus fern in it. So my suggestion is to try garage sales and estate sales for great pots and wall planters. Susie

To oakleyok - Right now, the website is so complicated because of the set-up, I can admit, it's hard to probably get customers to stay on it. Lol. Heres a quick and easy way to help you. Log in to DOMINIQUESDECOR.COM At the top, there will be a menu - First you'll see HOME and next to HOME you will see SHOP. Click on SHOP. Click on THE WORLD OF PRODUCTS CATALOG - located to the RIGHT. LOOK to your LEFT of the page, you will see "GO TO PAGE" - in that box GO TO PAGE: 30 CLICK FIND. THERE YOU GO! From pages 30 to 41, there are all types of BIRD HOUSES, FEEDERS, and BIRDBATHS. SORRY FOR THE INCONVIENCE. THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST AND PATIENCE. IT MEANS A LOT TO ME. Oh, I do understand you do not want to sign-up but if you do, you will instantly receive a $10 Gift Card. If you request not to receieve newsletters or anything that you are just not interested in then believe me it won't be done. I will stop typing now. Thanks again!

Mila - sounds like you have a plan, and I know what you mean about not wanting to wait to follow through on your plan. There's always room for more roses if you get creative! Glad the pictures helped you get tempted - they're all great climbers and you can't go wrong with any of the three you mentioned. Summers - for sure you'd have to finagle a way to attach the canes to the trees, and that's getting way too close to Quadra for my skin's sake. He's big and thorny, and between two trees he'd be just waiting to pounce. For sure you'd need another kind of support in addition to the trees, or he'd be flopping on your other roses as you mention. I used to grow my Quadra as a free-standing bush and he was at least 7' wide and aggressive with space. Can you stretch some sort of trellis or arch between the trees for extra support? He might not bloom as much in part shade beneath trees, but I'm all for giving it a try if that's where he is. I have Veilchenblau beneath a huge oak tree and it's pretty impressive (though it doesn't want to climb). Cynthia