I just sent you an email. I looked at your want list and did not see any there, I do notice you want peonies. You have reached the right person. Send me an email and I can send pictures of which ones I am diving. flowersbytheriver2@comcast.net This post was edited by illinoisdoglover on Fri, Jun 14, 13 at 22:29

Have had trouble with brunnera keeping their color all summer. All of them tend to go to green as the season progresses so that only in the spring do the beautiful variegations show up to best advantage. That said, the leaves are a good size, shape and texture always while pulmonaria do look ratty after bloom for a while. Very few seedling brunnera for me even from the green-leaved macrophylla but a good number of pulmonaria seedlings. I move them to a holding bed at 2-leaf size and keep to see what they turn out. A few fabulous most medicre and good for give-away or compost. For a great hosta try "Great Expectations". "Fire and Ice" is about the poorest growing one I have. George

Please note that the Cyanchyum(pale swallowwort)is a highly invasive weed in Ontario and should not be planted. The plants are every aggressive and spreads by seed and roots. Their common name is 'dog strangling vine' and as their name suggests (to a lesser extent) they choke out and literally strangle trees and other vegetation as it grows up it. How do you keep your Allamanda cathartica through the winter? Is it possible to trade for a rooted cutting? I can offer you a piece of Optunia humifusa in the spring to trade if you have a rooted cutting (though I'm not too sure how to get it through the mail).

Jant - sorry about your Brunneras. Did you do anything different with them last fall/winter? Did you mulch them over the winter? That is very weird. The April cold snap zapped only 1 of mine (a Hadspen Cream). It's alive, but struggling and much smaller than previous years. The others (including a "Jack Frost" & "Hadspen Cream") were fine. I think the 1 that got zapped had put out more new growth than the others & had lost much of its winter mulch. Susan hb - I'm not very good at posting photos, but here goes. Sign up at photobucket.com. Upload your photos there. Then copy the second line, go to the post and paste it in the text with Control V. On the preview, you should see the photo. BTW I believe the pronounciation is "BRUN-er-ah" because it was named in honor of Brunner.