also i would be very interested in building a list of fellow florist bloggers but would require a reciprocal link somewhere on their site for me to publish their link
how can we do this virtual blogger network - and if mylink goes away so does theirs!
You simply do not have sufficient width in the right side bar to display the links you have created. Keep in mind that using the tree view requires more width than just displaying the text link. You could try using a 2 column design, placing all your sidebar plugins on either the left or right. Bulletproof makes this very simple for you from the "Manage Styles" admin link. Once you select one of the 2 column layouts, BP will emit all sidebar plugins in the single sidebar regardless of where they are positioned via "Configure Plugins". You could then modify the css to increase the remaining single sidebar if you required greater width.
The link list options you are using utilize javascript to display/hide the sub-links. That js, in turn, renders its own html and css... it is possible you could modify that to accomplish your objective. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to dig deeply into it, which is why I suggested you might, instead, want to work with a single sidebar which would then have greater width.