Your garden is looking terrific, especially for this time of year. You must have had great growing conditions. Hard to tell from photos, but it looks like even the white parts of the leaves are fine. We had a lot of rain this year, but also had hot weather. Lots of fungal disease, a bit of southern blight, nematodes, slugs, and hail have taken their toll. Next year I'm going to forget about being organic and put on fungicide, Nemakill, Bayer three-in-one, and a systematic insecticide for the Japanese beetles and hickory borers. Hate to do it, but the garden is losing the war.

Perhaps this is another opportunity to laud the Rose Forum of the National Garden Association where many of us have joined (Jeri, Lisa, Nippstress, MustbNuts, Christopher and many more whose names escape me at the moment. It's a very friendly and easy to use forum, pictures are easy to load and there are no ads! You can be from overseas also, Marlorena, so I hope everyone has a look-in to decide whether they might decide to join. Anything new is never comfortable right away, and this has been my home for so long that I'm really sorry to part ways. I'm still going to answer posts here but I don't think I'll ever start a new post. Houzz has just worn me down with their ineptitude and lack of genuine concern for the gardenweb users, but it's difficult to wrench myself away. Perhaps it will be easier if I meet more of you over there!

I tried doing what is recommended for the color correction - making a photo of a "grey card" at the same location, then the plant, and using a first photo for custom correction of the white balance. The worse is the light - the more improvement you see. If you use daylight spectrum source of light - it is not really that much of a difference. When you are tweaking it by the photo editing software - the useful tool is "saturation" - but you only use it in a very subtle way. It gives a photo a little boost in a vividness of the colors... as long as you do not exceed 20%.. I would like to know how to produce "kodak colors" without compromising the palette... but so far it eludes me. It seems to me that the light requirements for growing, observing and taking photos - are 3 independent things. The easiest is growing - the plants are not picky - cool light, day light, LED... as long as we are in a ball park of usable wavelengths and intensity - they will grow. Means as long as you do not use incandescent bulbs as a main source of light- and do not under or overload them with not enough or way too much - they will grow and bloom. The way how they look - day light, grow light, full spectrum... there is a way to boost reds so the human eye perceives them as vivid. You do not take advantage of it - your reds will look like a dead meat instead of ruby reds. Because in reality the reds are all coral reds... The way how you make photos - you need brighter light - and probably some kind of a day light corrected source. Higher then the plants actually need for growing. Think about photo studio - with bright lights from the sides, staged background... specialized flashes... I talk too much ... as usual... Any ideas? Irina

https://vimeo.com/661691934 Well at least the link works, :) Sorry about that thought I could post/embed a short animation directly into this comment box