You're welcome, I'm sorry it's not working for you. It shouldn't make a difference but what browser are you using? I use IE for GW and Firefox for most everything else. Can you make another post and include a link to one of your pictures that you would like to post and I'll give a try and see if I can see what's happening? Greg Southern Nevada

June 18 to the 24th. ARS Spring National Convention - 2009 ~~~ Vancouver, BC~~~ Roses in the Landscape, Discover Vancouver! AN INVITATION FROM THE WORLD FEDERATION OF ROSE SOCIETIES: Welcome! Canada, a country of stunning beauty and striking contrasts, stretching from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean with its majestic snow-capped mountains and wonderful gardens, its inhabitants attached to traditions with their lilting accent either in French or English, will welcome delegates to the 15th World Rose Convention of the WFRS for the second time since 1985. The Canadian Rose Society, along with the Vancouver Rose Society, has been working for many months under the leadership of Brenda Viney and Darlene Sanders. A comprehensive educational program featuring first-rate lecturers and guest speakers from around the world has been prepared by the organizing committee. During the daytime, delegates will also have the opportunity to view a spectacular Rose Show and a Rose Festival which will feature our favourite flower in an abundance of rose and garden displays. In addition, tours will be offered enabling delegates to discover Beautiful British Columbia. Ample time will be included for visitors to gather together and deepen the ties of friendship that bind all rosarians together. The American Rose Society has decided to hold its spring convention in Vancouver during our world convention. I am overjoyed with this decision and it is my pleasure to extend our warmest greetings to all participants from the USA. On behalf of the World Federation of Rose Societies, I am honoured to invite delegates from our 38 member countries to join us in Vancouver for the 15th World Rose Convention and I look forward to sharing many unforgettable moments together, thus contributing to the richness of our Federation. Dr Gald Meylan Président Registration: (IN CANADIAN DOLLARS) Feb 1, 2009 to Onsite Seven Day Convention Pass $349 $399 $449 Three Day Convention Pass $249 $299 $349 Travel: Air The Vancouver International Airport has consistently been rated as a top North American airport providing easy access from all over the world. The Vancouver International Airport is approximately 11 miles from downtown. Transfer service is readily available by the Airporter bus, taxi, limousine or car rental companies. An efficient airport transfer service, the Airporter transports delegates from the airport to all the downtown hotels at a cost of approximately $12.00 each way or $18.00 return. Taxi fares are roughly $27.00 and private limousine service is $34.00 one way + gratuity. All of these services accept credit cards. (All fees are approximate and are 2008 prices, Canadian.) Car Vancouver is also easily accessible by car from other parts of Canada via the Trans-Canada Highway and from the United States via the I-5 Freeway which connects Vancouver with the entire West Coast of the United States. In fact, many American visitors make the easy drive to Vancouver just to spend the day (Vancouver is only a 3 hour drive from Seattle)! Visit the Canada Border Services Agency for official border information. A handy website describing border crossing information is borderlineups.com. Rail Vancouver is served by two main railways  VIA Rail Canada, which provides passenger service to other Canadian cities and Amtrak which accesses the US market. Located downtown, the Pacific Central Station is served by taxis and Translink, operator of local city buses, the Skytrain (a mono rail that makes convenient downtown stops), and the Seabus (linking Vancouver to North and West Vancouver). Exhibiting Roses at the Rose Show Exhibiting roses at the WFRS and ARS Rose Show is open to everyone! Cut flowers/roses from all countries do not require an import permit or phytosanitary certificate. However, they are subject to inspection at the first port of entry (any port of entry to Canada) and must be free of pests and soil. If you are shipping cut flowers or require assistance shipping cut flowers from the port of entry to the venue, then please contact Theresa Smith via email at tsmith@eventsonthemove.com. If you are bringing cut flowers with you, once you have cleared customs at the port of entry, then you simply bring the cut flowers to the venue. The Rose Show takes place during the Rose Festival at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre. Details such as loading and unloading in preparation for the Rose Show will be provided upon registration as a Rose Show Exhibitor. Customs Information Events on the Move, the official Custom Broker for the World Rose Convention 2009, will assist everyone who will be crossing borders with roses. Simply contact Events on the Move and a representative will walk you through the process. Events on the Move is applying to Canada Customs to ensure the Convention is recognized to receive all the privileges to which this event is entitled, all in an effort to streamline the shipping process for you into Vancouver, BC, Canada. Additional Customs information will be coming soon. Canadian Food Inspection Agency Information For information about transporting roses and plants across the border into Canada, please review the Canadian Food Inspection Agency website under Plant and Plant Product Imports. For More Information Contact Peter Robichaud Sales Manager  Events on the Move Customs Brokerage and Shipping for the Meeting and Convention Industry 605  1125 Howe Street, Vancouver BC, Canada V6Z 2K8 Tel: 604-647-0130 Fax: 604-647-0136 Toll Free: 1-877-355-1116 Here is a link that might be useful: Convention webpage

