Sanju, you can change your information by going to the very bottom of any gardenweb page. There will be a gold/brown menu bar...one of the selections is "member pages". Click on that, which will take you to place where you can click on "my member page" or "my page"...something like that. This brings up a list of stuff: 1. See Your Member Page 2. Edit Your Personal Information, Page, and Preferences 3. List & Edit Your Journal Entries & etc. Click on the second one, "Edit Your Personal Information..." and you can change your location & so on. You might have to put the "australia" part in where ever it will fit--after your screen name or as part of your climate zone, for example. This forum software is pretty old, its been around since late 90's, so it's not all that flexible. I think when Spike first started the Gardenweb site he may have never imagined it would end up being world wide--that came later. Hope that helps. Don't worry about having the wrong country listed...you are not the only one from what I can tell...its that old-software-not-so-flexible problem.

Hi Ingrid, Here are some of the books I've found very helpful and enjoyable. I'm posting the front and back covers of each. They're all different but still handy to have for various purposes. I bought them all in the garden shop of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (which is conveniently quite close to where I live and within walking distance if I'm feeling adventurous and don't intend to buy any plants!). Bart O'brien who co-authored all 3 has long been on staff at RSABG and is a noted authority on California native plants, including one of my favs Rosa minutifolia. Carol Bornstein was the Director of Horticulture at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. She's a great advocate for locally appropriate plants, and champions one I'm still having trouble finding, the lovely grass, Bothriochloa barbinodis (Silver Beadgrass). David Fross is the founder of Native Sons Wholesale Nursery a source for many of the companion plants I've selected to grow with my roses. Btw, David Fross introduced a cultivar of a Calfornia native rose--Rosa californica 'Los Berros' (and yes I have it!). From From Gardening Books This one is arranged like an encyclopedia (by scientific names but with common names provided too, plus there's an index), showing many CA native plants in gardens or their natural environment. For each plant there is standard information provided such as what kind of plant it is, where it grows, light, soil, and water preferences, etc. Here's an excerpt from page 102 that describes California buckwheat: "Eriogonum fasciculatum California Buckwheat Plant type: Evergreen shrub. Geographic Zones: All except high mountains. Light: Sun to partial shade. Soil: Adaptable; well-drained preferred. Water: Drought tolerant to occasional. Natural Habitat and Range: Dry slopes and canyons in coastal scrub, chaparral, desert woodland, and desert scrub below 8000 feet; Alameda County south to northwestern Baja California and east to southwestern Utah and Arizona." Then there is a color photo of the plant along with information about the location of the photo, followed by 5 paragraphs of detailed notes, including multiple named cultivars. And that is the basic format for the whole book, with the amount of notes varying from plant to plant. There are in addition some excellent appendices that list places to see native plants growing as well as where to buy them. I consult this book all the time when considering what to add or not to add to my garden. It has saved me a lot of grief! 271 pages. From Gardening Books From Gardening Books This one has all sorts of handy data. There's a great plant list where the plants are grouped by form--trees, small trees/large shrubs, shrubs, sub-shrubs/perennials, vines, groundcovers, and cacti/succulents and arranged by watering needs--very low, low, medium, and high. There are sections on soil (including a neat quick test and table for determining the soil type in your garden), watering, climate, planting, care, pests, weeds, etc. 238 pages. From Gardening Books From Gardening Books This book is packed full of suggestions for replacing the traditional lawn and how to go about it. It is loaded with color pictures of examples of various options. Lawn replacements that this book covers include: greenswards, meadows, rock gardens, succulent gardens, carpet and tapestry gardens, kitchen gardens, green roofs. There is also an encyclopedia (like the one in California Native Plants for the Garden) of plants for those recommended. 154 pages. Melissa

Hard Candy~ Artist:Counting Crows On certain Sundays in November When the weather bothers me I empty drawers of other summer's Where my shadows used to be She is standing by the water As her smile begins to curl In this or any other summer She is something all together different Never just an ordinary girl And in the evenings on Long Island When the colors start to fade She wears a silly yellow hat That someone gave her when she stayed I didn't think that she returned it We left New York in a whirl Time expands and then contracts When you are spinning In the grips of someone Who is not an ordinary girl When you sleep You find your mother in the night But she stays just out of sight So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming And when you wake the morning covers you with light And it makes you feel alright But it's just the same hard candy You're remembering again You send your lover off to China Then you wait for her to call You put your girl up on a pedestal Then you wait for her to fall I put my summer's back in a letter And I hide it from the world All the regrets you can't forget Are somehow pressed upon a picture In the face of such an ordinary girl When you sleep You find your mother in the night But she fades just out of sight So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming And when you wake the morning showers you with light And it makes you feel alright But it's just the same hard candy You're remembering again Again 4X It's just the same hard candy You're remembering again Again 4X And it's just the same hard candy You're remembering again Go ask her to come around And see me late after dark Don't ask me to come around Then wait to see if there's a spark. Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVpewZ2dGQ

Wow, what a bunch of great suggestions. I don't know how to make these dvds either, but hubby figured it out. We don't know how to add film to them, or even edit film or digital films, but he'll figure it out eventually. We used the 'Turn Around' song in a slideshow of DGD, who's almost 4. I do remember a lot of these songs, and some of them are personal favorites. I'll find all of these, even the hee haw one. Some may be good for future slideshows. Thank you all so much. How the heck did you get a song to play on the link? Also, please share how to post a clickable link in a sentence. Thanks again. Linda