Just posted more WS blooms on the gallery page Fran Here is a link that might be useful: WS blooms

You may be fighting a never ending battle to accomplish your goal with this one. I have never grown April Dawn but in researching it, to quote Camellia Forest and others, it has an "Erect habit, with vigorous growth rate." While you can try to keep it beaten into submission, both you and your plant may find that trying. It is generally better to pick a cultivar that grows more naturally into the desired form than to try to force a plant into what is an unnatural one for it. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it will just be a lot easier to accomplish if the cultivar tends more toward the desired habit to begin with. There are a lot of possibilites, but north of zone 7 you, of course, have fewer choices than we enjoy on to your south... Best of luck! Bill.

Just added a new Tropical Paradise category in the Garden Galleries. Hope to see some of your photos there!

I saved a pic to see the file size, only 125kb. Ok, but wouldn't the actual black background also take some time to load also?...just like if one had some sort of real busy background? I'm thinking about and comparing it to maybe making a copy of something on my printer and it having a background other than white. Ten MBs on a slow connection, particularly a DUN, could seem like an eternity. My speed runs between 200 and 500 kpbs. Many people with fast connections tend to forget what it's like for people with slower connections. That's sure the truth. The member has said numerous times he/she doesn't know how to post a single pic...I just decided against trying to explain, thinking I was likely the only one with a slow or slower connection. I know some folks on dun just don't attempt to open some pic stuff...not worth the waste of time.