Silverkelt your daylily seedlings are beautiful!! I can only hope the seedlings I've sown this year and last will be so nice. I've gotten seeds from a SASBE and also from the Lily Auction, and none of them have bloomed yet, not even last year's seedlings, due to limited sun. Adidas, I have wintersown Lobelia cardinalis and many species of Asclepias - as I have a certified Monarch Waystation and raise Monarch butterflies each year. In fact, I am just winding down from a very busy Monarch season, and coming back to the forums to check out what's going on. Winter sowing works well for both, although most of my Lobelia cardinalis seedlings sow themselves out in the garden paths and in bare spots. I transplant them to a new spot, and a new patch is started! Asclepias is a fussy genus - but winter- or spring-sowing works well. They will also reseed sometimes. In my experience they don't need much cold stratification, and the seedlings are easy to transplant. After that, I have mixed success! Asclepias curassavica ends up being the best and prettiest winter-sown species - and it makes a great host plant for the Monarchs.

here is what erniew said, in a post here on GW back on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:16 PM: Ken, I'm on a personal, if slow moving, quest to sort out the P. ayacahuite x strobus hybrids. But first, pronunciation probably depends on what part of the Spanish speaking world one hails from. I live with a guy from Central Mexico and two from Nicaragua and there is a fair amount of discussion between them about the language and pronunciations. Since the pine is from Mexico and not Nicaragua, I'll side with Osprey as the proper pronunciation. Back to the plant; At the nursery that I work, we grow a hybrid that we call Mexican White or Hybrid pine. There is one at the Bickelhaupt Arboretum in Clinton, IA and one at the Dawes Arb. in Newark, OH. Both are identical to the plant that we grow. Needles are about 5-7' long on an established and vigorous plant and of nice, silvery-blue-green color. At Hidden Lakes Garden, there is a plant labeled 'Forest Sky' purchased from Klehm's place. The foliage is 2-4' long and of a nice silvery-blue-green color. I think the image at Kl! ehm's site looks more like the plant that we grow and not like the one at H.L. What can you tell me about your tree: where from, foliage characteristics, etc? From the picture it appears more like the plant that we grow but I take enough pictures to know that pictures can be deceiving. By the way, are there any seed collector's/propagators here? I have already offered Dax some seed from our Hybrid Ayacahuite Pine but there's probably a half a pickup load to pick. Thanks, Ernie Forest Sky At Hidden Lakes: see link erniew ===>>>> apparently 2006 posts are gone from GW ... as is ernie ..... ken Here is a link that might be useful:

Hi Mike Signet here. I have some seed for a mini milkweed that a friend of mine grows in her garden in St. Catherine's Ontario . Unfortunately I have no idea what the latin name of this milkweed is . I have some seed from 2005 if you are interested . let me know . Signet

I forgot to mention that I'll be going out of town next week, so I won't be able to send you your seed until the following week.