How is your garden looking today?

Eva, I would love to try, although I've heard that they are hard to start here, for some reason--maybe the altitude. That would be one of the ultimate blooms for a moon garden. I also try to include fragrance in the plants I choose.

I've grown them easily from seed. If I were you, I'd buy a couple of 99 cent packages and try! I mixed them with morning glories so I'd have blooms day and night. The foliage is very similar.

Anyway, it would be cheap enough to try. They never came back the next year, though, so I planted new seeds every spring.

Good morning, garden people!

I'm delighted to tell you that I'm now on holiday for two weeks & at last my garden is getting some sorely needed attention! It has not been at all good, constantly looking & looking at all the work that needs doing & having neither the time nor energy to do it.
So yesterday, on an amazingly warm & sunny winter's day, I got out there! Hooray, dirt under my finger nails at last! Weeding, pruning, shifting some small trees to more suitable places & a lot of looking, looking, looking .... Garden, I missed you!
This afternoon I'll venture out to front yard & repair some of the damage to my plants out there. I think I must have employed the clumsiest painter in Melbourne to work on my picket fence!
My plants aren't doing brilliantly, still (on-going dought), but it looks like all of them have survived one of the driest summers & autumns, on record. At times like this I'm glad that I have a relatively small front & back garden to maintain. Watering in autumn & winter is a very odd thing to need to do & it bothers me doing it during a drought.
Oh, one last thing: My daphne is about to flower for the first time since I transplanted it here! (from my previous home) In the middle of winter! Still, I'm very pleased. I thought it wasn't going to ever flower again & I love daphne!

Well, this year, we didn't to much rain, insects and storm on our balcony. (Although three rose bushes didn't really get blossoms at all - there a really cheap one [2 Euros, the one in the left corner] looks quite good )

Momenatrily, it's - again - a kind of 'in-between-time': first flowers have lost their blossoms already and start getting new ones:


(clicking on the photo enlarges this part of our balcony :wink: )

still trying to post photos!
Is Imageshack only for PC users? I'm on a Mac and tried to get in but...

I use imageshack all the time, eoe (mac user.)

Maybe if you tell us specifically what the problem is we can help you figure it out. (I wanna see your pics! :-D)

And that's a lovely cheery terrace, Walter! The geraniums are awfully pretty.

Thanks, soz.

(The geraniums only look so good, since I keep them under the roof [which covers the other half of the balcony/terrace] when it gets to stormy :wink: )

Well, I registered with Imageshack this morning after Walter's link and received the email with a link but when i try it, I'm redirected and I get this...

IT SEEMS THAT YOU HAVE EITHER LOST YOUR COOKIE OR DISABLED COOKIES.
THIS MAY BE BECAUSE YOU LOGGED OUT, BECAUSE YOUR COOKIE EXPIRED, OR BECAUSE YOU CLEARED YOUR COOKIES.
IF SO, PLEASE CLICK THE ACTIVATION LINK IN THE EMAIL THAT WAS SENT TO YOU UPON REGISTRATION. IF YOU ARE NOT SURE WHY YOU CANNOT ACCESS YOUR ACCOUNT, OR IF YOU HELP ON HOW TO ENABLE COOKIES, PLEASE SEARCH GOOGLE.

I'm cookied, logged on, I don't get it. maybe I'll just re-register. (a faulty link, perhaps?)

Hmm, the registering biz might be the main problem. No need. Just go to www.imageshack.us, do the "choose" thing, then do "host it." All done.

are we there yet?

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Yay!!!!!

Very close -- choose one of the thumbnail urls.

From what I can see that looks GREAT!

you can see it?

I can indeed, it's just smallish.

They have a selection of urls you can use -- just select one that it called something like "thumbnail for forums" and plonk it in whole, don't need to do anything or add anything to it.

Forgive me guys.
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Could the image be too small to upload?

still trying...

still...

eoe, perhaps you try the different possibilties at the Testing cathegory :wink:

eoe, your "still trying" two posts up -- 1418457 -- is IT! It's larger and I can see it. You can't?

Just lovely!