Depends on where you are. Okra needs temperatures in the 90's to grow and produced well. Starting this late, you would need those temps extending into September. If you use a short season cultivar, soak the seeds overnight, plant them in good warm soil, they should be up and running ina couple of days. If your late season is warm enough, you have a chance. Okra grows rapidly in warm weather, but sits and sulks when it cools.

Purple, sounds great. Cuttings on the floor!! I do not consider cleaning felled plants, stealing. lol. Are their plants in order? Or here and there? It was nice they took you on a tour. I'd need a cart. lol Are price tags on the plants? Out of all the family owned nurseries here, only one is around..Opened year round...sounds like GHW's set up. Numerous gh's. Three large, connected gh's hold succulents and tropicals. Outdoors, there's gh after gh, but they're dedicated to annuals/perrenials, etc. These gh's are closed during winter months. I like visiting during winter..never know what you'll find. One time, they had an extremely underpotted Philo 'congo' for 4.00. They were huge. Of course, the Philo jumped in my cart. lol. Roots were 2' long, growing from drainage holes. Oh, they also have a very rare Pony Tail Palm. He received this plant in the 30's. I asked what it cost..he jokingly said, you'd have to take a second mortgage. lol. Many nursery-people wanted this tree. They offered him large $$, but he couldn't part with it. Here's the thing. Four tiny off-shoots were growing beside mom. I asked if he'd consider selling a baby. His reply was, in all the years he and others worked w/this plant, the babies never rooted. Still, I'd have paid 10,00 for a tiny baby. Last time we visited, the Ponytail was stacked among numerous, tall tropicals. Bunched together. The bulb is larger than a bowling ball, the pot way too small. The medium looked like concrete. I still want a baby, lol. Atown..Sorry, didn't mean to rant..lol. Keep us posted if/when you decide to purchase a plant from an online nursery. There are so many to choose from. BTW, if you find a nursery other than one Purple and I mentioned, please check gardenwatchdog prior to ordering. Read feedback on the nursery. Most nurseries are legit, but some are NOT. Toni

Cannadoit - Dottie wasn't accusing you of anything. The GardenWeb rules forbid mentioning any business by name, for any reason, under any circumstances. But things have relaxed a bit nowadays and no one seems to be monitoring things. Just don't be surprised if this thread gets pulled. They consider mentioning a company name as a form of advertising, regardless of the intent. As for seeds or plants - I used to shop everywhere online and couldn't wait to see that box waiting for me on the porch when I got home from work. But now that I've lived here for 9 years I know my way around better and can find just about anything I want locally. Even the hard to find obscure organic/heirloom vegetable seeds from Baker Creek are now available off the rack at my favorite downtown Raleigh Garden Center (Logan's). For mainstream summer annuals I shop at all the garden centers on the south side since that's where I live, with Bbs down in Sanford and Campbell Road on Tryon being favorites. For truly unique odd ball stuff I hit Plant Delights which is conveniently nearby. I have one favorite place I still shop at back in my home state of Oklahoma (Bustani Plant Farm) but I usually pick stuff up when I am home visiting relatives. I shop differently now than I did in the past. My garden is pretty full so now I seek out the plant online and look for sources. When I see something that I think will work for me (often from a thread here on Garden Web) I google the heck out of it and track down a source. I have splurged and bought seeds from all over the world that way. But I no longer have favorite seed or plant catalogs.

I grew these from seeds last year and the plants are still outside and are starting to green up again after a purple leaf winter. I am also amazed that the tarragon has returned, but is the wrong type, so I pulled it all up, thick roots and all. Its a Mexican or Russian type that has virtually no smell or taste, but looks like French Tarragon. Gurney's advertised it as French, but I know better now.