Almost a full house

Rubus fruticosus (Bramble)Almost there. I now have 33 student blogs listed out of a total of 36 (or 38 - we're not sure) students. I spent this afternoon with the Landscape Architecture students doing our usual session of AutoCAD, Plant ID and this week an introduction to SketchUp, which they appear to like very much. We also talked about the blog and most of them seem to be getting to grips with the Blogger environment, adding links to their page, uploading images etc. This is all very encouraging and the project is now starting to take shape.

I would like to make another appearance in front of the Garden Designers since they may have some comments to make or questions to be answered. I have received emails from many of them (which is good) but it's often the case that the ones that need most help are the ones that keep quiet about it. Also, our first meeting wasn't exactly electric so I'd like to improve on that. I'll talk to Jamie about doing a short session on Monday 7th November.

I notice that this blog is starting to look a bit wordy so I've included one of my plant test images from last week - The Autunm Hedgerow. If you're using Internet Explorer, you can mouseover the image for the answer. If you're using Firefox, you can right-click the image and choose "Properties".

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