@duluthinbloomz4 I know I have at least three types aside from my Dream Queen, because three are HUGE greens, one is small green and one is varigated. I'm going to a local hosta farm this weekend to try to locate some "different" varieties, and relocating my plain jane green and varigated ones to a different spot. I have a Dream Queen I need to plant, but I want stuff like Brave Attempt, White Feather, Blue Ivory and Stained Glass...anything but the solid greens! Although I *might* get a Niagara Falls because it looks so neat. So, on the theme garden front, so far I have: Sea Shell Cosmos Yellow Sand Coreopsis Sand Love Grass "Nautical mix" petunias Lake Currants Cottage pinks (Dianthus) Summer Breeze Hosta Beach Music Day Lily Great Lakes gold hosta Coastal Mist bearded iris Toy Boat dwarf Iris Beach Dance iris Ship Shape Iris Lake Effect day lily Lakeside Pebbles Hosta Aye Captian day lily Great Lakes Gladiola Sea Lavender Sea holly Queen O The Lakes rose Sea thrift Rosa rugosa/beach rose The area is probably only about 6' deep by 10' or so wide so I won't need a HUGE amount of plants. I plan on making a list, then researching zones, heights, sun/shade requirements and bloom times to create a garden plan. This one won't be going in until next year for sure, although I might pick up some plants here and there as I come across them.

Wow...that definitely looks like it. Since it was growing in the sand at the waterline I looked online at the emergent plants rather than floating ones. Plus, none of them were blooming so I didn't consider the photos with blooms. I see on another site (a TAMU sponsored site) that I need to report it to Texas Parks and Wildlife. Thanks for the replies! Who knew we were photographing an illegal plant?!

Hi everyone What a great day for a swap. We really lucked out with the nice weather. Thanks for all the trades. I'll be trying some new things. Thanks Laurel for the fern leaf bleeding heart and the food. You may want to put the hosta and forsythia in some water until you get them planted just to keep them from wilting- they should be okay in water for a day. For those of you who are trying to remember what those things were in the styrofoam or paper cups- they were lobelia cardinalis-red, spikey, humming bird like them, they prefer a moister rather than drier area. Thanks for the plants everyone. Hope you enjoy the trades. Did some geocaching on the way home.

Road conditions through MI, all along the southern end of Lake Superior, ICY, SLIPPERY, BLOWING DRIFTING SNOW, POOR VISIBILITY. Road Conditions through WI, along so. end of L. Superior, SNOW PACKED. Road Conditions from Duluth to Rochester MN mixed fair and poor. 2 hour school delay here in the UP Keweenaw Peninsula. I don't know whether we'll be making the Rochester trip today or not :-( Oh and the wind chill is -20. Hadn't someone said spring was just around the corner?