A few years back, I opened an account with BlueHost.com and registered www.thekitchengardener.com I deluded myself into thinking that I could earn some ad revenue by posting gardening related content and showing ads through Google AdSense. I posted a series of long articles and had plans to host a discussion forum and even make my own movies. I maintained the site for almost a year, but never got enough hits to earn more than a few measly bucks from Google. It finally dawned on me one day that the basic problem is that the Web is up to its eyeballs in content. Youtube was just taking off at the time, piling massive amounts of video on top of all the other content already available. In order to stand out, you've got to do something really unique, or work like heck to develop your own mountain of content. All's well that ends well though. I registered another domain with BlueHost to start selling custom kitchen knife blocks (woodworking is my OTHER favorite hobby besides gardening!), which so far has been far more lucrative than selling ads on a gardening site. A few months ago I accidentally uploaded my knife block pages to thekitchengardener.com - woops! I haven't even bothered to fix it. :-) Anyway, I'm not trying to discourage you, just sharing my personal experience. If you're looking for a hosting company, I would have no problem recommending BlueHost. They are reasonably priced ($90/year if I remember correctly), offer a lot of extra tools to run scripts, monitor usage, etc. etc. Their tech support department has been helpful on the few times I've needed to contact them. The other nice thing about going with a hosting company is that you get your own email addresses - lots of them! I think I can create like 1,000 email accounts or something crazy like that. I only use 2. :-) For software, I use FrontPage. It took some time to get used to, but I quite like it now. I try to keep my websites simple anyway, so I only use a fraction of what FrontPage can do, but I don't like tedious tasks so using an editor is much more convenient for me than coding HTML by hand. FrontPage has recently been replaced by SharePoint Designer, which I have used once or twice. From what I can see it looks pretty similar to FrontPage. Also note that if you want all the flexibility of a hosted solution but don't want to pay a hosting company, you can host it yourself. Recipe: 1) Download a VMWare virtual appliance containing Apache web server. Also download VMWare Server to run it on. Both are free. 2) Configure your cable modem/DSL router to pass port 80 traffic to your virtual webserver. 3) Register a subdomain with a dynamic DNS provider. Most of them will work with dynamic IP addresses (DHCP), and are usually free. You can alternatively see if you can get a fixed IP address from your ISP (they will probably charge extra for this) and then point your domain to that address. This is all free, but there will be a pretty steep learning curve if you're not technical. -Diggity

Don't worry about disappointing me, Lisa. The only way I'll be disappointed is if you are. Make sure you have everything ready to go. You don't add water to the soil until after you're done repotting. I'll try to list the steps: 1) Get everything together. A sharp set of pruners, a hose & nozzle with a sharp jet, your new pot, the root pick I sent, a tub, a screen to cover the drain hole, an old shoelace or something not made of cotton for the wick. 2) Depot your plant and saw of the bottom 1/3 of the roots and soil. 3) Bare-root the plant, using the hose & root pick. Dip the plant in the tub frequently as you work with the root pick to keep roots moist & to rinse away the soil you've loosened with the pick. 4) Correct crossing, girdling, encircling roots. Try to clear the area directly under the trunk of small roots. No roots should grow toward the center, Try to trim all of those off so you're left with only outward growing roots. 5) Prepare the pot & partially fill with soil. Make sure you'll have enough soil to do the job. Mixing peat or other soil into it will greatly reduce its effectiveness. 6) Set the plant on top of the bed of soil. Slowly fill the pot with soil, a scoop at a time. Use the root pick to fill all the voids in the root mass with soil. Cover only to the flare where the trunk divides into roots. The very top of the main roots will be exposed. 7) Tap the pot with the heal of your hand or a rubber mallet to settle the soil & top off again. 8) Set the pot in a tub of water & slowly fill it to about 1/4" lower than the soil line. Leave it there for about 15-30 minutes. 9) Remove & let it drain. 10) Secure the plant to the pot (see picture above) like I did or devise something similar. 11) Site the plant in shade & out of wind until new growth starts to break, then move to sun. Shade the container to keep soil temperatures under 90* You can use the root pick to test to see if the plant needs watering. If the root pick comes out wet or damp - don't water. If it comes out dry, water. I'll be around if you have questions. Don't fertilize yet, but find one of these 3 fertilizers, listed in order of preference: Foliage-Pro 9-3-6 (best), Miracle-Gro 24-8-16 granular soluble (box), Miracle-Gro 12-4-8 liquid (yellow jug). These fertilizers are excellent choices for anything you grow in containers - including your houseplants. Good luck, Lisa. If I think of anything I missed, I'll let you know. Al