absolutely beautiful photos starwather! please keep them coming. you have a way of making my day with your submissions.

marlin#####

as a botanist I appreciate your descriptions of what we are viewing. Dirr, although quite the character in person, does have the "bible" of references in the woody plants manual. One thing I would disagree with you on though is the lack of quality rubrum selections. I believe there are quite a few - especially burgundy belle, A. rubrum 'magnificent magenta'  is quite nice in my opinion. are you familiar with that one?

thebutcher