Antoinette, Just curious about your GW name. Where did you come up with that Hawaiian name? I belong to a Bonsai club and the very experienced members have been extremely nice and helpful. I am learning about about the artistic facet of Bonsai by leaps and bounds. I am even starting to understand what Al(thanks for all your wisdom)here at the Bonsai Forum talks about. I watched a bonsai master take a nursery plant and turn it into a plant-on-a-rock bonsai fully wired and trimmed in two hours. It was incredible. The great thing was that he discussed what he was doing the entire time. Then the tree & rock bonsai was raffled off at the end of the free demonstration. I can't recommend the people-to-people learning experience enough. See photo below: The Tree is a dwarf Jade. Good Luck JMHO Aloha

Thanks for your kind remarks ginger and RC. Hi hearts in bloom. In the winter months they are indoors in south facing windows, but when it warms up they go in to the unheated greenhouse for a few months. I don't deliberately turn mine round but I move them to the drainer for watering and they just get put back any old way lol. I have heard before that some people don't turn them, but Indont know if it makes any difference. I'm not going to feed them so much this year. I was feeding every two weeks, had loads of foliage but not a bloom. Brian, from UK who uses this forum has beautiful adeniums with lovely flowers and I'm sure he said he rarely feeds them. I think it's a case of hit and miss and for those in cooler climates it's a bit more of a juggle. Still I'm always inspired by seeing everyone's lovely plants on here and it keeps me going. Good luck on getting flowers and if you do, put up a pic. Kind regards Averil This post was edited by averil on Fri, May 2, 14 at 5:26

Eddie, after going to your website and reading about how interested you are in gardening, you SURELY must know that it's all SO different, even in the same state. Like, you being outside of Atlanta, couldn't possibly grow some things that do well on the GA coast. . . . I trained in NE FL. The county directly east of me is coastal and in a different zone -- stuff that grows there was iffy in my county. That's why the MG from central FL. had to re-train in our county when she moved there. And in Oct., when I moved from NE FL (s. of Jax) to SE TX (n. of Houston) it's the same zone BUT. . . . .WOW, it is sooo different. Yeah there are some things that grow in both places, but the natives are different. And I grew in sand there; this is clay (and after immediately hooking up with my new co. Extension Office, found out I have to grow in raised beds here -- what a HASSLE!) Same zone, but it's warmer here (NO freezes this past winter, versus MANY freezes in NE FL) and way more humid. OK, sorry, with my ranting. The point is that MG's assist homeowners in growing their best landscaping. And that training pertains to a VERY small region surrounding your county. Hence, the MG cert. doesn't transfer state-to-state (I'm at a COMPLETE loss when I go back to OH to visit family -- I don't have a clue about what grows there.) On the other hand, human bodies adapt really well to whatever climate they find themselves in. Unlike plants. My MD DL could successfully practice medicine with human bodies anywhere in the world. And so will my son when he finishes Med. School. But I have to take the MG training here in SE TX.

You might do some research on inks too. I got a rude awakening when I printed my wife's Red Hat logo on magnetic paper and placed on our fridge door. In 3 months or so it has faded really badly yet I was using HP inks in my HP Photosmart 7760 printer. I suspect you would find it cheaper to use a photo printing service and possibly find their inks to be of a higher standard than those packaged for consumers. Others may well have a comment on this point. I rarely print photos, being quite happy to store them on my computer.