Hi, Tina! E-mailed you but in case you didn't get it I would like to trade you the 8 items that you asked for in return for your: 1.Larkspur Blue & Purple Mix, 2. Lobelia "Great Blue", 3. Lobelia Cardinalis, 4. Moss Rose, 5. Rudbeckia "Autumn Colors" or "Hot Chocolate", 6. Rudbeckia "Sonora", 7. Cosmo [dwarf lavender Sonata], 8. for this final item I am having a hard time picking between the Pink Cockscomb and the false indigo baptisia. If it was labeled false Indigo wouldn't that mean it is blue? Do you know if the pink cockscomb is a true pastel pink or magenta like most? Please let me know when you can. Thanks! Aunt Lou

Hi pm2! I forgot all about this post, lol! Actually, I ended up not potting up the seedlings. I'm such a horrible procrastinator, and I just never got around to potting them up. I planted them out in my raised beds about a week and a half to two weeks after posting above. They actually did okay, as far as growth - strong, fairly straight, etc., despite the late planting. But I'm the wrong person to ask for recommendations for sunflowers. I don't know why, but I just never have great success with them. They start off great, but then they just seem to fizzle. I really think I need to do more research on growing them - and then actually do what is advised! I tend to leave things to themselves a bit too much. But, I go forth, undeterred, lol! As a matter of fact, I'm trying lots of new ones this year, lol! Here's my list: Sparky Big Smile Infrared Mixed Apricot Twist (major impulse-buy, lol!) Magic Roundabout Procut Orange Procut Lemon Sunrich Lemon Sunrich Orange Summer Sunbright Supreme Sunny Sunny Smile And that's just the new ones - I have seed left over from last year too! I guess I just don't know when to quit. I will add that one of my favorites, over the last two years, is Big Smile. I pot them up for my patio in a big blue pot, and I really enjoy them. Pacino was also a nice dwarf for the patio. :) Dee

I posted the botanical name,to be sure that everyone knows the sunflower I am talking about. It grows like a weed here in south Fla, in bog areas and in dry areas, it is nearly a weed. It is the long leafed one,rough like sandpaper,and dark green. That is why the round soft light green leaves are throwing me off. I use to grow it in my yard for over ten years,then one year it just didnt come back up from the roots. The soil here is nearly pure sand, and this sunflower grows to over 10 feet sometimes,on thin stems and blooms in the fall,and spreads by the roots. So i was asking for hints on how to grow it. I must be doing something wrong, because I cant get height out of it yet, and it has these round leaves. I am sure it is the one I wanted,but it isnt growing like the one I expected. The woman I bought the sections from,sent the pictures of it,and it is the plant/flowers that I have been looking for, for 10 years, and it is called Swamp Sunflower, and the botanical name that I listed. So I am trying to find out if I am giving it to good of soil,to much food, to much water,i just dont know. so I am asking.

based on the size of the plants show at the link .. neither is going to last long.. in that pot ... so why not try to separate them now ... it isnt going to be any easier.. when they are bigger .. maybe the little one.. is lacking the full sun.. a SUNflower needs ... and who knows what is going on under the media ... ken https://www.google.com/search?q=black+oil+seed+sunflower&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=BYxkVfyKBoaAygSUoIGgDw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=941&bih=745&dpr=0.9#tbm=isch&q=black+oil+seed+sunflower+plant