Hi All, I am new to your group. I am looking for someone with raspberries, Lilac, strawberries and butterfly bush starts or seeds. I have artichoke seeds to trade. I know it's not much, but I'm just starting out. Blessings to all!

Hi! I got some lilac seeds in a trade and I don't need them. I have 2 bushes already so if you would like them I'll send them for your heuchura? Let me know, Thanks Nina

I've got plenty of hollyhock seeds, but can't guarantee the colors you'll get because they are open pollinated. Pink, white, red, purple. your trade list is empty, what do you have for trade?

I think that I DID run the car over the V. opulus - great way to divide the plant! One of mine was a pup off an established shrub that had gotten in the way of a hose bibb and I had someone dig it out and he didn't know what to do with it so he left it sitting off the driveway (on soil) and about six months later when I got around to moving it to the compost pile, it had rooted in! You're dead right about zonal imbalances (like hormonal imbalances?) and no one should be shipping plants around once it warms up. I just explained our planting timing by way of illustration because it is so different than the majority of the country, and even zone 9 doesn't really explain what it's like here because we have so much ocean influence. We run in the high 70's/low 80's in summer with ocean breeze so your'e right, we don't have temps in the 90s unless it is a heat wave. So the best way to describe our weather is 'mild', which really doesn't describe any of the weather in z5,6,7,etc. We'll hope that PF finds the V. o. r. and yes, John, your wife will just love those flowers. They are pretty gorgeous when they first come out and they are that lovely shade of lime green. All this rapture about such a weedy shrub, but isn't it nice that we can find love in all the wrong places?