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Daniel, didn't mean to cause you any excess stress, and I certainly wouldn't like to be the 2%. Hopefully image theft would not become so prevelant that anyone would want to withdraw their images. I notice that one or two users have submitted photographs with personalised logos superimposed on them - maybe this will be the (unfortunate) way forward on this issue.

Thanks much Daniel . Best of The Season to yourself and UBC staff.

The future of the nursery industry is not online. Yes, many of the "big boys" do have web sites but most of those nurseries are wholesale growers and do not sell to upstart nurseries in name only that are not current or past members of their state associations of nurserymen. Used to be a mandated requirement for all wholesale plant sales, still is in some parts of the country. Jim

Thanks, Ann. I do try to take that approach, but it can be difficult to do sometimes. I suppose one does the best one can. maf, I'm not stressed -- well, maybe a little, but only because I'm trying to finish some things before going on holidays. I wasn't referring to you re: the 2%. Anyway, this thread should probably go back on track now ;-)

I have posted many pics in this forum. I agree that it is not right to use them pretending they are from other sources, not to mention all the reasons given by Jim. On the other hand I have no objection for anybody using them, including for commercial puposes, as long as the source is quoted , i.e.: 'photo taken at Gomero's garden' or 'with permission from Gomero's garden', etc.... Gomero

On the other hand, Raintree's sales exploded when they went online.

My Official Apology! To all members of this forum: I would like to say that I am sorry if we have used your pics on our website without permission. If anyone would like to donate pics for us to use or would like to trade some trees for pics please contact us on our website Kigi Nursery. I would like to move on from this issue now and get back to my personal passion for Maples and and Horticulture in general. Good luck to you all and hope to...

I appreciate the message from Justen/Kigi. I feel the same as Gomero. I am pleased to have my pics viewed and enjoyed by others as long as the image is credited to to UBC or PTB.

While I prefer this forum for Acer discussions, I found that Gardenweb has alot of great info, especially on soils. Check out these Search Results for Turface over there. See the multiple discussions on Container Soil mixes, and info about Turface and other Products that are very similar. http://search.gardenweb.com/search/n...urface&x=0&y=0

KBaron, Not really. Every now and then we will have some, but the dead is just in random places. As Gomero said, it's like they are branches that the maple decided it didn't want to put the energy into for whatever reason. The dead in question doesn't seem to be due to any problem. I was just wondering if for the form and growth of the trees if it is important to remove the growth or not. Sometimes it looks like they have sent...