Hi Memder, Welcome to Garden Web, and The Seed Exchange. I thought you might like to know you have no email link on your Member Page (and no location either), thus no one can email you. See here...addressing newbie and newer member issues for instructions to get your link and location set up. Happy Gardening and Trading. Sue

I plant nigella seeds in November, they are already up now and have been for awhile. The only thing I find about nigella here is that it is VERY very early, and that it is a bit floppy. However, like you I love it in flower arrangements for the pods. I grow a green podded type, several black pod types and the "transformer" which is just wacky cool!! Nigellas will grow the same time here as larkspur, poppies, batchelor buttons, annual candytuft and the german catchfly. This makes a nice early annual garden. GGG

Alice, here's a picture I posted back in July. It shows a corner of the vegetable garden where I grow mostly flowers for dry arrangements. Nigella in the foreground. The lovely blue & white flowers have mostly dropped off the stems by this time, leaving seed pods. The entire bed was in bloom for a couple of weeks. I would say that you'd need to find the seed pods interesting so as to enjoy nigella. Either that, or you must be happy with a markedly short-lived flower - a little like its relative, larkspur. In the photo there are also statice, strawflower, acroclinium, and beyond - the glads and sunflowers.

Eileen, I am sorry to hear that you are still waiting for your seeds. I thought that all of you might have got your seeds by this time. It's really weared. I've mailed all the seeds on Dec 9th. It might be getting delayed for some reason. While I was waiting for your seed packets one packet arrived after almost 9 days of posting and it was mailed from nearby state of mine. So Let's wait for few more days (a week or two) and see what happens or I'll send you another packet. Is there anyone else is still waiting for seeds? Please let me know. Jasmine