Another santa thrilled to be able to ride with the Rudolph Rangers again. Rudolph has promised to stick to Iceland Moss and not browse the following next summer - any flowers for summer color; I love blues in a partially shaded garden with shrub roses; Hope to make a white/moon garden in partial shade behind the house; love white/blue/orange and related hues on side and front gardens with more sun. Amsonia hubrichtii Cleome hassleriana white Dictamnus albus Impatiens glandulifera alba, or any species excluding walleriana or balsamina or capensis Hemerocallis (Daylily) - seeds from any Late, Fragrant ones, but prefer white, cream, pale yellow, sherbet- or burnt-orange/apricot or very dark dusky reds or purples Papaver (Poppy) - any low, ground-hugging species, like Papaver triniifolium (already have P. alpinum. Lower cultivars of Papaver nudicaule would be wonderful. Papaver rhoeas 'Dawn Chorus' or 'Angels' Choir' - includes taupes, dusky colors, tiny sharp apricots, doubles Petunia - fragrant; including velvet dark purple or white or veined or Aladdin's Lamp Salvia arizonica (z5, dry shade, long-blooming) Salvia azurea grandiflora white/alba Salvia chamaedryoides (silver leaves; blue or white flowers) Salvia cyanescens - blue or white flowers Salvia greggii or its hybrids - white or near-white flowers Salvia guarnitica Salvia hypargeia Salvia jurisicii Salvia rubescens Torenia - bicolor black-purple with violet-blue or similar Tropaeolum (Nasturtiums) - cream, yellow-tinged white, apricot, orange, black-red; prefer trailers; any unusual species, as well as more common ones - - - - - - - - - - - Woody Plants - Daphne mezereum alba Prunus mume - - - - - - - - - Vines Trachelospermum jasminoides

Hi everyone! Here is my wish list! 1) Evening Primrose 2) California Poppies 3) Four 'o clocks 4) Angel's Trumpet Pineweed 6) Common Blue Violets 7) yellow Jessamines 8) Zinnias, especially candy-cane striped 9) Sunflowers 10) Petunias, (any color) 11) Night Blooming Jasmine 12) Impatiens, (cranberry colored and light pink) 13) Marigolds 14) Morning Glories 15) Coneflowers 16) Vincas, any color 17) Baby's Breath 18) Forget-Me-Nots 19) Daisies, any variety 20) Black-eyed Susans 21) Gourds 22) Ornamental Pumpkins, white, small orange, etc. 23) Cream and Sugar Sweet Corn 24) Red-Colored Sweet Corn 25) Indian Corn 26) Sweet 100 Cherry Tomatoes 27) Brandywine Tomatoes 28) Cucumbers, Straight 8's 29) Gourds 30) Any kind of hot peppers, (cayenne, habanero, etc.) Thank you! Hope all of you are ready for the Christmas season to start! I know I am!

Rebecca, I understand about plants that do their own thing despite what we think that ought to be doing. I think every gardener has at least one type of plant that behaves bizarrely in their garden. I do think that morning glories and moonflowers just behave that way sometimes. I had trouble getting them to sprout in the soil here the first few years, though I have no idea why. Admittedly, it was awful red clay and we were in drought, so maybe the soil, even though I was amending it every year, just hadn't reached that right point yet. Now, and you just have to laugh, they reseed everywhere with wild abandon and have become a royal PITA because I want a few dozen morning glory plants to grow along the south and east garden fence of the front garden and enough sprout to cover every square inch of the garden in morning glories. They sprout irregularly too, so I am yanking out MG volunteers literally every single week of the garden season. I've never grown them in the back garden for fear they also would run amok back there, but this year some Grandpa Ott's popped up back there, perhaps planted by the birds, so now I am sure I'll be yanking out millions of them back there too. It baffles me that they were so hard to get started in the early years and now you cannot stop volunteers from sprouting and growing to save your life. And, in