Agirlsgirl, I have several hedge rows in place that wouldn't be there if I had been as into clematis as I have become before I planted them. As for the supports over the garage, you can purchase a masonry drill bit and drill holes in the mortar. You then purchase lead anchors that you can get in various sizes and pound them into the holes. Next you get screws, eyehooks are great, and screw them into the lead anchors. You can then string wire of various types from eye hook to eye hook and allow the vines to grow along the wire. What is great is that you can make intricate designs on your wall and make a trellis of any shape you desire.

Gee, I get very little spam. I get a lot of sales "fliers", but they are from companies I purchase stuff from. Most of the time I delete without reading, other times I read, and some times I even purchase something advertised in the email. Maybe I'm just lucky, spam hasn't been a problem for me on any of my email addresses, I look after three of them, plus my wife's. I can't remember a single time I got an email from myself or from one of my other addresses. I guess that's what has protected me from using such tools as were discussed in this thread. I hope the computer gurus on this forum keep giving free help, I've been the beneficiary many times, and I welcome even short and direct inputs pointing out the errors I am, or may be, making. NJ is finally getting winter today, snow, freezing rain. Newark air port is reporting 7 hour delays, or cancellations, no sun shine for us for a day or two.

LOL Pam, I'm glad I'm not the only one! How ever in the world I got on their list I will never know. At first I thought it was funny only because it was an example of "it takes all kinds . . . " but now I find it incredulous, along with all the others. Wish I knew how to stop those, since they use spam machines to generate nonsense e-mail addresses that I can't block since they use a new one each time.

Yeah, I understand that of course they don't know my email address when contacting me through gardenweb. So, I don't really know the solution. And really, I don't mind getting emails asking me about my kitchen -- it's flattering of course. And I always do try to respond right away. It's basically this "identify yourself" process that momj47 mentioned. I'm just not going to go through that. What's the answer? I guess my suggestion is for the emailer to make sure his/her email contact is available through gardenweb, then ask me to answer through that, and then make sure gardenweb is an acceptable sender for the spam filter. IOW, the sender should go to the effort to make sure it's easy for the person replying to get through, not the other way around.