My phlox self-sows freely and I see new young seedlings coming up every spring. But I let the flowers go to seed and sometimes leave the dried seed heads on the plants all winter. If you already have phlox growing in your garden and you didn't deadhead, look around next spring for small seedlings within about 2' of the parent plants. -- BC --

I wish I had more time to stick around, but we wanted to get up to Cougar Mountan before it got to busy. Thanks to Jim for the wonderful bamboo, its beautiful *G* I sat the bag up to fill with water and saw a little 1/2" new culm coming up, so tomorrow I'll plant the two clumps. Thnks to Teresa for the ferns, and Shilpa for the day lillies. As my trees and bamboo grows up taller, and I get more shade I'll have lots of sun loving plants to trade as time goes by. Kendal *we made it up to the falls in good time, and got out just as a rush of people with their kids started up*

Hi Jim, I know I got lots of trees in trade from you at the last Green Elephant, but I can always use more. I would love any you can spare of- Corunus controversa - Giant Dogwood Cornus kousa - Kousa Dogwood, Japanese Dogwood Cotoneaster franchetii orange cotoneaster Pinus contorta - Shore Pine Styrax japonicus Japanese Snowbell Sorbus americana Mountain Ash Tilia cordata Little Leaf Linden Let me know what I can bring you. I have lots of everything on my list. Look forward to seeing you, and hopefully not the rain. Ruth

The following list represents WILD selections of North American native herbaceous perennials (straight species; NO selective breeding.. just natural selections -- i.e. from the wild; NO chance seedlings of cultivars) Any others to add to this list? Perennials... Coreopsis auriculata (lobed tickseed) 'Nana' Iris cristata (dwarf-crested iris) 'Tennessee White' Monarda didyma (beebalm) 'Jacob Cline' Phlox paniculata (garden phlox) 'Jeana' Salvia microphylla (little-leaf sage) 'Hot Lips' Symphyotrichum laeve (smooth blue aster) 'Bluebird' Symphyotrichum oblongifolius (aromatic aster) 'October Skies' & 'Raydon's Favorite' ________________________ extra: Vines... Apios americana (American groundnut) 'Hudson' Lonicera sempervirens (coral honeysuckle) 'Major Wheeler' Subshrubs & Shrubs... Rhododendron atlanticum (Atlantic azalea) 'Marydel' Ribes oxyacanthoides (northern gooseberry) 'Johns Prairie' Sambuccus canadensis (American black elderberry) 'Adams 1 & 2', 'York' Vaccinium corymbosum (high-bush blueberry) 'Friendship', 'Northsky', 'Rubel' Vaccinium macrocarpon (American cranberry) 'Stevens' Trees... Amelanchier x grandiflora (apple-serviceberry) 'Autumn Brilliance' Asimina triloba (paw paw) 'Sunflower' Diospyros virginiana (common persimmon) 'Early Golden', 'Yates', 'Wabash' Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum) 'Odom'