I think versicolor is the same as variegata, and to me it looks similar to peppermint stick. They are both awesome in spring and early summer, but the improvement in peppermint stick is that it doesn't green out when temperatures get high, variegata does. Ive only had peppermint stick for a little over a year, but so far so good. Neither type has needed staking for me, but they are in full sun, windy positions, and by the time seed heads form its usually time for a freeze to kill them. Take a look at golden chain too, I might even like that one better, but it's a few feet shorter than the others.... Which might be good in some spots, but I like enthusiastic grasses, so bigger is better! No saltwater floods here (sorry to hear about yours) but last springs' late freezes really knocked my smaller arundos back and even killed one outright. It was annoying to see the huge fat bamboo sprouts turn to mush.

Hi June ..why not come on over to Graphics and Scanning . This is where you can learn how to use PSP. If you do not have the program we can get you to the site to download a 30 to 60 day free trial!! The people there are so helpful and have so much to share and teach ! What can you lose?? I have both Picture It 2001 and PSP..so far t is PSP for me. If you need the address for the free download just ask over there and will get you to it!! If you have just a dial up connection you might not be able to download as it is a large program and takes too long and people get bumped!! If you have a faster connection you should not have a problem! Hope to see you over at the other forum. Love NebGranny98

Welcome Jen! FlutteringBy did a great job on answering your questions. I am not familiar with Photo Shop Elements either. I did try Photo Shop and found the learning curve much higher than PSP and seemed to do most of the same things. I prefer PSPX, it is what I am used to now. I did the trial of PSPXI but didn't see enough difference between that or X. So I don't feel the need to upgrade. I think you probably would benefit by updating to at least X as a lot of the tuts are now being written for PSPX. Not that they can't be done in earlier versions, it just makes it easier to follow if you have a more recent version and the newer ones have more features. Just don't un-install PSP7 as the newest PSP's do not come with animation shop. And you may still want to use PSP 7 for some things. It does load quicker than PSPX. I still have 7,9 and PSPX installed. One good way to find tut sites is to check the posts, I as do most others here list the site that they came from and you can just go to the bottom of the tut (in most cases) and find the index or home page of the author for the rest of the tuts. Depending what type of tubes you are looking for I have several tube sites that I just couldn't do without. Let me know and I will send you some. Carol

And I would like to recommand you a photo editing software. you may want to try PhotoStudio. It has same functions like PhotoShop but much easier to edit photos with and more economical in price. Either you're win or mac user, PhotoStudio has both version known as photo editor mac and windows photo editor. http://www.arcsoft.com/topics/photo-editor/photo-editor-for-mac.html Here is a link that might be useful: Photo editing software