that same way that tells you plants have their own minds, we have had Milky Way and/or Blue Star morning glories pop up in a crack in the concrete near the garage for over a decade. They get no irrigation, no food, no care, no compost, no mulch and no relief from the hot summer sun beating down on them and the concrete---and they come back every year and grow like mad. I guarantee you if I had built a bed for them back there and tried to grow them on purpose, there probably wouldn't be a single one there. These are plants that know their own mind. Nancy, Hydrangeas do not do well at my end of the state---we are just too hot and too dry for much of the summer most years, but your soil and weather up there is very different from mine. There's a lot of plants that grow really well in eastern OK that don't grow well in other parts of the state, and I think hydrangeas are one of them. It isn't really the 95 degree days or 100 degree days that get them down here, but in those years where we have a lot of days over 105 in combination with little to no rainfall, you can just see the life leaving the hydrangeas even if you're doing your best to keep them well-watered. I started out with a lot of hostas our first year here, and the deer taught me they were deer chow, so we have none now. Daylilies do great here as long as they are within the fenced garden where the deer cannot reach them. Crinum lilies are an unstoppable force of nature down here and they don't care how hot and dry it gets. They bloom in the worst of the heat. Will they eventually wilt and die back to the ground if we are hot and dry for months on end? They will, but since their root clumps are the approximate size of a Smart Car, they surely do not die, and I've never had deer eat them either. The crinums will just sit there dormant and wait for better weather so they can green up again and regrow. I have had crinums in the same spot for over a decade and need to dig them up and divide them but don't even know if it is possible at this point---it might require the use of a backhoe or some other form of earth-moving equipment. Speaking of hungry deer and the lengths they'll go to in order to eat....a friend of ours a couple of miles north of us had to release two deer from the hog trap (these hog traps are not big enough for the deer, but try telling the deer that) the other day. I guess the bait in the hog trap was too attractive to the hungry deer, they crawled in and couldn't get out. That happened a lot in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, but hasn't happened since. I guess the fact it is happening again shows how much the autumn/winter drought has hurt their winter food supply. Kim, lol at the cartoon. Dawn

Agastache aurantiaca (Orange Hummingbird Mint): Apricot Sprite – Apricot Sunrise – Fragrant Carpet – Fragrant Delight – Just Peachy – Lavender Martini – Navajo Sunset – Peach Margarita – Raspberry Daiquiri – Shades of Orange – Sprite Lilac – Sunset Yellow – Tango Agastache cana and cana x (hummingbird mint): Bolero – Heather Queen Agastache foeniculum and foeniculum x (anise hyssop): Arcado Pink – Arizona Mix – Arizona Sandstone – Arizona Sun – Arizona Sunset – Astello Indigo – Asturo White – Blue Fountain – Blue Spike – Bolero – Snow Spike Agastache mexicana (Mexican Giant Hyssop): Champagne – Sangria Agastache pallid and pallida x: Globetrotter – Rose Queen Agastache rugosa (Korean mint): Golden Jubilee – Korean mint – Liquorice/Licorice Blue – Liquorice/Licorice White ­ Agastache nepetoides (yellow giant hyssop) Agastache rupestris (threadleaf giant hyssop aka licorice mint hyssop) Agastache schrophularifolia (purple giant hyssop) Ageratum (floss flower): Aloha Blue – Blue Danube – Blue Diamond – Blue Leilani – Blue Planet – Fields Blue – Hawaii – Purple Fields – Red Top – White Bouquet Alcea rosea (hollyhock): Chater's Double Apricot – Halo series – Majorette Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon): Aroma series – Axiom series – Apple Blossom – Bronze Dragon – Frosted Sunset – Madame Butterfly – Peaches and Cream – Peach Breeze – Plum Blossom – Rembrandt – Royal Bride – Terracotta – Tutti Frutti Asarina (snapdragon vine or creeping snapdragon) Asclepias purpurescens (purple butterfly weed) Aster tongolensis (aster, East Indies) Bacopa Begonia tuberhybrida Calendula (pot marigold, English marigold): Antares Flashback – Apricots and Oranges – Apricot Twist – Art Shades – Citrus Smoothies – Deja Vu – Fruit Twist – Geisha Girl – Indian Prince – Neon – Oktoberfest – Solar Flashback – Sunshine Flashback Callistephus chinensis (China aster): Andrella – Blue Ribbon – China Pink – Daylight – Double Rainbow – Floretta Champagne – Fireworks – Giant Perfection – Giants of California – Idyll – Perfection – Pink Tower – Serenade – Spider Chrysanthemum – Standy Ceratotheca triloba (South African foxglove) Cladanthus arabicus (Palm Springs daisy): Golden Crown Cobaea scandens (cup & saucer Vine, cathedral bells): Royal Plum Coreopsis: Heaven’s Gate – Presto – Tetra Giants Cosmos: Cosmic series – Double Click – Snow Sonata Craspedia globosa (drumsticks, billy buttons) Cuphea: Bat Face Cuphea – Purple Passion Delosperma (ice plant) Deschampsia cespitosa (tufted hair grass) Dianthus (Pinks): Allwood Pinks (Dianthus alwoodii): – Amur River Pinks – Arctic Fire – Baths Pinks (Cheddar Pinks): – Black and White Minstrels – Cinnamon Red Hots – Cranberry Ice – Diana – Devon Sarah – First Love – Micro Chips – Neon Star – Raspberry Swirl – Summer Sundae – Superbus Diascia: Apricot Queen – Diamonte – Rose Queen Doeonicum: Little Leo Dorotheanthus bellidiformis (Livingstone or Livingston daisy, ice plant): Apricot Tutu – Magic Carpet – Sparkles Eustoma grandiflorum (lisianthus): any – Cinderella – Double Eagle – Echo – Sapphire Fuchsia Gaillardia pulchella (blanketflower): Arizona Red Shades – Commotion series – Mesa series – Mesa Bright – Mesa Yellow – Summer's Kiss – Tokajer – Torch series Gelsemium sempervirens (Carolina jessamine) Geranium, hardy: Vision Violet Helianthus (sunflower): Apricot Twist – Bicentenary – Coconut Ice – Earthwalker – Evening Sun – Frilly – Indian Blanket – Music Box – Pastiche – Prado Yellow – Razzmatazz – Solar Eclipse – Sundance Kid – Starburst Lemon Aura – The Bees Knees – Valentine Helichrysum (licorice Plant/trailing licorice): Silver Mist Heliopsis (false sunflower): Loraine Sunshine – Prairie Sunset – Prairie Nights Impatiens: Accent Premium Bright Eye Lepechinia hastata (false salvia) Leucanthemum (shasta daisy): White Knight Leymus arenarius (blue dune grass, lyme grass) Lopezia cordata (mosquito flower): Pretty Rose Monarda lambada (bee balm) Morina longifolia (whorlflower) Nassella tenuissima (feather grass) Nipponanthemum nipponicum (Montauk daisy aka Nippon daisy) Perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian sage) Osteospermum (cape daisy, African daisy): Akila – Asti Papaver (Poppy): Blackcurrant Fizz – Burgundy Frills – Fruit Punch – Ooh La La – Violetta Blush Penstemon eatonii (firecracker penstemon) Penstemon gloxinoides (border penstemon) Penstemon superbus (superb penstemon Pentas lanceolata: any – Butterfly Sparkles – New Look Perilla: Fantasy Petunia: any hybrid commercial seed – Shock Wave Phlox drummondii (Phlox): Creme Brulee – Promise – Moody Blues – Phlox of Sheep – Summer Majesty – Watercolor Memories Phlox hybrida: Peppermint Candy Phlox paniculata (tall phlox): any harvested in 2018 Phyls nodiflora (frogfruit): Portulaca grandiflora (moss rose): Happy Hour – Kariba – Margarita – Sundial – Toucan Prunella: Freelander series – Loveliness series Rhodochiton atrosanguineum (purple bell vine) Rudbeckia hirta (black-eyed susan/gloriosa daisy): Chim Chiminee – Hot Chocolate – Radiance Salvia algeriensis (Algerian sage) Salvia argentea (silver sage) Salvia azurea (azure