Emailed you. :)

Hello, Robin. Horseradish does not produce a viable seed. I would love to trade with you earlier next year if you mind. Have Salal berries. Can look for Oregon Grape seeds, hope birds left some, we grew so many of them last year that I did not collect any this year. According to the Internet these bushes should do well in your zone. Oregon Grape is also called Poor Man's Goldenseal for medicinal quality of its root. Also have Camas, quamash, I believe. Please let me know if you would like to do a trade later, next year. There still will be enough time to stratify all these seeds. Thank you, Irina

It may even be Wildberry Breeze. Very similar to the species above mentioned. ;) Here is a link that might be useful: Wildberry Breeze

I really don't know why it took so long for Dagmar to do her thing--but just to make sure the record is straight--she did bloom from the beginning, but it would be a handful of blooms in the spring and maybe a stray one or two blooms at later intervals. What is new here is that finally the entire bush burst out into full bloom from top to bottom and all around--and it took me by such surprise because she is in the farthest back corner of the yard and I'd more or less put her out of my mind because of her sparse blooming--her "full dress" appearance yesterday really took me by surprise! How typical is that pattern? Couldn't say. She is the only rugosa I grow. She is placed in an awkward place in that far back corner by the back fence--gets lots of shade through the mid-portions of the day from my neighbor's giant oak tree on the other side of the alley (directly across from her) but then she gets a real blast of hot western sun later in the afternoon--and let me tell you Kansas western sun can be a real hot blast, to say the least. Perhaps she is not getting enough sun throughout the day and too much later in the day -- but I have no other spot open for her. And I might add that I'm not sure I always water her as often or as regularly as she deserves. In that back corner, she is a bit too far away for my hose to reach. I do periodically turn on the sprinklers to get her and her fellow plants along that back fence, but I'm not sure if that is always sufficient water. Whatever--I'm planning to start paying attention to her now. I think she is absolutely lovely! (and totally BS-free)! Kate