Well, she's in the ground :)! Yesterday, during late afternoon shade, I dug deep and wide to give the best chance. The garden bed's top 6 inches is run-of-the mill garden soil and then heavy clay begins - solid clay at least 1.5 ft down. I didn't dig deeper but know it continues thanks to last summer's experience. I'm a little concerned that the clay floor and wall that runs around the hole will cause issues but, hopefully, I've amended the area adequately. In the bottom, I put about 8 inches of triple mix (peat, compost, manure), gently roughed the roots, set the bush on top of a pyramid pile, sprinkled some bonemeal around, filled in, firmed and watered. Watered a bit more this morning, too, just in case. Feel free to tell me where I goofed ;-). Now, I'm on the hunt for clematis (maybe Piilu)...and probably one more rose...The bug has bitten :). Karenforroses - I loved your pairing of veronica with your Macy's Pride. I picked up two to accompany mine - Royal Candles. Pretty sure sweet William will go in there as well. I have seedlings on the go but just heard they'll not bloom til next year. Ah, well. Off-topic: Others I picked up on the same trip- nemesia Berries n Cream, heliotrope, stock, dianthus Arctic Fire and coreopsis Moonbeam. The coreopsis will go near some salvia May Night at the side of the house...I haven't decided about the others - containers or beds, time will tell. The nemesia smalls out of this world!!! Thanks, everyone.

Renee, it would be nice to see this site move into the 21st Century. I like Garden Buddies, because it's easy to use HTML and posting pics is a breeze ... not to mention that wonderful edit function!

It's a great new option, and I have not had to un block any thing, I have firefox with adblock plus and easylist, so no need to see the ads. The reason for them to do this is so they can try to control the size of the picture files people are adding to their posts. The new option has a size limit. This is a good thing. When someone includes a huge file it can seriously slow down page load speed and for those on dialup that can make access frustratingly slow. My guess is that you may have some thing else blocked like java? I am very happy to see this new option and hope they work out the bugs and get it implemented.

To use picasa, once you have on your screen the photo you want to use, go to the right and click "link to this photo". You can choose the size of the photo as well as your privacy level. Then it spits out some HTML for link to or embed. Copy the stuff in the embed box. Then stick that into a post. I'm old school and use (img src=whateverthatstuffintheboxwas) using the pointy carets (sp?) instead of parentheses.