That's fine. My back yard is a flower and shrub garden for butterflies bees and hummingbirds (and other native, non-destructive insects), and I do use as many native plants as I can, but I'm not really rabid about it unless it's in an area I've reclaimed from The Asian Bush Honeysuckle Menace. It's just an annual anyway, and it's in one small flowerbed.

The mound of dirt left from the contractors is about 6-feet wide in places by 3-feet high in places. I think it looks like a naturally formed ridge, with hills & dales. But that's probably not where I'll plant the seeds since the contractor is coming back probably on Monday to level & rake, and by fall hopefully to lay sod. The area where I'll be left with to put the seeds is around the trunk & very large exposed tree roots, where we can't mow near or we'd tear up the blade because of the roots & uneven ground, & where no string trimmer should be allowed to hack away at the bark on the roots & trunk. The seeds are: Adonis aestivalis Calendula officianalis Centaurea cyanus mix Cherianthus cheirii mix Chrysanthemum Shasta Daisy Coreopsis tinctoria mix Cosmos bipinnatus Delphinium consolida mix Dianthus barbatus mix Digitalis purpurea Echinacea purpurea Eschscholzia californica Gypsophila elegans white Linum perenne Lupinus perenne Papaver rhoeas Rudbeckia hirta I know what several of these are (Shasta Daisy, Cosmos, Delphinium mix, Dianthus mix, Purple Foxglove, Purple Coneflower, Baby's Breath, Lupine, Red Poppy, & Black-eyed Susan I think), but I don't know what the others are. I also don't know what the percentage of each is. It's indicated that "No individual component exceeds 5% of total mixture".

Hi, Can I have these seeds for sase if it is still available please. I don't have any seeds from your want list. But I do have seeds of blackberry lily, texas star hibiscus and white 4 o'clocks (few). I am going to restart my garden again. I lost most of the plants this summer as I was away from spring to summer. Right now I am in India to take care of my MIL. I can ask my husband who is in PA now to send sase. If you need any of my above seeds then he will be able to mail them to you only next week end when he goes back home to raleigh (NC). Thanks Tara

If I was doing it I'd want to till or at least scrape the soil and plant them directly into mineral soil. If you have done a lasagna bed, I'd remove the organic material or till it into the soil before planting. I would sow them onto bare soil in the spring, storing them in the fridge or an unheated garage or shed all winter. If you think there will be a lot of weed seeds in the soil, you could start them in pots and transplant. My main hesitation with this approach is that you have a lot of plants to start so it will be a lot of work. If you are placing transplants, I still try to till the soil as well as possible, then mulch between the plants with an organic mulch like lawn grass clippings or leaves to keep most of the weed seeds from sprouting. The big advantage of using transplants is you will know that seedlings that appear are weeds, not your wildflowers.