blue sage aka pitcher sage) Salvia chiapensis (Chiapas sage) Salvia darcyi (Darcy’s Mexican sage) Salvia desoleana (Sardinian sage) Salvia dumetorum aka Salvia stepposa (Siberian sage) Salvia flava var. megalantha aka Salvia bulleyana Salvia glutinosa (Jupiter’s distaff) Salvia hians (Kashmir sage) Salvia involucrata (rosebud salvia) Salvia koyamae (Japanese yellow sage) Salvia leucantha (Mexican bush sage) Salvia longispicata x :Big Blue Sage Salvia madrensis (forsythia sage) Salvia napifolia (Turkish sage) Salvia nubicola (Himalayan cloud sage) Salvia nemorosa aka Salvia sylvestris var. nemorosa (woodland sage): Adora Blue – New Dimension Blue – New Dimension Rose – Blue Queen – Rose Queen Salvia nutans (nodding sage) Salvia pachyphylla (desert mountain sage) Salvia patens (Gentian sage) Salvia pratensis (meadow sage) Salvia regla (mountain sage) Salvia reptans aka Salvia leptophylla (slenderleaf sage aka cobalt sage) Salvia roemeriana (cedar sage) Salvia sclarea (clary sage) Salvia stenophylla (blue mountain sage) Salvia subrotunda (hummingbird sage) Salvia taraxacifolia (dandelion sage) Salvia texana (Texas sage) Salvia tiliifolia (lindenleaf sage) Salvia transsylvanica (Transylvanian sage): Blue Cloud Salvia uliginosa (bog sage) Salvia verticillata (lilac sage): Purple Fairy Tale Salvia verticillata subsp. verticillata aka Salvia regeliana Salvia viridis aka Salvia horminum sage (painted sage) : Pink Sunday Solidago rugosa (goldenrod): Fireworks Tanacetum corymbosum ( wild meadow tansy) Teucrium chamaedris ( germander Thalictrum Rochebruneanum – lavender mist meadow rue Scabiosa (Pincushion Flower): Oxford Blue - Summer Sundae Stachys albotomentosa (7up Plant) Stipa tenuissima (feather grass) Sultera cordata (Bacopa): any - Blue Dawn - Bluetopia - Cotton Candy - Silk N Satin - Snowtopia Symphyotrichum novae angliae (New England Aster, Michaelmas Daisy): red - Alma Baby - Chilly Winds - Honeysong Pink - Red Star - September Ruby Tagetes (marigold): Capriccio – Fire Ball – Moonstruck – Scarlet Sophie – Snowdrift – Sunburst Orange Splash – Zenith Red Tagetes lemmonii (Copper Canyon daisy) Tagetes lucida (Mexican mint marigold aka Texas tarragon) Thunbergia alata (blackeyed susan Vine): Salmon Shades – Sunrise Surprise – Superstar Orange Verbascum: Clementine – Copper Rose – Flush of White – Rosetta – Snow Maiden – Violetta Verbena: Crystal Ball – Peaches & Cream Veronica grandis (heartleaf speedwell) Veronica longifolia (garden speedwell) Veronica spicata: Blue Bouquet or other Viola (pansy): Antique Shades – Atlas – Chalon Supreme – Freefall – Matrix – Panola Picotee Shades – other named varieties – but no johnny jump-ups Wedelia texana (Zexmenia) HERBS Lavender: Elegance series – Hidcote – Lavance – Multifida aka Fernleaf – Munstead – Spanish – Vincenza - White Ice Thymus (thyme): Lavender - Lemon - Lime - Orange - Silver VEGETABLES Beans: Helda – Selma Zebra Broccoli: Red Arrow – Redhead – Rudolph – Summer Purple – White Eye Jicama aka Yam Bean Lettuce: Asian Red – Forellenschluss – Gentilina – Rouge Grenobloise – Lollo Bionda – Lollo Rossa – May Queen – Mignonette Bronze – Outredgeous – Petite Rouge – Rouge De Grenoblouse Melon: Early Silverline Okra: Bowling Red – Edna Slaton’s Candelabra Pepper: Big Red – Mandarin – Sheepnose Pimento – Tennessee Cheese – Tequila Sunrise – Tunisian Baklouti – White Lakes – Yellow Monster Pumpkin/ Winter Squash: Autumn Crown – Gill's Golden Pippin – Golden Delicious – Melonette Jaspee De Vende – Red Warty Thing aka Victor – Sucrine Du Berry – Thai Kang Kob – Thai Rai Kaw Tok Spinach: Apollo - Merlo Nero - Monstrueux De Viroflay - Scenic - Viridis Tomatillo: Amarylla – Pineapple – Purple – Purple Coban – Rio Grande Verde – Verde – Verde Puebla Tomatoes: These hybrid tomatoes even if seeds are old or collected from next generation MERCED SAN REMO CABERNET (the large tomato, not the new cherry tomato with the same name)