ChatanoogaChooChoo, I do not have Zucchini seeds. I have long squash. If you want to try them I can send some seeds for your spinach. Please send me an email from my page. Kidsandcats, I'll gladly send what you asked for in exchange of malabar spinach and purple spinach. Please send me an email with your address. Thanks

Ironically, I have the opposite challenge: a semi-desperate quest to propagate an heroic purple plum before it is completely dead. No luck, so far, in germinating pits or in rooting cuttings. The fruit comprises the prettiest and tastiest plums I've experienced in half a century; foliage is lovely, and the tree plows on through the searing, arid climate. Borers love it to death, too, though, and I gather that fruit trees can be rather short-lived, anyway. Maybe the edge-of-the-desert conditions in north Texas suppress "suckers" here: I've never seen a single one in a decade-and-a-half or so.

I have a leaf problem on my purple leaf plum tree. I took a leaf sample to a horticulturist at the Fort Worth botanical garden. He was puzzled by the problem and suggested that I plant another tree because purple plums have a 10 year lifespan where I live. He wasn't sure but said it might be a leaf borer or miner. I asked for treatment ideas and he said he didn't know. So, I took my problem to a nursery. Same thing....think its a leaf miner but not sure. They suggested a fertilizer and increase watering because the tree might be sick. The purple leaf and has white circles (like drops of paint) and a lot of holes (bb size). The white spots turn to brown before the hole appears. All old leaves are affected not new growth. Its just a foliage problem. From pics that i have seen, it's not typical of a leaf miner problem. No bugs are on the tree. No mites on the bottom of the leaves. Just white spots and lots of holes. Anyone have any suggestion on what my problem might be and possible treatment?

I have one as do many of my neighbors. No hardiness issues here - but I have read that they are not long lived. Birds LOVE the fruit, and I like the color of the leaves. The main lead is odd where instead of growing up it droops over at full grown. Check google images for shape/outline since it tends to look pretty informal and not to some peoples style.