Harvested seeds 7/22/09 I mixed them this time so they are a mix of red, white, pink, maroon, white & maroon and maroon & white. So beautiful this year I gathered some seeds. I also have a few pink double dianthus and dams rocket seeds.

countrycarolyn: I won't give them a haircut then and leave well enough alone. The main thing is to get them planted, will give them a month for the roots to work on down although it sounds like they're tough and could just have stuck them in the ground without repotting. ladyrose65: You confirmed the dianthus, too. Where did I get the raspberry seeds? I've been all over everything, search engine here, google advanced, my old computer fired up twice and got into my mail but it hangs now. I can't post real names and didn't find the raspberry trade, know it was somebody on this forum. In my mail I did find mastergardner2003 but she sent me the currants; I found conniejw who designed that beautiful space in front of my garage with some special software she has. I know it wasn't they. This name sticks in my mind of having corresponded with, brandmulvaine. It might have been she but I couldn't find the trade emails. Also I traded with Carol (hosta) but know it wasn't raspberries. It will be prob 3 yrs before I get any seeds. Was going to buy some at amazon but they wanted $9.95. But I'll post a link where the plants are much cheaper because I might have bought from there if I hadn't found mine. Oh yes, I'll keep the sprout pics and may take more later if they look promising. northerner_on: Strange error, not so much here but what I went through trying to find that raspberry exchange. I'm not sure I sent anything in return; if I did it might have been alyssum and lupines I had a ton of that I bought. Now the lamium, that is not a pleasant prospect because my yard is a total mess. It's already worked it's way through that small garden space and may smother some of my plants and working north into a bare spot. I've got a terrible invasive behind the garage and want to cover the fern and do roundup on the whole mess. Then I'd like the lamium there if I knew how to transplant it. Evidently it roots easily, grows a ways, puts down roots, then more with more roots is how it travels. Yes I have two other lamiums, one variegated and one plain, I think, with pink flowers. They haven't been such a problem at all. I just ripped them back a little when they were threatening my new brunera, have had several years now, haven't gotten into the lawn, seem to want to move toward more shade. So thanks so much everyone for the help and advice. Now the hard part. Getting them in the ground in the right places. My backyard is pockmarked from tree chunks falling last summer, and I shouldn't even walk in it but do very carefully. Am 69 and fell when the lawn guys were here but easy fall. The tree people last year wanted $800 to fill the holes, nothing doing after spending $3000 to have the tree taken down which was cheap for that. One of the best tree companies wanted $10,000 included stump removal, no way. but if I break something, maybe I'd better get some topsoil and pay somebody to fill them in. I want to be able to enjoy this again without all this other stuff to mess with, and just because things are difficult now, I don't want to give in to a sense of futility. Here is a link that might be useful: Bristol Raspberry Plants

I sowed Dianthus barbatus last Spring and it is blooming now. Not quite full bloom but starting to look very pretty. All mixed colors of pink, white, crimson, doubles, and bicolor. It makes fairly compact clumps of foliage the first year, then really filled out and shot up this year. I love it and plan to sow it every year. I've already sown some this Spring, although the seedlings aren't doing that great. I don't think it's too late to sow some now at all!

this has been a very busy yr. the ice storm here was very bad. spent a ton of money trimming trees with a bucket truck and then spent the next 2 mos. filling in the ruts the truck left. my garden was a bust because of me. another self inflicted wound. i put down a band of granular herbicide around our large raised beds thinking it would go down and wash away. nope! the beds wicked it up and killed everything. had to replant all except the 13 containers. we still have cukes, beans, okra and peppers. a good tomato i had this yr was pink german. a robust plant with large tomatoes. it is a PL plant and i would plant it again. because of some of the postings on this forum, i have decided to start a micro nursery. i have a license from the courthouse and an ein number from the irs. ordered 100 crape myrtles this past may and they have really grown. just ordered 75 jap. maples from wash. state and just replanted 5 grafted jap maples from oregon. am going to put in around 500 gladiola this spring in our 4 large raised beds. maybe my wife can sell some cut flowers this coming year. have also installed a drip irrigation system for the 4 beds. thanks to ceresone, glenda, rb, jamsey and all others for their postings. this has brought back some passion to my life that i truly needed. sorry this is so long but it has been a while. william