Hi, I have just approved a message that came in earlier from David Ryle who has just joined our list. He was responding to the discussion we had in March about Gladiolus hardiness. When someone who is not a member posts to our group (besides all the spammers), we write asking them if they would like to join us so there is sometimes a delay before their message is approved. His message is dated Sat, 28 Apr 2007 in case your email like mine tucks the messages that arrives in the proper date order making it very challenging to find if the new message was sent at an earlier time or with an incorrect date stamp. Welcome to our list David. Mary Sue pbs list adminstrator