Jeri, The first time was a fluke! I had accidentally broken off a flowering cluster, it was fall, so I brought it into the house, placed it on a paper plate and left it in a seldom used walkthrough in the house which was dark (had only an outside solid wooden door which was seldom opened). Happened to check a few weeks later and there they were, thoroughly dried out. Due to the drying, the color had intensified slightly, the size of the blooms had shrunk very slightly but were still perfectly shaped, and the fragrance was still there when one sniffed. It was extremely brittle. This cluster lasted for months until my sister moved it and of course it shattered. The following year I did it again to see if the previous year was just a fluke but had the same results. As I said the color deepened slightly but held, didn't turn brown and the petals never drooped but held their form. This was in Richmond, VA. Jeri, might suggest making a wreath of some sort, and dry it so it can then be later hung without touching the clusters. Never managed to try it. Jerome, mine grew in VA to about 6 feet. The branches grew up and then bent over forming a V shaped shrub. Visited the monastery once between 1998-2000 when I lived in Laguna Hills. Remember a few roses but it was in the preJerome days, unfortunately, LOL. Loved the pic of your Teasing Georgia, another one of my favorites (wish it were thornless though). For me EVS produced beautifully with no care. Jim

I don't know how others do it, but I copy and paste the HTML code (below the picture) on Photobucket. You cannot post it directly from your computer. You have to download it to a website and reduce it some to post on Gardenweb. Dot

Kathleen check your camera software for a basic editing tool that will resize your photos down to something like 800 x 600 pixels. I'll get back to you if you can't find it but you can also try using the free program Irfanview to reduce pics. I'll post instructions for using Irfanview if you need it. Here's a download link below. SharonCb Here is a link that might be useful: Irfanview - free photo editing program

Lee... I sent off my e-mail to Maureen before I saw that you'd be interested in the way I do Print Screen. I also used to save and paste into Irfanview until Wolf showed me a little German program he used. It saves you having to paste each time you save a screenshot and it is so easy to then save a series of screenshots one after the other. Here's the letter and explanation I sent to Maureen: I have been using a little German program called "Snapsaver" for an easy print screen function. The icon sits down in my tray at screen bottom and I call it up when I need it. With just two clicks, - one to call up the program and the next one to save the screen - it takes a screen copy and saves it to a predetermined folder where I keep all screenshots, so that eliminates having to cut and paste a screen each time you do a print screen. It will take as many shots as you like, just as long as you press the 'print screen' button, and then after a long pause it turns off until you click the icon to 'wake it up' again. Here is one download site at the link below .....I think all commands are in English but I'll go back and check as I see this page is in German. Usually after taking a screenshot I go to the saved snap in the snaps folder and use my resident default pictureviewer and cropper program (VuePrint) - and crop out any unnecessary edges from the screen capture and resize the page to around 800 x 600, which all together sharpens the image and clarifies any blurry text, then I save the cropped image into one of my photo files. VuePrint is an old program and costs very little I think I paid $40...from Hamrick Software and it is so transparent, yet wonderful as it sits there in the background without being noticed but as soon as I bring up a photo, it will crop and zoom in or out, resize, flip over or mirror image a photo. I think you can still download a test version of that program before paying anything. I just noticed that Hamrick's website is promoting his scanning program (VueScan) but at the top centre there is a link to VuePrint. This is such a neat little program! I'm happy to answer any further questions :-). SharonCb Here is a link that might be useful: Snapsaver Download Site