barefoot contessa, Good Morning. I have echinops ritro seeds. Several heirloom tomatos- some that are not on my list, I can look those up and get back to you later. And I might have some bronze fennel seeds from a trade. I also have several flower seeds on my list. If you are interested in trading those for the lily seeds let me know. Thanks, Paradisa

How do you plan on growing them ,I grow mine in large plastic tubs,and half wine casks,you can put them out any time they wont freze they are really hard to kill,more often indoors than out,I put a half bag of black cow(get this from lowes or home depo) then some hevey dirt couple inches, then lay the tuber on top of the dirt with a rock over it so it dont float out,be carefull of the growing tips,then put about six inches of water over them,and wait, A good site to check on growing them is Teaxas Water Lily hightider

Oh, thank you all so very much! This is great! Now I have a wonderful plethora of flowers that I'd forgotten about. Just thinking about them takes me back to my early childhood memores. I really must take time away from writing and get my yard prepared for winter. You all have helped me realize just how much I need to promise to do better next year. And I need to see if I can get some winter veggies planted. I'd promised my editor that I'd have this proposal in the mail by Monday, and thanks to you guys, I'll meet that deadline. Hopefully she'll like this book as much as she liked the first one that I sold in August (gee, maybe that's why I didn't pay much attention to what was blooming in August? Hard to smell the flowers when your head is in the clouds! LOL!) Anyway, if I sell this book, I'll be sure to put you guys in the acknowledgements. And I intend to come back here to pick your brains on how to turn my long-black greenthumb back to, well, green.

If you move it now, take lots of soil with it, leave the stem intact (well, remove the portion with the seed heads on) and allow the foliage to die back naturally. I can't emphasize enough to take a soil ball with the bulb, try not to disturb the roots anymore than absolutely necessary. Have the hole dug before you move it, so that you can just slide it into the new spot without the lily sitting in the hot sun. With that size stem, you may have a good size bulb. Becareful not to slice it. It's up to you which you value more, the dayliies or the true lilies. If you want to avoid that problem, leave the true lily until the foliage dries back, then tease the bulbs and rhizomes apart. Eight foot Tall? You must be doing something right. Good for you. And, what is a Phillipine lily? Are they hardy only in the warmer zones?