Photographs to help the Newbie Gardener!

http://members.pingnet.ch/ibennett/
http://www.suite101.com/userfiles/79/gar
dening.html
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery/gallery_query.htm
http://
www.hpl.hp.com/botany/public_html/cacti_etc/images/succulents/index.html
htt
p://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm

Dear Neens:

I am sending my bookmarks for url's having
photographs at their search engines.

These should help you to find those "funny looking plants".

LOL! 

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At 06:06 AM 04/06/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I've just moved to the Pac NW (Silverdale) from Galveston, Tx.  Along
>with getting married, and purchasing the first home, I've been stricken
>with gardener's disease... <sigh> I'm addicted to working in my yard.  I
>don't know squat about gardening, just taking it one plant at a time,
>and learning (hopefully) from my mistakes.
>
>I have two issues:
>
>1.	I rescued several pots of mums from the Hospice Basket for
>Plants at the local Safeway.  These were lovely lemon yellow mums, and
>were so root bound it was pathetic.  I transplanted them to clay pots
>(because my dad always said clay or nothing...), and want to know if
>it's ok to fertilize them, do they need fertilizer, can they be
>transplanted in my flowerbeds?  I think I'm zone 8.
>
>2.	At the garden center on base, I found Dahlia tubers, 1.50 a pkg
>for two tubers about 3 inches long.  They are Pom Pom & "Giant" Dahlias.
>Any suggestions for planting these little darlings?  I bought them
>simply because the pictures on the pkg were awesome!  I'd never seen a
>dahlia before, so I just HAAAAD to add those in some spot of my garden.
>What confuses me is: when it comes to these Dahlias, I read a ton of
>contradictory information about planting, care, etc... <sigh> I'd sure
>love some good sound advice!
>
>3.	Also, my girlfriend and I sorta dug up some daylillies from a
>condemmed city block in the next town...(They're going to burn the
>houses... why burn perfectly good plants?)  I've now got a bed of full
>grown plants measuring about six feet in length.  Nice and thick!  TONS
>of buds about to open.  Do you fertilize these?  
>
>Please, feel free to email me privately if you wish.  I'm new to the
>list, and I'm sure you all have hashed these questions time and again.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Neens
>
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