[davidbr]

Originally Posted by Tiggrx

The stamen shape and positioning plus the partially fused tepals forming a bell-shaped tube at the base of the flower indicate that this is a Chionodoxa. In fact it is Glory of the snow (Chionodoxa forbesii). Here is a pic of Alpine Squill to compare


Looks like you have been having some interesting finds recently.

Thanks, Tiggrx - C. forbesii never even occurred to me; I'd never seen it naturalised before, but in a garden setting it'd always seemed to form recognisable clumps. I guess when it's competing with the grass of a churchyard, adaptations have to be made It's just as well I'm delaying reporting any of these until the end of spring, really

I had Glory-of-the-Snow down as one of my main spring targets, too, so I can cross that one off - now all I've got to do is track down a genuine Scilla bifolia I ought to be able to add Greek Squill, S. messeniaca, this week at least; it should be in flower by now at Smallcombe Wood, near Bath.

Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad

Hi davidbr,

StuartDH has given the reasons a few times, and they are displayed within the FAQ section. - The main reason is to prevent WAB from becoming "infected" with dead links, should any of these external site pages disappear.

Ah, fair enough. It's just that I use photobucket for other forums and have never had any problem with it, so it'd have been a lot easier to be able to do the same on here. Rules are rules, though, I guess...

Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad

If you submit your pics. in the format required by WAB, I'm certain that you won't have any problems. I've uploaded more than a hundred, and haven't had a problem yet.

OK, so you might have to resize your pic, etc. but is that really such a no-no? My "out of camera" .jpeg's are usually about 5Mp. so I always have to resize any that I'm uploading to WAB. The process takes no more than a minute for each pic. (I use Photoshop Elements). I don't consider it too much hassle considering the small numbers of pics involved at any one time.

I put a thread up recently, which gives full step by step details of how to successfully upload to WAB. Why don't you give it a try and see how things go. Surely it doesn't make sense just to give up and lose out on potential future help (both for and from other contributors).

Here's the link to the thread: - http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/fo...otos-info.html

Regards
Mike.

It's not really a matter of giving up, Mike - it makes a mess of the galleries and I'm sure other members would find it annoying for me to continually post "images" with no viewable picture, even if it was a genuine mistake.

I'm aware of the size considerations and always make sure to resize them before trying the upload; no, it doesn't take very long, like you my files are usually around 5MB when I download them off-camera, and I usually reduce that to somewhere in the region of 750KB before attempting to put anything on this site.

It's after having done all that, though, that I'm getting the problems; not every time, I do manage to get some to go through OK, but that just makes it even more baffling because I can't understand why some work and others don't? They're all pretty much the same, after all