Thanks Will for your explaining in the way you see this. As you know I'm correcting conifer names here since day one I'm a member of this forum. From most of them it's not traceable who changed or misspelled these names, that's why I've to make the same corrections over and over again. I know I'm a straight talker but remember one thing: Most of the times it were the U.S. nurserymen who made these mistakes because of careless behaviour. Nobody here disagreed with them because they had in mind that these nurseryman had all the wisdom for these names. And then comes a young man from THE NETHERLANDS who's telling here what they're doing wrong. It's my opinion that this is not acceptable by several Americans here, and Dave is one of them because he's too proud to ask me for helping him (yet). Let me tell you this foreign guy is cleaning up the mess here which is created by Americans, and what do I get: A BIG MOUTH from fairfield and cococco, like they are the experts here, speaking about disrespectful. How much help did they provide here, the answer is NON. fairfield, at least I helped you out to pick the right understock for your new Pinus taeda brooms, remember, or do you've a short memory? Like said before, wrong spelled conifers couldn't be traced back in most of the times, but this time I can grab one by it's tail who's trying to fix the ACS database. No new mistakes will go in there. I'm willing to help him, but he has to ask me first and don't messing around by himself because that won't work. Another thing is "my high horse". Several times I showed pics here of my nursery and all the comments were very positive and some where whishing that I should open such nursery in the U.S. This can never happen because from my own experiences I can tell that nobody is so disciplinary as I'm in organizing things in the way I do. The same thing is my way of thinking in conifer names, it must be done in the right way or it shouldn't be done at all, but there's nothing for me in between. So what you're calling "high horse", is discipline for me. cococo, are you a word stutterer? It's very easy, it's just conifer... Fairfield, you must feel lucky that I made 3 U.S. nursery tours. I discovered all their dirty monkeyshines in which they're trying to fool you as buyers of their product... One of these is the false Picea sitchensis 'Bentham's Sunlight' which the Iseli Nursery is planning to sell to you American conifer buyers. I don't need no "thank you" for that, but I don't need a big mouth eiter! Well, that's it for now, I'm curious what kind of answers I'll get for this...

I was going to start a new posting when someone was talking about plant labels, but searched first and found this and figured that I would add it here instead... hopefully it gets found if people are interested. I found this trick in a magazine, and although the markers aren't as attractive as the commercial ones, when I am doing hundreds of seedlings, I am more worried about cost effective than beauty. Heavy duty plastic knives with either permanent marker or a printed label work wonders. They are way tougher than any commercial plastic markers I have found, go into the ground very easily without breaking, and are quick and cheap! I buy mine at Costco in a box of 600 for around $9. I use them for everything from marking my seedling trays, to marking the actual garden perrennials. Julie

I would be working that label maker. I can see all sorts of reasons why strange switches are in places which seem strange to you. I have often wished I had a switch for the front door light in my bedroom and a switch for the backyard flood some where upstairs as well. Clear label...stuck on....who cares? And it can be un stuck easily. BTW mine are not labeled, you have to live here for a while to know that the bottom half of the wall plug by the door is controlled b y the 3rd switch on the wall and that unless lamp on the counter is on you can't plug the vacuum into that plug. I have also put a piece of magic Scotch tape over switches that should not be messed with when trying to turn on the lamp.Can hardly notice.....

I just made some enchilada. I use corn tortillas, but if you cannot get them, flour ones are ok. Only difference is I dip the tortillas in warm (hot) enchilada sauce, then put the fillings in along the side. I use ground beef or shredded beef, or chicken or turkey. This time I sauteed my onions a bit, and they tasted better. I also add olives and shredded cheese. Roll, and layer. You can also may a enchilada casserole. Just layer the items, but do heat up the torillas first in hot sauce. Then freeze or bake.